Analysing the factors that influence tag choice based on semiotic analysis and activity theoryElhussain, M. and Nakata, K. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7986-6012 (2012) Analysing the factors that influence tag choice based on semiotic analysis and activity theory. In: International Conference on Social Informatics, 14 - 16 December 2012, Washington, DC.
It is advisable to refer to the publisher's version if you intend to cite from this work. See Guidance on citing. Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/SocialInformatics.2012.7... Abstract/SummarySocial tagging has become very popular around the Internet as well as in research. The main idea behind tagging is to allow users to provide metadata to the web content from their perspective to facilitate categorization and retrieval. There are many factors that influence users' tag choice. Many studies have been conducted to reveal these factors by analysing tagging data. This paper uses two theories to identify these factors, namely the semiotics theory and activity theory. The former treats tags as signs and the latter treats tagging as an activity. The paper uses both theories to analyse tagging behaviour by explaining all aspects of a tagging system, including tags, tagging system components and the tagging activity. The theoretical analysis produced a framework that was used to identify a number of factors. These factors can be considered as categories that can be consulted to redirect user tagging choice in order to support particular tagging behaviour, such as cross-lingual tagging.
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