本研究透過分析《國族認同》（National Identities）跟《國族與國族主義》（Nations and Nationalism）兩本國族主義專刊近二十年出版的研究論文內容，以瞭解數位媒體與國族主義研究的趨勢、特徵及理論發展。本研究目的有三：在兩本專刊中，有多少研究關注數位媒體與國族主義的關係與研究發展？聚焦於數位媒體與國族主義的研究文獻，在研究方法、研究對象、研究面向呈現何種趨勢？以及試圖從這些二手文獻中歸納數位媒體與國族主義研究的特徵。研究發現，相關研究多數集中於經驗研究與質化研究，缺少對數位媒體與國族主義理論關係之探討。而文獻多聚焦於數位媒體與離散國族主義的研究， 並從中發展出一些新概念， 如去地域化（ deterritorialisation ） 、虛擬社群／ 國家（ virtual communities/nations）、網路的文化親密性（cultural intimacy online）、文化的空間化（cultural spatialised），以及數位資本主義（digital capitalism），提供後續研究進一步討論。

Through analyzing the two nationalism academic journals, National Identities and Nations and Nationalism between 2000 and 2017, this study attempts to tease out the theoretical development and research trends in field of nationalism and new media in the digital era. This study intends to understand: (1) How many research focus on digital nationalism in the two journals? (2) How do they do the research? (3) What are the characteristics of digital nationalism and its studies? In the results, firstly, most of the articles are empirical research and qualitative research, that means there are few researches trying to explore the relation between digital media and nationalism. Secondly, those articles mainly focus on the research of digital media and diasporic nationalism, and develop several novel concepts include ‘deterritorialisation’, ‘virtual communities/ nations’, ‘cultural intimacy online’, ‘cultural spatialised’ and ‘digital capitalism’.