• 한국산학기술학회논문지
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• 제16권3호
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• pp.1795-1805
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• 2015

본 연구는 온라인 저널리즘의 추천기사가 대학생들의 뉴스기사 선택에 미치는 영향을 두 차원에서 분석하였다. 하나는 추천기사이고, 다른 하나는 이들 뉴스기사의 배치순위와 이용지수이다. 분석결과 11개의 추천기사 유형 중 7개 유형은 뉴스기사 선택에 긍정적인 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타난 반면, 4개 유형은 유의미하지 않은 것으로 나타났다. 뉴스기사 선택에 영향을 미치지 않은 것으로 나타난 추천기사 유형의 대부분은 댓글이나 SNS의 트윗과 관련된 것들이다. 또한 뉴스기사 및 검색어 배치순위는 뉴스기사 선택에 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났으나 이용지수는 영향을 미치지 않은 것으로 나타났다. 한편, 뉴스기사 이용시간과 추천기사 유형 간 그리고 추천기사 유형 간 상관관계는 대부분 유의미한 것으로 나타났다. 분석결과를 종합하면, 뉴스기사 게재위치와 온라인 저널리즘의 추천기사와 같은 형식적 요인은 뉴스기사 헤드라인과 검색어 등의 내용과 더불어 뉴스 이용자들의 뉴스기사 선택에 긍정적인 영향을 미치는 것으로 결론지을 수 있다.

• 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.

• International Journal of Advanced Culture Technology
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• 제4권3호
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• pp.62-68
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• 2016

This study explores evaluative linguistic expressions in news reporting about the 2016 general election outcome in Korean newspapers. In particular, we have examined the evaluative linguistic expressions quoted from the three Western news media -New York Times, Washington Post, and BBC, both quantitatively and qualitatively in Korean news stories in order to know how journalists frame the news stories to persuade news consumers to accept their ideologies. This is based on the assumption that quotation can be a tool in conveying ideologies to news consumers (van Dijk, 1988, Jullian, 2011). To achieve this purpose, we selected ten Korean newspapers which included quotations from the news stories of the three Western media and then analyzed the quoted expressions quantitatively and qualitatively. For a qualitative analysis, evaluative linguistic expressions were analyzed to examine the journalistic stances of the Western news stories, following Martin's (2003) appraisal theory. For a quantitative analysis, a word frequency analysis was conducted to figure out the ratio of quoted words to the whole news texts in Korean newspapers. As a result, it was found that the news stories of BBC and Washington Post were more frequently quoted than that of New York Times when journalists conveyed neutral or positive attitude to the election outcome, thus confirming that evaluative linguistic expressions were functionally employed to convey journalists' ideologies or stances to news readers.

• Asian Journal for Public Opinion Research
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• 제9권1호
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• pp.48-82
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• 2021

This research article attempts to understand the current situation of fake news on social media in India. The study focused on four characteristics of fake news based on four research questions: subject matter, presentation elements of fake news, debunking tool(s) or technique(s) used, and the social media site on which the fake news story was shared. A systematic sampling method was used to select a sample of 90 debunked fake news stories from two Indian fact-checking websites, Alt News and Factly, from December 2019 to February 2020. A content analysis of the four characteristics of fake news stories was carefully analyzed, classified, coded, and presented. The results show that most of the fake news stories were related to politics in India. The majority of the fake news was shared via a video with text in which narrative was changed to mislead users. For the largest number of debunked fake news stories, information from official or primary sources, such as reports, data, statements, announcements, or updates were used to debunk false claims.

• 디지털융복합연구
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• 제19권3호
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• pp.177-185
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• 2021

본 연구는 네이버 뉴스스탠드의 9개 방송사 홈페이지 뉴스기사에 대한 분석을 통해 온라인 방송의 뉴스기사 유형은 어떻게 구성되고 있는가를 파악하기 위해 실시되었다. 분석을 위해 1개 방송 당 30일 분량으로 9개 방송을 대상으로 총 270일간의 샘플을 선정하였다. 분석방법은 방송사 간 차이검정을 위해 일원분산분석(One-way ANOVA) 기법을 이용하였다. 분석은 언어구성에 의한 뉴스기사 유형, 기사내용에 따른 장르 유형 등을 중심으로 이루어졌다. 분석결과 오프라인 방송에서는 모든 프로그램이 비디오기사 유형으로 제작·송신되고 있는 것에 반해 온라인 방송에서는 약 50% 정도가 사진기사와 텍스트기사로 구성되었다. 온라인 신문에서 비디오기사나 컴퓨터 그래픽을 이용한 동영상 중심의 새로운 기사 유형을 제작·공급하고 있으나 온라인 방송에서는 신문의 주요 기사유형인 사진과 텍스트기사를 적극적으로 활용하고 있었다. 이 같은 결과를 통해 온라인 미디어 환경에서의 미디어 간 경계가 더욱 불분명해지고 있으며, 방송기사 유형의 올드화 현상을 파악할 수 있었다.

• International Journal of Advanced Culture Technology
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• 제6권2호
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• pp.65-71
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• 2018

In the digital era, news consumption is not confined in geological boundaries. Technological advances bring the instant dissemination of news into life and allow news audience to consume events that occur far away almost in real time. The transmission has blurred the boundary between traditional media and new media, and the one between physical and virtual world. That is, what if a journalist applies news framing to the news translation process? This paper aims to investigate the gap between the ST and the TT created when the source news texts undergo a translation process. To achieve this aim, the appraisal theory developed by White (2003) is employed to identify a difference between the ST and the TT. Furthermore, we have attempted to identify differences between soft news stories and hard news stories while the STs from both news stories are translated into the TTs. Two time-sensitive events, Hugh Grant's marriage and a U.S. and North Korea summit, were selected. The former (a soft news story) is extracted from the Telegraph and the latter (a hard news story) is from the Washington post. As a result, it was found that such strategies as attitude, engagement, and judgment were used when the source news texts from the hard news story are translated into the target news texts. Under the appraisal theory, the strategies involve evaluative language which refers to positive or negative language that judges the worth of entities. In general, it is said that a journalist frames the SS (especially from the hard news story) to convey his ideology to news consumers. Hypothetically, we assume that a similar framing process takes place in deriving the TT from the SS of the hard news story. Thus, we could conclude that the TT from the hard news story differs from the TT from the soft news story and that the difference can be explained within the framework of White's appraisal theory.

• Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health
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• 제43권3호
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• pp.279-282
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• 2010

Objectives: This study investigates whether Korean news media pay more attention to emerging diseases than chronic ones, and whether they closely follow the changes in the magnitude of health risks of chronic or well-known diseases. These two features are expected to appear as the result of surveillance function served by health journalism that should be the main source of the public's risk perception. Methods: The number of stories published in 10 newspapers containing the words, 'SARS,' 'Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy,' 'Avian Influenza,' and 'Influenza A virus' was compared with the number of stories on chronic or wellknown diseases. We also counted the annual number of stories, published in a 12-year period, containing following terms: 'cancer,' 'diabetes,' 'hypertension,' 'pneumonia,' and 'tuberculosis.' The number was compared with the actual mortality of each disease. Results: Although cancer represented the primary cause of mortality, the newspapers covered key emerging diseases more than cancer or other well-known diseases. Also, media coverage of 'pneumonia' and 'tuberculosis' did not vary in accordance with changes in the mortality of each disease. However, the news media coverage did vary in accordance with the mortality of 'cancer,' 'diabetes,' and 'hypertension.' Conclusions: Korean health journalism was found to have both strong and weak points. The news media reduced the relative level of attention given to pneumonia and tuberculosis. Bearing in mind the major influence of news coverage on risk perception, health professionals need to be more proactive about helping to improve Korean health journalism.

• Journal of Computing Science and Engineering
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• 제3권3호
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• pp.165-180
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• 2009

The HKIB, or Hankookilbo, test collections are two archives of Korean newswire stories manually categorized with semi-hierarchical or hierarchical category taxonomies. The base newswire stories were made available by the Hankook Ilbo (The Korea Daily) for research purposes. At first, Chungnam National University and KISTI collaborated to manually tag 40,075 news stories with categories by semi-hierarchical and balanced three-level classification scheme, where each news story has only one level-3 category (single-labeling). We refer to this original data set as HKIB-40075 test collection. And then Yonsei University and KISTI collaborated to select 20,000 newswire stories from the HKIB-40075 test collection, to rearrange the classification scheme to be fully hierarchical but unbalanced, and to assign one or more categories to each news story (multi-labeling). We refer to this modified data set as HKIB-20000 test collection. We benchmark a k-NN categorization algorithm both on HKIB-20000 and on HKIB-40075, illustrating properties of the collections, providing baseline results for future studies, and suggesting new directions for further research on Korean text categorization problem.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제10권11호
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• pp.329-340
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• 2010

본 연구는 포털사이트와 언론사닷컴 뉴스기사 본문의 하이퍼링크에 대한 분석을 통해 온라인 저널리즘의 뉴스서비스에 대한 특징을 파악하기 위해 실시되었다. 분석결과 뉴스기사 본문에 하이퍼링크 서비스가 제공된 뉴스기사 수는 언론사닷컴에 비해 포털사이트가 더 많았다. 그러나 하이퍼링크 서비스가 제공된 뉴스기사에서의 하이퍼링크 수는 포털사이트에 비해 언론사닷컴이 더 많았다. 포털사이트인 다음과 야후의 비교에서는 다음이 야후에 비해 하이퍼링크 서비스가 제공된 뉴스기사의 수와 1건의 기사에 제공된 하이퍼링크 수도 더 많았다. 하지만 하이퍼링크 서비스가 제공된 뉴스기사에서의 하이퍼링크 수는 야후가 더 많았다. 온라인 저널리즘의 뉴스기사 본문에 하이퍼링크 된 콘텐츠는 정보유형과 광고유형으로 구성되었다. 포털사이트 뉴스기사 본문에 하이퍼링크 된 모든 콘텐츠는 정보유형이었다. 반변 언론사닷컴 뉴스기사 본문에 하이퍼링크 된 콘텐츠는 약 92%가 광고유형이었다. 정보유형 콘텐츠는 뉴스기사에 사용된 용어의 의미와 관련된 것이지만, 광고유형의 콘텐츠는 뉴스기사의 내용과 관련이 없는 것들로 구성되었다.

• 한국언론정보학보
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• 제76권
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• pp.124-150
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• 2016

이 연구는 후쿠시마 원전 사고 이전과 이후를 비교해 우리나라 원전 보도의 일반적 특성과 보도 프레임 차이를 확인하기 위한 것이다. 이를 위해 중앙 일간신문과 원전 소재 지역 일간신문을 선정해 이들 신문이 게재한 원전 관련 기사에 대한 내용 분석을 실시했다. 연구 결과, 후쿠시마 원전 사고 이후 우리나라 원전에 대한 보도는 크게 늘어난 것으로 나타났다. 또한 이전에 주로 경제적 측면이 강조됐던 우리나라 원전 보도는 후쿠시마 원전 사고 이후 사회적 차원이 강조되기 시작했다. 그리고 우리나라 원전 보도 기사가 주요 기사로 다뤄지는 계기가 됐다. 한편 후쿠시마 원전 사고 이후 우리나라 원전 보도의 프레임 역시 크게 변화했다. 당연하게도 환경 안전 프레임이 크게 증가한 것으로 나타났다. 이는 후쿠시마 원전 사고를 계기로 우리나라 원전의 안정성과 관련된 보도가 대폭 늘어났기 때문으로 보인다. 특히 원전 소재 지역의 일간신문에서 환경 안전 프레임은 후쿠시마 원전 사고 이전에도 다른 프레임과 비교해 가장 많은 29.3%였는데, 그 이후에는 77.6%로까지 증가한 것으로 확인됐다.