• Korean journal of communication and information
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• v.70
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• pp.221-245
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• 2015

This research defines Pope Francis's visit to Korea in August 2014 and the reactions from journalism to it as a case to show the discursive potential of mediated religion for social change. It analyzes the editorials and the columns on the Pope in five daily newspapers including the Chosunilbo, the Dong-A Ilbo, the Joongang Daily, the Hankyoreh, and the Kyunghyang Shinmun. Since the Pope receives positive evaluations for his remarks and behaviors during the visit from most of those articles, this research categorizes the values identified with the Pope and those with the "anti-Pope" into a form of binary oppositions, and interpret the meanings of the rhetorical strategies. The findings suggest that a consistent narrative is constructed by journalism regarding the harsh reality of Korea and the ways to overcome its structural problems. Based on the findings, I argue that mediated religion in this case is expected by the secular society to do its role for social change by being a provider of progressive and alternative values.

• Korean journal of communication and information
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• v.57
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• pp.109-136
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• 2012

This research analyzed the news coverage of controversy over Korean resumption of Wartime Operational Control from the United States in 2006, trying to find various narrative frames and their relevance to the characters of journalistic interpretive communities. Three competitive frames emerged: Self-national defense and peace making, Balance of self-national defense and the Korea-US alliance, and Priority of the Korea-U.S. alliance and national security. Journalistic discourses were also analyzed through the in-depth interviews of 14 journalists from three interpretive communities. The results revealed that competitions of narrative frames reflected the tensed relationship among political power blocs, each representing the liberal, moderate, or conservative camp of Korean society, and preference of journalistic practices such as objective journalism to advocacy journalism. Finally, inferences were made that the clashes among interpretive authorities, existing behind the competition of news frames, restrained public deliberations on a critical incident regarding national security by blocking up the reasoned news coverage of political controversy.

• Korean journal of communication and information
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• v.25
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• pp.135-162
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• 2004

This paper deals with how Korean press constructs the study on human gene in the process to collect information add distribute them to readers by their ideological characteristics. By using frame analysis method, this paper analysis the reality construction of human gene's studies in critical insights and explores some alternatives for solving the social conflict around human gene's study. Based on the study results, this paper suggests that Korean press needs more positive role in establishing a public sphere in order to make a social consensus about ethical issues of human gene's studies.

• Cartoon and Animation Studies
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• s.34
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• pp.237-262
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• 2014

Recent Korean popular films and television dramas represent journalist as the character who colludes with corrupt power to engage in scandals or completes one's goals by good or bad means. It matters that the negative discourse of journalists fosters audience's distrust on journalism. Representation of journalists in popular culture is related to the reliability of journalism. In relation, it is noticeable that popular media represent female journalists. This study examines how recent popular films deal with female journalists through the case of (2011) and (2012) to find improvement of discourse on journalists. In result, three female characters in these films represent positively 'reformative leadership' (Chief Cho in ), 'appropriation of information technology'(Seong Hyo Kwan in ), and 'emotional response' (Jang Eun Seo in ). Compared to representation of journalists through male, the positive representation of female journalists constributes to positive discourse on role and function of journalism. However, it may be considered that these positive representations are merely a part of whole journalists.

• Korean journal of communication and information
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• v.31
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• pp.225-259
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• 2005

Local paper has basically a close relationship to local autonomy for which the ultimate goals are regional development and the promotion of resident welfare. In addition, it is able to have considerable effects on the politics and administration in the region. In Korea where the history and experience of local autonomy is not long, the roles of local paper have been stressed more in the sense that local community is larking in a series of mechanism to control regional politics and administration. On the basis of such relationship of two, in this paper will be empirically analyzed the tendency on how local paper had reported them after revitalizing of Korean local autonomy of 1991. For this, content analysis was used as the method for examining of the tendency. All articles concerning local autonomy were collected from editorial, commentary, remarks, and special topic series from Maeil-daily newspaper, which is being issued in Daegu and Gyoungbook regions. This study could find the distinctive trend of reporting, and also recommended the desirable roles for local paper according to the results revealed in the trend analysis. To mature local autonomy, especially, this study suggested that local parer needs to search a way that ran get the subject of reports diversify as well as ran make an in-depth reporting.

• The Science & Technology
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• v.30 no.8 s.339
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• pp.69-71
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• 1997

소비자운동이 활발해지고 식품 환경 안전문제가 모든사람의 관심사로 됨에 따라 실험결과는 과학자 뿐만 아니라 언론ㆍ행정ㆍ정치가, 사법부 그리고 일반인 모두의 관심사가 되었고 그 실험결과는 행정조치나 입법판단에 중요한 역할을 담당하게 되었다. 전문가의 해석이 곧 국민생활에 직접적인 영향을 미치는 정책결정의 근간이 되기 때문에 전문가와 비전문가 사이에 지속적인 대화가 이뤄져야 하겠다.

• Digital Contents
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• no.3 s.94
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• pp.56-61
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• 2001

디지털 혁명과 새로운 매체환경 변화로 이제 잡지산업은 잡지언론으로서의 역할과 지식산업으로서 성장하기 위한 새로운 전략이 요구되는 시점에 서 있다. 컴퓨터와 정보통신의 결합은 새로운 공동체와 새로운 소통양식을 낳았다. 특히 새로운 소통양식에서는 개인 정보 발신자를 등장시켰는데 독립웹진이 그 예라 할 수 있다. 송신측면에서는 단일 거대 미디어 업체가 정보내용과 정보유통을 독점하는 구조가 흔들릴 수 있다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Database Society Conference
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• 2000.11a
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• pp.173-185
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• 2000

개인용 컴퓨터와 인터넷의 폭발적인 보급과 발전은 전자상거래와 E-business로 요약 되는 지식과 정보에 기반을 둔 비즈니스의 변화, 정보 공유를 통한 사이버 세계의 활성화, 언론이나 방송 등을 대체할 새로운 미디어로서의 역할 등 경제적, 문화적, 정치적 관점에서 인간의 삶에 혁신적 변화를 가져왔다. (중략)

• Korean journal of communication and information
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• v.81
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• pp.225-271
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• 2017

What is the basic nature of Korean public broadcasting system? This research explores this question through an analysis of KBS news coverage of the Korean housing market. This study spotlights the internal news production processes. In detail, this study investigates newsroom routines, such as news selection, news gatherings, and news production. As a result, this study reveals KBS can be classified as "Publicity Model" following reasons. First, KBS news selection process stresses higher viewer ratings for competitive market share and belittles public interests of serving the citizen. This caused KBS news to provide fragmented and truncated news information and to constrict high quality news of significant information for citizen. Second, KBS newsroom operates under the minimum staff resource to produce news programmes and has developed official source dependency as a routine for news gathering. Third, under the limits of report format, KBS news worked as a neutral deliverer of government message and failed to provide more detailed information and diverse viewpoints.

• Korean Journal of Comparative Education
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• v.28 no.2
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• pp.53-75
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• 2018

This study explores and compares how rural teachers and Chinese newspapers representing the dominant ideology of the state and the local government construct left behind children's problems and solutions. I draw on teacher interviews in two rural schools and the reports of three major Chinese newspapers (2011 to 2015). Teacher and media narratives largely agreed that parental absence and negative mental health consequences were the biggest source of the problem, placing the blame largely on families. However, the narratives diverged when discussing solutions as teachers largely sought institutional structural solutions while the media emphasized the individual role that volunteers could play. School-based activities and teachers' contributions extensively discussed in teacher interviews were muted from newspaper reports that emphasized contributions from government officials and local representatives.