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Reflections on Application of VR Technology in Field of News Media

  • Chen Xi;Jeanhun Chung
    • International Journal of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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    • v.15 no.2
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    • pp.196-201
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    • 2023
  • In recent years, virtual reality (VR) technology has been widely used in many industrial fields, especially in the fields of medical treatment, games, film and television, to improve the interaction between medical teaching and practical treatment. On the gaming side, the production of virtual reality gaming screens and scenes became increasingly popular, greatly expanding the form of the visual experience. But VR is no longer confined to the health care, education and entertainment industries. During this time, the news media industry has also begun to integrate virtual reality into interviews and user interactions. This study aims to analyze the development of VR technology from the perspectives of immersive VR news experience, real reporting, and prospects, and analyze and think about the interactive participation of media users, the transformation of traditional media, and the upgrading of practitioners' roles.

Design and Implementation of a Career Guidance Program at Gachon University College of Medicine (가천대학교 의과대학 졸업 후 진로지도 프로그램 설계와 운영)

  • Kwi Hwa Park
    • Korean Medical Education Review
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    • v.26 no.1
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    • pp.41-47
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    • 2024
  • The ultimate goal of career guidance is to help medical students develop a career plan that matches their personal characteristics, allows them to train in their desired subspecialty, and helps them to adapt well to medical practice after graduation. Gachon Medical School has designed a longitudinal career guidance program called GLORI (Gachon Longitudinal Orientation and Career Development), which is based on the outcome of each phase. The program consists of regular courses and portfolio-based career guidance from a mentor professor. In phase 2 (basic medical science), the "Career Seminar" course was developed. This course focuses on self-understanding through a psychological inventory, exploration of postgraduate career paths, and interviews with professors in specialties of interest. In phase 3 (the integration of basic and clinical science), the "Exploring Nonclinical Career Options" course was introduced. This course presents perspectives from doctors who have followed various pioneering career trajectories, including biomedical engineering, medical journalism, writing, public health, health care administration, the pharmaceutical and medical device industries, and other areas. All teaching methods were designed to encourage student participation. The assessment methods are assignment-based, including self-reflective reports and presentations. In addition, a portfolio-based career guidance program is implemented in phases 3 and 4 (clinical clerkship). It is expected that this case study will serve as a practical example for developing comprehensive career guidance programs for medical schools.

Evaluation of Moxibustion -related Health Information on Korean Internet News Coverage (한국 인터넷 신문기사에서 뜸 관련 의료정보 평가)

  • Kang, O-Seok;Park, Hi-Joon;Kim, Song-Yi;Lee, Hye-Jung;Chae, Youn-Byoung
    • Journal of Acupuncture Research
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    • v.26 no.2
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    • pp.189-199
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    • 2009
  • Objectives : Despite the substantial amount of newspaper coverage related to complementary and alternative medicine on the internet in recent years, little is know about the quality of the health information. To evaluate health information of the newspaper articles on moxibustion available in Korea through Korean language search engines and Web sites. Methods : We searched 454 news stories about moxibustion between 1 January 2006 and 31 December 2008. Among them, 34 internet news coverage related to health information on moxibustion were selected and rated against eight categories by two individuals. Results : The inter-rater reliability of the two reviewers was assessed as 0.69, indicating a moderately high level of agreement. The overall rating score for 34 articles was 35.7${\pm}$17.2 for the statement criteria and 12.9${\pm}$17.0 for the satisfaction criteria. Overall, although they might be improving recently, the scores remain generally low. There was a statistically significant difference in the score of the newspaper coverage according to the type of evidence sources, including anecdotes. Conclusions : There is substantial variability in news reporting practices about moxibustion. It is urgently needed to enhance the information related to CAM including moxibustion through the news media in Korea.

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Exploration into effect of perception on health behavior regarding particulate matter(PM) among Korean collegians: Centered on attribution styles, involvement, perceived health status, and preventive intention (우리나라 대학생의 미세먼지 관련 지각이 건강행동에 미치는 영향에 대한 탐색: 귀인양식, 관여도, 건강상태지각 및 예방행동의도를 중심으로)

  • Joo, Ji Hhyuk
    • Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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    • v.9 no.7
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    • pp.269-276
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    • 2018
  • As the particulate matter (PM) is fatal for human being, the government authorities try to lessen PM with a variety of policy instruments. To increase the efficiency of the policy, we need to understand people's perception and risk avoidance on PM. Thus, the research explored what attribution styles, involvement, and perceived health status have an influence on preventive intention. First, we found three attribution styles on PM occurrence through factor analysis: daily life(DL), domestic industry & environment(DI&E), and Chinese industry & environment(CI&E). We also found that involvement(${\beta}=.465$, p<.001), CI&E(${\beta}=.222$, p<.001), DL(${\beta}=.173$, p<.01), and DI&E(${\beta}=.143$, p<.05) have an influence on preventive intention in order. Finally we discussed suggestions for future study.

A Study on the Safety and Health Consciousness for the Working Environment of Fire Fighter (소방공무원 근무환경에 대한 안전보건 의식 연구)

  • Lee, Jong-Ho;Kim, Yo-Han
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Safety
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    • v.30 no.1
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    • pp.137-143
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    • 2015
  • Fire fighter are exposed to the situations which are hard to predict due to continuous and accidental changes which hinder their fire fighting activity. As these threats of safety accident act as fear factors, they are doing insecure fire fighting activities. Therefore, as unclear and abnormal risks of working environment such as the riskiness of expansion of disaster, instability, obstacles of activities, abnormality, urgency, etc. increase, safety accidents are caused. This study analyzes the actual condition of safety and health and awareness of fire fighter who are exposed safety accidents during their fire fighting activities and utilize such result as the basis data to secure safety of fire fighter, keep efficient safety control and prevent accidents. The results of analysis are as follows. As rescue works among all fire-fighting works shows the highest emotional stabilization and the highest post-traumatic stress disorder is shown in fire sergeant level positions, and fire fighters whose working period is 10-15 years, reinforcing safety training to long-term workers is necessary. As the result of survey regarding safety awareness, the highest awareness level was shown in fire sergeant level positions, and fire fighters whose working period is over 20 years, and when it comes to operation of fire fighting equipments, fire-fighting workers and workers having 1-4 years of working period showed high safety awareness. The more serious injury in a fire fighter experienced as the first injury after working as a fire-fighter, the more cause-and-effect relationship was shown between personal physical condition and work, and it is shown as obstacles of fire fighting activities and affects to post-traumatic stress disorder. Moreover, as after-work off duty activities also affect to official disaster, systematic improvement of working environment is required. Occupational medical work compatibility evaluation considering the distinct characteristics of works to secure fire-fighter' health care together with fire-fighting capability is shown to be necessary.

Reticence and Communication Preferences in the Classroom: Comparing "E-mail" and "Face-to-face" Interactions

  • Ha, Jae-Sik;Shin, Dong-Hee;Lee, Chung Gun
    • International Journal of Contents
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    • v.10 no.2
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    • pp.18-27
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    • 2014
  • This study examines underlying factors that influence undergraduate students' willingness to enhance communication with their instructor by comparing the frequency of e-mail and face-to-face interaction between students and instructors. Data was collected through a survey of 322 undergraduate journalism students at a large Midwestern university. The findings showed that the more passive students were in expressing their opinion during the class, the less likely they were to send e-mails to their instructor (Coef. = -0.180, p < .01) or to communicate with their instructor face-to-face (Coef. = -0.262, p < .01). The findings also showed that the more students described their personality as "shy," the less likely they were to e-mail their instructor (Coef. = -0.157, p < .05) or communicate with their instructor face-to-face (Coef. = -0.210, p < .01). It is noteworthy that the degrees of both passivity and shyness had a more negative effect on the probability of face-to-face interaction than they did on email interaction. In summary, email usage follows similar broader patterns of social interaction, rather than introducing a different trend in communication. This finding implies that the importance of e-mail should not be exaggerated as a communication tool for reticent students.

A semantic network analysis of news reports on an emerging infectious disease by multidrug-resistant microorganism (언어 네트워크 분석을 이용한 신종 감염병 보도 분석: 다제내성균 보도 사례를 중심으로)

  • Park, Kisoo;Lee, Guiohk;Choi, Myung-Il
    • Journal of Digital Convergence
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    • v.12 no.2
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    • pp.343-351
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    • 2014
  • The present study performed semantic network analysis of the keywords in the headlines of newspapers to investigate the media coverage of the multidrug-resistant microorganisms(MDROs) which is resistant to antibiotics. For this purpose, 229 news stories on MDROs in 28 newspapers from June 1, 2010 to December 31, 2011 were analyzed. The news stories were gathered from the Korea Press Foundation's news database, KINDS (www.kinds.or.kr) and websites of Korean newspapers. The analysis of the keywords revealed 'superbacteria' appeared most frequently (n=155) followed by 'infection' (n=63) which arouses fear among readers. While network was structured with the keywords such as 'domestic', 'multidrug-resistant microorganisms', 'first', 'antibiotics', 'outbreak' and 'infection', the keywords such as 'MDROs related stocks', 'medical staff', and 'safety' were on the periphery of the network.

A study on Korean collegians' health perception toward Eggs contaminated with pesticide: Will preventive behavioral intention be predicted by perceived susceptibility and severity, trust in government, evaluation of information from government, and subjective knowledge? (한국대학생의 살충제 오염 달걀에 대한 건강인식에 관한 연구: 지각한 민감성과 심각성, 정부에 대한 신뢰성, 정부 출처 정보에 대한 평가 및 주관적 지식이 예방행동의도를 예측하는가?)

  • Joo, Jihyuk
    • Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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    • v.9 no.12
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    • pp.355-363
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    • 2018
  • Found pesticide-contaminated eggs in 2017, the situation became a hot issue in many countries in the world as well as Korea. In the context of the pesticide-contaminated egg, this study explored that preventive behavioral intention would be predicted by perceived susceptibility and severity from health belief model, trust in the government and evaluation of information from the government, and subjective knowledge. We found that preventive behavioral intention was explained by perceived severity (${\beta}=.262$, t=3.531, p<0.001), trust in the government (${\beta}=.25$, t=3.281, p<0.001), and evaluation of the information from the government (${\beta}=.226$, t=2.936, p<0.01) through stepwise multiple linear regression analysis. The findings imply the government would administer policy in terms of credibility, accuracy, and consistency for decreasing the public's sense of unease and panic when a similar incident occurs.

A Study on the change of documentary background music according to the digitalization of broadcasting (방송의 디지털화와 텔레비전 다큐멘터리 배경음악의 변화 -생산자의 심층인터뷰를 중심으로)

  • Lee, Hee Chung;Na, Misu
    • Journal of Digital Convergence
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    • v.12 no.9
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    • pp.297-312
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    • 2014
  • By employing in-depth interviews with a total of 14 television producers, the study seeks to investigate how the use of documentary background music has changed in the rapidly evolving media technology. This study reveals two major findings. First, the use of traditional compositional background music in TV documentary has been decreased for the last 20 years, while library music with various sound sources has been more likely to be used due to its artistic value, its digitalized formats, and its convenience. Second, the popularity of the library music use has changed the cooperative relationship between TV documentary producers and music directors, and their views on background music. Overall, compared to the past, the new media technology (e.g., much easier, faster editing process and communication through e-mails) has helped to come up with the current trend of using more library music. This trend however implies that the dependency of library music only may lose the unique value of television documentary as a work of creative art and eventually downgrade the quality of the programs. Further practical implications are discussed.

A reviews on the social network analysis using R (R을 이용한 사회연결망 분석에 대한 고찰)

  • Choi, Kyoungho;Yoo, Jin Ah
    • Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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    • v.6 no.1
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    • pp.77-83
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    • 2015
  • Though the SNA (social network analysis ; SNA) has been used for various fields, esp. social science field, ig. politics, journalism, and science of public administration as well as natural science field, there are few studies about the introduction of analysis tools. In order to perform the SNA, collecting data which are fit for the purpose, statistical values deduction and visualized results made by analysis tool are necessary, but the studies, which explain them systematically, are not sufficient yet. So, in this study, we are intended to introduce the analytic process, from the data input to the interpretation, with proven data. using the R program, which is free, in order to help researchers who have any plan to study using the SNA. The proven data in this study are quoted ones in the domestic scientific journals of food, which are those supplied citation index DB of Korean scientific journals. As a study methodology, the SNA is a new paradigm to substitute existing research methods as well as a complement of statistical analysis. Therefore, this study would contribute to vitalization of the SNA.