基于引文分析的我国网络舆情知识演进路径研究

Research Focuses, Research Frontiers and Knowledge Base of Internet Public Opinions in China

当前互联网技术迅猛发展,全媒体环境在传统媒体与新兴媒体的有效交流互动中孕育而生。全媒体环境下网络舆情的研究引起各界关注。本文以CSSCI数据库1998-2014年网络舆情研究文献为对象,利用citespace可视化应用软件,通过研究热点关键词时区视图的展示,显示出我国网络舆情研究的三个发展阶段以及2008-2014年间的热点问题聚类,探测该领域研究热点和前沿主题的知识基础文献,以明晰研究发展的动力学机制。

Public opinion research is a new inter-discipline of social science and natural science and has attracted much attention. It＇s not only an essential part of the basic theory of public opinion, but also deepens and widens the basic theory. Nowadays, the research of Internet public opinion is drawing attention from all walks of life. This paper collects about two thousand published papers on CSSCI, which involve Internet public opinion from 1998 to 2013. At first, the author studies the main research groups with cluster analysis among these years. And then, he identifies five research focuses and the themes of research frontier by analyzing high-frequency words and burst terms with pathfinder algorithm. Finally, in order to recognize the dynamics mechanism of development of Internet public opinion in China, this paper probes into the knowledge base of research focuses and frontiers.