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http://dx.doi.org/10.14400/JDPM.2014.12.1.295

A Study on the Policy Implication on the Relation of Social Media & Movie industry : Focusing on Emotional Perception & Audience Trends  

Song, Myung Bean (Director, KT)
Lee, Sang-Ho (School of Digital Media, Design & Culture Contents Research Center, Kyungsung University)
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Journal of Digital Convergence / v.12, no.1, 2014 , pp. 295-303 More about this Journal
Abstract
This exploratory study deals with the digital policy proposal through emotional perception of real name SNS and WOM effect. Research was based on the audience trends analysis of the movies having official SNS sites and the movies not having official SNS sites among the opened 90 movies in Korea from 2012 to 2013. Therefore, researchers confirmed that the representative real SNS, facebook was utilized as emotional marketing tools and tried to analyze the effectiveness of SNS critically. The research results are the follows. First, the movies to actively utilize facebook showed statistically significant differences in terms of daily, weekly audience and seat share (occupancy ratio). It is indirectly confirmed that real name SNS such as facebook is much effective in WOM marketing. Second, in the daily trends and weekly trends, the movies showed a similar pattern and above all, the movies to actively take advantage of facebook maintained their audience trends. Thus the government and the corporation have to understand the emotional WOM effect of real name SNS for policy effectiveness. Therefore this study gives the contribution practically for boost up the policy effectiveness through emotional ripple WOM effect of the strength of weak tie of real name SNS.
Keywords
Social Media; Real name SNS; Facebook; WOM; Movie industry; Emotional Perception;
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