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An Empirically Informed Taxonomy for the Maker Movement

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The Maker Movement emerged from a renewed interest in the physical side of innovation following the dot-com bubble and the rise of the participatory Web 2.0 and the decreasing costs of many digital fabrication technologies. Classifying concepts, i.e. building taxonomies, is a fundamental practice when developing a topic of interest into a research field. Taking advantage of the growth of the Social Web and participation platforms, this paper suggests a multidisciplinary analysis of communications and online behaviors related to the Maker community in order to develop a taxonomy informed by current practices and ongoing discussions. We analyze a number of sources such as Twitter, Wikipedia and Google Trends, applying co-word analysis, trend visualizations and emotional analysis. Whereas co-words and trends extract structural characteristics of the movement, emotional analysis is non-topical, extracting emotional interpretations.

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This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement 688241.

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  1. Zentrum Für Soziale Innovation, Technology and Knowledge, Vienna, Austria

    Christian Voigt

  2. University of Eastern Finland, Joensuu, Finland

    Calkin Suero Montero

  3. IAAC | Fab Lab Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

    Massimo Menichinelli

  4. School of Art, Design and Architecture Media Lab Helsinki, Aalto University, Helsinki, Finland

    Massimo Menichinelli

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  1. University of Florence, Florence, Italy

    Franco Bagnoli

  2. Center for Research and Technology, Thessaloniki, Greece

    Anna Satsiou

  3. National and Kapodistrian University, Athens, Greece

    Ioannis Stavrakakis

  4. University of Florence, Florence, Italy

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  5. University of Florence, Florence, Italy

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  6. University of Zurich, Zürich, Switzerland

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  7. University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom

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Voigt, C., Montero, C.S., Menichinelli, M. (2016). An Empirically Informed Taxonomy for the Maker Movement. In: Bagnoli, F., et al. Internet Science. INSCI 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9934. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-45982-0_17

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