• 한국HCI학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국HCI학회 2009년도 학술대회
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• pp.1321-1329
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• 2009

웹 기술의 발달은 블로그나 YouTube 와 같은 컨텐츠를 통해 다른 사용자들과 의견이나 관점, 경험들을 공유할 수 있는 서비스를 등장하게 하였다. 이와 같은 정보의 공유와 소통을 촉진시키는 온라인 서비스들을 소셜미디어라고 한다. 최근 이러한 서비스들의 폭발적인 성장은 사회적 동물인 사용자들이 그 특유의 사회성을 온라인에서도 보여주고 있음을 시사한다. 본 연구는 정보의 공유와 참여가 핵심인 소셜미디어에서 새로운 관계 형성이 공유와 참여 행위에 어떠한 영향 관계를 형성하고 있는지 탐색적으로 알아보았다. 이를 위해 실제 사용환경에서 다른 사용자와의 관계 형성을 관찰할 수 있는 사용자 다이어리 조사 방법론(Diary study method)을 실시하였으며, 심층 인터뷰(In-depth interview)를 통해 관계 형성에 필요한 요인 도출과 새롭게 형성된 약한 관계가 참여와 공유행위에 어떠한 영향을 주고 있는지를 알아보았다.

• Journal of Sport and Applied Science
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• 제2권1호
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• pp.1-10
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• 2018

Today, the population of cycle participants is consistently increasing. Cycling is becoming not only a form of physical exercise but also a form of tourism in which cycle activities are related to visiting a particular destination. With the perspective of participation sport tourism, the purpose of this study is to investigate how the level of cycle tourists' participation affects their quality of life. An online survey link was sent to cycle participants to collect data. Out of the total 337 respondents, a total of 226 samples were used for the final analysis, disregarding those that were found to be inadequate or unreliable. For data analysis, frequency analysis, reliability test, validity, correlations, and regressions were employed with SPSS 22.0. For our first result, we found that the level of cycle participation did not significantly affect the quality of physical life. Second, the level of cycle participation did not have significant effect on the quality of mental life. Third, the level of cycle participation behavior did not have a significant effect on the quality of social life. Fourth, the level of cycle participation behavior did not have a significant effect on the quality of environmental life. Conclusions and political implications are discussed.

• 유통과학연구
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• 제13권8호
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• pp.73-80
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• 2015

Purpose - This study's objective is to analyze the content of the communications between users and producers based on the construal level theory. User generated content refers to content created in an online-based service where users and producers communicate interactively with each other. In a user generated content platform, the messages sent and received between the many players, the users and producers who use the content, may be analyzed at the psychological level based on construal level theory. Research design, data, and methodology - This study gathered user and producer participation through a snow-bowling sampling method. The data analyzed includes 125 video clips and 2,912 comments. The period of the data collection was from September 2014 to December 2014. The collected data was analyzed using a t-test and two-way ANOVA. Results - This study obtained the following research results. First, users who were a short social distance from producers responded to user participatory activities stated in concrete language rather than abstract language. In contrast, users who were at a longer social distance from producers tended to respond to the content requesting user participation through abstract language. Second, if users and producers were at a short social distance from each other, user preference increased more when a producer response to user participation was expressed concretely rather than when it was expressed abstractly. In contrast, if the users were at a longer social distance, users' preferences increased more when producer response was expressed abstractly rather than when it was expressed concretely. Conclusion - This study found that the effect of suitability, in which the social distance and the content were in congruence at the construal level, could be observed. Therefore, based on this, academic and practical implications were drawn. The three main insights of the study are as follows. First, firms can use psychological factors to analyze the message content of users in their distribution platforms. This study reveals managerial implications for marketing managers who want to take make use of this analysis of user and producer communications. This study indicates that the main factors include the concrete and abstract scores and social distance between users and producers. Second, we also provide the strategic guidelines to maximizing user preferences and other outcomes. The main dependent variable in this study is the user preference shift; the variable increases through the congruence effect; and the construal level is determined by the social distance between the users and producers and the type of producer response. The outcomes here from users can be utilized to develop several systemic strategies. One process to use the outcomes could be: (1) firms could measure the users and producers social distance; (2) calculate the concreteness or abstractness of the messages; and, (3) predict the user preference outcomes by the congruence between user and producer social distance and the abstractness or concreteness of the message content.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제15권4호
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• pp.1502-1520
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• 2021

This paper attempts to investigate Korean youth Not in Education, Employment and Training (NEET) and how daily activities and community participation may influence their positive emotions and job search desire. First, we conducted a focus group interview with 16 NEETs who participated in the Kakao NEET Company project. The project allowed participants to experience employment by founding a virtual company in which each participant selected a daily activity to perform as part of the company's operations. Second, the interview responses were categorized and assigned emotional values using the card sorting technique and multi-dimensional analysis (MDS). A total of 11 emotional values were derived through this process. Finally, a social network analysis was conducted in order to measure the density of relations among the emotional values. Results suggest that immersion, confidence, belongingness were the three highest values evaluated by participants. Furthermore, network diagrams imply that the stronger participants perceived social support and belongingness with others, the stronger their responsibility grew, further leading them to establish steady goals. In particular, the high eigenvector score for "desire for job" suggests that emotional values are sequentially connected to the immersion-social support-responsibility-goal-job desire. This sequence suggests that digital services that are developed with the aim to enhance social values such as the Kakao NEET Project may engender motivation and confidence in youth NEETs. The overall results suggest that a systematic approach to policymaking should be considered in order to provide fundamental solutions and expand opportunities for social participation and emotional comfort, as social isolation due to low self-esteem has been reported as one of the reasons for NEETs' failure in the labor market.

• Journal of Information Science Theory and Practice
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• 제9권1호
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• pp.68-78
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• 2021

Political weblogs are as diverse as political viewpoints are. In the period of Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, several political crises occurred, such as opposition to the Amnesty Act, the constitutional amendment, and the anti-government protests. Remarkably, during this time, social media were used as a platform for political expressions. This study employed a content analysis method to explore twenty-nine Thai political weblogs established during the period of Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra's administration. At the time, the most prominent Thai political weblogger was Nidhi Eawsriwong. Not surprisingly, the Pheu Thai Party and the Democrat Party were the most frequently appearing political parties in these weblog's posts. Most contents in these posts were related to government protesters by the People's Democratic Reform Committee (PDRC) and the coup d'état. The purposes of writing such weblogs were to express feelings and thoughts about Thai politics and to provide political information to the general public. The findings from this investigation revealed two significant uses of Thai political weblogs: the communication media for political expressions and viewpoints (a safe online space for political engagement and participation), and vital sources for Thai political information and news (social narratives).

• 디지털융복합연구
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• 제18권3호
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• pp.23-34
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• 2020

본 연구는 중고령자의 모바일기기 이용능력과 삶의 만족도의 관계에서 모바일 기반 온라인 사회참여활동의 매개효과를 검증하고자 한다. 이를 위해 한국정보화진흥원의 2018년 디지털 정보격차 실태조사 자료를 사용하여 55세 이상 중고령자 1,665명을 대상으로 Baron & Kenny(1986)의 3step 과정을 통해 매개효과를 검증하였다. 연구결과 첫째, 중고령자의 모바일기기 이용능력은 삶의 만족도에 긍정적 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 둘째, 중고령자의 모바일기기 이용능력이 삶의 만족도에 미치는 영향은 모바일 기반 온라인 사회참여 활동(사회적 관심사에 대한 의견표명, 정책제안 및 민원제기, 기부나 봉사활동, 온라인 투표 및 여론조사)에 의해 부분적으로 매개되는 것으로 나타났다. 본 연구결과는 중고령자의 스마트폰, 스마트패드와 같은 모바일기기 이용능력이 중고령자의 삶의 만족도 향상에 직접적으로 긍정적인 영향을 미칠 뿐만 아니라 중고령자의 모바일 기반 온라인 사회참여활동의 확대를 통해 간접적으로도 삶의 만족도에 기여한다는 것을 의미한다. 따라서 이 연구는 노인의 모바일 기반 온라인 사회참여활동 증진과 삶의 만족도 향상을 위해 스마트폰과 같은 모바일기기이용을 확대하고 중고령자의 디지털정보화수준을 향상하기 위한 실천적 개입에 기초적 자료로 활용될 것으로 기대된다.

• 지식경영연구
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• 제21권2호
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• pp.77-100
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• 2020

This study conducted a qualitative study on 23 seniors over 55 years old to understand the digital behavior of seniors in the online education acceptance environment. Grounded Theory methodology was applied to the initial enrollment behavior, login behavior, and utilization behavior of online education program. Through the process of open coding, axis coding, and selective coding, the framework in the online education environment of the senior generation was finally derived. As a causal conditions for the senior generation to participate in the online education environment, goal orientation, relationship orientation, leisure orientation and external compulsory were derived, and shadow work appeared as the central phenomenon. Also, contextual conditions resulted in social change, physical and cognitive aging, and psychological atrophy. The intervening conditions included digital device acceptance, educational attitudes, environmental factors, and self-efficacy. Based on this, the action/interactions strategy formed a positive and negative attitude toward shadow work. As a result, positive response behavior, compromising behavior, and shadow work avoidance behavior were shown. It is hoped that this study will be reflected in future researches for the use of digital devices of the elderly and the expansion of online education participation and government policy.

• Educational Technology International
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• 제9권2호
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• pp.1-15
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• 2008

One of the challenges that online learners face is feeling of isolation and diminishing desire of maintaining active participation during e-learning. Social presence, that is considered to be a vital factor in e-learning, is recently started to receive a support from the field. Although research indicated a significant role of social presence in both learning process and learning outcome, there is no widely accepted measurement scale of social presence. This study, therefore, developed a new scale to measure social presence based on the existing theories and validated it against 723 participants. Nineteen self-report items with three dimensions, co-presence, influence, and cohesiveness, were identified and validated using Exploratory Factor Analysis (EFA) in a preliminary and a follow-up study.

• 복식문화연구
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• 제26권3호
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• pp.471-484
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• 2018

This study selected fashion brands claiming to advocate feminism to analyze their characteristics and female images. For the study's data, online foreign feminist fashion brands were sifted from March 2017 to January 2018 and 28 clothing brands were selected. The study's results show that feminist fashion brands aim at the demassification and individualization of fashion products to be more inclusive of individuals' physical characteristics and diversity. Additionally, feminist brands entice consumption through communication and participation in online communities and through the value of social coexistence. The essential female image produced by feminist fashion brands deconstructs a socially idealized female image and expresses a sense of self-body positivity. In turn, the concept of self-body positivity is communicated through natural images of independent women with distinct identities based on differences in race, culture, and sexual orientation. Moreover, feminist fashion brands produce social images featuring independent women using active wear to engage in social activities. Casual wear is also used to reflect active women, while mannish looks and power suits express women's social status and professional abilities. Ultimately, these offer functionally active and rational images, combined with female images featuring long hair and makeup. Yet another type of female image seeks to create a new vision of women as diverse due to their various cultures, countries of origin, races, and individual tastes. These new images express women's physical differences, distinct identities, and diversity while simultaneously deconstructing pre-existing forms of clothing.

• 디지털융복합연구
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• 제20권4호
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• pp.45-54
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• 2022

본 연구에서는 행정안전부에서 운영한 대표적인 국민참여 플랫폼인 '광화문 1번가'가 출범한 2018년부터 2021년까지 기간 동안의 다양한 국민참여 과정을 분석하여 국민참여 플랫폼의 실질적인 운영 및 성과들을 살펴보고자 한다. 이를 통해 국민참여를 통한 정책화 과정을 성공적으로 유도할 수 있었던 영향요인은 다음과 같이 도출하였다. 첫째, 국민참여를 독려하기 위한 온라인 참여 채널을 다양화 하였다. 둘째, 국민참여를 독려하고 확대를 위해 대국민 아디이어 공모 및 국민심사에 대한 보상을 시행하였다는 점 역시 중요하다. 셋째, 국민들의 아이디어를 세련화하고 정제하기 위하여 전문가 등의 참여를 독려하였다. 이러한 연구결과를 통해 우리정부가 지속적으로 국민참여를 통한 정책화 과정을 유도하는데 일조할 수 있으리라 판단된다. 향후 국민참여를 통한 정책화를 위한 성공요인을 도출함에 있어서 계량적인 분석기법을 활용하여 국민참여과정, 온라인채널을 통한 의사소통, 전문가와의 협업 등의 영향요인들이 국민참여 과정에 어떻게 영향을 주는지를 증명하는 연구를 후속적으로 수행해야 할 것이다.