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Recent Themes in Social Networking Service Research

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  • John S Liu
  • Mei Hsiu-Ching Ho
  • Louis Y Y Lu

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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.

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  • John S Liu & Mei Hsiu-Ching Ho & Louis Y Y Lu, 2017. "Recent Themes in Social Networking Service Research," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 12(1), pages 1-17, January.
  • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0170293
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0170293
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