Background and objectives
The purpose of the present study is to draw a thematic map of articles in the field of digital content industry with a focus on children and adolescents and to identify the emphasized points and gaps in this field.
Methodology
This research is applied and with the method of social network analysis as one of the tools of scientometric studies, has drawn a science map of the field of digital content. In drawing a thematic map, the use of publishing support is necessary. For this purpose, researchers needed to analyze the content of articles written in the field of digital content industry. The research community is all articles in the field of digital content indexed in the Scopus citation database until February 2019. The Scopus citation database has relative uniformity in all disciplines and has better coverage in this area than other databases.
findings
Education-related keywords, as well as content production and distribution tools, have the highest rank in terms of degree centrality index. This means that education and production and distribution technologies play a significant role in a significant part of the work done in this area. For example, the degree of centrality of the keyword Education is 96, which indicates the relationship of this keyword with 96 keywords out of 115 network nodes, and therefore the educational aspect of digital content plays a significant role in research done so far. Also, the keyword Digital Device with a degree of 70 degree, indicates the significant role of digital tools in various research topics in this field.
As can be seen in the thematic map as well as the tables related to the indicators of centrality, the most important keywords are more focused on the field of education, cyberspace and digital content production tools as well as the distribution platforms of these products.