媒体即社区？信息系统领域基于文献的研究主题分析

Media as a Community? Literature Based Topic Evaluation in Information Systems Discipline

【目的】通过对IS期刊中社会化媒体和在线社区的研究主题进行比较分析验证媒体即社区的假设。【文献范围】以ISI Web of Science为数据来源,结合国际信息系统协会(AIS)提供的期刊列表,选择45本信息系统领域的核心期刊作为研究对象。【方法】通过关键词分析、高频词分析、共词聚类以及可视化方法,深入探索社会化媒体和在线社区研究的主题分布和随时间的演化规律。【结果】社会化媒体与在线社区两个概念由原先较为平行的关系发展成目前交织的状态,且由于其连接的平滑性和重叠度使得两者在内涵上和外延上愈发趋于统一。【结论】从文献层面部分论证媒体即社区这一假设,并进一步提出其理论价值。

[Objective] This paper is to validate the assertion of Media as a Community （MaaC） based on the IS journal publications. [Coverage] ISI Web of Science and AIS journal rankings are used as the data source to examine the topic, and 45 IS journals are selected. [Methods] The study employs the co-word analysis and visualization method to explore the research theme and evolution of social media and online community. [Results] The findings show that the two concepts, i.e., social media and online community, have been evolved from the original parallel relation to the tangling circumstance. [Conclusions] Due to the smooth linking and overlapping between these two concepts, social media is to some extent as an online community from the literature perspective.