Discussion
In the context of social tagging, what does the term 'folksonomy' refer to ?
Answer: C
Folksonomy refers to User-generated tagging systems.
The word, coined by Thomas Vander Wal from 'folk' and 'taxonomy', describes the classification that emerges when many users freely attach their own tags to web content, as on social bookmarking and photo-sharing sites. It is bottom-up and uncontrolled.
Traditional taxonomic classification is the opposite: a controlled, expert-built hierarchy. Popular cultural trends and social media influencers play on the 'folk' and 'social' parts of the words but have nothing to do with tagging.
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