What's in a word

As I've been going through the DOAJ to look at common and popular concepts around information systems, computer science technology, openness etc.., some things were quite apparent

• computer science is by far the most important "technology" in the DOAJ, representing 141 journals in the "technology and engineering" section. the next largest section is "general technology" at 51 and the third "Electrical and Nuclear Engineering" (28 journals). Now this could of course be explained by the fact that fields related to the computer sciences were often involved with open access activities, but I still think this says something about the fact that computer science dominates discourse in the technology field.
• Within the social sciences, "media and communication" has a respectable 62 journals, and "library and information science" has 93, both of which are in the middle of the pack. By far the largest category in the social sciences is "Education", which likely has quite a few IT related topics.
  
• Even in the general technology and general social sciences section, numerous journals relate to information and communication (haven't checked if there is double counting though)

I was surprised by how prominent fields related to ICTs were, especially once you aggregate into a common multi-disciplinary field. There certainly doesn't seem to be any question that there is significant research going on, particularly in "Western" universities in the field. The question then becomes what language and which words can tie this field together, particularly of we didn't use the term "ICT". To get some inkling of this I took most of the titles from the above mentioned journals and but them in a tag cloud.

applied broadcasting business communication computer control culture cyberpsychology data development digital education ejournalist electronic emerging engineering informatics information innovation intelligence interaction international internet journal knowledge learning library literacy management mathematics media multimedia networks online open organizational practice problems property research science society software studies systems technical technology telecommunications transdiscipline virtual

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