The sometimes so-called information professions of libraries and archives have engaged in a great deal of this work already, although it has not been particularly in favor in the US for the better part of 30 years (the professional literature still holds the record of the earlier work, of course).  In addition to taxonomy, the impact of "technology" (such as letter-press books and filing cabinets) on the way content was created and organized, there is also the entire field of diplomatics, which examines the structural semiotics of individual documents, such as letters, in terms of how the form shapes the function and content.  In my field diplomatics enjoyed a very brief resurgence in the 1990s in examining the structure of electronic communications, though for the most part it had long been relegated to the realm of studying ancient manuscripts. 