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Pew Research Center Publications: Tagging Play
URL: http://pewresearch.org/pubs/402/tagging-play

Description:
January 2007 summary of a December 2006 survey about tagging, "the process of creating labels for online content." Features an overview of tagging, demographic data on taggers, website traffic for popular tagging sites, and an excerpt from a forthcoming book describing "how radical it is for people to move away from hierarchical classifications of information like the Dewey Decimal System, to individually- and group-arranged systems." From the Pew Research Center.

Publisher:
Pew Research Center

LII Database Information:
Record 23275 created by Jennifer English on 01/31/2007
Last modification on 02/05/2007
Published: 02/07/2007  
Funding agency: California State Library
LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/23275