• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.19 no.11
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• pp.578-592
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• 2019

This study investigated the main effect and interaction effect of independent variables such as news fatigue, political sophistication, knowledge system of news, and news view on reflective news use and partisan news use. This study employed multiple regression analysis and Two way ANOVA. The positive relationship between news fatigue and critical news use strategies was found. Exploring the factors to news processing strategies, the study suggested the potential direction of news education.

• Korean journal of communication and information
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• v.38
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• pp.40-72
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• 2007

Amid the rapid growth in use of portal news, this study examined whether portal news would substitute traditional news media, in particular newspapers and television news. To answer the research question, this study attempted to investigate how the decrease in use of traditional news media was associated with online news use, reliance on, and motivations for portal news. First, this study found that there was a negative and significant relationship between the Internet use and television news viewing, suggesting that those who are more likely to use the Internet are less likely to watch television news programs. Also, portal news was negatively associated with time spent with newspaper reading, while it was not related to television news viewing. Second, this study found that convenience/information-seeking needs appeared as the major motivations for using portal news, which were negatively and significantly associated with the decreased time spent with watching television news programs. In other words, those who used portal news for convenience/information-seeking needs are less likely to watch television news programs, which may indicate that portal news could be a substitute for television news in terms of convenience/information-seeking motivations. In addition, the result of this study showed that there was a complementary relationship between portal news and newspapers in terms of surveillance needs. Those findings could be explained by the concept of "functional similarity" in the process of media substitution. Based on the findings, implications of this study were discussed.

• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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• v.21 no.6
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• pp.105-112
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• 2020

The present study aims to explore news sharers' characteristic. Specifically, it aims to look at news sharers' demographic characteristics, old media news usage and new media news usage. Besides, it also explores factors affecting news sharing behavior. The study used the second data of Korea Press Foundation. Findings from surveys suggest that first, news sharers are younger and have higher education than not news sharers. Second, news sharers use less news through old media while more news through new media. Third, political orientation, portal, SNS and online video platform new usage, messenger news reliability have positive effects on news sharing, while age and portal news reliability have negative effects on it. Based on these findings, implication, limitations, and topics for future research are discussed.

• Korean journal of communication and information
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• v.26
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• pp.259-289
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• 2004

In this study, the use of mainstream online news site and alternative online news site were compared in the aspects of users' characteristics, attitude on online news sites, and using pattern. A survey was conducted for 182 mainstream-only users, 46 alternative online news users, and 47 both sites users, Also, their traffic data of online news sites were analyzed during the 16th presidential election. As a result, it was found that both sites users had the highest political interest and the most progressive political position among the user groups. In the aspect of users' attitude, mainstream-only users were most positive to the mainstream online news site and both sires users were most positive and more involved in alternative online news site. But all user groups set higher credibility on alternative online news site than mainstream online news sire. In the comparison of user size, mainstream online news site has larger user size than alternative online site. However, the user royalty, such as time per person, pages per person, and visiting days per person, was lower than that of the latter. These results suggest thar small but differentiated news sires have royal users, and online news users be segmented according to news contents.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.19 no.4
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• pp.150-161
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• 2019

This study analyzed the impact of social trust and conflict perception of news users on news use. To this end, 548 adults aged 20 and under 69 were surveyed online. The analysis results are as follows. First, the level of awareness of social conflict has been shown according to people's political orientation. Second, the higher the trust in society, the greater the use of news regardless of land-based, comprehensive, and online channels. Third, the perception of social conflict was related to the use of news through JTBC, TV Chosun, Channel A and YouTube. Fourth, the age and political orientation of news users influenced the use of news by channel. Finally, the more progressive the tendency was to use news through JTBC or to watch news on portals. On the other hand, the more progressive the use of news through three terrestrial broadcasters, TV Chosun, and Channel A decreased. In conclusion, this study is meaningful in terms of the user-oriented discussion of the news environment and the impact of an individual's social perception on news use.

• Korean journal of communication and information
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• v.22
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• pp.211-247
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• 2003

This study explored how Korean immigrants education, length of stay and English fluency affect their political socialization, mediated through traditional news media and the news Web use. Political socialization included political knowledge, interest, and participation. The media usage patterns included U.S. news media, U.S. news Web, Korean news Web, and Korean news Media use by Korean immigrants in the United State. This study found as follows. First, education, length of stay, and English fluency indirectly increased political socialization(political knowledge, interest, and participation) through their relationship with U.S. news media use. Second, U.S. news Web played a potentially important role in Korean immigrants' political socialization by increasing their political interest. Third, Korean news media partly contributed to Korean immigrants' political socialization by increasing their political interest. Fourth, Korean news Web use did not contribute to Korean immigrants' political socialization in terms of political knowledge, interest, and participation at all. In conclusion, this study found that traditional news media's role was more important than news Web's one in the process of immigrants' political socialization to the host society.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2003.04d
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• pp.334-336
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• 2003

최근 다양한 무선 단말기의 보급과 네트워크 기술의 발전으로 인하여 무선 단말기를 이용한 인터넷 접속이 증가하고 있다. 특히 텍스트 기반의 뉴스 컨텐츠들은 무선 단말기의 제한된 환경에서도 비교적 손쉽게 접근이 가능하기 때문에 이용률이 높다. 그러나 대부분의 뉴스 페이지들은 한 페이지에 세분화된 섹션과 많은 내용을 담고 있기 때문에 제한된 화면과 입력장치를 가진 무선 단말기를 이용하여 사용자가 원하는 부분에 접근하기까지 반복적인 스크롤링을 해야하는 불편한 점이 있다. 이런 문제점을 해결하기 위해 본 논문에서는 웹의 뉴스 페이지 내에서 사용자가 선호하는 뉴스의 섹션을 추출하고, 무선 환경에 적합하도록 뉴스의 각 섹션의 순서를 재구성하여 제공하는 기법을 제안한다. 본 논문에서 제안된 기법을 통해 사용자는 무선 단말기의 각종 단점을 극복함과 동시에 뉴스에서 선호하는 섹션의 맞춤형 뉴스 서비스를 제공받을 수 있다.

• Annual Conference on Human and Language Technology
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• 2021.10a
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• pp.85-90
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• 2021

코로나바이러스감염증-19로 인한 팬데믹 상황이 지속되면서 감염증 정보의 불확실성으로 인해 코로나 관련 루머가 온라인상에서 빠르게 전파되고 있다. 이러한 코로나 관련 가짜 뉴스를 사전에 탐지하기 위해, 본 연구에서는 한국어 코로나 가짜 뉴스 데이터셋을 구축하고, 개체명과 사용자 재확산 정보를 이용한 한국어 가짜 뉴스 탐지 모델을 제안한다. 가짜 뉴스 팩트체킹 언론인 서울대팩트체크센터에서 코로나 관련 루머 및 가짜 뉴스에 대한 검증 기사를 수집한 후, 기사로부터 개체명 추출 모델을 통해 주제 키워드를 추출하고, 이를 이용해 유튜브 상의 사용자 재확산 정보를 수집하여 데이터셋을 구성하였다. BERT 기반의 제안 모델을 다양한 비교군과 비교하였고, 특성 조합에 따른 실험을 통해 각 특성 정보(기사 텍스트, 개체명 데이터, 유튜브 데이터)가 가짜 뉴스 탐지 성능에 미치는 영향을 알아보았다.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.20 no.6
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• pp.293-311
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• 2020

Recently, it is more important to study the reasons for using media than which media is selected. This paper investigates different countries as objects to conduct the survey. In accordance with the research results, in hypothesis 1, there is a positive "(+)" influence of its interestingness, informality, restlessness, news pursuit and convenience on satisfaction when college students in South Korea use net news. Taking Chinese college students as an example, there is a positive "(+)" influence of the using motivation of net news on news pursuit, habituation, interactivity, convenience and the satisfaction with net news. In hypothesis 2, the interestingness, informality, habituation and convenience of the using motivation of online news of college students in South Korea are reflected in the acceptance intention of online news, while for Chinese college students, the informality, habituation and convenience are reflected in the acceptance intention of online news. Finally, in hypothesis 3, there is a positive "(+)" influence of the satisfaction of online news on the acceptance level of online news. In addition, this research also considers that the PLS path coefficient of college students in South Korea and China is different, and the motivations and purposes for using net news by two countries are different due to the characteristics and cultures of news media in different countries, so the satisfaction is also different.

• The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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• v.9 no.6
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• pp.1111-1117
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• 2023

Recently, South Korean newspapers began trying to charge for online news. This study attempts to shed light on the factors that influence payment for online news by analyzing Korea Press Foundation's 2022 Media Audience Survey (N = 58,936). The results of this study showed a steady increase in past payment and paying intent for online news since 2020. Predictors of past payment for online news included gender, age, and education, and interest in political and social issues. News use through specific media (i.e., newspapers, magazines, portals, messengers, social media, video sites, and podcasts), as well as mobile applications and e-mail newsletters, were found to contribute to paid subscriptions. Based on the findings of the study, news organizations should prepare to offer differentiated news content through their own news platforms and establish concrete plans to build trust in news.