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Uesrs Pattern Discovery of Social Network Service by Social Network Analysis : Focusing on Facebook (소셜네트워크 서비스 사용자 패턴 발견을 위한 사회 네트워크 분석 활용에 관한 연구: 페이스북을 중심으로)

  • Ha, ByungKook;Jang, Youngsoo;Cho, JaeHee
    • Journal of Service Research and Studies
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    • v.2 no.1
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    • pp.13-27
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    • 2012
  • Companies see a new business opportunity in the increased popularity of social network services and the related studies are also gaining more attention. This study attempted to analyze the social networks and thereby find a pattern in the use of social network services. Network users' pattern has been categorized by their purpose of use. Among various social network services, we selected the Facebook and its users were analyzed by a network analysis tool called NodeXL. In the end, several subgroups have been identified in a seemingly homogeneous network. Furthermore, the network shape differences according to the usage of social network services has been studied by comparing "friends" of an individual Facebook user with those of the K University Facebook page.

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Effects of Customers' Relationship Networks on Organizational Performance: Focusing on Facebook Fan Page (고객 간 관계 네트워크가 조직성과에 미치는 영향: 페이스북 기업 팬페이지를 중심으로)

  • Jeon, Su-Hyeon;Kwahk, Kee-Young
    • Journal of Intelligence and Information Systems
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    • v.22 no.2
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    • pp.57-79
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    • 2016
  • It is a rising trend that the number of users using one of the social media channels, the Social Network Service, so called the SNS, is getting increased. As per to this social trend, more companies have interest in this networking platform and start to invest their funds in it. It has received much attention as a tool spreading and expanding the message that a company wants to deliver to its customers and has been recognized as an important channel in terms of the relationship marketing with them. The environment of media that is radically changing these days makes possible for companies to approach their customers in various ways. Particularly, the social network service, which has been developed rapidly, provides the environment that customers can freely talk about products. For companies, it also works as a channel that gives customized information to customers. To succeed in the online environment, companies need to not only build the relationship between companies and customers but focus on the relationship between customers as well. In response to the online environment with the continuous development of technology, companies have tirelessly made the novel marketing strategy. Especially, as the one-to-one marketing to customers become available, it is more important for companies to maintain the relationship marketing with their customers. Among many SNS, Facebook, which many companies use as a communication channel, provides a fan page service for each company that supports its business. Facebook fan page is the platform that the event, information and announcement can be shared with customers using texts, videos, and pictures. Companies open their own fan pages in order to inform their companies and businesses. Such page functions as the websites of companies and has a characteristic of their brand communities such as blogs as well. As Facebook has become the major communication medium with customers, companies recognize its importance as the effective marketing channel, but they still need to investigate their business performances by using Facebook. Although there are infinite potentials in Facebook fan page that even has a function as a community between users, which other platforms do not, it is incomplete to regard companies' Facebook fan pages as communities and analyze them. In this study, it explores the relationship among customers through the network of the Facebook fan page users. The previous studies on a company's Facebook fan page were focused on finding out the effective operational direction by analyzing the use state of the company. However, in this study, it draws out the structural variable of the network, which customer committment can be measured by applying the social network analysis methodology and investigates the influence of the structural characteristics of network on the business performance of companies in an empirical way. Through each company's Facebook fan page, the network of users who engaged in the communication with each company is exploited and it is the one-mode undirected binary network that respectively regards users and the relationship of them in terms of their marketing activities as the node and link. In this network, it draws out the structural variable of network that can explain the customer commitment, who pressed "like," made comments and shared the Facebook marketing message, of each company by calculating density, global clustering coefficient, mean geodesic distance, diameter. By exploiting companies' historical performance such as net income and Tobin's Q indicator as the result variables, this study investigates influence on companies' business performances. For this purpose, it collects the network data on the subjects of 54 companies among KOSPI-listed companies, which have posted more than 100 articles on their Facebook fan pages during the data collection period. Then it draws out the network indicator of each company. The indicator related to companies' performances is calculated, based on the posted value on DART website of the Financial Supervisory Service. From the academic perspective, this study suggests a new approach through the social network analysis methodology to researchers who attempt to study the business-purpose utilization of the social media channel. From the practical perspective, this study proposes the more substantive marketing performance measurements to companies performing marketing activities through the social media and it is expected that it will bring a foundation of establishing smart business strategies by using the network indicators.

The Effects of Types of Self-Identity on Quasi-social Interactions and Information Sharing Intentions with Facebook Opinion Leaders (자아정체성의 유형이 페이스북 의견 지도자와의 준사회적 상호작용 및 정보공유 의도에 미치는 효과)

  • Park, Sunkyung;Kang, Yoon Ji
    • Journal of Digital Convergence
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    • v.19 no.6
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    • pp.225-232
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    • 2021
  • Nowadays, opinion leaders influence the formation of public opinion on various issues in social network services. There has been a lack of research on the personal characteristics that inspire users to interact with opinion leaders and show intent to act. This paper verifies how the disposition of Facebook users' self-identity affects the quasi-social interaction with opinion leaders on Facebook and the intention to share information. As the perception and behavior of users on social media platforms differ depending on the type of issue, an online survey was conducted by classifying issue types into life culture and political sectors. Research found that personal identity had a significant positive effect on quasi-social interactions in the life culture and politics sectors, while group identity negatively affected quasi-social interactions. In addition, the intention to share information was confirmed to have a significant effect only in the life and culture areas of self-identity (social and group identity). Quasi-social interaction was confirmed to have a significant positive effect on all issue areas. The results of this study suggest the need to consider variations in opinion leader marketing strategies based on the types of self-identity of Facebook users in the future. In addition, the study shows that raising the level of quasi-social interaction at the corporate level without distinction of issue types can lead to effective results.

The Effects of Interaction Experience and Product Involvement on Decision Making of Purchase: The Corporate Facebook Page

  • Shin, Dong-Hee;Kang, Sunghyun
    • International Journal of Contents
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    • v.10 no.4
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    • pp.38-47
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    • 2014
  • Recently, with the development of technology, social network service (SNS) has become a hot topic. Lots of companies are now making online marketing strategy to promote their products and brand identities using SNS. Through these strategies, companies can produce more profit as well as make better brand images by performing online public relations. Among the SNSs, Facebook has a lot of users, it has been regarded by companies as a suitable platform with respect to online marketing for latent customers. The companies of today typically have at least one account and a Facebook page, and constantly make relationships with customers. However, companies have been thoughtless in this process, and usually provide information to customers through one-way communication. Based on this phenomenon, a study was conducted herein on how to use Facebook pages for promoting products and brand identities, keeping good relationships between companies and customers. This study assumed that the types of interaction on Facebook pages and user involvement are the key factors affecting decision making of purchase. Four types of Facebook pages which were made virtually were used in analysis with 56 participants who were selected for the experiment. The results indicated partial verification of the hypothesis. Particularly, product involvement had an effect on decision making of purchase in all conditions. According to these results, it can be explained that there are close relationships between the psychological status of online behaviors and Facebook corporate pages. In addition, through linear tendency of this phenomenon, this can infer how to setup a positive relationship with latent customers and make improve brand images of products.

The Study on the Communication Pattern of Influential Opinion Leaders for Effective Viral Marketing at Facebook (페이스북에서 효과적인 바이럴마케팅을 위한 영향력 있는 의견지도자의 커뮤니케이션 패턴 연구)

  • Cho, Seung Ho;Cho, Sang-Hoon
    • Journal of Digital Convergence
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    • v.11 no.5
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    • pp.201-209
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    • 2013
  • This study is an application of facebook (FB) as a strategic communication of viral marketing. Old fashioned advertising and public relation in facebook are not effective at social network service(SNS) environment, and a different marketing communication is needed because facebook is essentially oriented for building relationship among people. The study assumes that an opinion leader might exist at facebook and tries to find out how facebook users show a pattern of communication based on level of opinion leadership regarding a product. The findings showed that people with high opinion leadership communicated more actively than people with low opinion leadership. This study will contribute to segment seed consumers using opinion leadership in facebook.

The Effects of SNS Advertisement Constituents on Advertising Reliability and Purchase Intention: Focusing on Facebook (SNS 광고 구성요인이 광고 신뢰도와 구매의도에 미치는 영향: 페이스북을 중심으로)

  • Kim, Eun-Hee;Yu, Seung-Yeob
    • Journal of Digital Convergence
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    • v.16 no.5
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    • pp.163-172
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    • 2018
  • This study examined what constitutes the factors of the advertisement of Facebook advertisement, and what factors affect the reliability of the advertisement and the purchase intention. Data were collected from Facebook users and analyzed through exploratory factor analysis and multiple regression analysis. The results of this study are as follows: First, the factors of constituting Facebook advertisement were five factors of advertisement interest, customized information, advertisement exposure, peripheral responsiveness, and product late information. Second, it is confirmed that customized information has a statistically significant effect on ad reliability. However, ad exposure has an adverse effect on ad reliability. Third, customized information and advertising interest had a statistically significant effect on purchase intention. The results of this study have implications for the theoretical development of Facebook advertisement and the basic data for establishing Facebook advertisement strategy.

Exploring Sweepstakes Marketing Strategies in Facebook Brand Fan Pages (페이스북 브랜드 팬 페이지의 경품 이벤트 마케팅 전략에 관한 탐색적 연구)

  • Choi, Yoon-Jin;Jeon, Byeong-Jin;Kim, Hee-Woong
    • The Journal of Information Systems
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    • v.26 no.2
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    • pp.1-23
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    • 2017
  • Purpose Facebook is a social network service that has the highest number of Monthly Active Users around the world. Hence, marketers have selected Facebook as the most important platform to get customer engagement. With respect to the customer engagement enhancement, the most popular and engaging post type in the Facebook brand fan pages related to what was usually classified as 'sweepstakes'. Sweepstakes refer to a form of gambling where the entire prize may be awarded to the winner. Which makes customers more engaged with the brand. This study aims to explore sweepstakes-oriented social media marketing approaches based on the application of big data analytics. Design/methodology/approach we collect sweepstakes data from each company based on the data crawling from the Facebook brand fan pages. The output of this study explains how companies in each category of FCB grid can design and apply sweepstakes for their social media marketing. Findings The results show that they have one thing in common across the four quadrants of FCB grid. Regardless of the quadrants, most frequently observed type is 'Simple/Quiz or Comments/Quatrains [event type of sweepstakes] + Gifticon [type of reward prize] + Image [type of message display] + No URL [Link toother website] +Single-Gift-Offer [type of reward prize payment]'. So, if the position of the brand is hard to be defined by the FCB grid model, then this general rule can be applied to all types of brands. Also some differences between the quadrants of the FCB grid were observed. This study offers several research implications by analyzing Sweepstakes-oriented social media marketing approaches in Facebook brand fan pages. By using the FCB grid model, this study provides guidance on how companies can design their sweepstakes-oriented social media marketing approaches in the context of Facebook brand fan pages by considering their context.

The Effect of Inflow Into a Site Via Facebook on Customers' Revisit : Drawing on the Moderating Effects of the Average Site Visit-Depth (기업 페이스북을 통한 사이트 유입이 고객 재방문에 미치는 영향 : 사이트 평균 방문깊이의 조절효과를 중심으로)

  • Lee, Jung Won;Park, Cheol
    • Journal of Information Technology Services
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    • v.18 no.2
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    • pp.1-16
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    • 2019
  • Social media is one of the important marketing channels for companies, changing the way interacting with customers. Marketers attract participation from customers' in social media platforms by producing branded content, which helps them gain various marketing results such as brand awareness, web traffic, and sales. The number of the empirical studies on the effects of social media on marketing performance is still low although various success stories and studies have been published. In particular, IT companies are trying to attract users onto their websites with social media content and promotions; however, they regard the number of the visitors as a vanity metric, which has little effectiveness. The study examined the Effect of the site introduced via Facebook, a typical social medium, on customers' revisit. Precedent studies proved that revisit, one of forms of major visit for satisfactory results of a website, is suitable for analyzing the operational output on Facebook pages. The results of the study demonstrated that Facebook content has a positive impact on website inflows and revisits. Also, it turns out that the higher the average website visit depth reinforces the positive relationship between the rate of the inflow and that of the site revisit.

Personality-Culture Interaction as a Predictor of Emotion Suppression on Facebook

  • Kim, Jinhee;Stavrositu, Carmen D.
    • Science of Emotion and Sensibility
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    • v.24 no.4
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    • pp.91-106
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    • 2021
  • Although personality and culture have been employed as independent predictors of emotion regulation, less is known about the interplay between them. Thus, the present study tests their interaction by focusing on the match between personality (public self-consciousness) and culture (valuing independence vs. interdependence) in modulating an emotion regulation strategy, namely, emotion suppression, on Facebook. Furthermore, relationship concern related to the expression of positive and negative emotions on Facebook is explored as a potential underlying mechanism. An online survey on Facebook users in the United States (n = 320) and South Korea (n = 336) was conducted through two professional survey companies. The results revealed that the positive association between public self-consciousness and emotion suppression was stronger among respondents who value interdependence (vs. independence), which led to a significant interaction between the two predictors. Furthermore, public self-consciousness was associated with emotion suppression through relationship concern for the expression of positive, but not negative, emotions. Furthermore, this mediated relationship was stronger among respondents who value interdependence (vs. independence). Lastly, the study discussed the importance of exploring the interplay between personality and culture and the implication of dialectic emotions.

Directions for Vitalizing Archival Information Services based on the Analysis of SNSs and Civil Petitions (SNS와 민원에 기반한 기록정보서비스 활성화 방안)

  • Jeong, Hye Jeong;Rieh, Hae-young
    • Journal of Korean Society of Archives and Records Management
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    • v.18 no.3
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    • pp.165-191
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    • 2018
  • The National Archives of Korea and other archives now provide services through social media such as Facebook or Twitter, and use such platforms to interact with users. To be specific, users communicate with and get information from these archives via the National Sinmoongo, the place for civil petition. Therefore, it is significant to understand the users' needs and the contents of the communication by analyzing the comments and petitions that have appeared in these channels. For this, this study analyzed users' perceptions and information needs shared through social media and the National Sinmoongo of the National Archives of Korea. The social media content analyzed here were posts and comments from the Facebook accounts of the National Archives of Korea, e-Record, the Busan Archives, and the Presidential Archives of Korea. Also, sentences containing the words "National Archives of Korea" and "Presidential Archives of Korea" that have appeared in texts in the National Sinmoongo were analyzed. Based on the analysis results, suggestions that could activate the user-centered archival information services in the archives and records centers were made.