The evolution of the telecommunications policy agenda: Forty years of articles in Telecommunications Policy

José Luis Gómez-Barroso, Claudio Feijóo, Manuel Quiles-Casas and Erik Bohlin

Telecommunications Policy, 2017, vol. 41, issue 10, 853-877

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: Telecommunications policy; Text mining; Cluster analysis; Bibliometric information; Policy agenda (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1016/j.telpol.2016.11.005

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