BIBLIOMETRIC APPROACH ON TERRORISM AND MEDIA STUDIES

Year 2024, Volume: 38 Issue: 1, 248 - 267, 29.03.2024

Fikriye Çelik

https://doi.org/10.48070/erciyesakademi.1440561

Abstract

The media dependency of terrorism or the media’s interest in terrorism has brought many studies to the literature that emerged from the tendency to think of the two topics together. Due to the progress made in communication technologies, terrorist-centered individuals or groups have taken a more active position in the production of media content, which has focused the attention of researchers on the subject. Following this attention, a bibliometric approach was adopted in this study, which aims to evaluate the general situation of the literature. The analysis unit of the study consists of data on works based on the relationship between media and terrorism, scanned in the Web of Science database and published between 1978 and 2023. The subject evaluated by bibliometric analysis, which is a quantitative literature review technique, was analyzed around the relationship between publication, author, year, language, theme, citation and keywords. In this study, in which a total of 1932 publications were analyzed with the VOSviewer program, it was concluded that the interest in terrorism and media connection increased in parallel with the developments in technology and that these publications, which have been on the rise since the early 2000s, reached the highest number in 2020. In addition, it was concluded that the works concentrated around the concepts of terrorism, media and social media, and Turkish publications were in the top 5 despite the low rate in the field dominated by the English. It is expected that the study will provide a meaningful path for future research.

Keywords

Communication studies, Media and terrorism, Bibliometric analysis, Terrorism

TERÖR VE MEDYA ÇALIŞMALARINA BİBLİYOMETRİK YAKLAŞIM

Abstract

Terörün medya bağımlılığı ya da medyanın terör ilgisi, iki başlığı birlikte düşünme eğiliminden türeyen çok sayıda araştırmayı alanyazına kazandırmıştır. İletişim teknolojilerinde kaydedilen ilerlemeye bağlı olarak terör merkezli kişi ya da grupların medyatik içerik üretiminde daha aktif bir pozisyon yakalaması araştırmacıların konuya dikkatini yoğunlaştırmıştır. Bu dikkatin izinden giderek alanyazın hakkında genel durum değerlendirmesinde bulunma amacındaki bu çalışmada bibliyometrik yaklaşım benimsenmiştir. Web of Science veritabanında taranıp 1978 - 2023 yılları arasında yayımlanan medya ve terör konulu eserlere ait veriler çalışmanın analiz birimini oluşturmuştur. Niceliksel literatür tarama tekniği bibliyometrik analizle değerlendirmeye alınan konu; yayın, yazar, yıl, dil, tema, atıf ve anahtar kelimeler arasındaki ilişkisellik etrafında çözümlenmiştir. VOSviewer programıyla toplam 1932 yayının analiz edildiği bu çalışmada, terör ve medya bağlantısına ilginin teknolojide yaşanan gelişmelere paralel olarak artan bir seyir gösterdiği; 2000’lerin başından itibaren yükselişe geçen bahse konu yayınların en yüksek rakama 2020’de ulaştığı; eserlerin terörizm, medya ve sosyal medya kavramları etrafında yoğunlaştığı; İngiliz dili hâkimiyetindeki alanda sahip olduğu düşük orana karşılık Türkçe yayınların ilk 5’te yer aldığı sonucuna ulaşılmıştır. Çalışmanın bundan sonraki araştırmalara anlamlı bir yol haritası olacağı düşünülmektedir.

Keywords

İletişim çalışmaları, Medya ve terör, Bibliyometrik analiz, Terörizm

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