• Asia pacific journal of information systems
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• 제24권2호
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• pp.191-210
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• 2014

As mobile devices that can be connected to the Internet have spread and networking has become possible whenever/wherever, the Internet has become central in the dissemination and consumption of news. Accordingly, the ways news is gathered, disseminated, and consumed have changed greatly. In the traditional news media such as magazines and newspapers, expert editors determined what events were worthy of deploying their staffs or freelancers to cover and what stories from newswires or other sources would be printed. Furthermore, they determined how these stories would be displayed in their publications in terms of page placement, space allocation, type sizes, photographs, and other graphic elements. In turn, readers-news consumers-judged the importance of news not only by its subject and content, but also through subsidiary information such as its location and how it was displayed. Their judgments reflected their acceptance of an assumption that these expert editors had the knowledge and ability not only to serve as gatekeepers in determining what news was valuable and important but also how to rank its value and importance. As such, news assembled, dispensed, and consumed in this manner can be said to be expert-based recommended news. However, in the era of Internet news, the role of expert editors as gatekeepers has been greatly diminished. Many Internet news sites offer a huge volume of news on diverse topics from many media companies, thereby eliminating in many cases the gatekeeper role of expert editors. One result has been to turn news users from passive receptacles into activists who search for news that reflects their interests or tastes. To solve the problem of an overload of information and enhance the efficiency of news users' searches, Internet news sites have introduced numerous recommendation techniques. Recommendations based on popularity constitute one of the most frequently used of these techniques. This popularity-based approach shows a list of those news items that have been read and shared by many people, based on users' behavior such as clicks, evaluations, and sharing. "most-viewed list," "most-replied list," and "real-time issue" found on news sites belong to this system. Given that collective intelligence serves as the premise of these popularity-based recommendations, popularity-based news recommendations would be considered highly important because stories that have been read and shared by many people are presumably more likely to be better than those preferred by only a few people. However, these recommendations may reflect a popularity bias because stories judged likely to be more popular have been placed where they will be most noticeable. As a result, such stories are more likely to be continuously exposed and included in popularity-based recommended news lists. Popular news stories cannot be said to be necessarily those that are most important to readers. Given that many people use popularity-based recommended news and that the popularity-based recommendation approach greatly affects patterns of news use, a review of whether popularity-based news recommendations actually reflect important news can be said to be an indispensable procedure. Therefore, in this study, popularity-based news recommendations of an Internet news portal was compared with top placements of news in printed newspapers, and news users' judgments of which stories were personally and socially important were analyzed. The study was conducted in two stages. In the first stage, content analyses were used to compare the content of the popularity-based news recommendations of an Internet news site with those of the expert-based news recommendations of printed newspapers. Five days of news stories were collected. "most-viewed list" of the Naver portal site were used as the popularity-based recommendations; the expert-based recommendations were represented by the top pieces of news from five major daily newspapers-the Chosun Ilbo, the JoongAng Ilbo, the Dong-A Daily News, the Hankyoreh Shinmun, and the Kyunghyang Shinmun. In the second stage, along with the news stories collected in the first stage, some Internet news stories and some news stories from printed newspapers that the Internet and the newspapers did not have in common were randomly extracted and used in online questionnaire surveys that asked the importance of these selected news stories. According to our analysis, only 10.81% of the popularity-based news recommendations were similar in content with the expert-based news judgments. Therefore, the content of popularity-based news recommendations appears to be quite different from the content of expert-based recommendations. The differences in importance between these two groups of news stories were analyzed, and the results indicated that whereas the two groups did not differ significantly in their recommendations of stories of personal importance, the expert-based recommendations ranked higher in social importance. This study has importance for theory in its examination of popularity-based news recommendations from the two theoretical viewpoints of collective intelligence and popularity bias and by its use of both qualitative (content analysis) and quantitative methods (questionnaires). It also sheds light on the differences in the role of media channels that fulfill an agenda-setting function and Internet news sites that treat news from the viewpoint of markets.

• 한국IT서비스학회지
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• 제16권4호
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• pp.177-195
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• 2017

Traditionally, news was consumed only through printed newspapers and broadcasting media, such as radio and television. However, the Internet has enabled people to consume news content online. Since most of online news content has been provided for free, it is not easy for news providers to charge the fixed subscription fee for online news content. Therefore, as an alternative strategy, some online news providers have tried to adopt the Pay-What-You-Want (PWYW) pricing model, which allows users (readers) to pay as much as they want after consuming news content. As this pricing model shows some possibility to grow and replace the unsuccessful monetization strategy of online news content, we therefore examined the comparative importance of seven heuristic attributes (i.e., article evaluation, article share, article comment, article information design, article length, writer SNS, and writer information) affecting readers' voluntary payment behavior through a conjoint analysis with 379 news articles collected from online news Website (i.e., Ohmynews.com) where the PWYW model has been working successfully. This study found that article share and article length are the most important factors which affect online news content users' voluntary payment. Finally, two major and eight minor propositions are suggested based on the findings of the study. This study would suggest guidelines for how to create online news content which induces much more voluntary payment.

• 한국의류학회지
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• 제45권2호
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• pp.285-304
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• 2021

Today, false news is increasing in volume, and fashion news often circulates uncritically. Therefore, an evaluation framework is needed to determine whether fashion news is accurate or good. In journalism, the judgment of good news is made through the criterion of news value factors. These factors are the criteria for assessing the likelihood of an event being reported in the news. Through the study of news value by various journalistic scholars, this study selected nine news value factors applicable to the value measurement of fashion news as the framework of analysis. Based on this, after analyzing the actual news on online fashion media, new characteristics and content were reconstructed for fashion news. As a result of the study, it was finally selected that the crucial factors were: expertise, social importance, timelessness, conflict, and negativity for measuring the value of fashion news. To assess the news value of fashion accurately, this study found that reconceptualized news values are needed, which are different from the news values of general journalism. The study is meaningful in that it explores elements and content for the development of a theoretical framework for the qualitative evaluation of fashion news.

• 패션비즈니스
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• 제24권4호
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• pp.85-98
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• 2020

The Internet of Things (IoT) shopping environment can provide benefits and risks to consumers, including shopping convenience and invasion of consumer rights, respectively. We experimentally tested whether exposure to information regarding the benefits and risks of IoT shopping would elicit changes to consumer perceptions of the importance of shopping convenience and rights to information, as well as shopping intention among young online shopping consumers. The participants (N=218) were randomly assigned into one of two experimental conditions. The control group was exposed to a news article and a video emphasizing the shopping convenience of the Amazon Dash Button service, while the experimental group was exposed to the same news article and video provided to the control group, along with a news article about the judgment of the Munich court that the Dash Button violates German consumer law. We found an interaction effect of experimental condition and time on changes to the perceived importance of shopping convenience and shopping intention. The changes to the perceived relative importance of shopping convenience to consumer rights to information from pre- to post-manipulation differed significantly between the two experimental groups. The results of this study emphasize the importance of providing information on both the benefits and risks of IoT shopping. This was the first experimental study to examine the possibility of the invasion of consumer rights to information in the IoT shopping environment. This study urges researchers, marketers, and policy makers to focus more on consumer rights to information in the newly coming IoT shopping environment.

• Journal of Information Science Theory and Practice
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• 제10권2호
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• pp.86-101
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• 2022

This research aimed at studying the factors that influence new media exposure of political news by youths in Isan society in Thailand. The target group comprised 1,200 individuals, obtained from multi-stage sampling from undergraduate students in Isan's autonomous universities, governmental universities, and private institutions. The data collection tool was a questionnaire, the content of which was validated by experts. The reliability of the tool was tested by the formula for Cronbach's alpha coefficient, which yielded a reliability of 0.83. Multiple regression analysis was applied to analyze the data. The results, regarding factors influencing the channels for political news exposure, showed that channels for political news exposure were mostly influenced by inner drives, followed by importance in political news exposure, influence from social networks, and specific characteristics of the Internet. This could explain the variation of channels for political news exposure at 46.5%. In terms of factors influencing political news selection, it was found that political news selection was influenced mostly from social networks, followed by inner drives, benefits from political news exposure, specific characteristics of the Internet, and the field of study. The variation of the political news selection could be explained at 44.6%. These results elaborate on the current situation in Thailand, especially in Isan region, where youths in higher education are playing an increasing role in demonstrating their political stance through various political activities.

• 한국언론정보학보
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• 제72권
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• pp.52-91
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• 2015

이 연구에서는 우리 사회에서 쟁점 현안으로 떠오른 미세먼지 위험을 대상으로 미세먼지 위험을 마케팅 측면에서 이용하는 프로모션 기사와 일반 기사에서 2차 의제설정 효과가 어떻게 나타나는지, 또한 속성 현저성 중요성 인식이 미세먼지 위험에 대한 공중의 의견 방향과 위험 인식에 영향을 미치는지 살펴보고자 하였다. 연구 결과, 프로모션 기사와 일반 기사는 유사한 인지적 속성 현저성을 갖는 것으로 나타났고, 미디어의 속성 현저성이 수용자에게 순서대로 전이되지는 않았지만, 수용자가 언론이 다루고 있는 미세먼지 속성 전반에 대해 중요성을 견지하였고, 미시속성 측면에서는 전이현상이 나타나 전체적인 관점에서 보았을 때 미디어의 속성 현저성이 수용자에게 반영되고 있었다. 또한 수용자의 속성 중요성 인식이 프라이밍 효과를 일으켜 미세먼지에 대한 의견 방향에도 전반적으로 일관성 있게 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 한편, 경제적 피해, 국제공조, 개인적 대응 속성 중요성 인식과 프로모션 기사 인식정도가 위험 인식에 유의한 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났으며, 프로모션 기사 인식정도와 관여도는 상호작용하여 위험 인식에 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다.

• 지능정보연구
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• 제24권1호
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• pp.75-100
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• 2018

최근 웹툰, 음원, 동영상, 게임, 교육, 앱 등 많은 콘텐츠 기업에서 콘텐츠 유료화 정책을 추진하고 있으나, 무료 콘텐츠에 익숙한 독자들의 문화적 관성이 온라인 콘텐츠의 유료화 전환에 많은 어려움을 주고 있다. 특히 온라인 뉴스 콘텐츠는 포털 사이트를 통해 무료로 배포되고 있어 유료화에 대한 독자들의 거부감이 다른 온라인 콘텐츠 보다 더욱 심한 실정이다. 이러한 문제 해결을 위해 학계 및 산업계에서 온라인 콘텐츠의 유료화 방안에 대한 연구가 다양한 차원에서 진행되었다. 최근에는 일부 온라인 뉴스 매체를 중심으로 독자들이 자발적으로 마음에 드는 뉴스 콘텐츠에 대해 원하는 만큼의 구독료를 지불하게 하는 Pay-What-You-Want (PWYW) 지불모델을 적용하는 시도가 이뤄지고 있다. 이에 본 연구는 PWYW 모델의 성공적인 정착을 위한 선결요인으로 독자의 자발적 독자구독료 지불행위에 영향을 미치는 온라인 뉴스 콘텐츠의 체계적 속성을 도출하고, 각 속성 및 하위 속성의 상대적 중요도를 비교 분석하였다. 좀 더 구체적으로, 선행연구 분석을 통해 기사제목 유형, 기사 이미지 자극성, 기사 가독성, 기사 유형, 기사 지배적 정서, 기사 내용-이미지 유사성 등 총 여섯 가지의 온라인 뉴스 콘텐츠의 체계적 속성을 도출하였으며, 내용분석(content analysis)을 통해 각 기사의 속성값을 측정하고 이를 기반으로 컨조인트 분석(conjoint analysis)을 실시하여 속성 간 상대적 중요도를 계산 및 검증하였다. PWYW 모델이 적용된 온라인 뉴스 콘텐츠 379개에 대한 컨조인트 분석 결과, 기사 가독성, 기사 내용-이미지 유사성, 기사제목 유형 등의 순으로 자발적 독자구독료에 큰 영향을 주는 것으로 분석된 반면, 기사 유형, 기사 지배적 정서, 기사 이미지 자극성 등은 상대적으로 낮은 중요도를 보이는 것으로 조사되었다. 본 연구는 내용분석과 컨조인트 분석을 동시에 실시하여 온라인 뉴스 콘텐츠에 대한 자발적 지불의도에 영향을 미치는 체계적 요인을 도출하고, 그 상대적 중요도까지 살펴보았다는 점에서 학술적 의의가 있으며, 온라인 뉴스 콘텐츠 제작자 및 사이트 운영자들로 하여금 독자들의 자발적 지불을 유도할 수 있는 가이드라인을 제시하였다는 점에서 그 실무적 의의가 있다.

• Journal of Information Processing Systems
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• 제16권4호
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• pp.820-831
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• 2020

Extractive document summarization aims to select a few sentences while preserving its main information on a given document, but the current extractive methods do not consider the sentence-information repeat problem especially for news document summarization. In view of the importance and redundancy of news text information, in this paper, we propose a neural extractive summarization approach with joint sentence semantic clipping and selection, which can effectively solve the problem of news text summary sentence repetition. Specifically, a hierarchical selective encoding network is constructed for both sentence-level and document-level document representations, and data containing important information is extracted on news text; a sentence extractor strategy is then adopted for joint scoring and redundant information clipping. This way, our model strikes a balance between important information extraction and redundant information filtering. Experimental results on both CNN/Daily Mail dataset and Court Public Opinion News dataset we built are presented to show the effectiveness of our proposed approach in terms of ROUGE metrics, especially for redundant information filtering.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제18권7호
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• pp.103-119
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• 2018

이 연구는 계층모델을 토대로 뉴스생산 환경에 따라 미투 운동 보도의 선정성에 차이가 있는지 규명하기 위해 뉴스에 대한 네트워크 분석과 프레임 분석을 실시했다. 유명인에 대해 지상파보다 종편 뉴스의 선정성이 더 높았다. 지상파는 사건 중심으로 보도를 한 반면 종편은 피해 상황, 피해자의 심경, 가해자가 한 말이나 행동 등 성폭행 상황을 자세하게 묘사하고 안희정 전 지사에 대한 비난, 주변인 인터뷰를 통해 더 선정적으로 보도했다. 미투 운동 보도에서 방송은 가해자 중심으로 보도했다. 사건의 이름과 헤드라인에서 이러한 경향이 두드러졌는데 가해자인 안 전 지사가 '합의에 의한 관계'였다고 언급한 '합의 관계 프레임'이 일관되게 나타났다. 안 지사에 대한 '가해자 비난 프레임'도 있었다. 미투 운동 보도에서 방송은 폭로 저널리즘의 전형을 보여줬으며 미투 운동의 사회적 의미나 권력 관계를 중심으로 사건을 분석하고 해결방안을 제시한 보도는 찾아 볼 수 없었다. 연구를 통해 방송의 선정성 문제는 기자 개인의 문제가 아니라 미디어 관행, 조직적 차원의 문제로 접근해야 한다고 제안했다.

• 파렛트 뉴스
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• 통권70호
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• pp.8-19
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• 2013

본 원고는 지난 2013년 7월 17일 일본 동경 'Mielparque Tokyo'에서 열린 2013 제8회 APSF(Asia Pallet System Federation) 총회 기조강연으로 일본 동경대학교의 Kazuyuki Motohashi 교수가 발표하였습니다.