• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• v.12 no.10
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• pp.4724-4737
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• 2018

Facebook has quickly infused across cultures worldwide to become a common household term for diverse spectra of netizens, especially youngsters. Inherently, interactive in nature, Facebook provides a common cyber enabled platform for online interactions with social friends, living across the world. However, despite its merits, users also experience certain disadvantages, which include but are not limited to rise in feelings of social comparison, decline in self-esteem, contentment and general subjective well-being. This work aims to determine the role of Facebook in spreading envy and identify factors that trigger such emotions. Due to abductive nature of the study, we used pilot interviews and consulted relevant literature to formulate hypotheses. Further, we used deductive approach and conducted a survey. The results showed that frequent use of Facebook, particularly passive following is main predictor of envy, and social interaction is the biggest cause for development of envious feelings in Facebook users. However, insignificant variation was found while investigating relationship between envy and factors, such as pretentiousness, time spent, accomplishment, everything in life, likes on posts, popularity across genders, marital status and genre.

• Journal of the Korean Home Economics Association
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• v.40 no.4
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• pp.105-124
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• 2002

The purpose of this study was to analyze searching value types of Internet consumer information and to identify difference of information characteristics by searching value types. The online survey was conducted by 262 netizens. We used SPSS10.0 package and statistical analysis as follows : factor analysis, cluster analysis, one-way ANOVA, and Duncan's multiple range test. The results were summarized as follows: 1) searching value types of Internet consumer information were classified into 3 types - high benefit/high risk type, middle benefit/middle risk type, high benefit/low risk type. 2)In the degree of significance for information characteristics, consumer recognized accuracy as the most important then comes variability, utility, up-to-dateness, and reliability in that order. 3) high benefit/high risk type among searching value types was evaluated the most affirmative types for Internet consumer information.

• Journal of Information Technology Applications and Management
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• v.18 no.1
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• pp.41-53
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• 2011

The rapid development and widespread application of Internet has provided a platform for people to participate and discuss social hotspot events. In the meantime, social events may be spread throughout the Internet more quickly and widely than they did ever before, and possibly lead to serious social problems due to opinion violence or seditious rumour. This paper analyzed the Internet spread of social events, and presented a five-stage model to describe the evolution process of that spread. Furthermore, the improved IBF algorithm was applied to extract a pruned connected graph aiming to find the key nodes and the shortest spread path for the control of that spread. After analyzing the different factors that may cause the netizens' attention, this paper concluded BBS type, the visit quantity and the opinion leader are key factors which affect the Internet spread. Based on those researches, a life-cycle emergency management methodology and the related strategies were proposed for the achievement of healthy spreading environment on Internet.

• Journal of the Korean Professional Engineers Association
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• v.46 no.1
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• pp.58-63
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• 2013

Since 2010, politicians and netizens have been frequently talking about "The Standard of a Nation". Specification/Standard contains "de facto standard" and "de jure standard". "The Standard of a Nation", the level of a state's quality, is prescribed by the constitution. Though the constitution, which is equal to a state's official standard, has been well established, it would be undervalued without civil obedience. The state standard can never be improved by a couple of successful projects or some national policies. The time is that the people who would like to level up of the state standard also should consider technology and science as important.

• Asia pacific journal of information systems
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• v.9 no.1
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• pp.77-98
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• 1999

The purpose of this paper is to determine success factors important to electronic payment system and also to review its environments in order to present development direction of electronic commerce in Korea. A field survey including interviews and questionnaire surveys is made in 12 experts who were identified as having research experiences and/or development experiences of electronic payment systems, 35 merchants who are doing business over the Internet, and 96 netizens who were identified as a consumer group. In this study, we reviewed four dimensions affecting the acceptance of electronic payment systems such as safety, security, convenience, and efficiency. Finally, we suggested a total of 32 factors important to electronic payment systems and classified all factors into four dimensions.

• Korean Journal of Communication Studies
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• v.25 no.5
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• pp.81-101
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• 2017

The purpose of this paper is two folds: Korean media contents, which has led the Korean Wave in China in 1990s will be reviewed, and the causes of the negative feelings of Korean Wave that have occurred among Chinese netizens will be factored out in order to suggest the solutions to this conflict situation. The reviews and comments on the China's major portal site, Tienya were analyzed by the key words that causes the conflict between China and Korea. Of the total 340,000 responses, politics, history and entertainment are categorized by the keywords, and the largest portion of the netizen's comments are found to be political issues with 34%, particularly the issues related to the THAAD. This means that the negative feeling toward the Korean Wave is more closely related to politics rather than the media contents. Therefore, in order to overcome the negative feelings in China and maintain the stable relationship with the two countries in the midst of the changing US-China situation, it is necessary to lead the media business with high quality contents along with the mutual understanding and cooperation of the media content producers. It is also necessary to try to approach Chinese market in a cooperative and stable way through co-production or joint venture with Chinese media. In consequence, the excellence of Korean cultural contents and the cultural ties with Chinese media market will be identified with in-depth understanding of Chinese nationalism, Sinocentrism and Chinese culture.

• Proceedings of the Korean Association for Survey Research Conference
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• 2003.06a
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• pp.105-124
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• 2003

What could be the relation between newspapers' tendency and readers' attitude on a particular affair\ulcorner That is, does newspapers' tendency on a particular affair influence readers' attitude on that matter or vice versa\ulcorner Or do they both influence each other\ulcorner These questions deserve to be answered. Owing to Internet Poll introduced in Korean newspapers from the mid-1990s and popular with newspaper readers (particularly with so called netizens), it becomes possible to grip the readers' attitude on a particular affair. And it is well known that newspapers' tendency on a particular affair is well reflected in the editorials. By analyzing and comparing the relation between newspapers' tendency and readers' attitude through internet poll on a particular affair, we understand whether there is a correlation between them or not.

• Asian Journal for Public Opinion Research
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• v.8 no.3
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• pp.246-264
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• 2020

As netizens increasingly utilize social media to obtain and engage with information, this study aims to determine the extent to which the follower-influencer interaction is manifested and strengthened. To analyze information related to the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19), a total of 62,119 online posts from 11 Internet forums were examined to find a relationship between followers and influencers in Taiwan. These forums are PTT, SOGO, Ck101, Plurk, Mobile01, TalkFetnet, Gamez, PlaySport, Dcard, Eyny, and PCDVD. The variables that were the best predictors of influencer classification were strong influences, engagements, and hot values across 11 Internet forums. Learning the response to the COVID-19 pandemic is vital because public actions could have been fueled by stigmatizing terms that may harm public health and well-being. The results questioned the conventional diffusion of traditional news sources because the influencers brought widespread attention to the health threat issues in the early outbreak stages. This study enhances the understanding of forum types, follower engagement, and influencers' impact maximization in social networks. The conclusion provides insight into the relationships and information diffusion mechanisms to ensure accurate health information dissemination.

• Asian Journal for Public Opinion Research
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• v.1 no.4
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• pp.268-291
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• 2014

Social media is becoming more and more important in social movements. This study, adopting the web mining approach, attempts to investigate how social media, Facebook in particular, functioned in the "May 25 Protest" and the "May 27 Protest", two movements which broke out in Macao on 25 and 27 May 2014, respectively, against the Retirement Package Bill. In the two protests, Macao residents deployed Facebook to share information and motivated people's participation. Twelve events (181,106 people invited) and 36 groups/pages (41,266 members) related on Facebook were examined. Results showed that the information flow on Facebook fluctuated in accordance with the event development in reality. Multiple patterns of manifestation, such as video of adopted news or songs, designed profile (protest icon), original ironic pictures, self-organized clubs by undergraduates and white T-shirts as a symbol, among others, appeared online and interacted with offline actions. It was also found that social media assisted the information diffusion and provided persuasive reasons for netizens to join the movement. Social media helped to expand movement influence in providing a platform for diversified performances for actions taken in a protest, which could express and develop core and consistent movement repertoire.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Clothing and Textiles
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• v.25 no.7
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• pp.1353-1364
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• 2001

The purpose of the present study was to investigate the factors influencing the extent of satisfaction/dissatisfaction for the internet fashion shopping malls. Data were collected through a self-administered questionnaire survey from 503 netizen through internet by using the server of ECMiner Research Company. Data were analyzed by factor analysis, one-way ANOVA and Duncan's multiple range test. Regarding the satisfaction/dissatisfaction with internet shopping mall, 5 factors were found. Netizens wee divided into 3 groups based on purchase experiences: the less-purchased(1-6 times) the more-purchased(above 7 times) and the not-purchased. The respondents tended to be dissatisfied with the 5 factors. The more they purchased experiences through internet, the more satisfied they were with convenience of shopping and after-sales service factors. Gender and age were the factors influencing the most on the satisfaction/dissatisfaction with the internet shopping malls for the not-purchased. However, for the groups with purchase experiences, experiences, evaluative criteria for selecting shopping malls, the number of hours using internet per week, and the extent of experiences of using internet were the main variables.