俗民分類與知識型Tag的資訊秩序

Folksonomy and Episteme: The Information Order about Tagging

本文關注Web 2.0中的核心概念Tag（俗民標籤）所影射的分類意涵。Foucault在其《事物的秩序》一書中提出，不同的分類方式，將造就不同的秩序空間，它反映的不只是秩序本身，更涉及知識與權力的相對關係。本文先說明現代分類學在何種歷史情境下養成，其分類有何特質；接著說明Tag的運作方式，透過此項科技，資訊如何呈現、串連；最終探討俗民分類下的經驗主義與去階層效應，並論述網路時代人與科技互為主體之關係。

This article explores the emerging folksonomic order revealed by Tag, a key application of Web 2.0. Foucault pointed out in his book The Order of Things that different ways of classification will create different senses of order, which involves not only the order of things, but also the formulation of power/knowledge relation. This paper first explores the historical contexts where the modern taxonomy was developed and its characteristics. The operational procedures of tagging are then described to demonstrate how information is presented and interconnected in such a technology. Finally, the paper explicates the effect of empiricism and de-hierarchy in the age of folksonomy and the intersubjective relationship between human beings and technologies.