Public Trust and Community Development:A Review of Communication Research in 2023
This article uses the LDA topic model to conduct a comprehensive and detailed review of global communication research in 2023 and summarizes the core issues and evolving patterns of the current theoretical development of communication studies.Through topic clustering and text mining of 2210 academic papers,this article distills six major sections and 19 themes of journalism research this year and analyzes representative literature under different themes.This article finds three core characteristics of global communication research in 2023:exploring how public trust is reaffirmed and reconstructed in the digital media ecosystem;interpreting the close relationship between digital media technology and the development of different types of communities;concerning people's physical and mental health and spiritual well-being in the digital information environment.This article believes that in an era of highly integrated concepts and experiences,overly refined typological systems and sectoral consciousness have become obstacles to theoretical growth.Communication academia must make changes to the sociology-political science binary that dominates its development to realize real growth.
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