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A Study on the Agenda Rank-Order Correlation between Twitter and Portal News about Sewol Ferry Catastrophe

세월호 참사에 대한 트위터와 포털뉴스의 의제 순위 상관관계 연구

  • Kim, Shin-Ku (Department of U-Peace, Graduate School of International and Area Studies, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies) ;
  • Choi, Eun-Kyoung (HanYang Peace Institute, HanYang University)
  • Received : 2015.03.25
  • Accepted : 2015.04.29
  • Published : 2015.06.30
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Abstract

The Sewol ferry catastrophe that took place on April 16 2014 was unprecedented in terms of its sociopolitical implications, which had reverberated throughout the Korean nation. Mindful of such distinct characteristics of the Sewol ferry catastrophe, this thesis looks into the salience of the agendas portrayed in Twitter and Portal News coverage on the disaster and the correlation between the attribute-specific agendas of the foregoing mediums by making use of the agenda rank order correlation method. Extraction and analysis of big data revealed that first, while the hypothesis that there were little difference in terms of salience among the main agendas between Twitter and Portal News was dismissed, the rank order correlation proved to be high as regards the main agendas on Twitter and Portal News. This signifies that Twitter agendas exert influence over those on Portal News. Next, and regarding the five main agendas on the incident, there existed differences in salience between the attribute-specific agendas of the two mediums, with low figures for corresponding rank order correlations. Such results signify that Twitter and Portal News have little influence over each other as regards their agenda rank order correlation.

2014년 4월 16일 발생한 세월호 침몰 사건은 그 동안의 어떤 사건, 사고 그리고 재난보다 한국 정치 사회 그리고 언론에 상당한 영향을 미쳤다. 이에 본 연구는 세월호 사건이라는 특수성을 고려해, 사건 발생 직후 드러난 트위터와 포털뉴스에서 나타난 의제의 현저성과 두 매체 간의 속성의제들이 어떠한 상관관계를 나타내고 있는가를 의제 순위 상관관계를 통해 탐구해 보았다. 빅데이터 수집을 통해 분석해 본 결과, 첫째 세월호라는 키워드와 연관된 트위터의 의제와 포털뉴스의 의제에 현저성에 차이가 없을 것이라는 가설은 기각되었지만, 두 매체의 의제들의 순위 상관관계는 높은 것으로 나타났다. 연구 결과 두 매체의 의제들은 대부분 서로 공유됨을 알 수 있다. 둘째, 세월호와 연관된 다섯 가지 대상의제들의 트위터와 포털뉴스에서의 속성의제들은 현저성에서 차이가 있었으며, 세 가지 의제들은 순위 상관관계가 높게 나타났고, 나머지 두 의제들은 순위 상관관계가 낮게 나타났다. 이 결과를 통해, 특정 주제에 관해서는 트위터가 포털뉴스와 전혀 다른 의제를 형성, 매체 내에서 공유하였다는 것을 알 수 있다.

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