Tagging on Flickr as a social practice

Abstract

This chapter discusses the tagging how they design their sites in deliberate acts of curation, how tags are used more than just as parts of a folksonomy, and what is lost when discussing tags away from the pages where they are being used. Tagging is endemic on social media sites such as Twitter and for some time it has been an important feature of photo sites such as Instagram, Flickr and Delicious. A body of research on tagging has developed, and the existing literature examines how tags contribute to ‘folksonomies’, that is taxonomies created by combining the tags of many users. Tagging is endemic on social media sites such as Twitter and for some time it has been an important feature of photo sites such as Instagram, Flickr and Delicious. A body of research on tagging has developed, and the existing literature examines how tags contribute to ‘folksonomies’, that is taxonomies created by combining the tags of many users.