The 20th century witnessed an explosion in the digital information and communications technologies (ICTs), leading to the concept of the‘information society’ (Machlup, 1962). While media research dates back to early part of that century (Saettler, 2004), the field of instructional and educational technology is a relatively young academic discipline with scholarly journals in related fields only starting to appear in the 1970s. Such journals serve as important communication systems which reveal the intellectual nature of particular scientific knowledge networks (Garfield, 1972).