Findings: Use of information Use of Delicious – Social navigation Connectivity
Users employ folksonomies for a number of reasons - Folksonomies gives an unique insight in the users information behavior
Brugernes omfavnelse af folksonomier Hvordan udvikler folksonomier sig – flere og flere tags – flere og flere brugere Typisk anvendelse af en folksonomi? Underliggende antagelse at: Brugernes tags betyder noget! Brugerne vil interagerer med hinanden – noget udover det personlige
1: To what extent does social navigation express itself in users’ information seeking behavior in folksonomies? How are tags, indexed information objects or user profiles utilized in social navigation and information seeking behavior in folksonomies? How is the facility for social navigation affecting user’s information seeking in folksonomies?
Chain referral technique recruitment of participants by phone Entry point: pilot 2 Referred 3 To the 5 level
Participants seem to use of lot of the information discovered in Delicious as arguments in the work e.g. Pilot 2: Seeks arguments not to do ‘brugerråd’ (user councils) other participants notice “this will be nice to as a demonstration of …” or “ I can use this to explain a colleague what she can use Twitter to” Follows the peers in the network: interest, projects A participant finds it interesting that a colleague from another organization has indexed a company specialized in Facebook apps. When they don’t have one, and participant wants to make a common facebook campaign (scouts). Interesting to now, new technologies and services
About recommended tags: Easy quick, “just click them, they don’t hurt’ “ I can give it some search terms which are my own and I get some recommended to me. This way I can make a system, without thinking about making the system first.” Participant14 Delicious is just one setting (Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, IM, Skype, Phone, Text messaging and E-mail) Google=Spam, Delicious people behind Stream of information – collective and topical ‘ Hooked up to the stream’ ‘ log on to the stream’ ‘ tjeck the stream’ Most get the Delicious network stream (or single users) directly in their RSS reader
For Participant 14 information seeking and use of Delicious is the same Participant 14 notices that massive information in the same field, but haven’t got the enough time now for information seeking. [Analyze the master thesis tag] behavior mostly acoured in connection with master thesis. Two sets of participants noted that they used Delicious as a collective memory (used a tag for the common project as well as send bookmarks to each other in Delicious). These four participants still work A lot of the Participants started using Delicious 2005, and just to handle their own bookmarks. Multiple computer problem, the social aspect came later - some participants said through blogging.
Education: Master thesis work pairs Particpant 5 mentions that one in her network, doesn’t really know so much about the subject in question