• Asian Journal for Public Opinion Research
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• 제11권3호
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• pp.201-233
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• 2023

Persons with disabilities (PwD) are believed to be a group that had a greater risk during the pandemic. While PwD are vulnerable to the spread of COVID-19 due to their high dependence on physical contact, a series of policies restricting public movement during the pandemic had the potential to place PwD in increasingly marginalized situations. This situation reinforces the urgency of crisis communication as one of the critical parts of the COVID-19 response to ensure that all levels and groups of society can accept and understand the flow of information. Using a qualitative approach, this research was conducted through in-depth interviews with PwD age 17-50 in the city of Makassar, Indonesia. The results of this study suggest that crisis communication during the pandemic should involve participatory communication, which focuses on collaboration with empowerment. The PwD communities need to be actively engaged during the communication process of a pandemic crisis to ensure that inclusiveness is always taken into account. During the distribution of information, the relevant health officers or the government at the regional level need to carry out more frequent socialization and special services for PwD based on the characteristics of their disabilities.

• Asian Journal for Public Opinion Research
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• 제10권4호
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• pp.293-315
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• 2022

Health care has become a rapidly growing industry where the role of nurses as a group of emotional labor employees is central and prone to burnout. The purpose of this study was to examine the role of supervision in moderating burnout caused by the effect of work intensity, customer contact, and self-efficacy, where the moderating role of supervision on burnout with its various predictors is still unstable. This quantitative study was based on research samples collected through questionnaires from 131 hospital nurses spread over two different locations. The questionnaire asked about supervision, work intensity, customer contact, self-efficacy and burnout used a Likert scale, which was then analyzed using SEM-PLS. The results indicated that work intensity and self-efficacy had a significant effect on burnout, while customer contact had no significant effect on burnout. Supervision as a moderator only significantly moderates the effect of work intensity on burnout, while supervision is not significant as a moderating variable on the effect of customer contact and self-efficacy on burnout. This study can contribute to the development of theories about burnout and practically can be used as a reference by policy makers in enhancing the role of supervision for nurses in hospitals.

• Asian Journal for Public Opinion Research
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.53-74
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• 2024

The proliferation of health misinformation gained momentum amidst the outbreak of the novel coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). People stuck in their homes, without work pressure, regardless of health concerns towards personal, family, or peer groups, consistently demanded information. People became engaged with misinformation while attempting to find health information content. This study used the content analysis method and analyzed 1,154 misinformation stories from four prominent signatories of the International Fact-Checking Network during the pandemic. The study finds the five main categories of misinformation related to the COVID-19 pandemic. These are 1) the severity of the virus, 2) cure, prevention, and treatment, 3) myths and rumors about vaccines, 4) health authorities' guidelines, and 5) personal and social impacts. Various sub-categories supported the content characteristics of these categories. The study also analyzed the emotional valence of health misinformation. It was found that misinformation containing negative sentiments got higher engagement during the pandemic. Positive and neutral sentiment misinformation has less reach. Surprise, fear, and anger/aggressive emotions highly affected people during the pandemic; in general, people and social media users warning people to safeguard themselves from COVID-19 and creating a confusing state were found as the primary motivation behind the propagation of misinformation. The present study offers valuable perspectives on the mechanisms underlying the spread of health-related misinformation amidst the COVID-19 outbreak. It highlights the significance of discerning the accuracy of information and the feelings it conveys in minimizing the adverse effects on the well-being of public health.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제9권1호
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• pp.421-433
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• 2015

Recently, there have been fast-growing social network services based on the Internet environment and web technology development, the prevalence of smartphones, etc. Social networks also allow the users to convey the information and news so that they have a great influence on the public opinion formed by social interaction among users as well as the spread of information. On the other hand, these social networks also serve as perfect environments for rampant malware. Malware is rapidly being spread because relationships are formed on trust among the users. In this paper, an effective patch strategy is proposed to deal with malicious worms based on social networks. A graph is formed to analyze the structure of a social network, and subgroups are formed in the graph for the distributed patch strategy. The weighted directions and activities between the nodes are taken into account to select reliable key nodes from the generated subgroups, and the Incremental PageRanking algorithm reflecting dynamic social network features (addition/deletion of users and links) is used for deriving the high influential key nodes. With the patch based on the derived key nodes, the proposed method can prevent worms from spreading over social networks.

• Asian Journal for Public Opinion Research
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.105-125
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• 2020

The purpose of this paper is to analyze 1) who created and distributed fake news, 2) the distribution channels of fake news, 3) who fake news has targeted, and 4) the effects on voting and the impact of fake news on Korean politics. In South Korea, fake news was mainly created by candidates or election campaigns. The reason is that in the wake of the impeachment of President Park Guen Hye, all the political parties in Korea used fake news as a means of mobilizing supporters for each of their candidates or parties to gain an advantage in situations involving political divisions and confrontations between the pro-impeachment, progressive young generation and anti-impeachment, conservative senior generation. Voters' media usage patterns were polarized through social network services (SNS) media and television. Fake news was mostly received through these two media outlets. According to the spreading structure of fake news in Korea, the younger generation generally uses SNS posts intended for unspecified individuals, and the older generation uses closed SNS like KakaoTalk or Naver's BAND. In the end, it is typically characteristic of the older generation to spread fake news through existing offline human networks. In the 2017 presidential election, fake news has been confirmed to have the effect of mobilizing supporters for each political party. In the presidential election, an increase in voter turnout was confirmed among those in their 20s and those in their 60s or older. Evidently, fake news influenced the election of Moon Jae-In. The influence of fake news is expected to grow further as ideological polarization and consequent political polarization continues to intensify in South Korea.

• 지능정보연구
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• 제24권3호
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• pp.199-219
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• 2018

인터넷의 일상화와 각종 스마트 기기의 보급으로 이용자들로 하여금 실시간 의사소통이 가능하게 하여 기존의 커뮤니케이션 양식이 새롭게 변화되었다. 인터넷을 통한 정보주체의 변화로 인해 데이터는 더욱 방대해져서 빅데이터라 불리는 정보의 초대형화를 야기하였다. 이러한 빅데이터는 사회적 실제를 이해하기 위한 새로운 기회로 여겨지고 있다. 특히 텍스트 마이닝은 비정형 텍스트 데이터를 이용해 패턴을 탐구하여 의미있는 정보를 찾아낸다. 텍스트 데이터는 신문, 도서, 웹, SNS 등 다양한 곳에 존재하기 때문에 데이터의 양이 매우 다양하고 방대하여 사회적 실제를 이해하기 위한 데이터로 적합하다. 본 연구는 한국 최대 인터넷 포털사이트 뉴스의 댓글을 수집하여 2017년 19대 한국 대선을 대상으로 연구를 수행하였다. 대선 선거일 직전 여론조사 공표 금지기간이 포함된 2017년 4월 29일부터 2017년 5월 7일까지 226,447건의 댓글을 수집하여 빈도분석, 연관감성어 분석, 토픽 감성 분석, 후보자 득표율 예측을 수행하였다. 이를 통해 각 후보자들에 대한 이슈를 분석 및 해석하고 득표율을 예측하였다. 분석 결과 뉴스 댓글이 대선 후보들에 대한 이슈를 추적하고 득표율을 예측하기에 효과적인 도구임을 보여주었다. 대선 후보자들은 사회적 여론을 객관적으로 판단하여 선거유세 전략에 반영할 수 있고 유권자들은 각 후보자들에 대한 이슈를 파악하여 투표시 참조할 수 있다. 또한 후보자들이 빅데이터 분석을 참조하여 선거캠페인을 벌인다면 국민들은 자신들이 원하는 바가 후보자들에게 피력, 반영된다는 것을 인지하고 웹상에서 더욱 적극적인 활동을 할 것이다. 이는 국민의 정치 참여 행위로써 사회적 의의가 있다.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제22권2호
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• pp.211-223
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• 2022

본 연구는 주거정책 분야에서 여론을 수렴하기 위해 블로그의 활용 가능성을 고찰하고자 한다. 이를 위해 '행복주택'을 키워드로 관련 게시글을 수집하고 주요 키워드를 추출하여 키워드 분석과 단어 군집 분석을 통해 대중들의 인식을 파악하였다. 행복주택에 대한 사회적 논의가 확산된 2013년 5월부터 2021년 8월까지 블로그 게시글 137,002개를 분석 자료로 활용하였으며, 주요 정책과 자료 수집량을 고려하여 수집 기간을 3단계로 나누어 도출된 단어를 분석한 결과는 다음과 같다. 키워드 분석에서 전반적으로 행복주택의 위치, 세대수, 단지 및 주택 규모, 입주 가능 조건 등과 관련된 단어의 중요도가 높았다. 1단계에서는 정부 정책 시행, 2단계에서는 행복주택 신청 절차, 3단계에서는 모집공고, 입주 자격, 임대조건에 중요도가 각각 높은 것으로 나타났다. 군집 분석에서는 모든 단계에서 사업 진행, 신청 절차, 사업지역이 주요 주제로 도출되었다. 특히, 1단계에서는 정책 시행 및 추진방안, 2단계는 입주 자격 및 금융 지원, 3단계에서는 정책 시행 및 입주 자격이 주요한 주제로 도출되었다. 이러한 결과는 블로그를 통해 정책 관련 정보 공유 및 사회적 이슈 반영, 정책 전달 여부 평가, 대중의 정책 참여도 유추가 가능하며, 블로그를 여론 수렴 방법으로 활용할 가능성을 제시한 데에 의의가 있다.

• 한국문헌정보학회지
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• 제57권1호
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• pp.139-160
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• 2023

본 연구는 지역사회 공론장으로서 공공도서관의 역할을 탐색하였다. 이를 위해 공공도서관이 운영한 공론장 사례에 대한 분석을 통해 공론장에서 나타나는 도서관 역할의 주요 특징과 의미를 고찰하였다. 데이터 수집은 서울 성북구립도서관의 공론장을 운영한 사서와의 면담을 통해 이루어졌다. 수집된 데이터의 주제별 분석을 위해 NVivo를 사용하여 코딩하였다. 연구 결과, 공론장에서 확인된 도서관 역할의 주요 특징과 의미는 1) 지역 주민의 만남과 소통, 교류의 장, 2) 주제에 대한 정보제공과 토론을 통한 주민의 학습과 성장 지원, 3) 지역사회의 주민 참여를 확대하고 시민으로서의 역량 강화, 4) 지역 주민의 민주주의 경험을 확대, 5) 도서관에 대한 지역 주민의 인식 개선과 주민에 대한 도서관의 영향력 확대라는 다섯 가지 유형으로 나타났다. 특히 이 연구에서는 도서관의 정보서비스를 통해 공론 주제에 대한 시민의 상호작용과 공론 확산이 강화되고 있음을 알 수 있었다. 이 연구의 결과는 도서관이 지역사회 공론장으로 개발되고 지원되기 위한 근거로 활용될 수 있을 것이다.

• 한국식생활문화학회지
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• 제26권5호
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• pp.437-444
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• 2011

This study was performed to approach the 2004 case of inferior quality mandu stuffing from the stance of food ethics. The court convicted the producers of inferior quality mandu stuffing and also decided against the plaintiffs who filed a damage suit. The core of the mandu stuffing case was not safety, but the wholesomeness. The principles of food ethics include a respect for life, justice, environmental preservation, and the priority of safety. The virtues of food professionals include wisdom, honesty, faithfulness, courage, moderation, and integrity. A food producer should possess not only the ability but also the morality to make food. The consumer should urge the producers to strengthen their morality and be conscious of responsibility and fairness. The government should organize a system to establish food ethics, and make efforts to reduce wasteful law enforcement. The media should lead public opinion toward justice by doing an unbiased and in-depth report and help establish the idea of food ethics. The necessity of food ethics and the spread of the ethical mind are the most important points of all.

• International journal of advanced smart convergence
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• 제13권1호
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• pp.23-36
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• 2024

Interest in virtual humans continues to increase due to the development of generative AI, extended reality, computer graphics technology, and the spread of a converged metaverse that goes beyond the boundaries between reality and virtuality. Despite the negative public opinion that virtual humans were just temporary form of entertainment event in the early days of their emergence, the reason they are showing continuous growth is due to the unique characteristics of virtual humans and the expansion of diverse usage from technological advancements. The production of video content using virtual humans is becoming vigorously active, but currently there is limitation and no exact process for the technology to apply virtual humans to video content for it to be produced accordingly to the characteristics or situations of virtual humans. In this study, we investigated the characteristics of virtual human production technology methods & processes, and identifying the impact of each production technology on the production environment through examples of virtual human content applied to domestic and international video contents. In conclusion, by proposing an appropriate production method for each content, we hope to develop and assist production practitioners so they can effectively use virtual humans in video content production.