Hashtag / Elizabeth Losh.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Losh, Elizabeth M. (Elizabeth Mathews), author.

Series:

Object lessons

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hashtags (Metadata).

Social media.

New Media and Technology.

Literary Theory.

Literary Studies.

Material Culture.

Local Subjects:

New Media and Technology.

Literary Theory.

Literary Studies.

Material Culture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (146 pages).

Place of Publication:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2019.

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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HTML

PDF

Summary:

"Celebration and criticism of so-called "hashtag activism" rarely addresses the hashtag itself as an artifact or tries to locate its place in the history of reading and writing for machines. Although hashtags tend to be associated with Silicon Valley invention myths or power users like celebrities, the hashtag is actually the result of accreted sets of practices and invisible labor involving negotiating competing claims about identity, ownership, and naming conventions. Thus the hashtag is part of the longer history of metadata that has involved cataloging and classifying objects throughout human history. However, high-tech machine learning algorithms are changing this traditional process of collective meaning making in which content is sorted into groups to be more easily findable, and perhaps computational agents will one day apply metadata to data in ways that exclude human decision-making entirely."

Notes:

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 208-217) and index.

ISBN:

9781501344305

1501344307

9781501344299

1501344293

9781501344282

1501344285

OCLC:

1089259575