• Journal of Korea Society of Industrial Information Systems
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• v.13 no.3
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• pp.38-53
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• 2008

This study focuses on identifying motivation factors affecting knowledge sharing behavior in virtual communities. To achieve this research objective, a research model has been developed through two major coordinated theories such as social cognitive theory(self-efficacy and community-related outcome expectation) and social exchange theory (codification effort, image, reciprocity, and enjoyment in helping others). 246 samples have been collected and simple regression and multiple regression methods have been used for empirical analysis. The research result is that self-efficacy has a positive influence on image, reciprocity, enjoyment in helping others, and community-related outcome expectation and thus this result reveals that self-efficacy indirectly affects knowledge sharing behavior. Among the antecedents of knowledge sharing behavior, codification effort, enjoyment in helping others and community-related outcome expectation are significant, but image and reciprocity are not. The research results help to derive practical strategic implications related to knowledge sharing to activate a virtual community.

• Journal of Intelligence and Information Systems
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• v.16 no.4
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• pp.85-97
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• 2010

Internet communities are a typical space for knowledge creation and use on the Internet as people discuss their common interests within the internet communities. When we define 'Knowledge Communities' as internet communities that are related to knowledge creation and use, they are categorized into 4 different types such as 'Search Engine,' 'Open Communities,' 'Specialty Communities,' and 'Activity Communities.' Each type of knowledge community does not remain the same, for example. Rather, it changes with time and is also affected by the external business environment. Therefore, it is critical to develop processes for practical use of such changeable knowledge communities. Yet there is little research regarding a strategic framework for knowledge communities as a source of knowledge creation and use. The purposes of this study are (1) to find factors that can affect knowledge creation and use for each type of knowledge community and (2) to develop a strategic framework for practical use of the knowledge communities. Based on previous research, we found 7 factors that have considerable impacts on knowledge creation and use. They were 'Fitness,' 'Reliability,' 'Systemicity,' 'Richness,' 'Similarity,' 'Feedback,' and 'Understanding.' We created 30 different questions from each type of knowledge community. The questions included common sense, IT, business and hobbies, and were uniformly selected from various knowledge communities. Instead of using survey, we used these questions to ask users of the 4 representative web sites such as Google from Search Engine, NAVER Knowledge iN from Open Communities, SLRClub from Specialty Communities, and Wikipedia from Activity Communities. These 4 representative web sites were selected based on popularity (i.e., the 4 most popular sites in Korea). They were also among the 4 most frequently mentioned sitesin previous research. The answers of the 30 knowledge questions were collected and evaluated by the 11 IT experts who have been working for IT companies more than 3 years. When evaluating, the 11 experts used the above 7 knowledge factors as criteria. Using a stepwise linear regression for the evaluation of the 7 knowledge factors, we found that each factors affects differently knowledge creation and use for each type of knowledge community. The results of the stepwise linear regression analysis showed the relationship between 'Understanding' and other knowledge factors. The relationship was different regarding the type of knowledge community. The results indicated that 'Understanding' was significantly related to 'Reliability' at 'Search Engine type', to 'Fitness' at 'Open Community type', to 'Reliability' and 'Similarity' at 'Specialty Community type', and to 'Richness' and 'Similarity' at 'Activity Community type'. A strategic framework was created from the results of this study and such framework can be useful for knowledge communities that are not stable with time. For the success of knowledge community, the results of this study suggest that it is essential to ensure there are factors that can influence knowledge communities. It is also vital to reinforce each factor has its unique influence on related knowledge community. Thus, these changeable knowledge communities should be transformed into an adequate type with proper business strategies and objectives. They also should be progressed into a type that covers varioustypes of knowledge communities. For example, DCInside started from a small specialty community focusing on digital camera hardware and camerawork and then was transformed to an open community focusing on social issues through well-known photo galleries. NAVER started from a typical search engine and now covers an open community and a special community through additional web services such as NAVER knowledge iN, NAVER Cafe, and NAVER Blog. NAVER is currently competing withan activity community such as Wikipedia through the NAVER encyclopedia that provides similar services with NAVER encyclopedia's users as Wikipedia does. Finally, the results of this study provide meaningfully practical guidance for practitioners in that which type of knowledge community is most appropriate to the fluctuated business environment as knowledge community itself evolves with time.

• Korean journal of communication and information
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• v.36
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• pp.423-462
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• 2006

This thesis explores the relationship between self-construal and online communication pattern. The Internet has changed human-to human communication. This study was to analyze how the self-construal was appeared and what relationship self-construal had with several variables: the motivation of the on-line community member, the on-line community's character, the communication behavior, the level of relationship between on-line community members- in on-line communities. The data was collected through the on-line survey research(N=79) and off-line survey research(N=255). The results lead us to conclude that the self-construals in on-line communities reflect two factors, which is similar to the off-line community. Nevertheless, self-construals in on-line communities are more complicated. In addition, uniqueness of self-construals which is the tendency to express the self and think connection with others critical is the important factor in on-line communities' communication. It is also central that the impact of self-construals on communication behavior is significant. I think this study was a small touch to explore cyber communication applying to self-consturals. And I hope this small touch would spread out and help to understand human communication as well as cyber communication.

• Information Systems Review
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• v.15 no.1
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• pp.69-89
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• 2013

This study examined the factors influencing participation of online community and intention of joint purchase in Korea and China. The online community member actively participate the social activities that can cause the effective communication characters and the great support of the society. In these two factors, the sense of worth related with compensation, norm, interaction, shared values will be taken as the independent variables. These variables as a parameter are related with the intention of joint purchase. To be aware of their behavior norm, interaction, compensation, shared value, these factors will be taken as predicting their behaviors in the online community and their further participating, commitment and co-shopping intention. As the results, compensation, norms, interaction, shared values had significant effects on the participation of online community, and this affected the intention of joint purchase in online community. Compensation and norm were significant in Korean sample. Implications and further direction are suggested on the base of the results.

• Journal of Digital Contents Society
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• v.19 no.8
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• pp.1471-1480
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• 2018

This study explored what the phenomenon of 'Chinmokjil(Socializing Behavior)', which online community is seriously wary of, implies and actually affects the online community. Interviews were conducted for 13 people who had experienced Chinmokjil in online communities, and the results were analyzed by qualitative analysis. First, Chinmokjil is conceptualized as 'privatization or privately organizing of online community' Second, the actual phenomenons of Chinmokjil are sub-categorized as 8 categories Third, the ultimate negative impacts of Chinmokjil are sub-categorized as 3 categories. Based on the results, it can be explained that the unique norms of communities in online are different from those in offline.

• 한국IT서비스학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2006.05a
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• pp.78-87
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• 2006

본 연구에서는 가상커뮤티니 성과의 영향요인들에 관하여 보다 포괄적이고 객관적으로 파악할 수 있도록 (1)가상커뮤니티 성과의 영향요인에 관한 현재까지의 대부분의 연구에 대한 이론적 고찰을 통해 (2)가상커뮤니티 성과의 영향요인에 관한 12개의 변수와 51개의 측정지표를 도출하였으며, (3)가상커뮤니티 사용자들에 대한 설문조사와 Lisrel 분석을 통하여 도출된 연구모형을 실증적으로 검증하였다.

• 한국경영정보학회:학술대회논문집
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• 2007.11a
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• pp.237-244
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• 2007

본 연구는 개인 커뮤니티의 성장 및 지속적인 발전을 위하여 국내 개인 커뮤니티의 대표적인 형태라 할 수 있는 싸이월드 미니홈피 사용자들을 대상으로 지각된 놀이성, 지각된 사용용이성, 지각된 유용성, 지각된 위험 등 개인 커뮤니티의 네가지 지각된 특성요인들이 사용자의 만족에 미치는 영향과 사용자의 만족 정도가 지속적 사용의도 형성에 미치는 상호 영향관계를 파악해 보고자 하였다. 이러한 연구목적을 달성하기 위하여 관련 선행연구에 대한 종합적 검토를 거쳐 구조화된 연구모형을 수립하였고, 미니홈피 사용자 407명을 대상으로 설문조사를 통한 실증분석을 수행한 결과는 다음과 같다. 첫째, 미니홈피의 지각된 사용용이성은 지각된 놀이성과 유용성에 긍정적인 영향을 미치는 것으로 밝혀졌다. 둘째, 미니홈피의 지각된 특성 중 지각된 놀이성, 지각된 사용용이성, 지각된 위험 등의 세가지 요인이 사용자의 만족에 유의한 영향을 미치는 것으로 밝혀졌다. 셋째, 미니홈피 사용자의 만족은 지속적 사용의도에 긍정적인 영향을 미치는 것으로 밝혀졌다. 한편 사용자의 만족 수준은 미니홈피의 지각된 특성과 지속적 사용의도 간의 관계에 있어 매개역할을 가지고 있음을 확인하였다. 본 연구의 분석 결과를 토대로 개인 커뮤니티 사용자의 만족도를 향상시키고, 장기적으로 충성스런 회원을 유지할 수 있는 방안에 대하여 논의하였다.

• Journal of the Korean housing association
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• v.27 no.3
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• pp.47-58
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• 2016

The new paradigm of urban regeneration, would promote the comprehensive communal view. Therefore, the community role has become an important and necessary for regeneration of communities. It is necessary for urban regeneration which should be matched with the regional characteristics, to develop an evaluation framework that can objectively and accurately diagnose the status of community; so it can be an integrated prescription. A new alternative, asset-based approach may be an alternative to build the community based on opportunities and strengths, which focuses on community inside and things that community have. In this study, a community asset is defined as the tangible and intangible components in the community. A community asset evaluation system is developed through the content analysis related to previous studies of several researchers who investigated the asset-based approaches. Community assets are classified into seven types: human, social, cultural, natural, physical, economic, and political property. Each type is classified into components and establish as a framework with 3 levels in order to set the indicators which can be measured concretely.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.21-26
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• 2016

This study examined the effects of the online community, such as chatting, book-cafe on the neighborhood relationship. Through a case study of 'The Sharp' apartment area, the characters of neighborhood relationship between user and non-user were compared. The factors affecting the community relationships were analyzed by regression analysis. According to the results, the residents using the online community shared their emotions, thoughts and information with their neighbors so that the level of neighborhood relationship was higher. To reprove the neighborhood relationship being cut off the online community should be handled as an important factor in the planning of apartments. This study as a basic research is expected to contribute to policing against crimes and accidents in apartments.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.20 no.10
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• pp.615-629
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• 2020

Conducting Focus Group Interview (FGI), this study examined the roles and discourses of cryptocurrency's online communities and media (legacy media and YouTube), and based on this, the study proposed the direction of cryptocurrency policy. By reviewing previous literature, this study analyzed the characteristics of investors, the online community, and YouTube, which is an investment environment factor. The study figured out the purpose of use and role of the community via interviews with cryptocurrency professional investors and online community members and analyzed main discussion themes of the five top-ranked YouTube channels related to cryptocurrency with the highest number of subscribers. The results suggested that cryptocurrency's investment was led by those who are in their 20s and 30s, the investors preferred and trusted information on new media than legacy media. The online community played the role of emotional homogeneity and empathy, and YouTube mainly performed the informational role. As a result of discourse analysis and interviews, this study argued that the legal stability of cryptocurrency's policy and protection of individual investors are needed. This study's significance indicates that it used various research methods such as literature research, interviews, content analysis of community/YouTube to analyze the informational role and emotional aspects of new media and suggested policy direction of the digital new deal blockchain technology and the fairness of financial industry.