SOSYOLOJİ LİTERATÜRÜNDE DİJİTAL KÜLTÜR: WOS VERİLERİ İLE BİBLİYOMETRİK BİR ANALİZ
DIGITAL CULTURE IN SOCIOLOGICAL LITERATURE: A BIBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS WITH WOS DATA

Summary/Abstract: This study aims to reveal the development, thematic orientations, and intellectual structure of digital culture in the sociology literature. The research was conducted using a bibliometric analysis method of publications in the sociology category on the topic of "digital culture" across all fields in the Web of Science Core Collection database. In this context, 242 articles in the sociology category were selected from 4060 articles on the topic of "digital culture." The study analyzed academic publications produced at the intersection of digital culture and sociology in terms of their distribution by year, citation patterns, prominent authors, journals, and key concepts. In light of the findings, it can be said that digital culture studies have shown a significant increase, especially since the mid2000s, and have increasingly become a central research area in sociology. The analysis shows that while digital culture is predominantly addressed within the framework of the network society concept in the sociology literature, critical and structural approaches are dominant. Furthermore, it is observed that early internet-focused studies are being replaced by more current research themes focusing on platform-based social structuring, algorithmic governance, and data-driven social relations. In conclusion, this study demonstrates that digital culture has moved beyond being a temporary research agenda in the sociology literature and offers a lasting and powerful analytical framework for explaining social transformations. The findings support the idea that future studies on digital culture and sociological concepts, which should be addressed in greater depth, will make significant contributions to the development of the field.

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