Özet:

With the rapid progress of technology every day, digitalization or digital transformation has begun to show itself in every field. Integrated with social, economic, social and political developments, digital change has a remarkable impact on human life, which has a interdisciplinary structure, communication is one of the areas most affected by information technology change and digitalization. Therefore, it is important to identify how digital transformation reflects on the research in the field of communication, to be able to understand the direction of the digitalization and communication relationship. In this context, postgraduate theses provide important data in determining the direction of research in the academic field. In particular, doctoral theses are very important data sources because they study the detailed openings in the field within a specific academic qualification framework. In this study, a total of 309 doctoral theses between 1998 and 2019, expressed as the year in which the digital transformation gained rapidly, were studied by bibliometric analysis. The data obtained were analyzed by detailing their distribution, university, writing language, the branches of the maternity they produce, the method they use, the data collection and analysis techniques, the subject of the work and the framework of keywords. Some of the research findings show that the number of theses increases significantly as they approach to the present day and spread to all areas of communication. While the use of social media and other digital environments are the most studied topic, digitalization and art relationships are the least studied topic.

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