With CNKI as the data source, this paper selects CSSCI papers with "network culture" as the key words for accurate matching retrieval from 1999 to 2019 as the literature source, and makes a comprehensive analysis from the dimensions of literature quantity, author distribution, keyword co-occurrence, organization distribution, etc., in order to reveal the research status and development trend in the field of network culture. The results show that:(1) there are four research directions of network culture:network culture, ideology, ideological and political education, network media and network education; (2) the research of network culture has entered the period of differentiation, the frontier research methods of interdisciplinary are being introduced, and the research depth is increasing day by day. (3) The study of network culture has not formed a core group of authors, there is less cooperation between authors and institutions, and the research field has not yet developed.