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Libraly Journal ›› 2017, Vol. 36 ›› Issue (7): 74-81.

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Social Media Research Evolution and Visualization Analysis

Zhang Yongan, Wang Xuetao   

  • Online:2017-07-18 Published:2017-11-13

Abstract:

Based on web of science database, and adopting the method of bibliometrics, the paper conducts a visualization analysis of papers on social media published from 1995 to 2014, and displays social media development through knowledge map of hot keywords. At the same time it studies social
media evolution mechanism from the perspectives of computer science and management. The study discovers that: (1) themes around the basicsocial media knowledge are changing between 1995-2008 in the fields of computer science and management; (2) after 2009, with the rise of Facebook as the representative of a large number of social media tools, the two disciplines began to share some research themes regarding social media yet with different emphases; (3) collaborative learning is a frontier hot spot in the field of social media forfuture.

Key words:

Bibliometrics, Social media, Visualization research