Social tagging: a model for representing information in the blogosphere

Authors

  • Elaine Pérez Sanchidrián Ministerio de Comercio Exterior – MINCEX
  • Raúl Campos Posada Universidad Autónoma de Coahuila - UAdeC
  • Gloria Elisa Campos Posada Universidad Autónoma de Coahuila - UAdeC

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5195/biblios.2014.187

Keywords:

Blogs, Blogosphere, Web 2.0, Social network, Social labeling

Abstract

Objective: The study addresses the theoretical and conceptual aspects related to social labeling. Has the advantages of labels on different platforms of Web 2.0. Exposes some of the major sites of social labeling system including Flickr, Delicious, Technorati is destcan, among others. Terminologically analyzed using the tags in the blogosphere as a model for representing information. Methods: The research took as methods of qualitative content analysis to identify the behavior of the international literature on this subject and the metric analysis to characterize the use of social labeling in the blogosphere. Results: The study led to qualitatively describe the use of labels on blogs and their terminological particularities associated with the following aspects: creating labels in these spaces is related to a number of social issues among which we can highlight: Politics, Culture, economy, Gender, History, Sexuality, Discrimination, Health, Environment, Technology. The labels on these platforms are defined from the general to the particular and there is no limit concurrency for its creation, usually the authors cite for each post 4-7 labels in order to spread their content as possible in the community. Conclusions: This study enables reflect the social impact of using labels on platforms like blogs.

Author Biographies

Elaine Pérez Sanchidrián, Ministerio de Comercio Exterior – MINCEX

Lic. en Bibliotecología y Ciencias de la Información. Especialista en Información Comercial. Ministerio de Comercio Exterior (MINCEX). Centro para la Promoción del Comercio Exterior y la Inversión Extranjera (CEPEC), Cuba.

Raúl Campos Posada, Universidad Autónoma de Coahuila - UAdeC

Dr. en Ciencias de la Educación y Tecnologías de la Información. Maestro Investigador de la Facultad de Ingeniería Mecánica y Eléctrica. Universidad Autónoma de Coahuila, México.

Gloria Elisa Campos Posada, Universidad Autónoma de Coahuila - UAdeC

Lic. en Sistemas Computacionales y Administrativos. Maestra Investigadora de la Facultad de Ingeniería Mecánica y Eléctrica. Universidad Autónoma de Coahuila, México.

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Published

2015-04-06

How to Cite

Pérez Sanchidrián, E., Campos Posada, R., & Campos Posada, G. E. (2015). Social tagging: a model for representing information in the blogosphere. Biblios Journal of Librarianship and Information Science, (56), 19–27. https://doi.org/10.5195/biblios.2014.187

Issue

No. 56 (2014)

Section

Review

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