We have developed the MediaWell taxonomy with input from our academic advisory board, research librarians, and other experts in the field. We consider this to be a work in progress with fluid categories. Please feel free to use or adapt the following list of categories and tags, with credit to MediaWell and the Social Science Research Council.
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Project Taxonomy as of February 3, 2020
Research Topics:
Algorithms and Automation
Consequences of Exposure
Contexts of Misinformation
Credibility and Trust
Defining “Disinformation”
Election Interference
How Misinformation Spreads
Mitigating Misinformation
Producers of Disinformation
Regulation and Policy
Targets of Disinformation (contemplating a change to “Targeted Disinformation”)
Wedge Issues (contemplating a change to “Case Studies”)
Focus Tags:
Accountability
Activism
Advertising
Advocacy Groups
African-American Studies
Algorithmic Targeting
Alt-Right
Alt-Tech
American Studies
Anthropology
Anti Vaxx / Medical Misinformation
Bots
Brexit
Call for Papers
Campaigns & Elections
Censorship
Civil Society
Climate Change
Conspiracy Theory
Content Moderation
Culture
Data
Deep Fakes
Democracy
Demographic Targeting
Digital Culture
Disinformation
Disinformation Studies
Echo Chambers & Filter Bubbles
Economics
Ethics
Extreme Left
Extreme Right
Fact Checking
Fear
Gender and Sexuality
Geography
Harassment
Hate Groups
History
Identity Politics
Income and Wealth Inequality
Influence
Instability
Interdisciplinary Studies
Internet Studies
Job Posting
Journalists
Law
Lobbyists
Media Access and Policy
Media and Information Literacy
Media Studies
Microtargeting
Misinformation
News and Public Information
Polarization
Policy
Political Elites
Political Ideologies
Political Parties
Political Science
Politics and Government
Psychology
Public Health
Public Trust
Race and Ethnicity
Regulation
Research Methods
Scams
Social Media
Social Networks
Sociology
State Actors
Surveillance
Syllabus
Technocrats
Traditional Media
Transparency
Trolls
Trump Election
Voters
Wedge Issues
YouTube