Tag Cloud

The term tag cloud refers to textual visualization mechanisms designed to represent a graphical synopsis of social tags, key words, metadata, weighted lists, or even free-form text, usually encountered in websites, but also in other repositories of information. Hence, it is an essential element in managing, documenting, and conceptualizing news information in the 21st-century mass media landscape. Tag clouds arrived along with the advent of social networking services, aiming at depicting the involved user-generated metadata (i.e., social tags). Their primary purpose is to provide highlighting perspectives, as well as user interfacing and navigation aids, combining functional, creative, and aesthetical aims. In this context, appearance parameters (i.e., fonts, style, color, size) can be selected not only to preserve the aesthetical identity of the webpages but also ...