• Korean journal of communication and information
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• v.55
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• pp.50-73
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• 2011

This paper investigates the effectiveness of Real-Name System on Internet, which has been applied to some Internet service provider bulletin boards in Korea. The goal of the Real-Name system on the Internet is controlling expression of slanderous or abusive language. The effectiveness of the regulation is dependent on the people's perceptions and attitude toward to the legislation. This empirical study examines the antecedents that affect the perceptions and attitude toward the regulation. Further, we investigate the relationships among variables such as internet public sphere participation, attitude to the regulations, and intention to choose detours. Results of regression analysis show that the younger and the more progressive individuals are, the more they oppose the implementation of the law. Also, it was found that people who have more political interest and participate more actively in public sphere via internet, tend to oppose the law. Structural equation models reveal that participation in online public sphere drives negative attitudes about the regulation. In addition, people with negative perceptions about the law tend to choose the detours such as 'cyber asylum' and 'service asylum'.

• Journal of Science and Technology Studies
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• v.5 no.1 s.9
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• pp.125-148
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• 2005

This paper deals with public understanding of the stem cell cloning discussed in the Internet, based upon the case study of public discourse about Dr. Hwang's international publication of an advanced research of Stem Cell in Korean context. Public understanding of the stem cell cloning in Korea is characterized as follows: (1) it was defined as therapeutic cloning, (2) it was legitimized as a national pride and a potential vehicle for long-term economic performance, (3) ethical issues were criticized by the exclusion of early embryo from human life and the ubiquity of abortion in Korea.

• Korean journal of communication and information
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• v.55
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• pp.74-99
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• 2011

This article tries to find out some regulatory facts to improve and vitalize roles of social media such as facebook, twitter, etc in the election campaign. For this goal, a theoretical approach is based on the agnostic and open aspects of the regulation system of election. Case study and in-depth interview were used as research methods in this article. The results are as follows. First, some differences are in the election regulatory system regarding the roles of social media in UK, US, Japan and Korea. The election public sphere systems of these countries categorized to the types of legal factors to control political communications in election public sphere; free-speech oriented system(UK. US), limited free-speech oriented system(Korea), normative-oriented system(Japan). Second, most respondents answered they agreed with some improvement ideas to reflect needs of netizen and academic who suggest to minimize regulatory burdens on social media in the political communication during the election campaign.

• The Magazine of the IEIE
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• v.31 no.4
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• pp.57-71
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• 2004

지난 사반세기동안 웹을 시작으로 인터넷은 전세계를 거대한 네트워크로 연결하면서 사용자의 수를 기하급수적으로 늘렸으며, xDSL, HFC혹은 Metro Ethernet과 같은 초고속 엑세스 기술의 접목을 통해 광대역 고속 접속을 가능케 했고, B2C, B2B, ASP 전자정부 등과 같은 비즈니스와 공공업무의 디지털화, 또한 네트워크 게임, 스트리밍 응용 및 P2P와 같은 네트워크 자원을 닥치는데로 소비하는 응용들까지 다양하고 많은 양의 트래픽 증가를 가져왔다. 이는 인터넷 망의 대역폭 확대를 끊임없이 요구하고 있으나, 단순한 대역폭의 증가만으로 이러한 엄청난 수요를 충족시킬 수 없다는 것이 현실적인 공론이다. 왜냐하면 인터넷 트래픽이 양적으로 증가할 뿐만 아니라 MPLS VPN, VOIP 등과 같은 비즈니스 서비스들이 질적인 변화를 요구하고 있기 때문에 새로운 요구에 부응하기 위한 변화가 동반되어야 한다. 본 고에서는 이러한 변화가 왜 일어나고 있으며 어떻게 대처해야 되는가에 대한 기술적인 해답을 찾기 위해서 전 세계적으로 활발히 진행되고 있는 인터넷 QoS 기술 및 표준화 동향에 대해 논하고자 한다.(중략)

• Journal of Intelligence and Information Systems
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• v.28 no.2
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• pp.33-55
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• 2022

This study analyzed the comments and the replies on internet news related to the presidential election in order to verify whether online discussions are properly conducted. According to Habermas' public sphere theory, discussions is an effort among participants to reach a social consensus through the deliberations that are based on open communications. We propose that if such discussions properly take place through the act of writing in the Internet space, the comments and the replies will show a certain difference in terms of the structure and the content. To validate, this study analyzed more than 40,000 comments collected from Daum News portal site in Korea. The topic of the related news was the presidential election, because it is a topic of which people are highly interested in and that comments are actively running. The result of the t-test and topic modeling result show that all the hypotheses were supported thus we conclude that online discussions properly took places. This study also showed that online comments are not chaotic remarks that relieve people's stresses, but rather an outcome of the deliberation processes moving towards a social consensus.

• Review of Korean Society for Internet Information
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• v.14 no.3
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• pp.58-67
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• 2013

An essential prerequisite for negotiating governance of 'internet,' a world of 'end to end' nature, is to guarantee end-users' participation. Internet Governance Forum (IGF), the outcome of World Summit on the Information Society(WSIS) Tunis Agenda, has played an important role as a representative mulitistakeholder - based governance model, which puts emphasis on wide range participation of stakeholders. Notwithstanding multistakeholderism materialized in IGF has been challenged, IGF itself is a unique place for participation to broad internet governance discourse, as all voices get hearing grounded on openness, inclusion, and transparency, quite distinct from the multilateral negotiation based model such as 'Conference on Cyberspace.' Therefore civil society which represents end-users' interest, as a crucial stakeholder of internet governance, should establish more strategic and coordinated approach to IGF itself as well as reformation discourse of internet governance. In this regard, civil society groups of Korea, began with hosting workshops and Open Forum at the 2013 IGF in Bali, Indonesia. This report also describes the detailed activities of Korean civil society group in 2013 IGF.

• Information Systems Review
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• v.13 no.3
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• pp.141-163
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• 2011

The advancement of information technologies including the Internet has affected the way of social information processing as well as brought about the paradigm shift to the information society. Accordingly, it is very important to study the process of social information processing over the digital media through which social information is generated, distributed, and led to social consensus. In this study, we analyze the mechanism of social information processing, identify a process model of social consensus and institutionalization of the results, and finally propose a set of information processing characteristics on the internet media. We deploy the ethnographic approach to analyze the meaning of group behavior in the context of society to analyze two major events which happened in Korean society. The formation process of social consensus is found to consist of 5 steps: suggestion of social issues, selective reflection on public opinion, acceptance of the issues and diffusion, social consensus, and institutionalization and feedback. The key characteristics of information processing in the Internet is grouped into proactive response to an event, the changes in the role of opinion leader, the flexibility of proposal and analysis, greater scalability, relevance to consensus making, institutionalization and interaction. This study contributes to the literature by proposing a process model of social information processing which can be used as the basis for analyzing the social consensus making process from the social network perspective. In addition, this study suggests a new perspective where the utility of the Internet media can be understood from the social information processing so that other disciplines including politics, communications, and management can improve the decision making performance in utilizing the Internet media.

• The Journal of the Institute of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• v.23 no.1
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• pp.23-28
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• 2023

This study aims to examine the characteristics of YouTube space, focusing on YouTube contents related to conflict. From 2012 to 2022, conflict-related contents posted on YouTube was collected and the major topics and characteristics were identified through topic modeling analysis. The results reveal that YouTube contents related to conflict consisted mainly of news reports on social structural conflicts and broadcast programs dealing with family conflicts. These results make us worry that YouTube space will function as a means of generating profits for existing broadcasting contents rather than expecting that it can be used as the public sphere for conflict-related issues. It is time for in-depth discussions on how our society will use YouTube in the future.

• Review of KIISC
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• v.13 no.5
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• pp.113-122
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• 2003

현대는 인터넷과 컴퓨터 없이는 잠시도 운용될 수 없는 사회이지만 이를 불법적으로 이용한 범죄행위도 점차 증가하고 있다. 이들 컴퓨터 범죄는 익명성에 기반한 대담성을 보이고 있으며, 개인의 사회적 존재로써의 자각에 있어서도 탈개인화됨에 따라 더 많은 우려를 낳고 있다. 이에 따라 일반 컴퓨터 사용자들의 프라이버시 보호를 위한 방법으로 암호화 방법을 점점 더 많이 사용하고 있는데, 이에 비례해 범죄자들의 암호사용도 증가하고 있다. 그렇다면, 범죄자들이 암호를 사용해 자신들의 범죄증거를 숨기고 있는 경우, 이를 수사하기 위해 공권력 및 수사기관은 어떻게 해야 될 것인가\ulcorner 본 논문은 이러한 문제제기를 통해 새로운 환경에 의해 변화된 코드를 활용하는 새로운 법제도를 통한 적극적인 대비방안을 모색해 보고자 한다. KLS와 같은 신기술을 수사기관 및 법집행기관이 신중하게 사용하여 국가의 법 집행력과 프라이버시권이라는 두 가지 근본 가치의 균형을 이룰 수 있는 방안을 고려하여야 할 것이다. PRIVACY와 SECURITY라는 동전의 양면은 현실생활의 법제도를 그대로 옮겨놓는 것만으로는 한계가 있다. 현재 암호와 관련한 보든 논의는 공론화 되지 못하고있다. 좀 더 공개적으로 암호를 사용한 범죄 행위에 대한 현황과 또 이를 대처한 수사기관의 수사 활동에 대해 논의하고, 그 과정에서 어떤 문제점들이 발생되고 있으며, 이들 문제를 해결하기 위해 필요한 조치들이 무엇인지에 대해 논의하고, 해외 각 국은 이 문제를 해결하기 위해 어떠한 노력들을 기울이고 있는지 살펴본후 종합적인 안목으로 시의 적절한 대책을 세우는 시발점이 되었으면 한다.