Taxonomy

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.

We welcome feedback on this and other aspects of the project at mediawell@ssrc.org.

Project Taxonomy as of November 7, 2022

Research Topics:

Algorithms and Automation

Credibility and Trust

Defining “Disinformation”

False Narratives and their Contexts

Infrastructures and Methodologies

Polarization and Political Manipulation

Regulation, Policy, and Platform Governance

Targeted Disinformation

 

Focus Tags:

2020 US Election

Accountability

Activism

Advertising

Africa

African-American Studies

Algorithmic Targeting

Alt-Right

Anthropology

Artificial Intelligence

Bots

Brexit

Call for Papers

Campaigns & Elections

Censorship

China

Civil Society

Climate Change

Communications

Conspiracy Theory

Content Moderation

COVID-19

Culture

Data

Deep Fakes

Democracy

Demographic Targeting

Digital Culture

Disinformation

Disinformation Studies

Echo Chambers & Filter Bubbles

Economics

Ethics

Extreme Right

Facebook

Fact Checking

Fair Use Week

Feminism

Gender and Sexuality

Geography

Google

Hackers

Harassment

Hate Groups

Health

History

Image-Based Abuse

Income and Wealth Inequalities

Influence

Instability

Instagram

Interdisciplinary Studies

Internet

Internet Studies

Job Opening

Journalists

Law

LinkedIn

Lobbyists

Media Access and Policy

Media and Information Literacy

Media Studies

Meta

Microsoft

Microtargeting

Misinformation

News and Public Information

Platform Governance

Podcast

Polarization

Policy

Political Elites

Political Ideologies

Political Parties

Political Science

Politics and Government

Privacy

Psychology

Public Health

Public Trust

Race and Ethnicity

Regulation

Reproductive Health

Research Methods

Scams

SDI Fellow

Security

Social Media

Social Networks

Sociology

SSRC

State Actors

Surveillance

Syllabus

Technocrats

Technology

TikTok

Transparency

Trolls

Trump Election

Twitter

Ukraine

Vaccine & Medical Misinformation

Voters

WhatsApp

YouTube