Why do people tag? motivations for photo tagging

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 53, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 128-131

  Oded, N O V ^a   Chen, Y E ^b  

^a NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b VIRGINIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION FUNCTIONS; GENERAL PUBLICS; SEARCH AND RETRIEVAL;

MOTIVATION;

EID: 77953929534     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: 15577317     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1785414.1785450     Document Type: Article

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