문화콘텐츠 관련 연구에 대한 메타분석: 연구 분야, 목적, 방법을 중심으로

This paper is purposed to study the research trend in cultural contents research field which has made remarkable results since 2001. All the papers published in Korean academic journals from 2001 were analyzed with the method of meta analysis. The research is targeted on three parts; the academic backgrounds of the papers, the research purpose, and methods used in the studies. The results are as follows; First, researchers from various academic fields are working on, especially Humanities have shown the most active participation. Second, the purposes of the studies are mostly for pragmatic usage, but studies for only academic purposes are increasing in recent days. Third, methods used in the studies are skewed. It is necessary to study cultural contents in various viewpoint and research method. The traditional roles of the classical genres such movies, music, broadcasting should be redefined and integrated to cultural contents in a holistic way. We now have enough reasons to consider establishing the cultural content not only as application and instrumental use, but as a goal and consolidated concept.