FOLKSONOMY AND IDEOLOGICAL DISPUTIES

MAPPING THE LITERATURE

Abstract

Collaborative digital environments have made social indexing and folksonomy increasingly common practices for organizing information online, and at the same time turned these spaces into a stage for narrative and ideological disputes. This paper seeks to understand how the scientific literature addresses the relationship between folksonomy, social indexing, and narrative disputes in collaborative digital environments, with a focus on electoral contexts. The research is exploratory and qualitative, based on a literature review conducted across three databases, two multidisciplinary and one specific to Information Science. After the initial search, duplicates were removed and inclusion and exclusion criteria were applied, forming a corpus of articles that directly address folksonomy or social indexing. From this material, a conceptual network was built to map the thematic trends found in the literature using the Artificial Intelligence Claude. The results show that most studies focus on technical and semantic aspects of social indexing, while folksonomy as a tool for ideological disputes remains underexplored, especially in political and electoral contexts. The study concludes that there is indeed a significant gap in the literature on this subject, pointing to the need for further research bridging Knowledge Organization with debates on digital democracy and disinformation, broadening the understanding of folksonomy as also a political phenomenon.