The Alignment of Media and Communication Researches with the Global Agenda: A Bibliometric Analysis

Yıl 2025, Sayı: 13, 935 - 962

Mustafa Sami Mencet

https://doi.org/10.56720/mevzu.1621412

Öz

In the global agenda, while answers are being sought to issues such as transhumanism and how autonomous systems will change our lives; concepts like war crimes, nuclear threats, drought and hunger, and the escalation of all forms of violence and crime, etc., still threaten humanity's present and future. In such an environment, the focal points of scientific studies on media and communication, which are at the centre of all social phenomena today, are the subject of this study. In the years 2023-2024, bibliometric analysis consisting of performance mapping and scientific mapping was conducted on research articles indexed in the Web of Science and Scopus databases, and the data were compared with the international agenda of those two years to discuss the role of social sciences in solving social issues. The findings particularly provide a template for scientists working in the field of communication studies regarding the current state of international literature; they offer a perspective on whether global science can provide solutions to global issues for all social scientists interested in any structure of epistemology, science communication, and the international agenda.

Anahtar Kelimeler

Communication Studies, Media, Global Agenda, Science Communication, Bibliometric Analysis, Web of Science, Scopus

Medya ve İletişim Araştırmalarının Küresel Gündemle Uyumu: Bibliyometrik Bir Analiz

Öz

Transhümanizm, otonom sistemlerin hayatımızı nasıl değiştireceği gibi konular bilim çevrelerinde tartışılmaktayken; savaş suçları, nükleer tehdit-ler, kuraklık ve açlık gibi kavramlar, şiddet ve suçun yaygınlaşması ve diğer sorunlar insanlığın bugününü ve geleceğini tehdit etmeye devam etmekte-dir. Böyle bir ortamda, bugün geldiği konum itibariyle tüm sosyal olguların merkezinde olan medya ve iletişim alanındaki bilimsel çalışmaların küresel literatürdeki odak noktaları bu çalışmanın sorunsalıdır. 2023-2024 yıllarında Web of Science ve Scopus dizinlerinde taranmakta olan araştırma makalele-ri üzerinde performans haritası ve bilimsel haritalamadan oluşan bibliyo-metrik analiz yapılmış, veriler sözkonusu iki yılın uluslararası gündemiyle kıyaslanarak sosyal bilimlerin sosyal sorunların çözümündeki yeri tartışma-ya açılmıştır. Elde edilen bulgular, özellikle iletişim araştırmaları alanında çalışan bilim insanları için uluslararası literatürün mevcut durumuna ilişkin bir şablon ortaya koymakta; epistemoloji, bilim iletişimi ve uluslararası gün-demin herhangi bir yapısıyla ilgilenen sosyal bilimciler için bilimin küresel sorunlara çözüm sunma olgusuna yönelik bir persektif sunmaktadır.

Anahtar Kelimeler

İletişim Araştırmaları, Medya, Küresel Gündem, Bilim İletişimi, Bibliyomet-rik Analiz, Web of Science, Scopus

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