• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.18 no.7
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• pp.1-9
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• 2018

Present study investigated the crash phenomenon between freedom of press and pseudo press. For that researcher gathered online witch hunt cases from 2012 to 2017 and interpret with the logical basis of argument which needs to control pseudo press activity. On the other hand, present research arranged former studies about freedom of press and right of reputation and privacy as a counterpart that can be ethical debate. Futhermore, court case about right of small independent media where has less than 5 people also gathered. By Comparison of each ethical and legal basis, this study provide the insight which can inspire to think about real right of citizen and press.

• Korean journal of communication and information
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• v.57
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• pp.7-32
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• 2012

The purpose of this study was to examine the perverted labors of online newspapers' editors in Korea. Online newspaper editors' works were be influenced directly and indirectly by the printed newspaper, the parent company of online newspaper. Their labor conditions were poorer than online newspaper editors'. And online newspapers' editors didn't have status as professionals. They set a premium on Internet traffics on their works. For online newspaper editors' normal labor conditions, the most practical measure was to normalize the editorial system of online newspapers. How to raise the status of online newspaper editors was to secure the online newspapers' editorial right. And to conclude, to improve the quality of online journalism in Korea, the most urgent issue is to improve online newspaper editors' professionalism.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.14 no.5
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• pp.391-402
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• 2016

The purpose of this research, paying attention on the exaggerated advertisements on online sport media, was to investigate the illegality of the article typed advertisement of online sport media. The results of this research were as follows; First, the article typed advertisements are the assets of the media company as other articles or advertisements. Second, the persons of capacity to act are defined with sport online media, advertiser and customers. Third, the exaggerated advertisements of the sport online media and advertiser are regulated by Korean legal system. Fourth, when victims occurred, the rights of claim for damages could be activated based on the article 750 of the Korean Civil Law. Fifth, the liability for damages may be imposed by Korean Civil Law to the sport online media restrictively.

• Korean journal of communication and information
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• v.24
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• pp.69-91
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• 2004

우리는 언론을 제대화된 언론사나 미디어로 한정시켜 이해하는 경향이 있는데, 이것은 일종의 물신화된 사고방식이라고 할 수 있다. 언론이란 사회에 영향을 미칠 사안에 관해 논의하고 상호작용하는 과정과 산물 및 그 산물의 사회적 유통이라고 정의하는 것이 정당할 것이다. 언론사나 미디어는 언론의 일부이다. 물신화된 언론관이 지배적으로 유포된 데는 언론의 전문직화와 미디어의 네트워크 권력화가 하나의 배경 요인으로 작용했다. 언론 물신화를 극복하기 위해서는 시민들 자신이 언론의 주체라는 것을 깨닫고 언론참여를 활성화할 필요가 있다. 여기서는 시민참여를 물질적으로 보장하는 방안의 하나로서 온라인 저널리즘의 가능성과 한계를 논의했다. 그러나, 미디어 테크놀로지는 언론을 활성화할 수 있는 필요조건일 뿐이고, 언론의 본령은 사회적인 이슈에 관해 논의하고 상호작용하는 과정 자체에 있다.

• Korean journal of communication and information
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• v.66
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• pp.5-27
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• 2014

The past, present, and future of online journalism in Korea are inextricably bound up with the portal site news services. In traditional journalism, finite news media took hold on news consumption completely because of performing news production and distribution simultaneously. Since then, in the age of multi-media and multi-channel, the audience selection has become more important because of greatly increasing news media and then exploding news production. In online journalism, the news distribution have emerged as the most important field because of the intensive consuming the portal site news services making use of various news easier, the characteristic of news consumption focusing on not news media brands but news media contents, etc. Therefore, the news present landscape of Korean journalism oriented news distribution has been completed by that the portal site news services became the symbol of online journalism. That the portal site news services performing only news distribution have more influence than the paper based online newspapers and Internet based online newspapers producing news means the change of media power. By this, a conflict between news media and portal site news services appears at all times.

• Informatization Policy
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• v.28 no.4
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• pp.19-35
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• 2021

The purpose of this research is to investigate the attributes of the online world and to analyze their influence on democracy. The research focuses on the mayoral by-elections that were held in Seoul and Busan, South Korea, on April 4, 2021. The study demonstrates the characteristics of online spaces and the polarization of the online public through news articles and user comments from the Internet. The research includes topic modeling to measure the diversity of media reports, sentiment analysis to measure online public opinion, and interrupted time series analysis to understand how a particular event influences online attitudes. A combination of these methods is used to attempt to estimate the strength of political polarity in the online environment. The study shows diverse media reports by election region and candidate, where the online public repeatedly reveals high negative and low positive attitudes towards each candidate. Moreover, political polarity can differ based on the level of interest in an election. Although voters pay less attention to a by-election than a presidential election, there is a solid political polarity in the online world. Hence, the research recommends preparing measures to alleviate the polarization as politics requires significant online participation.

• Journal of Industrial Convergence
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• v.21 no.6
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• pp.13-21
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• 2023

The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between the amount of media coverage related to drug crimes and the actual number of drug-related arrests. It aims to determine the implications of this relationship for the formulation of police policies in response to drug crimes. To achieve this, we collected and analyzed 50,355 domestic online media coverage data from 2001 to 2022 and drug crime arrest data compiled by the National Police Agency. The analysis confirmed a significant causal relationship between the amount of online media coverage of drug crimes and the actual number of drug crime arrests. This relationship was found to be influenced by the existence of dominant issues and the relevance of famous incidents. It was determined that media coverage was also influenced by public interest beyond drug crime arrest numbers. Based on these research findings, the police have proposed the need to monitor the amount of crime-related media coverage and enhance security capabilities for crimes that receive public attention in order to gain the trust of the citizens.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.10 no.11
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• pp.329-340
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• 2010

This paper aims to analyze the hyperlink between the portal sites and the press dot coms news and to grasp the features of news service on the online journalism. As a result of the analysis, the portal sites, in the number of news articles which the hyperlink service had been provided, were more than the press dot coms. But in the number of the hyperlinks in the news story which hyperlink service had been provided, the press dot coms were more than the portal sites. The contents that were hyperlinked to the news stories of online journalism were composed of a informative type and an advertising one. All contents that were hyperlinked to the news stories on portal site were informative. On the other hand, about 92% of the contents that were hyperlinked to the news stories on the press web sites were advertising. By means of this analysis, the features of news service on the online journalism could be grasped.

• Digital Contents
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• no.3 s.94
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• pp.28-29
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• 2001

최근 들어 인터넷을 통한 사이버리서치가 유행하고 있다. 사이버 리서치는 각종 설문조사가 인터넷이나 이메일 등 온라인으로 조사되고 있기 때문에 여러가지 장점을 가지고 있다. 이에 따라 기업이나 공공기관 언론등에서 온라인 리서치를 통해 많은 조사를 하고 있다. 온라인 리서치는 비용과 시간 절약이라는 많은 장점에도 불구하고 조사결과 조작의 가능성 등 단점도 있기 때문에 아직은 조사결과의 신뢰도가 그리 높다고는 볼 수 없다.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.17 no.5
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• pp.209-220
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• 2017

This study explores what are the factors which influence the perception of press professionalism and fairness of journalist in the process of their news production. This study focused on how the difference between mainstream media and online media, the political tendency and the degree of freedom during working effected on the judgement of the freedom of press based on the model of Shoemaker and Reese' hierarchical model. As a result, Research finding is as follows: First, online media journalist evaluated the fairness of press higher than offline media journalists. Second, the consistency of political tendency of offline media is different from online media. Online media journalists evaluated the fairness of the press higher than offline media journalists. Finally, the degree of freedom during performance is the most importance factor which affects the evaluation of press fairness. This study highlights the factors which influence the perception of journalists on the quality of the press based on the survey data which have conducted by Korean press foundation This study implicates how working environment is importance in journalist's writing as a journalist. The freedom of press is very important in the process of news production because the factors which influence the evaluation of the fairness and the professionalism of press reveals the quality of press.