What determines the structure of a folksonomy and why? The code, the content or the "physical technology"? What does your answer to this question suggest about how we can "think about" globalization?
To me, the word "Folksonomy" is new. After I had read some websites, I started to have some idea about what folksonomy actually is. According to the Wikipedia, the definition of Folksonomy is
"A system of classification derived from the practice and method of collaboratively creating and managing tags to annotate and categorize content."
Tagging is the characteristic of web 2.0, it makes users more easily organize information by the "keyword", and it is conveniences for users get information from the web page. The code, the content and the "physical technology" must work together to make this happen. According to the experiment I did in the tutorial, I have to put the java-script into my HTML code first, then I have to determine the weight of each word within the content, in order to tag it as the "keyword", and of course we need our "physical technology" such as desktop for us to actually access to this folksonomy, so they are essential and dependent on each other. But in comparison, I think the content will do more for folksonomy since the process of getting the keywords are based on the content, or folksonomy will not exits. During the experiment, I found out that folksonomy does provide benefits. First, we can get to choose which word should be tagged, more personalization information. Secondly, all tagged words are sharing over the web, so everyone only needs to type in the keyword at the search engine, all the information that have been tagged with the same keyword will appear to users, and the keywords will actually direct users to the right place. Lastly, by the time you look at the tagged word in a web page, the bigger the size of the word means it is more often being used, it could be an important word within the content. Globalization is a big word for us, we are in the process to globalization, folksonomy defiantly plays a role in this transitional process, and we can think of folksonomy as a basic idea that we can make further development to make our communication wisely and effectively.
I very much agree with you that "The code, the content and the physical technology must work together" in order to create what we call folksonomy. Also, I think that folksonomy is not only a characteristic of Web 2.0 but also one of the essential processes of globalization, allowing users worldwide to share information in a efficient and effective way.
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