數位時代的國族認同建構研究：以學術期刊National Identities、Nations and Nationalism為例

The Research Trends of Nationalism in Digital Era: In the Cases of Academic Journals National Identities and Nations and Nationalism

Through analyzing the two nationalism academic journals, National Identities and Nations and Nationalism between 2000 and 2017, this study attempts to tease out the theoretical development and research trends in field of nationalism and new media in the digital era. This study intends to understand: (1) How many research focus on digital nationalism in the two journals? (2) How do they do the research? (3) What are the characteristics of digital nationalism and its studies? In the results, firstly, most of the articles are empirical research and qualitative research, that means there are few researches trying to explore the relation between digital media and nationalism. Secondly, those articles mainly focus on the research of digital media and diasporic nationalism, and develop several novel concepts include 'deterritorialisation', 'virtual communities/ nations', 'cultural intimacy online', 'cultural spatialised' and 'digital capitalism'.