• The Korean Journal of Applied Statistics
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• v.34 no.1
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• pp.57-74
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• 2021

The proliferation of smart devices (such as smart phones and tablet PCs) has led to a marked increase in the use of mobile-based internet. As a result, the influence of the mobile internet has become important to make opinions on social issues. This study explores the effects of mobile internet news users' characteristics on formation of opinions about major political, economic and social issues. We used the data from the media audience awareness survey by the Korean Press Foundation in 2016 and 2017 in this analysis. The characteristics of the news users are gender, age, education, income, news usage days, news usage hours, media application usage days, news gathering application usage days, portal usage days, and media official website usage days. These characteristics are known as possible explanatory variables for the mobile internet news users. Multiple logistic regressions were done with interpretation to know which covariates affect on formation of major opinion.

• Korean journal of communication and information
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• v.26
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• pp.259-289
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• 2004

In this study, the use of mainstream online news site and alternative online news site were compared in the aspects of users' characteristics, attitude on online news sites, and using pattern. A survey was conducted for 182 mainstream-only users, 46 alternative online news users, and 47 both sites users, Also, their traffic data of online news sites were analyzed during the 16th presidential election. As a result, it was found that both sites users had the highest political interest and the most progressive political position among the user groups. In the aspect of users' attitude, mainstream-only users were most positive to the mainstream online news site and both sires users were most positive and more involved in alternative online news site. But all user groups set higher credibility on alternative online news site than mainstream online news sire. In the comparison of user size, mainstream online news site has larger user size than alternative online site. However, the user royalty, such as time per person, pages per person, and visiting days per person, was lower than that of the latter. These results suggest thar small but differentiated news sires have royal users, and online news users be segmented according to news contents.

• Korean journal of communication and information
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• v.21
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• pp.177-201
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• 2003

This study was designed to explore behaviors of readers of online papers. First, the factor analysis of the online paper motive statements yielded three interpretable factors : informativeness, convenience, economicalness. For online paper use habits, a similar factor analysis procedure resulted in three factors : active utilization, news seeking, information seeking. Informativeness motive and active utilization habit were strongly related, convenience motive and news seeking habit related. Online papers and newspapers were found to be in complementary relationship. Internet access and newspaper reading, active utilization and news seeking habits were significant predictors of online paper use. The result of this study showed online paper readers perceived interactive services online papers offered. and want to utilize those effectively. This study suggests that online papers need to develop various interactive services to attract readers.

• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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• v.21 no.6
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• pp.105-112
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• 2020

The present study aims to explore news sharers' characteristic. Specifically, it aims to look at news sharers' demographic characteristics, old media news usage and new media news usage. Besides, it also explores factors affecting news sharing behavior. The study used the second data of Korea Press Foundation. Findings from surveys suggest that first, news sharers are younger and have higher education than not news sharers. Second, news sharers use less news through old media while more news through new media. Third, political orientation, portal, SNS and online video platform new usage, messenger news reliability have positive effects on news sharing, while age and portal news reliability have negative effects on it. Based on these findings, implication, limitations, and topics for future research are discussed.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2002.04a
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• pp.581-584
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• 2002

인터넷의 급성장과 함께 인터넷을 통해 제공되는 서비스 중 사용자들에게 제공되는 뉴스서비스는 사용자가 원하지 않은 뉴스들까지 제공됨으로써 원하는 뉴스만을 골라서 제공받을 수 있는 시스템의 필요성이 증가하고 있다. 본 논문에서는 사용자가 입력하는 키워드를 이용하여 각 뉴스서버에서 제공하는 뉴스 중 사용자의 요구에 적합한 뉴스를 필터링하는 에이전트 시스템을 구현하였다.

• Korean journal of communication and information
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• v.38
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• pp.40-72
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• 2007

Amid the rapid growth in use of portal news, this study examined whether portal news would substitute traditional news media, in particular newspapers and television news. To answer the research question, this study attempted to investigate how the decrease in use of traditional news media was associated with online news use, reliance on, and motivations for portal news. First, this study found that there was a negative and significant relationship between the Internet use and television news viewing, suggesting that those who are more likely to use the Internet are less likely to watch television news programs. Also, portal news was negatively associated with time spent with newspaper reading, while it was not related to television news viewing. Second, this study found that convenience/information-seeking needs appeared as the major motivations for using portal news, which were negatively and significantly associated with the decreased time spent with watching television news programs. In other words, those who used portal news for convenience/information-seeking needs are less likely to watch television news programs, which may indicate that portal news could be a substitute for television news in terms of convenience/information-seeking motivations. In addition, the result of this study showed that there was a complementary relationship between portal news and newspapers in terms of surveillance needs. Those findings could be explained by the concept of "functional similarity" in the process of media substitution. Based on the findings, implications of this study were discussed.

• Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems
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• v.7 no.5
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• pp.21-28
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• 2002

With the proliferation of internet and an increase in internet users, several kinds of vast information are provided to users on the internet. It is increasing in the need of personalization service by filtering user preferred news among various news documents provided through several news servers.. In this paper, we implemented a filtering agent system to meet to demand for personalized news service. In the proposed system, Kohonen network is used to train keywords provided by users and to classify news groups. Resulting from that, the personalized new service is achieved. After we trained and tested the filtering agent, we could provide users news groups with their intention.

• Proceedings of the Korean Information Science Society Conference
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• 2001.10c
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• pp.628-630
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• 2001

오늘날 인터넷이 보편화되면서 정보 검색 및 뉴스 검색들이 일반화되고 있지만 엄청난 정보의 양과 다양성 등으로 인해 사용자들은 오히려 정보 검색의 어려움을 호소하고 있다 이에 본 논문에서는 사용자 편의의 뉴스 검색과 사용자의 요구와 취향이 반영될 수 있도록 BPN(Back Propagation Neural Network)의 학습 기능을 가진 지능형 에이전트를 이용하여 뉴스 기사를 필터링하는 뉴스 검색 시스템을 제안한다. 이 시스템은 여러 신문사의 기사를 수집 및 통합하여 그 날의 주요 기사들을 데이터베이스에 저장하는 수집 에이전트, 사용자가 입력만 키워드를 이용하여 BPN 기법으로 학습시키는 훈련 에이전트 등으로 구성되어 있다. 또한 정보 통신 기술의 눈부신 발달로 투선 인터넷이 급속히 보급되는 현실을 감안하여 무선으로도 이러한 서비스를 제공할 수 있도록 시스템을 구성하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Information Processing Society Conference
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• 2004.11a
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• pp.463-466
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• 2004

최근 Device 의 대중화로 모바일 폰 사용자는 언제 어디서라도 정보서비스 및 멀티미디어 동영상 서비스를 쉽게 접할 수 있게 되었다. 하지만, 작은 화면과 불편한 User Interface 를 가진 모바일 Device 의 한계와 양적인 컨텐츠의 증가로 인하여 사용자가 원하는 정보를 Access 하기에는 너무 많은 시간과 비용이 소요되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 사용자의 Accessibility 욕구를 충족하고 시간과 비용을 절감하기 위한 방법으로서 무선 인터넷 환경에서의 추천 시스템을 기반으로 방대한 분량의 뉴스 컨텐츠 가운데 개인화 된 뉴스를 선별, 제공해 주는 지능형 추천 시스템을 설계 구현하고자 한다. 본 논문은 인공 지능 분야 중 에이전트의 추천 역할과 기능면에서 Collaborative Filtering 방법이 갖고 있는 계산 속도 문제에 대한 대안으로서, 유사한 선호도의 사용자를 특성에 따라 분류하기 위해 군집분석을 이용했으며, 각 군집별로 뉴스 카테고리를 Weighting 한 후, 뉴스 컨텐츠를 Scoring, Listing하여 사용자가 읽은 뉴스에 대한 평가를 기록하고 이틀 각 군집별로 반영하는 방법을 수행하였다. 추가로 뉴스 컨텐츠의 사용자 만족도를 평가하기 위하여 뉴스를 처음부터 끝까지 읽은 완독률을 측정기준으로 제시하고 일반적인 무선 인터넷 환경하의 뉴스 메뉴체계와 비교하여 설계된 시스템의 성능에 대한 유효성을 검증하였다.

• Proceedings of the Korea Society for Industrial Systems Conference
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• 2003.05a
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• pp.47-51
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• 2003

인터넷을 통해 제공되는 맡은 양의 뉴스 정보 중에서 찾고자 하는 정확한 정보를 빠른 시간 안에 검색하고, 원하는 정보만 필터링 하는 것이 필요하다. 먼저, 인터넷에 접속된 뉴스서버들의 뉴스 문서를 각 그룹별로 수집한다. 수집된 뉴스 문서를 대상으로 퍼지추론을 통하여 문서를 대표하는 키워드를 추출하여 데이터베이스에 저장한다. 각 뉴스그룹의 문서에서 단어들을 분석하여 입력된 단어들의 개수를 이용하여 정규화 시켜서 대표적인 비지도학습 신경망인 코호넨 신경망을 사용하여 학습시킨다. 코호넨 신경망으로 추출된 단어들의 연관성을 활용하여 뉴스그룹을 클러스터링한다. 최종적으로 사용자가 관심 있는 키워드를 입력하면, 학습된 신경망이 유사한 뉴스그룹들을 사용자에게 제시해준다.