Oxford Dictionaries Blog Folksonomies: how to do things with words on social media

Folksonomy, a portmanteau word for 'folk taxonomy', is a term for collaborative tagging: the production of user-created 'tags' on social media that help readers to find and sort content. In other words, hashtags: #ThrowbackThursday, #DogLife, #MeToo. Because ordinary people create folksonomy tags, folksonomies include categories devised by small communities, subcultures, or even individuals, not merely [...]The post Folksonomies: how to do things with words on social media appeared first on OxfordWords blog.