Dynamics of human categorization in a collaborative tagging system: How social processes of semantic stabilization shape individual sensemaking

Computers in Human Behavior

Volumn 51, Issue PA, 2015, Pages 140-151

  Ley, Tobias ^a   Seitlinger, Paul ^b  

^a TALLINN UNIVERSITY   (Estonia)

^b GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Categorization; Collaborative tagging; Distributed cognition; Sensemaking; Social web

Indexed keywords

COGNITIVE SYSTEMS; SEMANTICS; STABILIZATION; STUDENTS; THESAURI;

CATEGORIZATION; COLLABORATIVE TAGGING; DISTRIBUTED COGNITION; SENSEMAKING; SOCIAL WEBS;

EDUCATION;

EID: 84929573561     PISSN: 07475632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2015.04.053     Document Type: Article

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