Mapping the field of communication technology research in Asia: content analysis and text mining of SSCI journal articles 1995–2014

Zheng, Pengjun; Liang, Xuan; Huang, Guanxiong; Liu, Sunny Xun

doi:10.1080/01292986.2016.1231210

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“…Hence, JST is suitable to represent the status quo and the development of sustainable tourism research. To better represent current conditions and trends, only articles published after JST became a Social Sciences Citation Index (SSCI)-indexed journal in 2008 were downloaded, as most review studies consider the SSCI as a symbol of journal quality and only articles published in SSCI-indexed journals are examined for further analysis [8,9]. Only full-length research articles were selected because they provide more information regarding research methods, theoretical concepts or frameworks, and managerial guidance [10].…”

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“…Content analysis can also assist a clearer categorization of examined phenomena or events in terms of pre-defined concepts in order to better interpret these phenomena or events for research purposes [9]. Xiao and Smith state that the use of content analysis to explore academic articles can offer solid evidence of the progress of knowledge in a specific field together with the identification of research methodologies [14].…”

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Research in Sustainable Tourism: A Longitudinal Study of Articles between 2008 and 2017

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Abstract:The influence of tourism on the environment has led to research on the development of sustainable tourism. Scholars from popular destinations and their governments are actively conducting sustainable tourism research, and their contributions to the field have achieved global renown. Without data from the natural sciences, knowledge from tourism dominates this area. This work utilizes content analysis to systematically review these studies to present the current state of existing research with the aid of visualization tools. The findings delineate the development of research on sustainable tourism in terms of collaboration, impact, knowledge base, and thematic coverage. Six major themes are selected to showcase recent trends in sustainable tourism research and guide future studies. Accordingly, this study can contribute to the development of sustainable tourism research and guide industry practices.

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Research in Sustainable Tourism: A Longitudinal Study of Articles between 2008 and 2017

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“…Regarding the data collection method, we learned that the majority of the blog reader-focused articles adopted surveys. In Zheng et al (2016), many of the studies adopted a survey, and "almost half of the studies adopted quantitative methodology (49.3%, n = 134), and 41.6% adopted a qualitative method (n = 113)" (p. 522).…”

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“…Also, in terms of specific data collection methods, Zheng et al (2016) evaluated the data collection techniques used in Asian-focused communication technology research in Asia from 1995 to 2014. They found that survey, content analysis, case study, and interview techniques were favored more than other methods.…”

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“…Scholars interested in adopting content analysis in analyzing the state of a field accede that this data-gathering method helps in the identification of conceptual content or patterns of a research area (Ryan & Bernard, 2000;Seuring et al, 2005). Zheng et al (2016) accede that adopting content analysis as well as other data-gathering techniques for meta-analysis helps researchers to "fill this gap in their area of focus, by examining the theoretical frameworks and geospatial distribution of academic articles in areas of focus within the communication and studies field." Furthermore, content analysis fits the goal of the study because it looks directly at research papers to identify patterns and allows for quantitative operations and statistical analysis, which is what this study sets out to do to measure whether this field has progressed or not.…”

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Has Blog Reader–Focused Research Evolved?

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For many years, researchers interested in the blogosphere have collectively acknowledged the lack of scholarly attention into the role of blog readers in the blogging activity. While many pioneering studies as well as new studies have highlighted the rising potential of this field, there has been no systematic examination of the growth or lack thereof of this field. As a result, this article reviews blog reader–focused research between 2008 and 2018 through a content analysis of blog reader–focused research articles obtained from seven databases: EBSCO’s Academic Search Complete, JSTOR, EBSCO’s Communication & Mass Media Complete, SAGE Journals, Elega’s Chronological Arrangement of Blog Readership Research, Wiley Online Library, and Taylor and Francis. We also identified the methods, theories, geospatial concentration, and journals that published these articles. Findings show that although at least one article was published each year with a peak of six in 2013 and 2015, blog reader–focused research has not really evolved given that concentration has tremendously decreased in the last 3 years (2016–2018). Regarding genres, we learnt that the majority of articles focused on political blogs, and most of the studies adopted quantitative research methods and survey as a data collection method. The results also show that blog reader–focused studies published between 2008 and 2018 used Uses and Gratification Theory more than other theories, and the majority of these articles focused on blogs in the United States. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, New Media &Society, and Computers in Human Behavior published more blog reader–focused research than other journals.

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Media Representations of Older Digital Game Players in China: A Text-Mining Analysis

Kang,

Yang

2024

Palgrave Games in Context

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Mapping the field of communication technology research in Asia: content analysis and text mining of SSCI journal articles 1995–2014

Cited by 26 publications

References 13 publications

Research in Sustainable Tourism: A Longitudinal Study of Articles between 2008 and 2017

Research in Sustainable Tourism: A Longitudinal Study of Articles between 2008 and 2017

Has Blog Reader–Focused Research Evolved?

Media Representations of Older Digital Game Players in China: A Text-Mining Analysis

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