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Hashtags for Humans

Guess Who?

  • maybe don't even play the game? have two computer players against each other go very quickly
  • what faces do i use? emoji?

Hashtags

Web 2.0

  • tags vs categories in blogs
    • tag clouds
  • folksonomy
    • tags in communities

Social Web (Twitter/Tumblr/Instagram)

  • tag as channel marker / trending topic
  • tag as idiom, even in conversation (Still drunk from last night! #hotmess)
  • exhaustive tagging (instagram)
  • tag as footnote (tumblr-style sentence tags)

Reverse Guess Who?

  • you know who it is and you need to come up with an unambiguous description
  • again, but with multiple people to select
  • use s-expression style builder with set operators (union, difference, intersection)

Tags as Sets

  • presence of tag in a record indicates membership in a set
  • extremely brief explanation of set theory
  • databases / relational algebra
    • LIMIT 1 means 1-item set, not a bare record
  • css selectors
    • tag name as shared vocabulary, class as personal vocabulary
    • emphasis on semantic tags/classes
    • jquery object as set (always a set, never a bare record)
  • third thing? maybe app's implemntation in pouchDB?

Tags as philisophical paradigm

Guess Who: Visible & Invisible identity

  • we’ve been playing guess who with these people, but they all have rich inner lives that contribute to their identity
  • game board cells expand to show little bios of people

Category Culture vs Tag Culture

  • our culture thinks a lot about categories but not about tags
    • "what are you" as a question expecting a single answer
    • political parties
    • failures of progressive movements -> intersectionality
  • cultures that live online (e.g. tumblr) embrace ambiguity, heterodoxy, multiple identity
    • mythology of "SJW" as a bloc but there are many different persepectives
    • even the most mocked aspects of internet culture (headmates, otherkin, paragraph sexuality) are just a product of young people who think in tags trying to exist in a category-oriented culture
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