• Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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• v.9 no.7
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• pp.25-31
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• 2018

Online news has replaced the traditional newspaper and has brought about a profound transformation in the way we access and share information. News websites have had the ability for users to post comments for quite some time, and some have also begun to crowdsource reactions to news articles. The field of sentiment analysis seeks to computationally model the emotions and reactions experienced when presented with text. In this work, we analyze more than 100,000 news articles over ten categories with five user-generated emotional annotations to determine whether or not these reactions have a mathematical correlation to the news body text and propose a simple sentiment analysis algorithm that requires minimal preprocessing and no machine learning. We show that it is effective even for a morphologically complex language like Korean.

• Journal of Intelligence and Information Systems
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• v.24 no.1
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• pp.75-100
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• 2018

Mobile devices have become an important channel for news content usage in our daily life. However, online news content readers' resistance to online news monetization is more serious than other digital content businesses, such as webtoons, music sources, videos, and games. Since major portal sites distribute online news content free of charge to increase their traffics, customers have been accustomed to free news content; hence this makes online news providers more difficult to switch their policies on business models (i.e., monetization policy). As a result, most online news providers are highly dependent on the advertising business model, which can lead to increasing number of false, exaggerated, or sensational advertisements inside the news website to maximize their advertising revenue. To reduce this advertising dependencies, many online news providers had attempted to switch their 'free' readers to 'paid' users, but most of them failed. However, recently, some online news media have been successfully applying the Pay-What-You-Want (PWYW) payment model, which allows readers to voluntarily pay fees for their favorite news content. These successful cases shed some lights to the managers of online news content provider regarding that the PWYW model can serve as an alternative business model. In this study, therefore, we collected 379 online news articles from Ohmynews.com that has been successfully employing the PWYW model, and analyzed the comparative importance of systematic attributes of online news content on readers' voluntary payment. More specifically, we derived the six systematic attributes (i.e., Type of Article Title, Image Stimulation, Article Readability, Article Type, Dominant Emotion, and Article-Image Similarity) and three or four levels within each attribute based on previous studies. Then, we conducted content analysis to measure five attributes except Article Readability attribute, measured by Flesch readability score. Before conducting main content analysis, the face reliabilities of chosen attributes were measured by three doctoral level researchers with 37 sample articles, and inter-coder reliabilities of the three coders were verified. Then, the main content analysis was conducted for two months from March 2017 with 379 online news articles. All 379 articles were reviewed by the same three coders, and 65 articles that showed inconsistency among coders were excluded before employing conjoint analysis. Finally, we examined the comparative importance of those six systematic attributes (Study 1), and levels within each of the six attributes (Study 2) through conjoint analysis with 314 online news articles. From the results of conjoint analysis, we found that Article Readability, Article-Image Similarity, and Type of Article Title are the most significant factors affecting online news readers' voluntary payment. First, it can be interpreted that if the level of readability of an online news article is in line with the readers' level of readership, the readers will voluntarily pay more. Second, the similarity between the content of the article and the image within it enables the readers to increase the information acceptance and to transmit the message of the article more effectively. Third, readers expect that the article title would reveal the content of the article, and the expectation influences the understanding and satisfaction of the article. Therefore, it is necessary to write an article with an appropriate readability level, and use images and title well matched with the content to make readers voluntarily pay more. We also examined the comparative importance of levels within each attribute in more details. Based on findings of two studies, two major and nine minor propositions are suggested for future empirical research. This study has academic implications in that it is one of the first studies applying both content analysis and conjoint analysis together to examine readers' voluntary payment behavior, rather than their intention to pay. In addition, online news content creators, providers, and managers could find some practical insights from this research in terms of how they should produce news content to make readers voluntarily pay more for their online news content.

• Journal of Information Management
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• v.41 no.2
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• pp.161-181
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• 2010

The purpose of this study is to investigate citation behavior in internet news to research papers of 10 domestic economic institutes and to suggest institutes' impact quantitatively with h-index and various modified indices. Content analysis of 878 news articles that collected from NAVER news site was performed. First, as citing behavior, cited numbers of research papers, preferred news media, speed, source entry accuracy, centrality, subject section, and length by the institutes were examined. Next, impact indices for institutes were calculated by cited numbers using h-index, g-index, $h_s$-index, and $g_s$-index, and the ranking of 10 research institutes were determined by each impact indices. As a result, institutes belonged to upper ranks showed little variation among the different indices. On the other hand, institutes belonged to middle and lower ranks showed variations in impact indices and experts' survey.

• Korean journal of communication and information
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• v.30
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• pp.175-201
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• 2005

This study investigates the diversity of news topic and source of the New York Times, Chicago Tribune, and the Los Angeles Times in the second half of the twentieth century. In probing the conventional traits of the contemporary press, the researcher traced the changing patterns and trends of news values in terms of news-gathering routine in order to evaluate the journalistic role conception in terms of social responsibility theory. Findings indicated that the American press as a neutral transmitter has been consistently violated by source and topic bias without any significant changes during the last five decades. The data, however, revealed the evident shift of the contemporary press from the heavy reliance of official source to the business/economic source. In addition, news topics such as business, health, and education have replaced the conventional popular topics such as crime and accidents. By contrast, it was revealed that the unconventional topics such as poverty, labor and minority still fail to receive the large attention from the target papers.

• Proceedings of the Korea Contents Association Conference
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• 2018.05a
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• pp.369-370
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• 2018

본 논문에서는 대학의 교양 및 전공 수업에서 4차 산업혁명의 시사적 내용을 이해하기 위하여 최신 ICT 기술, 서비스, 산업 등과 관련된 뉴스 및 신문 기사를 활용한 교육 모델을 제시한다. 교육 모델에서는 다양한 뉴스 신문 기사를 서로 비교하면서 보기 위하여 e-NIE(electronic news in education)와 전 세계 교육용 SNS인 Edmodo 콘텐츠 활용 방법을 소개한다. 수강생들을 실험집단으로 설정하여 수강 전과 후의 정성적 효과를 분석한 결과, 대학에서의 뉴스 신문 활용 강좌의 필요성에 대하여 크게 동감하였다(5점 척도의 점수가 14.9% 향상).

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2015.10a
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• pp.242-244
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• 2015

정보통신기술이 발전함에 따라 인터넷 뉴스 기사의 수와 구독률이 지속적으로 상승하고 있다. 하지만 주로 텍스트로 구성된 인터넷 기사를 통해 전체적인 이슈의 현황을 파악하는 데는 한계가 있다. 이에 본 논문에서는 분산 시스템 환경 내에서 기계 학습을 통하여 대량의 뉴스를 분석하고, 주요 이슈와 이슈간의 연관성을 추출하여 시각화하는 시스템 설계에 대해 제안하고자 한다.

• Korean journal of communication and information
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• v.61
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• pp.5-27
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• 2013

Media coverage of depression, the mental disorder, is on the high rise following the soaring number of reported celebrity suicide. This study is an exploratory attempt to get a glance on how online news media are portraying depression. The content analysis results indicate that celebrity was the most cited source, outnumbering the others such as non-celebrity patients and experts. More than half of the sample attributed the cause of depression to socio-psychological factors. Medical consultation was the most reported means of treating depression among the sample, while over the half did not suggest any treatment methods at all. Overall, celebrity related news were less likely to talk about the cause and treatment methods. In addition, the more neuro-biological factors were designated as the main cause of depression in the articles, the more chances of treatment method of all kinds were brought up. The frame of human interest dominated a little less than half of the articles examined, and only few reported positive outcome or achievements after coping with depression.

• Proceedings of the Korea Water Resources Association Conference
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• 2022.05a
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• pp.378-378
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• 2022

상수도시스템의 과정 중 최종 단계인 급수단계에서 지역전반에 수질문제가 발생할 경우, 직간접적인 피해의 해결은 장기간 지속될 수 있다. 본 연구에서는 실시간 비정형정보의 빅데이터 분석을 통해 상수도시스템에서 수질사고 문제의 파급력과 2차 피해 등의 연결 관계 변화 추적을 위한 기초적 분석을 수행하였다. 과거 대규모 수질사고가 발생된 바 있는 인천광역시 유충발생 사고를 대상으로 뉴스 기사 웹크롤링 절차를 정립하고, 그 결과를 분석하였다. '인천 유충'이 최초 보도되었던 2020년 7월 13일 부터 이후 1년을 대상으로 네이버 통합검색에 의해 표출되는 뉴스기사를 웹크롤링하였으며, 프로그래밍을 통한 불용어 제거 및 관련성 검토를 통해 총 920건의 기사를 분석하였다. 수질사고의 전개양상에 따라 사고발생, 확산, 수습, 그리고 보상의 4단계로 임의 구분하여 분석하였다. 의미분석을 위한 토픽모델링 기법은 잠재 디리클레 할당(Latent Dirichlet Allocation, LDA) 방법을 적용하였으며, 긍부정 감정분석은 KNU 한국어 감성사전(KNU sentiment lexicon)을 활용하여 수행하였다. 토픽 모델링 결과, 사고 발생에서부터 확산, 수습, 보상의 단계에 맞춰 적절한 주제어의 조합에 따른 기사들이 도출되었으며, 단계별 긍부정 기사 비율역시 사고의 전개단계에 따라 적절히 나타남을 확인하였다. 제시된 수질사고 관련 비정형정보 분석 방법론과 결과는 과거 사고 사례 분석을 통한 검색 및 긍부정 키워드 확정, 키워드 발생 비율 변동(사고전과 후)에 따른 상황판단 기준설정 등에 활용이 가능하다.

• Korean journal of communication and information
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• v.39
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• pp.40-68
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• 2007

Despite many efforts to improve water and publicize Arisu, ordinary citizens' distrust in water is still intense. This study aims to analyze how newspapers, television and internet media in Korea covered water-related news, focusing on the type of articles, themes, news sources, and news values. As a result, the mostly mentioned theme in the media was the discussion about suitability of water as a drinking water, followed by impurified water, governmental policy on water, coverage on the water pipe, and result of examination of water quality. Also among newspapers, broadcasting, and the internet, the internet medium showed the most negative tone in covering water. Stories written by journalists with expertise were less than 1% whereas stories by ordinary journalists were mostly found. In conclusion, to cover public issues like water desirably, it is necessary to bring up journalists with expertise in environmental issues, to diversify news sources, and to do investigative reporting rather than reporting appealing to audience's amusement.

• Journal of KIISE:Databases
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• v.37 no.3
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• pp.127-136
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• 2010

With rapid growth of information and computer communication technologies, the numbers of digital documents including multimedia data have been recently exploded. In particular, news video database and news video mining have became the subject of extensive research, to develop effective and efficient tools for manipulation and analysis of news videos, because of their information richness. However, many research focus on browsing, retrieval and summarization of news videos. Up to date, it is a relatively early state to discover and to analyse the plentiful latent semantic knowledge from news videos. In this paper, we propose the news video mining system based on multi-modal approach and text mining, which uses the visual-textual information of news video clips and their scripts. The proposed system systematically constructs a taxonomy of news video stories in automatic manner with hierarchical clustering algorithm which is one of text mining methods. Then, it multilaterally analyzes the topics of news video stories by means of time-cluster trend graph, weighted cluster growth index, and network analysis. To clarify the validity of our approach, we analyzed the news videos on "The Second Summit of South and North Korea in 2007".