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BİBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH ON SOCIAL MEDIA AND PRIVACY

SOSYAL MEDYA VE MAHREMİYET ÜZERİNE BİLİMSEL ARAŞTIRMALARIN BİBLİYOMETRİK ANALİZİ

Mihrali Köseliören(YILDIZ TEKNİK ÜNİVERSİTESİ, SANAT VE TASARIM FAKÜLTESİ, İLETİŞİM VE TASARIMI BÖLÜMÜ)0000-0001-7796-5634
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226–249
Publication Date
2026-03-29
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The findings revealed that the United States produced the most publications in this discipline, and the University of Illinois in the United States had the highest number of publications.

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Objective & Hypothesis:Considered a fundamental human right in modern societies, privacy is the right of individuals, groups, and institutions to define when, how, and to what extent information about themselves will be shared by others.
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Key Findings & Data:However, as digitalization and Web 2.0 technologies have advanced, the ubiquity of social media at the center of daily life has increasingly blurred the boundaries of privacy.
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Conclusion & Impact:The findings revealed that the United States produced the most publications in this discipline, and the University of Illinois in the United States had the highest number of publications.
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⚙️Variables:sosyal medya · mahremiyet · medya

Abstract

Considered a fundamental human right in modern societies, privacy is the right of individuals, groups, and institutions to define when, how, and to what extent information about themselves will be shared by others. However, as digitalization and Web 2.0 technologies have advanced, the ubiquity of social media at the center of daily life has increasingly blurred the boundaries of privacy. This context has laid the groundwork for numerous studies to analyze the relationship between social media and privacy, encompassing a wide range of topics, including surveillance, privacy violations, sharenting, artificial intelligence, and the blurring of the private-public spheres. This study aimed to analyze research articles published in leading journals on privacy and social media using bibliometric methods. Accordingly, the study analyzed data from 505 articles available in the Web of Science database, only the communication category, using visual network maps generated by the VOSviewer software program. The findings revealed that the United States produced the most publications in this discipline, and the University of Illinois in the United States had the highest number of publications. Additionally, "privacy," "social media," and "Facebook" were the most commonly used keywords in privacy and social media studies, and "Social Media + Society," "New Media & Society," and "Information, Communication & Society" were the journals that published the most articles in this discipline. Finally, Sabine Trepte was the researcher who scrutinized the relationship between privacy and social media most frequently, with eight articles and 319 citations.

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Modern toplumlarda temel bir insan hakkı olarak kabul edilen mahremiyet bireylerin, grupların ve kurumların kendileriyle ilgili bilgilerin ne zaman, nasıl ve hangi ölçüde başkalarına aktarılacağını belirleme hakkıdır. Ancak dijitalleşme ve Web 2.0 teknolojilerinin gelişmesiyle birlikte, sosyal medyanın günlük hayatın merkezine yerleşmesi, mahremiyetin sınırlarını giderek daha fazla belirsiz hale getirmektedir. Bu durum, sosyal medya ve mahremiyet ilişkisini; gözetim, gizlilik ihlalleri, sharenting, yapay zekâ ve özel-kamusal alanın dönüşümü gibi farklı konularla ele alan birçok çalışmanın yapılmasına zemin hazırlamıştır. Bu çalışma ise mahremiyet ve sosyal medya konusuna yönelik alanın önde gelen dergilerinde yayımlanan araştırma makalelerini bibliyometrik yöntemle analiz etmeyi amaçlanmaktadır. Çalışmada, Web of Science veri tabanında yer alan ve iletişim alanıyla sınırlandırılmış toplam 505 araştırma makalesine ait veriler, VOSviewer programı kullanılarak oluşturulan görsel ağ haritaları aracılığıyla analiz edilmiştir. Araştırma bulgularına göre, bu alanda en fazla yayına sahip ülke ABD, en fazla yayına sahip üniversite ise yine ABD’de bulunan Illinois Üniversitesi’dir. Ayrıca mahremiyet ve sosyal medya çalışmalarında en sık kullanılan anahtar kelimelerin ‘mahremiyet, sosyal medya ve Facebook’ olduğu görülürken; bu alanda en fazla makale yayınlayan dergilerin ise ‘Social Media + Society’, ‘New Media & Society’ ve ‘Information, Communication & Society’ olduğu saptanmıştır. Son olarak, mahremiyet ve sosyal medya arasındaki ilişkiyi en fazla inceleyen araştırmacı ise, sekiz makalesi ve 319 atıfıyla Sabine Trepte olmaktadır.

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Köseliören, M. (2026). BİBLIOMETRIC ANALYSIS OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH ON SOCIAL MEDIA AND PRIVACY. Gümüşhane Üniversitesi İletişim Fakültesi Elektronik Dergisi, Cilt: 14 Sayı: 1, 226–249. https://doi.org/10.19145/e-gifder.1807091

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