• Informatization Policy
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• v.25 no.2
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• pp.67-83
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• 2018

This study explores how social media influences individual's social development and well-being. Social media is discussed as an effective tool when individuals lacking social and psychological resources are trying to expand their social networks. This study focuses on the social media use of North Korean defectors, who, in general, have closed social media networks in the South Korean society. This study tries to analyze empirically the effect of social media use on North Korean defectors' satisfaction with our society. In particular, this study focuses on how the use of social media influences satisfaction with their life in South Korea at different levels of their emotional states. This study explores that the relationship between social media and satisfaction with their life in South Korea varies based upon the degree of self-esteem and anxiety. This study expects that social media might provide greater benefits for those who are experiencing low self-esteem and high anxiety. In addition, this study conducts the same analysis for the general public and then compares its results with the survey on North Korean defectors. According to the results of North Korean defectors' survey, the impact of social media use on satisfaction with their life in South Korea was greater for those with high anxiety than for those with low anxiety. Meanwhile, the impact was greater for those with high self-esteem than for those with low self-esteem.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.11 no.6
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• pp.242-251
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• 2011

Social media in the press is often described as a future oriented and pioneering image. These press reports have played an important role in the proliferation of social media. This paper investigates social implications of social media discourse through the analysis of the press's reports. As a result, social media in the press was described as wave of an irresistible social changes. Corporations, governments, politicians and even the general public were reported to have shown a positive attitude towards using social media. It means that people accept disciplinaire needed for the time for progress toward a new future.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.13 no.6
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• pp.158-166
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• 2013

This study gave attention to the people who has resistance of the social media that tens to be the use as innovations. Therefore, this study examined the determinant factors of psychological resistance of the social media such as Twitter focused on students as none-users of social media. Total of 268 none-users participated in this study. The results were as follows. First, relative advantage influenced negatively on innovation resistance. Second, perceived complexity influenced significantly not on innovation resistance. Third, perceived risk influenced positively on innovation resistance. Therefore, social media related to social relationship should improve relative advantage, the other way, decrease perceived risk such as defamation and personal attack.

• Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society
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• v.24 no.3
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• pp.427-436
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• 2013

Social media is drawing attention among companies for its potential as a marketing tool. There are many types of social media and their characteristics are varied, and thus choosing the appropriate social media considering the purpose of the company is important. In this paper, we conduct comparative analysis on the popular social media such as Facebook, Twitter, Naver blog, Youtube, Cyworld and Me2day using multidimensional scaling method. The result shows that there are differences in the effectiveness of enhancing diverse dimensions of corporate image among social media. This result can be used in developing social media based marketing strategy.

• Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems
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• v.19 no.2
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• pp.105-117
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• 2014

The change of social media market toward multimedia environment makes users select social media according to preference factor's gratification and this also causes competition among various social medias. So this study focused on competition among social media from the perspective of users' gratification while considering multimedia environment of social media market. The widely known Niche theory is used to confirm competitions among media in an environment with limited resource. According to research result, (1) Facebook and Kakao Talk mostly satisfies users' expectations; (2) Facebook and Kakao Talk form leading group and Blog, Youtube and Twitter form chasing group in this competition; (3) Kakao Talk greatly satisfies users' various expectations. The research result implies that, for social media to have competitive advantage in the market, it is better to provide convenience and real-time responsiveness in mobile environment and to improve service so that users could more easily utilize network.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.12 no.11
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• pp.4812-4818
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• 2011

This study aimed to reveal the relationship between the rural tourism social media use motivation and satisfaction, trust, continued usage intention. In order to carry out the empirical study 310 survey questionnaires were collected in rural tourism social media users, PASW18 and Lisrel 8.54 Statistics package were utilized for analysis of SEM. The study results were as follows: First, social media use motivation had a positive influence upon satisfaction, Secondly, satisfaction had a positive influence on trust, continued usage intention. Thirdly, trust had a positive influence upon continued usage intention. The study findings can provide the rural tourism with social media as well as practitional foundational upon which to establish effective marketing strategy.

• Science of Emotion and Sensibility
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• v.26 no.4
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• pp.3-14
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• 2023

Recently, the effect of using social media on psychological well-being has been highlighted. However, studies exploring factors that may predict the quality of social media relationships are relatively rare. The present study investigated whether social media activity and psychological states, such as loneliness and depression, can predict the quality of social media relationships during the COVID-19 quarantine period using a machine learning technique. Ninety-five participants completed a self-report survey on loneliness, Instagram activity, quality of social media relationships, and depression at different time points (during the self-isolation and after the release of self-isolation). Similarity analyses, including multidimensional scaling (MDS), representational similarity analysis (RSA), and classification analyses, were conducted separately at each point in time. The results of MDS revealed that time spent on social media and depression were distinguished from others in the first dimension, and loneliness and passive use were distinguished from others in the second dimension. We divided the data into two groups based on the quality of social media relationships (high and low), and we conducted RSA on each group. Findings indicated an interaction between the quality of the social media relationships and the situation. Specifically, the effect of self-isolation on the high-quality social media relationship group is more pronounced than that on the low-quality group. The classification results also revealed that the predictors of social media relationships depend on whether or not they are isolated. Overall, the results of this study imply that social media relationship could be well predicted when people are not in isolated situations.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.13 no.4
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• pp.73-85
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• 2013

This study examines the online social capital of local press using the website and social media. Moreover, the paper respectively visualizes web feature as Web 1.0 and social feature analysis as Web 2.0 by applying correspondence analysis. For data, the study analyzes 10 representative local press in Yeungnam areas. To collect the data, two coders coded web features from the websites and we employed NodeXL, an open-source software tool, for social media data. The results reveal that local websites expend online social capital using social media account. Especially, the social features of local presses attach importance to Twitter as the main press keep the well-balance use among all platforms.

• The Korean Journal of Archival Studies
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• no.65
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• pp.111-150
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• 2020

Social media, also known as the 'revolution of communication', has become a major means of communication and service in contemporary society. Unlike existing media, the advantage of being able to deliver interactive information is already beyond the level of use between individuals and government efforts to use it. In fact, local governments in Korea operate one or more social media services for various purposes, which promotes policies of local governments or provides prompt information to local residents. These social media records are based on public business and should be managed as records. However, the legal basis for managing records of social media in the area of public records management is currently small, and each local government does not recognize the need for records management. Social media operate by local governments are not only of different types but also difficult to manage as standardized guidelines. Nevertheless, minimal guidance is needed to manage and preserve social media records. The purpose of this study is to draw out the least common elements in the preparation of guidelines for social media record management. For this purpose, the guidelines and policies established by advanced countries that already systematically manage social media were analyzed and the items and characteristics were derived. In addition, the guidelines were checked for application by comparing actual social media records with social media archives. This study is meaningful in that it proposed components that should be included in the development of guidelines for the management of social media records in local governments through the actual status of social media archive operations.

• Journal of the Korean BIBLIA Society for library and Information Science
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• v.23 no.4
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• pp.239-260
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• 2012

This study examined undergraduates' health information needs, information seeking behaviors, and their perceptions of credibility of health information in social media environments. Interviews with 22 undergraduates revealed that social media was used mainly in a preventive stage or in a health maintenance stage. The perceptions of credibility of health information widely differed according to the type of social media. This finding indicated the need for health information literacy education that could help undergraduates effectively evaluate and acquire health information online.