• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.21 no.7
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• pp.475-486
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• 2020

The purpose of present study is to identify the regional tourism resources using Webometric network analysis. The study focuses on Suseong area in Daegu metropolitan city. Various kinds of web-based data, for example, hit counts, online news, and public comments, were used to discover hot places and people's responses. The research question is, 'First, what is the optimum level of the search engine for suseong? Second, what is the online appearance of tourist resources in suseong? Which region is the center of tourism with high levels of emergence? Third, what are the main contents of news articles and comments related to the Suseong pond?'. The results show that the search engine optimization level in Suseong is lower than that in other areas in Daegu. In other words, tourism information and contents regarding Suseong are not highly visible on cyber space. Importantly, Suseong pond had the highest online presence. A close analysis of both online news and users' comments on Suseong pond, however, revealed the biggest concern as calling for improving public accessibility to tourism infrastructure. The findings are expected to contribute to policy development and service operation related to tourism resources in Suseong.

• Korean journal of communication and information
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• v.45
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• pp.463-495
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• 2009

Korea has started to pay attention to civic journalism in recent years while it initially emerged in the United State since late 1980s. Furthermore, albeit some discernable limitations, the Internet has played an important role in fertilizing civic journalism as indicated by the emergence of online news media and the increasing number of civic journalists engaged in the online activities. Whereas there are some patterns of civic journalism practice and the civic influence commonly observed in both countries, there are significant factors that distinguish th1e case of Korea from that of the U.S. The purpose of this study is to compare the two countries in terms of the patterns of civic journalism practice and civic influence. This goal has been achieved by analyzing ‘CNN iReport’ in the U.S. and ‘Ohmynews’ in Korea, both of which are prime civic journalism websites. Those websites have been compared in light of four standards of civic journalism: first, the degree of post-objectivism; second, the search for effective resolutions of social problems; third, civic engagement in the news making process to enhance bottom-up agenda setting; and finally, citizens’ interaction with the news. The results reveal that the American civic journalism website is more likely to shed light on deviating from the principle of objectivity and seeking alternatives and resolutions of social problems. Moreover, it effectively utilizes civic engagement in the news Abstracts 551 making process as indicated by the higher numbers of civic journalists and civic news resources. Also, readers’ interaction with the news was found to be more active in the iReport website than in the Ohmynews.

• Journal of Science and Technology Studies
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.181-214
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• 2015

This study analyzed the characteristics of the politics of technoscience and governance in South Korea, taking advantage of the policy changes on the stem cell research after Hwang's affair. In spite of generally accepted conventional wisdom that stem cell research had been suffering 'crisis' after the Hwang's affair, South Korea succeeded in developing the first and the largest stem cell product in the world. However, considering the fact that the stem cell research capabilities and technological competitiveness of Korea have been assessed as relatively low compared to the development performance, there is a need to extrapolate how such result could be achieved. To answer these questions, we analyzed changes in the R&D expenditure before and after the scandal and verified the 'crisis of stem cell research' following the reduction of financial support from government. From the analysis of literature on the policy reports and news, we described the process of discourse changes in policy and analyzed the characteristics of the politics of technoscience and governance of stem cell research. This study emphasized that the government R&D and regulation policy play the key roles in the development of stem cell research rather than in the technological competitiveness in South Korea. Furthermore, this study argued that democratic governance still does not work under the policy conditions that technocratic decision-making of stem cell research fails to learn from the Hwang's affairs.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.14 no.12
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• pp.463-470
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• 2016

This experimental research as media effect study explores the effect of the current documentary that deals with radioactive contamination widely spread by fukushima nuclear accident on political and social recognition of domestic audience. Proceeding studies about media effect dealt mainly with news contents of TV, newspaper and internet. However studies on the effect of current documentary as non news contents on audience that provide us with profound information by various subjects are very few. Especially it is difficult to find studies about disaster documentary dealing with radioactive contamination having much effect on global environment. Accordingly this research implemented experimental study to find out the effect of current documentary that deals with radioactive contamination by fukushima nuclear accident on political and social recognition of audience. This research found that subjects exposed to the current documentary considered outdated nuclear power plant more seriously, supporting the opposition party more positively, claiming shutdown of outdated nuclear power plant, and opposing additive construction of nuclear power plant than subjects not exposed to the current documentary.

• Korean journal of communication and information
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• v.59
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• pp.31-49
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• 2012

This study investigates normative role model of the journalists under the changing environment. Firstly, this article explores what pressure the new media environment gives to the journalists in their routine of news production and distribution. These are stated from the angle of epistemological, professional and interactive pressure. Next, as a reference for the standard journalism in the age of mass media, the idea of Rhee Young-hee, a late journalist who won respects from many Korean journalists, is studied. His firm belief in the pursuit of hard facts, rigorous investigative writing and expertism are spelt out. Then, this study explores how, in real term, this pressure changes the journalistic value, norm and practices in the newsroom. Ten of Koran journalists are interviewed in order to get their idea about the emerging journalistic standards under the digital environment. From this in-depth interviews, it is conclued that the pursuit of hard fact, investigative writing, expertism of Rhee Young-hee are, nonetheless the change of the media technology, still effective and provide good reference points for the enhancement of the standard of journalism in Korea. However, it is also suggested that the methods to fulfil desirable journalism in the digital age should be different from that of the mass communication age. The interviewees make propose that the journalist, as a network node, news curator or coordinator, should actively interact with the audiences facilitating their enhanced potential as a news 'prosumer'(producer and consumer).

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.18 no.11
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• pp.30-37
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• 2018

The social media data and the broadcasting data related to onion as well as agri-food consumer panel data were collected and investigated if the amount of money spent to purchase onion in year 2014 when onion price plunged latest were correlated with the frequencies of onion-related keywords in the social media data and the broadcasting programs because onion price in year 2018 is expected to plunge due to overproduction and there has been needs to analyze impacts of social media and broadcasting program on onion purchase in the previous similar events, and identify potential factors that can promote onion consumption in advance. What we identified from our study include a) broadcasting news programs mentioning words "onion," were correlated with onion purchase with 3 - 6 weeks in advance; b) broadcasting entertainment programs mentioning words "onion and health," were correlated with onion purchase with 11 weeks in advance; c) blog mentioning words "onion and efficacy," were correlated with onion purchase with 5 weeks in advance. Our study provided a case on how social media and broadcasting programs could be analyzed for their effects on consumer purchase behavior using big data collection and analysis in the field of agriculture. We propose to use the findings from the study may be applied to promote onion consumption.

• Journal of Society of Occupational Therapy for the Aged and Dementia
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• v.12 no.2
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• pp.67-74
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• 2018

Objective : The purpose of this study is to quantitatively analyze the role of occupational therapy in long - term care insurance for the elderly using text mining, one of the big data analysis techniques. Method : For the analysis of newspaper articles, "Long - Term Care Insurance for the Elderly + Occupational Therapy for the Elderly" was collected after the period from 2007 to 208. Naver, which has a high share of the domestic search engine, utilized the database of Naver News by utilizing Textom, a web crawling tool. After collecting the article title and original text of 510 news data from the collection of the elderly long term care insurance + occupational therapy search, we analyzed the article frequency and key words by year. Result : In terms of the frequency of articles published by year, the number of articles published in 2015 and 2017 was the highest with 70 articles (13.7%), and the top 10 terms of the key word analysis showed the highest frequency of 'dementia' (344) In terms of key words, dementia, treatment, hospital, health, service, rehabilitation, facilities, institution, grade, elderly, professional, salary, industrial complex and people are related. Conclusion : In this study, it is meaningful that the textual mining technique was used to more objectively confirm the social needs and the role of the occupational therapist for the dementia and rehabilitation in the related key keywords based on the media reporting trend of the elderly long - term care insurance for 11 years. Based on the results of this study, future research should expand research field and period and supplement the research methodology through various analysis methods according to the year.

• Journal of Korean Society of Archives and Records Management
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• v.19 no.1
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• pp.167-194
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• 2019

This study aims to examine the change of awareness on presidential archives and records before and after impeachment by analyzing user frames. To achieve the goal of this study, prior studies of frame analysis were reviewed, and tweets of presidential archives and records before and after the impeachment were collected. This study conducted an analysis of Twitter and news extracted from Twitter using user frames and determined the differences between each frame over time. Afterward, five frames were set up to be used for the research through prior research and Twitter network analysis; changes in frames over time were examined by analyzing Twitter and news extracted from Twitter. Through such frame analysis, changes in the frame of presidential archives and records before and after the impeachment were examined, changes in public perception of presidential archives and records were identified, and areas of interest were determined. This study is significant as it identified changes in the public perception of presidential archives and records as well as in the areas of interest for the general public.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.14 no.4
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• pp.379-388
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• 2014

This study analyzed the status of Korean professional baseball as TV contents utilizing ratings. For the purpose of the study, Korea professional baseball's relative status to other genres though ratings is investigated. For this study, ratings per minute for the whole cable TV channel viewer ratings in 2010 were analyzed, and the following is the result of comparing and analyzing ratings per genre and channel of cable TV. Among 11 genres, drama showed the highest rating, and entertainment, movies, kids, news/reports, sports, music, etc followed. Drama and entertaining channels showed the highest ratings and sports did not show any high ranking. However, when analyzing times for broadcasting Korean professional baseball separately, Korean professional baseball in both genre and channel showed the highest r ratings and it was significant statistically. Thus, it is considered that Korean professional baseball is the most valuable contents for the related cable TV times.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.14 no.8
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• pp.40-49
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• 2014

Globalisation has intensified the international movement of labour and South Korea is no exception. Korea, which in the past was itself a labour-exporting country, has seen a reversal in human mobility since the late 1990's with a rapid growth in immigration and a transformation of a previously almost ethnically homogenous society. In this context, the important questions about the cultural and political implications associated with the construction of minority representations in the media have remained highly unexplored. The starting point of this study is an examination of the vital role of public service broadcasting (PSB) in Korean society, where ethnic minorities have increasingly become visible. The study shows the significant role of PSB in representing cultural diversity in public debates and the ways in which such representations and their dissemination reflect media power.