Preprint version. Please cite as: Voigt, C., Montero, C.S., Menichinelli, M., 2016. An Empiri - cally Informed Taxonomy for the Maker Movement, in: Bagnoli, F., Satsiou, A., Stavrakakis, I., Nesi, P., Pacini, G., Welp, Y., Tiropanis, T., DiFranzo, D. (Eds.), Internet Science, Lec - ture Notes in Computer Science. Springer International Publish - ing, pp. 189–204. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-45982-0_17 An empirically informed taxonomy for the Maker Movement Christian Voigt 1 , Calkin Suero Montero 2 , Massimo Menichinelli 3,4 1 Zentrum für Soziale Innovation, Technology and Knowledge, Vienna, Austria voigt@zsi.at 2 University of Eastern Finland calkin.montero@uef.fi 3 IAAC | Fab Lab Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain massimo@fablabbcn.org 4 Aalto University, School of Art, Design and Architecture Media Lab Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland massimo.menichinelli@aalto.fi Abstract. 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 tech- nologies. Classifying concepts, i.e. building taxonomies, is a fundamental prac- tice 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 visual- izations and emotional analysis. Whereas co-words and trends extract structural characteristics of the movement, emotional analysis is non-topical, extracting emotional interpretations. Keywords. Maker Movement · Internet Science · Taxonomy Development · Co-word Analysis · Clustering · Emotion Profiling adfa, © Springer