Visual Analysis on Social Media News Impact on College Students

Abstract

The rapid growth and widespread adoption of social media platforms has changed the way individual’s access and engage with news content. Research on social media news for college students can help understand the status of college students social media usage and news reading helps social media organization understand the needs of young users, and improve their news reading efficiency. This study employs CiteSpace software to perform a scientific assessment and visual examination of the pertinent literature concerning college students' research on social media news from 2000 to 2023. After screening the database for document types and topics, 209 relevant documents were obtained. The amount of literature on this topic has grown exponentially over time, indicating an increasing interest among scholars in this area. The results show USA produced the most literature, the University of Florida State is the most productive institution. Many authors in this field have published more than one article, and showed close contact and cooperation. Social media usage, impact and motivation are research hotspots in this field. Impact, online, mental health and behavior are the research frontiers at the current stage, and the future research trend will be more abundant, in-depth and detailed on these research hotspots.