• Journal of Music and Human Behavior
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• v.18 no.1
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• pp.63-77
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• 2021

Given that music is not part of the national/regular curriculum and how music therapy is a new endeavor in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), this study aimed to investigate parents' perceptions of the music therapy given to their children with disabilities in the UAE. A survey was administered to 33 parents of children with disabilities living in Sharjah, UAE. The survey consisted of 43 questions related to characteristics of the music therapy sessions that the participants' children received and the parents' satisfaction with their children's music therapy. The results showed that participants reported a high level of satisfaction with the music therapy provided to their children. In terms of their participation in music therapy sessions, 33.3% of parents co-participated in music therapy sessions with their children, and 45.5% of parents observed their children's sessions. Parents who had direct participation in music therapy sessions were significantly more satisfied with their children's music therapy (p < .05) and perceived greater positive changes in their children as a result of the therapy (p < .05). Parents perceived their children as being able to positively respond to music, leading to positive changes in behavior. Despite these benefits, participants also reported the need for formal opportunities for family members to learn about the applications and outcomes of music therapy. The findings of this study supports the implementation of music therapy throughout the UAE and point to the need for future studies as music therapy expands across the country.

• Review of Culture and Economy
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• v.21 no.2
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• pp.111-139
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• 2018

This study is about classical music lovers who write a lengthy concert review on instagram. The intention and objective of writing a review is discussed in addition to inter-communication between those reviewers. For the analysis, an interview with 8 reviewers are mainly analyzed with their reviews. As a result, it is found that some affordances of Instagram, easiness, randomness, and friendliness affects them to use Instagram more than other social media. Hence, since Instagram is image-based platform, it helps writers to keep their reviews from getting an attention by other users. Because of their sense of inferiority that they are lacking in classical music knowledge, continuous writing and reading of reviews help them accumulating some amount of cultural capital needed for understanding classical music in a proper way.

• Journal of Music and Human Behavior
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• v.13 no.2
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• pp.31-48
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• 2016

This study investigated how music therapists perceive the professionalism of the profession. A total of 98 certified music therapists completed the online survey for a 46.7% response rate, and 78 questionnaires were included in the analysis after excluding incomplete responses. The results of this study demonstrated that music therapists show a high level of standards for music therapy professionalism in general. Meanwhile, the respondents gave their lowest rating on the perception of their occupation as a social service addressing the needs of society. The majority of respondents rated the level of their professionalism as high and they tended to identify individual competency as the most important factor. Also, there were significant differences in perceived professionalism depending on the length of clinical practice and level of education. These results indicate that the quality of training may contribute to a high level of perception on professionalism. Also, lower levels of perception on social aspects of the professionalism support the need for continuing education to broaden the understanding of professionalism. Given the importance of professionalism in enhancing the quality of care for clients and expanding the profession, further studies were suggested to increase understanding of the music therapy professionalism and propose strategies for maintaining the professionalism of music therapists.

• 한국경영정보학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2007.06a
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• pp.926-930
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• 2007

본 연구는 음악콘텐츠를 생산, 유통, 판매하는 기업의 입장에서 과연 소비자들의 어떤 인지요인들이 모바일음악콘텐츠 상품의 구매의도에 영향을 미치는지에 대해 초점을 맞추었다. 연구모델로는 모바일음악콘텐츠 상품을 정보기술이라는 측면에서 접근하고, 이러한 정보기술의 수용 요인을 추출하기 위하여 기술수형모형 (TAM: Technology Acceptance Model)을 주요 이론적 토대로 하였다. 또한, 구체적인 분석을 위해 모바일음악콘텐츠를 벨소리콘텐츠, 통화연결음콘텐츠, 음악 전곡 다운로드콘텐츠로 유형화하고, 각 분류에서의 구매의도에 영향을 미치는 요인을 분석하고자 온라인과 오프라인에서의 설문을 실시한 결과, 첫째, 회귀분석을 통해 벨소리콘텐츠 구매의도와의 관계를 검증하여 최종 도출된 요인들은 이용경력, 차별성, 편재성, 신뢰성, 보안성, 맞춤성, 사용편의 지각, 유용성 지각으로 나타났다. 둘째, 통화연결음콘텐츠 구매의도와의 관계인 경우 최종 도출된 요인들은 이용경력, 차별성, 편재성, 신뢰성, 보안성, 맞춤성, 사용편의 지각, 유용성 지각으로 나타났다. 셋째, 음악 전곡 다운로드콘텐츠 구매의도와의 관계인 경우 최종 도출된 요인들은 이용경력, 복제가능성, 신뢰성, 맞춤성, 사용편의 지각, 유용성 지각으로 나타났고, 이는 모바일음악콘텐츠의 유형에 따라 소비자의 구매의도에 끼치는 요인에 차이가 있음을 보여주고 특히 이동통신기기 특유의 콘텐츠와 일반음악콘텐츠의 경우 큰 차이를 구매의도와 독립변수간의 관계에서 보여주고 있다.

• Digital Contents
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• no.7 s.146
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• pp.54-58
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• 2005

요즘 출시되는 거의 대부분 휴대폰에 소형 디지털카메라가 기본 내장되면서 국내 휴대폰 시장 싸움의 초점이 이제 카메라에서 MP3플레이어로 옮겨가고 있다. 올해 1,500만대로 예상되는 국내 휴대폰 시장에서 MP3플레이어 기능이 내장된 뮤직폰은 약 70%를 차지할 것으로 전망된다. 이러한 분위기를 더욱 고조시키는 것은 SK텔레콤과 KTF, LG텔레콤이‘멜론’과‘도시락’,‘뮤직온’등 음악서비스를 강화하기 때문이다. 이번호에서는 이동통신 3사의 모바일 음악 서비스에 대해 살펴보고자 한다.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.16 no.4
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• pp.262-274
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• 2016

Academic interests have long left from the field of indie musicians, despite of their social and cultural values. This also means indie musician policies have enjoyed lack of evaluation. Main purpose of this study is to understand the indie musicians' environment, music activities and their job satisfaction by employing online survey method which were conducted over 105 Korean indie musicians. Survey results show that indie musicians feel the lack of performing facilities that can hold over 50 seats. Indie musician group with experience of 6 years and more has more chances of performing at big facilities. This group also tends to play more often, and earn more money from music activities. Also, analysis shows that satisfaction level of Indie musicians is affected by two factors - music activities and social reputation. From the results, we can conclude that indie musician policy needs to build grounds to harmonize supports from various field rather than play as a single supporter. Patriarchal attitude that government should do and can do everything is no more in effective at least in indie music field.

• Journal of Music and Human Behavior
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• v.18 no.1
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• pp.1-27
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• 2021

The purpose of this study was to investigate how primary caregivers of children with developmental disabilities aged 6 to 18 years perceived on tele-music programs in which their children participated during COVID-19. A total of 83 caregivers who voluntarily agreed to participate in this study responded to a survey either on-line or in person and 67 questionnaires were included in the final analysis after deleting 16 incomplete responses. The results showed that tele-music programs were rated somewhat suitable for distance learning but that there was still a need for adult assistance to help children with developmental disabilities participate in the program. When comparing the perceptions of caregivers who participated in remote general education versus who participated in tele-music program, significantly higher level of program engagement and positive responses from a child were perceived with tele-music program. The caregivers who participated in tele-music program showed significantly greater willingness to participate in tele-music therapy in the future than those who did not. The findings of this study presents information on how tele-music therapy has been implemented to children with disabilities and what can be considered for the the development of a tele-music therapy program.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.12 no.1
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• pp.125-137
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• 2012

In this paper we draw from recent theoretical discussions of fan culture and the new media technologies to explore how online communities contribute to new forms of K-pop fandom. We suggest that these online sites play an important role in setting the new stage of dissemination and dialogue of K-pop knowledge, through which particular forms and spaces of online fan culture are being created and sustained. Moreover, these web-based communities challenge the existing concepts that have embraced interrelations between culture, consumption and technology. Based on an empirical study of YouTube, carried out using netnographic methods, this study tackles the following questions: how fans construct themselves as Korean pop fans through the online activities; how they exchange information and opinions of Korean stars; and, what meaning they extract from online file-sharing activities.

• The Research Journal of the Costume Culture
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• v.23 no.5
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• pp.793-806
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• 2015

This study is to explore the effect of music characteristics (i.e., likeliness and familiarity of music) on the relationship between mood and attitude toward the product in the online shopping mall selling hand-made shoes. A total of 319 consumers participated in experiments with online shopping mall stimuli with a variety of background music. In results, consumer mood positively affected attitude toward the hand-made shoe products in the online shopping mall under background music. A moderating effect of music likeliness was found in the relationship between mood and product attitude, indicating that mood more strongly affected product attitude under more liked music than under less liked music. When consumers are listening to more liked music and are in good mood, they may build their attitudes toward products independently from their mood, whereas they may build positive attitude under good mood versus negative attitudes under bad mood if they are listening to less liked music. A moderating effect of music familiarity was not found in the relationship between mood and product attitude. Based on results, it was confirmed that the S-O-R model could be applied to explain the effect of background music on consumer responses in online shopping malls. Marketers may be able to select and adjust the likeliness and familiarity of background music to better serve consumers in diverse shopping conditions, referring to the study findings.

• The Transactions of the Korea Information Processing Society
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• v.7 no.11S
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• pp.3694-3701
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• 2000

Internet purchase is increasing according to the activation of Electronic Commerce. Currently, the hardware is main purchase items in the Electronic Commerce. The on-line purchase of digital product, that is electronic file type of product, has many merits such as, does not cost in logistics, is ease of searching the product, and is possible of 'Try and Buy' system. But, actually digital products have not been major product and Cause of its piracy problem. Therefore, the tchnology of digital rights management is focused within EC. The piracy problem of digital products comes from the lack of safety in DP license control technology. Current EC has no method to identify the object that has the right to use the digital product. The protecting of object change is impossible and the protection of hacking is not enough and EC has many problems in efficient license control because of the incompletion of EC structure. In this paper, we propose the design and implementation of on-line circulation system, which can activate on-line circulation of MP3 digital data product in EC, by using the new license control technology, that is Dynamic License Control technology.