The "indigenous" in social media: A bibliometric analysis from Scopus

The objective of this research is to analyze what the scientific production gathered in the Scopus database tells us about the influence of the "indigenous" in and through social media. For this purpose, the bibliometric analysis of 70 documents and 52 articles was carried out. The results show that the interest of researchers in topics that relate the "indigenous" to the new media ecology has grown from 2013 to date progressively, that Australia has the largest scientific production in this regard, and that the implications of the participation of the "indigenous" people in social media reach the social, health, psychology, technology and engineering, environmental sciences, and so on. In conclusion, the scientific evidence in Scopus tells us that there is a positive evolution of the indigenous issue that lies in more than its visibility; it is also evolving with respect to its ubiquity and its glocality, a manifestation that in this convergent era the indigenous issue is advancing from paternalism towards the empowerment of the "indigenous".