The evolution of the telecommunications policy agenda: Forty years of articles in Telecommunications Policy
Journal article, 2017

This paper investigates the evolution of the telecommunications policy agenda by means of text mining forty years –from 1976 to 2016– of papers in the journal Telecommunications Policy. Text mining techniques help identify the key topics, the dominant combinations of concepts and the main areas of research within this multidisciplinary –technical, economic, social, policy– discipline. In addition they depict an evolution of the policy agenda more nuanced than the conventional public service, pre-competition and post-liberalisation stages typical of telecommunications. Also, in combination with bibliometric information, the results display the relationships between areas of research and methodologies, countries and authors’ background, all together providing a deeper understanding of the past, present and future avenues for research in telecommunications policy.

Bibliometric information

Text mining

Telecommunications policy

Cluster analysis

Policy agenda

Author

José Luis Gómez-Barroso

Claudio Feijóo

Manuel Quiles-Casas

Erik Bohlin

Chalmers, Technology Management and Economics, Science, Technology and Society

Telecommunications Policy

0308-5961 (ISSN)

Vol. 41 10 853-877

Subject Categories

Computer and Information Science

DOI

10.1016/j.telpol.2016.11.005

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Created

12/29/2017