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table 5.3 Main Social Media topics Addressed in the Leading Fields of Study

Information
Science

Public
Administration

Research Topics Communication

1. Disclosure information
and transparency

9.52% 17.24% 10.00%

2. Delivery public services 9.52% 15.52% 40.00%

3. Legal and regulatory
aspects

2.38% 3.45% 10.00%

4. Social media in general
terms

2.38% 12.07% 10.00%

5. Organizational theory
and reforms

— 5.17% —

6. Electronic participation 76.19% 46.55% 30.00%

a. Use of social media by
politicians in election
campaigns
(e-Campaign)

28.57% 20.69% —

b. Social media use for
reducing inequalities,
enhancing democracy,
and increasing
participation

47.62% 25.86% 30.00%

Source: Own elaboration.

5.3.3 Analysis of the Results

RQ1: How many social media articles have been published in JCR journals in
the fields of Public Administration, Information Science and Library
Science, and Communication?
RQ3: Which journals publish such papers most frequently?

Public administrations have adopted different Web 2.0 tools, such as blogs,
microblogging, wikis, social networking, multimedia sharing, mash-up applica-
tions, tagging, and virtual worlds, among others, which have attracted the interest
of researchers and scholars, and this has been reflected in a gradual increase in the
number of studies published in international journals since 2011 (see Table 5.2).
In addition, we can see that this emerging research on social media within the
e-government community began in 2008.