• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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• v.25 no.5
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• pp.163-169
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• 2024

This study aims to examine the influence of exposure to harmful content and digital hate speech on adolescents' exposure to digital sexual crimes, an issue that has been escalating in society. Additionally, it seeks to verify the mediating effect of digital hate speech in the relationship between exposure to harmful content and exposure to digital sexual crimes. To achieve this, the research model was investigated using structural equation modeling (SEM) with data from 9,218 adolescents who participated in the 2023 Cyberbullying Survey. The findings confirmed both the direct influence of harmful content exposure and digital hate speech on adolescents' exposure to digital sexual crimes, as well as the mediating effect of digital hate speech in the relationship between harmful content exposure and digital sexual crime exposure. Based on these research findings, the study proposed for preventing adolescents' exposure to digital sexual crimes.

• Journal of Public Diplomacy
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• v.1 no.2
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• pp.49-74
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• 2021

In this paper, I applied grounded theory in exploring how Twitter became the battlefield for China's public diplomacy campaign. China's new move to global social media platforms, such as Twitter and Facebook, has been a controversial strategy in public diplomacy. This study analyzes Chinese Foreign Spokesperson Zhao Lijian's Twitter posts and comments. It models China's recent diplomatic move to Twitter as a "war of words" model, with features including "leadership," "polarization," and "aggression," while exerting possible effects as "resistance," "hatred," and "sarcasm" to the global community. Our findings show that by failing to gage public opinion and promote the country's positive image, China's current digital diplomacy strategy reflected by Zhao Lijian's tweets has instead constructed a polarized political public sphere, contradictory to the country's promoted "shared human destiny." The "war of words" model extends our understanding of China's new digital diplomacy move as a hybrid of state propaganda and self-performance. Such a strategy could spread hate speech and accelerate political polarization in cyberspace, despite improvements to China's homogenous network building on Twitter.

• Informatization Policy
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• v.30 no.2
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• pp.3-21
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• 2023

The recent Internet environment demands a new approach to Internet content regulation. The need for regulation on the Internet has been recognized due to the rise of digital sex crimes, illegal information such as drugs and suicide, fake news, hate speech, false consumer reviews, and harmful content for young people. This article attempts to analyze the legislative, judicial, and administrative aspects of Internet content regulation in Korea. It covers the current status and characteristics of the Internet content regulation law, the judicial judgment on KCSC's communications deliberation and regulation, and the process and characteristics of KCSC's communications deliberation. Problems in Korea's communications deliberation system were addressed through legislative, judicial, and administrative approaches. This article concludes with policy suggestions for improving Internet content regulation in Korea.