• Korean journal of communication and information
• /
• v.45
• /
• pp.463-495
• /
• 2009

Korea has started to pay attention to civic journalism in recent years while it initially emerged in the United State since late 1980s. Furthermore, albeit some discernable limitations, the Internet has played an important role in fertilizing civic journalism as indicated by the emergence of online news media and the increasing number of civic journalists engaged in the online activities. Whereas there are some patterns of civic journalism practice and the civic influence commonly observed in both countries, there are significant factors that distinguish th1e case of Korea from that of the U.S. The purpose of this study is to compare the two countries in terms of the patterns of civic journalism practice and civic influence. This goal has been achieved by analyzing ‘CNN iReport’ in the U.S. and ‘Ohmynews’ in Korea, both of which are prime civic journalism websites. Those websites have been compared in light of four standards of civic journalism: first, the degree of post-objectivism; second, the search for effective resolutions of social problems; third, civic engagement in the news making process to enhance bottom-up agenda setting; and finally, citizens’ interaction with the news. The results reveal that the American civic journalism website is more likely to shed light on deviating from the principle of objectivity and seeking alternatives and resolutions of social problems. Moreover, it effectively utilizes civic engagement in the news Abstracts 551 making process as indicated by the higher numbers of civic journalists and civic news resources. Also, readers’ interaction with the news was found to be more active in the iReport website than in the Ohmynews.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
• /
• v.4 no.3
• /
• pp.169-175
• /
• 2009

In this research, the first online journalism in South Korea on the research itself in reality only have 3, only 2 cases in the United States the study of online journalism deulyigie, in online journalism for the public to feel the necessity of research and These online agents not jeoneolriseuteuna the role of public journalism, the media can perform that role, she felt the need for the rest, in the process of the last 16 presidential election, as reported salpyeobomeu in South Korea of jourmalism online newspapers will want to research about the policy.

• The Journal of the Korea institute of electronic communication sciences
• /
• v.1 no.2
• /
• pp.110-119
• /
• 2006

In this paper, the first online journalism in South Korea on the research itself in reality only have 3, only 2 cases in the United States the study of online journalism, in online journalism for the public to feel the necessity of research. These online agents not journalist the role of public journalism, the media can perform that role, we felt the need for the rest. In the process of the last 16 presidential election, as reported in South Korea of journalism online newspapers will want to research about the policy.

• Korean journal of communication and information
• /
• v.66
• /
• pp.5-27
• /
• 2014

The past, present, and future of online journalism in Korea are inextricably bound up with the portal site news services. In traditional journalism, finite news media took hold on news consumption completely because of performing news production and distribution simultaneously. Since then, in the age of multi-media and multi-channel, the audience selection has become more important because of greatly increasing news media and then exploding news production. In online journalism, the news distribution have emerged as the most important field because of the intensive consuming the portal site news services making use of various news easier, the characteristic of news consumption focusing on not news media brands but news media contents, etc. Therefore, the news present landscape of Korean journalism oriented news distribution has been completed by that the portal site news services became the symbol of online journalism. That the portal site news services performing only news distribution have more influence than the paper based online newspapers and Internet based online newspapers producing news means the change of media power. By this, a conflict between news media and portal site news services appears at all times.

• Korean journal of communication and information
• /
• v.57
• /
• pp.7-32
• /
• 2012

The purpose of this study was to examine the perverted labors of online newspapers' editors in Korea. Online newspaper editors' works were be influenced directly and indirectly by the printed newspaper, the parent company of online newspaper. Their labor conditions were poorer than online newspaper editors'. And online newspapers' editors didn't have status as professionals. They set a premium on Internet traffics on their works. For online newspaper editors' normal labor conditions, the most practical measure was to normalize the editorial system of online newspapers. How to raise the status of online newspaper editors was to secure the online newspapers' editorial right. And to conclude, to improve the quality of online journalism in Korea, the most urgent issue is to improve online newspaper editors' professionalism.

• Korean journal of communication and information
• /
• v.24
• /
• pp.69-91
• /
• 2004

우리는 언론을 제대화된 언론사나 미디어로 한정시켜 이해하는 경향이 있는데, 이것은 일종의 물신화된 사고방식이라고 할 수 있다. 언론이란 사회에 영향을 미칠 사안에 관해 논의하고 상호작용하는 과정과 산물 및 그 산물의 사회적 유통이라고 정의하는 것이 정당할 것이다. 언론사나 미디어는 언론의 일부이다. 물신화된 언론관이 지배적으로 유포된 데는 언론의 전문직화와 미디어의 네트워크 권력화가 하나의 배경 요인으로 작용했다. 언론 물신화를 극복하기 위해서는 시민들 자신이 언론의 주체라는 것을 깨닫고 언론참여를 활성화할 필요가 있다. 여기서는 시민참여를 물질적으로 보장하는 방안의 하나로서 온라인 저널리즘의 가능성과 한계를 논의했다. 그러나, 미디어 테크놀로지는 언론을 활성화할 수 있는 필요조건일 뿐이고, 언론의 본령은 사회적인 이슈에 관해 논의하고 상호작용하는 과정 자체에 있다.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
• /
• v.16 no.3
• /
• pp.1795-1805
• /
• 2015

This paper analyzed the recommendation stories in the online journalism on the user's news choice by college students in two ways. One way is recommendation stories, and the other one is their arrangement and the index of use. From the results of the analysis, 7 out of 11 types of recommendation stories had positive effects on selecting news stories, while the 4 other types had little effect. Most of the recommendation stories that had little effect on the user's news selection were 'comments' or 'things' related to tweets' on SNS. The arrangements of new stories and the searched keywords had some effects on the user's news choice but had no effect on the index of use. In addition, the hours of using news stories and the types of recommendation stories were mostly correlated with each other. Consequently, formal factors, such as the arrangement of news stories and the recommendation stories of online journalism, had positive effects on the user's news selection, as well as headlines and keywords of news stories.

• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
• /
• v.16 no.1
• /
• pp.83-90
• /
• 2015

This paper examines the rising value of social networked journalism and analyzes the case of a social news site based on the theory of networked journalism. Social networked journalism allows the public to be involved in every aspect of journalism production through crowd-sourcing and interactivity. The networking effect with the public is driving journalism to transform into a more open, more networked and more responsive venue. "wikitree" is a social networking news service on which anybody can write news and disseminate it via Facebook and Twitter. It is operated as an open sourced program which incorporates "Google Translate" to automatically convert all its content, enabling any global citizen with an Internet access to contribute news production and share either their own creative contents or generated contents from other sources. Since its inception, "wikitree global" site has been expanding its coverage rapidly with access points arising from 160 countries. Analyzing its international coverage by country and by news category as well as by the unique visit numbers via SNS, the results of the case study imply that networking with the global public can enhance news traffic to the social news site as well as to specific news items. The results also suggest that the utilization of Twitter and Facebook in social networked journalism can break the boundary between local and global public by extending news-gathering ability while growing audience's interest in the site, and engender a feasible business model for a local online journalism.

• Journal of the HCI Society of Korea
• /
• v.9 no.2
• /
• pp.5-12
• /
• 2014

There was widespread criticism of the online news services due to their bias toward sensational and soft news. Thus, news services based on journalist values are socially requested. News source network analysis(NSNA), an algorithm to cluster and weight news sources, quotes, and articles, is suggested as a method to emphasize on journalist values like facts, variety, depth, and criticism in the previous study. This study suggests 'News Sources' as a visualization tool of NSNA. 'News Sources' shows news as bar graphs, weighted by facts and criticism, and arranged by organizations and subjects. This study designed a beta version using KINDS, a news archive of Korean Press Foundation.

• Korean journal of communication and information
• /
• v.53
• /
• pp.73-99
• /
• 2011

This study compares blogs of professional reporters with those of citizen reporters in terms of watchdog and interactivity functions. Watchdog function was analyzed in light of the extent of soft news and the degree of critical relationship with the government. Interactivity was assessed by analyzing readers' comments on the articles of reporter blogs. for citizen journalism and for professional one were chosen in order to minimize any discrepancies caused by ideological differences. As a result of the content analyses, citizen reporter blogs were found to deliver soft news more frequently than those of , whereas the former had stronger tendency to maintain the critical relationship with the government than the latter. As for the interactivity function, although the number of comments uploaded to citizen reporter blogs was higher than that of professional reporter blogs, the latter was found to meet the standards of communicative interaction more adequately than the former.