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The Effect of Representativeness in News Recommendation Mechanisms on Audience Reactions in Online News Portals

대표성 기반 뉴스 추천 메커니즘이 온라인 뉴스 포탈의 독자 반응에 미치는 영향

  • Lee, Un-Kon (College of Economics and Business Administration, The University of Suwon)
  • Received : 2016.02.11
  • Accepted : 2016.05.19
  • Published : 2016.05.31
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Abstract

News contents has been collected, selected, edited and sometimes distorted by the news recommendation mechanisms of online portals in nowadays. Prior studies had not confirmed the consensus of newsworthiness, and they had not tried to empirically validate the impacts of newsworthiness on audience reactions. This study challenged to summarize the concepts of newsworthiness and validate the impact of representativeness of both editor's and audience's perspective on audience reactions as perceived news quality, trust on news portal, perceived usefulness, service satisfaction, loyalty, continuous usage intention, and word-of-mouth intention by adopting the representativeness heuristics method and information adoption model. 357 valid data had been collected using a scenario survey method. Subjects in each groups are exposed by 3 news recommendation mechanisms: 1) the time-priority news exposure mechanism (control group), 2) the reference-score-based news recommendation mechanism (a single treatment group), and 3) the major-news-priority exposure mechanism sorting by the reference scores made by peer audiences (the mixed treatment group). Data had been analyzed by the MANOVA and PLS method. MANOVA results indicate that only mixed method of both editor and audience recommendation mechanisms impacts on perceived news quality and trust. PLS results indicate that perceived news quality and trust could significantly affect on the perceived usefulness, service satisfaction, loyalty, continuance usage, and word-of-mouth intention. This study would contributions to empathize the role of information technology in media industry, to conceptualize the news value in the balanced views of both editors and audiences, and to empirically validate the benefits of news recommendation mechanisms in academy. For practice, the results of this study suggest that online news portals would be better to make mixed news recommendation mechanisms to attract audiences.

최근 온라인 뉴스 포탈의 뉴스 추천 메커니즘이 뉴스 콘텐츠를 수집, 선택, 편집 및 왜곡하는 일이 일어나고 있다. 선행연구들은 뉴스의 가치에 대한 일관된 정의를 내리지도, 뉴스의 가치가 독자의 반응에 어떤 영향을 미치는지 실증적으로 검증하지도 못했다. 본 연구는 선행연구의 뉴스 가치 개념을 종합하고, 뉴스 가치를 아우를 수 있는 개념으로 대표성의 개념을 도입하였으며, 대표성 기반 정보발견법 및 정보 수용 모델을 활용하여, 대표성이 인지된 뉴스 품질, 신뢰, 인지된 유용성, 서비스 만족도, 충성도, 지속사용의도, 구전의도 등 독자 반응에 어떠한 영향을 미치는 지를 실증적으로 검증하였다. 시나리오 설문 법을 통해 총 357개의 유효한 자료가 수집되었다. 각 집단들은 1) 시간 순서기반 뉴스 추천 메커니즘, 2) 조회수 기반 뉴스 추천 메커니즘, 3) 편집자에 의해 선택된 주요 뉴스를 다시 조회수 기반으로 정렬한 뉴스 추천 메커니즘의 세 종류의 메커니즘에 각각 노출되었다. MANOVA 분석결과에 따르면, 편집자에 의해 선택된 주요 뉴스를 다시 조회수 기반으로 정렬한 뉴스 추천 메커니즘만이 여타 집단에 비해 인지된 뉴스 품질과 신뢰에서 유의한 차이를 보였다. PLS 분석 결과에 따르면, 이렇게 형성된 인지된 뉴스 품질과 신뢰는 인지된 유용성, 서비스 만족도, 충성도, 지속사용의도, 구전의도 등 독자 반응을 유의하게 증가시키는 것으로 조사되었다. 본 연구의 학술적 기여는 언론 영역에서 정보기술의 역할을 강조하고, 편집자와 독자 모두가 인정하는 뉴스가 가치 있는 뉴스라고 개념화 하였으며, 뉴스 추천 메커니즘의 효과를 실증한 가치를 가진다. 실무적 측면에서 본 연구는 온라인 뉴스 포탈이 편집자와 독자의 시각이 모두 반영된 절충안의 뉴스 추천 메커니즘을 활용하는 것이 독자를 유인하기 위해 도움이 될 것이라고 제안한다.

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