Smith, Tiffany L. “Cataloging and You: Measuring the Efficacy of a Folksonomy for Subject Analysis.” Ed. Joan Lussky. Proceedings 18th Workshop of the American Society for Information Science and Technology Special Interest Group in Classification Research, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. 2007.
Tag: folksonomy
Rice, "Networks and New Media"
Rice,
Jeff. "Networks and New Media." College English 69.2 (Nov. 2006):
127-133.
Digital Onomastics, Frenetic Place-Names
What happens to onomastics or proper place-names with infusions of the
digital? How do the logics of the web, networked writing and folksonymy
let loose (a plentitude of named small-pieces, loosely joined) the
propriety of an onomastics founded on scarcity, where place-names refer formally
to physical locations and also depend upon authorization, a kind of official
license? We will have one name and one name only! Erm, okay, two…two
names. No more. Granted, place-names or toponyms are not altogether
unraveled or let loose. Kansas is still "Kansas," or "KS," even in Google Maps (at
a certain scale, though, the name vanishes because it’s too specific,
too local; KS fades into anyplace). But while these stabilized place-names
remain on highway signs and also showing at certain scales of the
cybercartographic mash-ups, the digital introduces a capacity for differently
circulating and contending name systems. Toponyms are further compounded. For now I don’t care whether
we’re online or on I-90. New (by which I mean not pre-fixed), folksonomic names
and tags don’t automatically replace the official names, although they might one
day contend with them and even displace them or unsettle them a bit.
Talks
Before a full week cycles around, I wanted to tack up a few notes about the
Digital and Visual Rhetorics Symposium hosted at SU last Thursday and Friday.
Each of the talks was stimulating/evocative; w/ these notes: I’m going for a patchwork of what was said and what it got me
thinking about (highlights plus commentary). Fair enough?
Genre Theory I
I thought I’d drop in just a few brief notes from the summer course I’m taking:
CCR760: Genre Theory in Academic Contexts. My plan is to introduce
similar entries over the next few weeks; I’ll think of them, for now, as
provisional and winding
explorations through/around/between some of the key ideas playing out in the
course.