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Internet-related research trend from 2001 to 2005: a thematic meta-analysis of major and Internet-related journals
Unformatted Document Text:  Internet-related Research Trends 2001-2005   1 Abstract Importance of research about the Internet is growing, since the Internet is becoming more  prevalent. It is necessary to figure out what kind of research has been done to determine the  direction Internet-related research will pursue in the future. Thematic meta-analysis was done for  this study. Four aspects of the articles were analyzed: 1) research topics, 2) a development of  agenda, 3) method, and 4) theoretical application. This study contains two comparisons. The first  is a comparison between Internet-related articles from two time periods: 2001 – 2005 and 1996 –  2000. The second is between articles in major communication journals and Internet-related  journals. In addition, Wimmer and Dominick’s developmental model of research agenda, which  contains four phases of new medium’s agenda development, was adapted. The findings are that  an Internet-related research agenda has been developed and has passed Wimmer and Dominick’s  second phase and entered the third phase, that recent Internet-related research has more firm  methods compared with the previous five years, and that more Internet-related studies are using  theories, though not many existing theories were used for the articles, which possibly means that  new theories are needed to explain new communication tools or phenomena, and that articles in  major journals more frequently use quantitative methods than in Internet-related journals. 

Authors: Woo, Chang Wan.
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Internet-related Research Trends 2001-2005
 
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Abstract
Importance of research about the Internet is growing, since the Internet is becoming more 
prevalent. It is necessary to figure out what kind of research has been done to determine the 
direction Internet-related research will pursue in the future. Thematic meta-analysis was done for 
this study. Four aspects of the articles were analyzed: 1) research topics, 2) a development of 
agenda, 3) method, and 4) theoretical application. This study contains two comparisons. The first 
is a comparison between Internet-related articles from two time periods: 2001 – 2005 and 1996 – 
2000. The second is between articles in major communication journals and Internet-related 
journals. In addition, Wimmer and Dominick’s developmental model of research agenda, which 
contains four phases of new medium’s agenda development, was adapted. The findings are that 
an Internet-related research agenda has been developed and has passed Wimmer and Dominick’s 
second phase and entered the third phase, that recent Internet-related research has more firm 
methods compared with the previous five years, and that more Internet-related studies are using 
theories, though not many existing theories were used for the articles, which possibly means that 
new theories are needed to explain new communication tools or phenomena, and that articles in 
major journals more frequently use quantitative methods than in Internet-related journals. 


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