Liu John S, Ho Mei Hsiu-Ching, Lu Louis Y Y
Graduate Institute of Technology Management, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei, Taiwan.
College of Management, Yuan Ze University, Chung-Li, Taoyuan, Taiwan.
PLoS One. 2017 Jan 20;12(1):e0170293. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0170293. eCollection 2017.
The body of literature addressing the phenomenon related to social networking services (SNSs) has grown rather fast recently. Through a systematic and quantitative approach, this study identifies the recent SNS research themes, which are the issues discussed by a coherent and growing subset of this literature. A set of academic articles retrieved from the Web of Science database is used as the basis for uncovering the recent themes. We begin the analysis by constructing a citation network which is further separated into groups after applying a widely used clustering method. The resulting clusters all consist of articles coherent in citation relationships. This study suggests eight fast growing recent themes. They span widely encompassing politics, romantic relationships, public relations, journalism, and health. Among them, four focus their issues largely on Twitter, three on Facebook, and one generally on both. While discussions on traditional issues in SNSs such as personality, motivations, self-disclosure, narcissism, etc. continue to lead the pack, the proliferation of the highlighted recent themes in the near future is very likely to happen.
近年来，关于社交网络服务（SNS）相关现象的文献数量增长迅速。通过系统的定量方法，本研究确定了近期SNS的研究主题，这些主题是该文献中一个连贯且不断增长的子集所讨论的问题。从科学网数据库检索到的一组学术文章被用作揭示近期主题的基础。我们通过构建一个引文网络开始分析，在应用一种广泛使用的聚类方法后，该网络进一步被分成不同的组。所得的聚类都由在引文关系上连贯的文章组成。本研究提出了八个快速发展的近期主题。它们涵盖范围广泛，包括政治、恋爱关系、公共关系、新闻业和健康等领域。其中，四个主题主要关注推特，三个关注脸书，一个则普遍涉及两者。虽然关于SNS中诸如个性、动机、自我表露、自恋等传统问题的讨论仍然占据主导地位，但在不久的将来，这些突出的近期主题很可能会大量涌现。
