What determines the structure of a folksonomy and why? The code, the content or the social process? What does your answer to this question suggest a

The term “folksonomy” can be divided into two words; folk means a group of people and taxonomy is a term usually used in biology to classify animals or plants into different species. Together, folksonomy means a group of internet users mutually classify or generalize the information into certain categories. Tagging is the major method of folksonomy. With the ability of Web2.0, and people can tag the information based on their own understanding or the keywords which it contents into different categories. Thus, the structure of a folksonomy is determined by people’s knowledge or wisdom, and the content of certain information. However, since the tags are made from different internet users, the same information may be tagged into different categories through people’s various opinions. On the other hand, the tags are widely shared on internet; meanwhile, the search engines such as Google usually navigate the information through tags. As the ongoing process of globalization, people often have the similar understanding about some popular information or knowledge. For example, when I typed term “digital divide” in Google search bar, the results such as definition, related articles, and photographs appeared that were mostly arranged by tags on different sites. Although there are various websites content the term “digital divide”, most of their understandings or explanations are same. Thus, in the globalized world, people are more socially connected than before through internet, and they will share the same opinions for certain issues.