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
Fact Checking
Fair Use Week
Feminism
Gender and Sexuality
Geography
Hackers
Harassment
Hate Groups
Health
History
Image-Based Abuse
Income and Wealth Inequalities
Influence
Instability
Interdisciplinary Studies
Internet
Internet Studies
Job Opening
Journalists
Law
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
Ukraine
Vaccine & Medical Misinformation
Voters
YouTube