Semiotics of social networking

ReferencesThe semiotics of social networking discusses the images, symbols and signs used in systems that allow users to communicate and share experiences with each other.

Semiotics is a discipline that studies images, symbols, signs and other similarly related objects in an effort to understand their use and meaning.

“Millions of people now interact through blogs, collaborate through wikis, play multiplayer games, publish podcasts and video, build relationships through social network sites and evaluate all the above forms of communication through feedback and ranking mechanisms”.

[5] Social semiotics “unlike speech, writing necessitates some sort of technology in the form of person device interaction”.

“Collaborative tagging has been quickly gaining ground because of its ability to recruit the activity of web users into effectively organizing and sharing large amounts of information”.