My supervisor recommended that I read an article by David Beer and Roger Burrows called: ”Sociology and, of and in Web 2.0: Some Initial Considerations” published by Sociological Research Online. While reading the article I got some new ideas related to my research:
The authors categorizes Web 2.0 services into:
- Wikis
- Folksonomies
- Mashups
- Social Networking Sites
This categorization seems quite sound and can probably be used in my thesis to differentiate the sites I’ll study.
Note that several of these sites shares characteristics from the other groups it’s not categorized into. Relating to my research it would also be beneficial to study a wiki which I find to be a prime example of fully organic social navigation.