• Journal of the Korean Society for information Management
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• v.36 no.2
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• pp.133-152
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• 2019

This study aims to identify and categorize the content and public use patterns of social scientists' informal communication activities. Using Twitter data, we identified Korean 736 social scientists who participated in communication activities with the public, and analyzed 4,548 tweets that revealed their informal communication activities. This study is meaningful in that it explored informal communication between social scientists and the public, which was not previously revealed in scholarly communication, and identified the types of informal communication activities, communication media, and collaborative sectors in detail.

• The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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• v.9 no.2
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• pp.261-267
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• 2023

Colaizziphenomenological The purpose of this study is to verify the effect of various communication activities performed by the elderly in their daily lives on sociality and happiness. To this end, the frequency and percentage were calculated using the SPWSSIN 25.0 program for 295 elderly people living in Ulsan Metropolitan City. Depending on the research problem the research results are as follows. First, it was found that the sociality of the elderly had a positive relationship in family communication and interpersonal communication. Second, it was found that the sociality of the elderly was influenced by children of family communication and friends and groups of interpersonal communication in communication activities. Third, it was found that the positive happiness of the elderly had an influence on the children of family communication and the group of interpersonal communication, and the negative happiness had an influence on the children of family communication, SNS activities, and text messages.

• Journal of Science Education
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• v.36 no.1
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• pp.56-68
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• 2012

The purpose of this study is to utilize science TV program 'Science TV' among science communication that plays important role in the popularization of science as science communication materials. I apply it at early morning classes on elementary school students and analysis the responses of students to science communication activity. In order to achieve this goal, the review on preliminary studies and relevant documents were carried out and program called 'The aroma of science encountered in the forest of science' as the contents of daily life-centered theme that can be easily understood by students in elementary school was selected. Moreover, themes of total 15 episodes were determined by analyzing their contents. The materials were applied to science communication activity targeting 1 class with 21 students in second grade of elementary school. The survey on the responses toward the activity was conducted after the activity. The result of analyzing the survey, students displayed positive response toward science communication activity utilizing 'Science TV'. The result of the activity analysis and survey analysis after the activity displayed that students passionately participated in science communication activity utilizing 'Science TV' in early morning classes on elementary school. Also, students displayed positive response toward science communication activity utilizing 'Science TV' such as the increase in the understanding of science, and others.

• Journal of the Korean Society for information Management
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• v.1 no.1
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• pp.127-145
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• 1984

The purpose of the present paper is (1) to clarify the significance and the role of informal communication in research activities, (2) to grasp the characteristics of Invisible College, the social organization for informal communication, and its effect on research activities and (3) to pay consideration to formalization of informal communication systems. To comprehend all the things is necessary to improve information services.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.13 no.8
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• pp.191-206
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• 2015

The purpose of this paper is the cultural management activities empirical analysis of the impact of organizational effectiveness, such as organizational citizenship behavior and turnover intention for the era of fusion and convergence. In particular, pay attention to the mediating role of organizational communication, and cultural management activities of the effect of by behavioral dimension of organizational effectiveness by structural model demonstrated the value and importance of cultural management. Cultural management activities showed a significant positive effect on organizational communication and organizational citizenship behavior. Organizational communication appears to have a mediating effect on the relationship between corporate cultural management and organizational effectiveness, especially the cultural management itself not necessarily to reduce turnover intention, to support communication means that can reduce the turnover points when activated.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.8 no.2
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• pp.69-87
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• 2010

This research is to investigate phatic communication by puting the purpose in maintaining and strengthening social relationship among people in groups in Korean residential community space. Phatic communication is the activity for friendship, expressing and sharing the tastes, expectations, and common features of residents by inducing the participation of residents in all sorts of events, meetings, and activities in residential space. Through this pathic activity, the range of communication age, the time of communication, the selection of location, and the topic of communication discourse are examined. The investigation methods of this research were taken two ways: First, it carried out the observation of participation and in-depth interview by the participation of researcher in a way of life as a member. In order to prove more objectively, it enhances the reliability of data by adding the questionnaire survey through the convenience sampling of 150 residents of three communities. Moreover, $x^2$; chi-square test was conducted in order to verify the difference in heterogeneous groups. Accordingly, this research will bring about the great development in cultural studies by exploring a way of Korean life, based on the communication of Korea community in residential life space, which can unify the community through sharing the meaning, interacting and delivering the message.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.15 no.3
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• pp.365-373
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• 2017

This research aims to verify the moderating effect of sports activity satisfaction in the relationship between adolescents' communication skills and positive self-concept within peer group. To achieve this purpose, this study extracted 250 samples from five boys high schools in Gyeonggi-do, and used survey of 232 students for actual analysis excluding the surveys with unfaithful answer or double entry. Questionnaire was used as a tool for collecting data and conducted frequency analysis, correlation analysis and moderator regression analysis to analyze the collected data. This study drew the following results. It was identified that sub-factors of sports activity satisfaction as social, physical, environmental and educational satisfaction have the moderating effect in the relationship between adolescents' communication skills and social self-concept with peer group. In other words, communication skills within adolescents' peer group play an important role in improving positive self-concept, but when sports activity satisfaction put as a moderating variable, adolescents' positive self-concept would be more improved.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.10 no.9
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• pp.111-122
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• 2012

In this study, we consider the integration of cognitive components and emotion to account for communication behaviors and activism on a consumer advocacy website. The challenge of integrating situational theory and anger activism model was empirically explored utilizing an online survey with the members of the virtual community, which was designed to raise issues and to protest against the product defects of a product. Our findings indicated that along with the cognitive perception in the situational theory, anger as a negative emotion was the most significant predictor strongly associated with communication behaviors and activism on the organization. More interestingly, the model that integrates anger with cognitive components significantly improves its explanatory power compared with one including only cognitive components as explanatory variables.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.14 no.7
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• pp.117-126
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• 2016

This study focuses the importance of relation between information attributes and communication of internet user. The author is to clarify how to communicate in internet environment and word-of-mouth as a result of social influence among internet user take place in relation to information attributes. The main findings are that comprehensive ease, relevance and novelty among information attributes positively influence reciprocal communication, reciprocal communication positively influences internalization and conformity, and those positively influence word-of-mouth communication.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.12 no.8
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• pp.67-76
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• 2014

In this study, we investigated opinion leaders' communication activities on Facebook and analyzed the differences of communication patterns on Facebook between Korean and US college students. As a primary source of information, we conducted an online survey to collect data from students currently enrolled at two different universities in US. Additionally, we utilized online survey data previously collected from Korean students. According to our analysis, we found that US male students had more active opinion leadership than Korean male students. Also, opinion leadership of Korean students' was significantly associated with both active and passive communication patterns on Facebook whereas opinion leadership of US students' was significantly associated with passive communication patterns.