Bibliometric analyses of social media for educational purposes over four decades

Frontiers in Psychology

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Paisan Sukjairungwattana¹  Wei Xu²  Zhonggen Yu³ 

[1] Faculty of Liberal Arts, Mahidol University;Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, City University of Macau;Department of English Studies, Faculty of Foreign Studies, Beijing Language and Culture University

关键词: bibliometric analysis;    Social Media;    Education;    educational outcomes;    Challenges;   

DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2022.1061989

学科分类：社会科学、人文和艺术（综合）

来源: Frontiers

【 摘 要 】

The unexpected outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic has led students to frequently use social media to receive education, which brought about both positive and negative learning outcomes (Oliveira, 2022). To address the issue of integrating social media into education, this study conducted both quantitative and qualitative studies using VOSviewer and CitNetExplorer. The qualitative study through CitNetExplorer, involving 1780 publications, concluded that while social media might have gained popularity in education based on the classic theoretical framework of the zone of proximal development, there might be many challenges such as teacher resistance, data privacy, costs, and ethical and social issues. Besides, this study conducted bibliometric analyses using VOSviewer (N = 1841) to identify the top cited authors, organizations, documents, references, sources, countries, and keywords with high occurrences based on the citation networks. In the future, researchers could enhance the studies on how to guide students and teachers to properly integrate social media into education.

【 授权许可】

CC BY