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A Network Analysis of Information Exchange using Social Media in ICT Exhibition

ICT전시회에서 소셜 미디어를 활용한 정보교환 네트워크 분석

  • Ha, Ki Mok (Technology & Standards Team, Department of Technology & Quality) ;
  • Moon, Hyun Sil (School of Management and Management Research Institute, Kyunghee University) ;
  • Choi, Il Young (School of Dance, Kyunghee University) ;
  • Kim, Jae Kyeong (School of Management and Management Research Institute, Kyunghee University)
  • Received : 2014.03.29
  • Accepted : 2014.06.03
  • Published : 2014.06.30
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Abstract

The proliferation of using social media and social networking services affects the lifestyles of people. These phenomena are useful to companies that wish to promote and advertise new products or services through these social media; these social media venues also come with large amounts of user data. However, studies that analyze the data of social media within the perspective of information exchanges are hard to find. Much of the previous research in this area is focused on measuring the performance of exhibitions using general statistical approaches and piecemeal measures. Therefore, in this study, we want to analyze the characteristics of information exchanges in social media by using Twitter data sets, which are relating to the Mobile World Congress (MWC). Using this methodology provides exhibition organizers and exhibitors to objectively estimate the effect of social media, and establish strategies with social media use. Through a user network analysis, we additionally found that social attributes are as important as the popular attribute regarding the sustainability of information exchanges. Consequently, this research provides a network analysis using the data derived from the use of social media to communicate information regarding the MWC exhibition, and reveals the significance of social attributes such as the degree and the betweenness centrality regarding the sustainability of information exchanges.

소셜 미디어와 소셜 네트워킹 서비스의 확산은 사람들의 라이프 스타일에 많은 영향을 끼치고 있다. 이러한 확산 현상은 소셜 미디어를 통해 새로운 상품이나 서비스를 광고하고 촉진하려는 업계에 유용성을 제공할 뿐만 아니라 방대한 사용자 데이터의 획득도 가능케 하였다. 하지만 대다수의 연구들은 소셜 미디어에 대해 일반적인 통계적 접근 방법과 단편적 측정 방법을 사용하여 전시회의 성과를 측정하고 있어 소셜 미디어의 주 기능인 정보 교환의 측면을 고려하지 않고 있다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 MWC전시회의 트위터 데이터를 활용하여 정보 교환의 특징을 분석하려 한다. 이러한 분석방법은 전시 기획자 및 주관업체가 소셜 미디어의 효과를 객관적으로 측정할 수 있는 방법론을 제공하여 소셜미디어 활용 전략을 수립하는 데 큰 도움을 줄 수 있으리라 판단된다. 사용자 네트워크 분석을 통해 본 연구에서는 추가적으로 정보 교환의 지속가능성 측면에서 사회적 속성이 일반적 속성만큼 중요하다는 사실을 발견하였다. 결론적으로 본 연구는 MWC에서 정보를 교환하는 창구인 소셜 미디어의 사용에 따라 생성되는 데이터를 활용한 네트워크 분석 기법을 제안하는 한편 정보교환의 지속가능성에 대하여 매개 중심성과 중심성과 같은 사회적 속성의 특징을 밝혀냈다.

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