A field comes of age: tracking research on the internet within communication studies, 1994 to 2018

IF 1 Q3 COMMUNICATION Internet Histories Pub Date : 2020-08-19 DOI:10.1080/24701475.2020.1749805
C. Puschmann, C. Pentzold
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Abstract Since its inception, the internet has been as much technological as social, practical as ideological in character. This article examines academic discourse and asks how research on the multifaceted internet has evolved over the past 25 years. In order to investigate the formation of this academic field, we collected articles published in major academic journals dedicated to new media and digital communication as well as mainstream periodicals in communication studies over the past quarter of a century. Relying on a combination of (semi)automated content analysis and citation analysis, we find that articles related to the internet and its manifold aspects are cited more often than research on other topics. The literature review suggests that as the socio-material infrastructure of the internet has become deeply enmeshed in society its study has evolved from a niche pursuit to the discipline’s core area of inquiry.
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一个成熟的领域:1994年至2018年传播研究中对互联网的跟踪研究
自互联网诞生以来,它的技术性与社会性、实用性与思想性并存。本文考察了学术话语,并询问了在过去的25年里,对多方面的互联网的研究是如何演变的。为了研究这一学术领域的形成,我们收集了近25年来在新媒体和数字传播领域的主要学术期刊以及传播研究领域的主流期刊上发表的文章。依靠(半)自动化内容分析和引文分析的结合,我们发现与互联网及其多方面相关的文章被引用的频率高于其他主题的研究。文献综述表明,随着互联网的社会物质基础设施已经深深融入社会,其研究已经从一个利基追求演变为该学科的核心研究领域。
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Internet Histories
Internet Histories Arts and Humanities-History
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