Beyond Disciplinary Boundaries: Mapping Educational Science in the Discourse on Social Media
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Beyond Disciplinary Boundaries: Mapping Educational Science in the Discourse on Social Media
Abstract/Description
Social media has attracted considerable scholarly interest. Previous research has demonstrated the need for a more comprehensive overview of social media research across diverse disciplines. However, there is a lack of research that identifies the scope of social media integration across educational settings and how it relates to research in other academic disciplines. Harnessing the search terms of previous literature reviews, this study collected data on 80,267 articles from the Web of Science Core Collection database using search terms that were based on previous literature reviews. The data were analyzed using a combination of co-citation and bibliometric analyses via a mixed-methods approach. Our results show that there has been a constant increase in the number of publications concerned with social media, both as a transversal topic and within the educational sector. We are also able to show a range of topical domains in which the vast majority of research on social media is conducted. Our findings have practical implications for scholars and practitioners alike. Scholars can benefit from these types of analyses to identify authors and topic clusters that might otherwise have been unrecognized. Similarly, practitioners can benefit from this overview of the current ?state-of-the-art? on social media.
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Date
In publication
Volume
121
Issue
14
Pages
1-24
Resource type
Research/Scholarly Media
Resource status/form
Published Text
Scholarship genre
Empirical
Open access/full-text available
Yes
Peer reviewed
Yes
ISSN
0161-4681
Citation
Rehm, M., Manca, S., Brandon, D. L., & Greenhow, C. (2019). Beyond Disciplinary Boundaries: Mapping Educational Science in the Discourse on Social Media. Teachers College Record, 121(14), 1–24. https://doi.org/10.1177/016146811912101403
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