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Tags, networks, narrative: exploring the use of social software for the study of narrative in digital contexts

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HT '07: Proceedings of the eighteenth conference on Hypertext and hypermedia

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https://doi.org/10.1145/1286240.1286252

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This poster reports on a project in progress that is assessing the potential of social software for trans-disciplinary research into narratives in a digital context. One aspect of the project is study of whether folksonomy can be of use in transdisciplinary communication. The study features 30 participants who are tagging 40 websites using Del.icio.us (http://del.icio.us) and then taking part in a series of tasks that involve re-examining their tags. In the poster we will present the background to the project, the methodology of the folksonomy study and the findings that may emerge from it. Through so doing, we aim to contribute to the emerging debate about the utility and role of folksonomy in the arts and the academy [3,7,9,10].

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Tags, networks, narrative: exploring the use of social software for the study of narrative in digital contexts
1. Information systems
  1. World Wide Web
    1. Web applications
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HT '07: Proceedings of the eighteenth conference on Hypertext and hypermedia

September 2007

240 pages

ISBN:9781595938206

DOI:10.1145/1286240

General Chair:
Simon Harper
University of Manchester, UK
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Helen Ashman
The University of South Australia, Australia
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Mark Bernstein
Eastgate Systems, USA
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Alexandra Cristea
The University of Warwick, UK
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Hugh C. Davis
University of Southampton, UK
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Paul De Bra
Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
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Vicki Hanson
IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA
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Dave Millard
University of Southampton, UK

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Cipresso PRiva G(2016)Computational Psychometrics Meets Hollywood: The Complexity in Emotional StorytellingFrontiers in Psychology10.3389/fpsyg.2016.017537Online publication date: 8-Nov-2016
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Bar‐Ilan JZhitomirsky‐Geffet MMiller YShoham S(2010)The effects of background information and social interaction on image taggingJournal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology10.1002/asi.2130661:5(940-951)Online publication date: 24-Feb-2010
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