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214 Journal of Library Science in China, Vol. 8, 2016

No. 5

Further discussion of information security,network security,and cyberspace
security
WANG Shiwei , CAO Lei & LUO Tianyu
①a *

The first author of this paper previously authored a paper under the title On Information
Security,Network Security and Cyberspace Security. Due to the fact that these three concepts
have become the important field of global non-conventional security,research on these concepts
should not only focus on Chinese semantic interpretation,but also take a global perspective
to comprehensively understand the rich connotation,and have a multi-angle analysis from the
academic,technical and political dimensions. It is a great help to understand the logical starting
point for information security global governance as well as in the strategic layout,scientific
management and practice instruction of China’s national information security so as to realize the
collaboration and interaction between national governance and global governance on the subject
of information security. In this way,further progress could be made in information cyberspace
development; meanwhile,the theoretical ground of the logic starting point of the concept could be
laid in order to build the discourse system,platform and channel to facilitate China’s information
security exchanges with overseas countries while constructing global cyberspace community.
Based on previous findings,this paper elaborates on the connotation of and interlinks among
information security,network security and cyberspace security from the perspective of related
disciplines,technology and policy via subject search,frequency analysis,visual mapping and
semantic relation in both Chinese and English corpus. This paper is designed to enhance the basic
researches of information security by making further studies on shared meanings,differences and
changes of these concepts in different languages patterns.
In summary,information security,network security and cyberspace security are in one big
interrelated concept circle while keeping its unique features in respective smaller ones. The word
frequency and associative analysis applied in this paper offer good insights into the following
questions:What words are included in these interrelated concept circles? How are the connections
between these concepts,strong or weak? What varies in concept circles from Chinese to English?
Answers to these questions will lead us to a wider and more grounded perspective and a more
inclusive and substantial breakthrough point. These concept circles in Chinese more focus on
macroscopic and mesoscopic researches on strategy and management. In the Chinese context,the
knowledge of information security can be traced back to as early as Shang dynasty,even before
Qin Dynasty. In China’s history,information security started with concerns about someone’s

* Correspondence should be addressed to WANG Shiwei, Email: swwang@sass.org.cn,ORCID:0000-0001-9179-9580