• 지식경영연구
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• 제16권1호
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• pp.225-242
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• 2015

Cyberbullying, i.e., posting malicious comments online, has been identified as a critical issue in the online and social media context. It has become prevalent on a global scale, which happens across all ages. As a way to reduce and prevent cyberbullying, it is important to promote online prosocial behavior. In line with the concept of online prosocial behavior, we suggest posting benevolent comments against posting malicious comments as a new type of online prosocial behavior, which can combat cyberbullying and facilitate positive online culture. This study thus aims to analyze what motivates people to post benevolent comments in the online context. Based on interview methods, we extracted seven driving factors (self-presentation, pleasure, social contribution, emotional support, reputation, monetary reward, and reciprocity) and two inhibiting factors (social anxiety and effort) of posting benevolent comments online. This study has its theoretical contribution in exploring the motivation factors leading to the posting of benevolent comments by extending the concept of online prosocial behavior. It also has its practical implications by providing guidance for promoting prosocial behavior in the online context.

• 한국정보시스템학회지:정보시스템연구
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• 제30권4호
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• pp.303-327
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• 2021

Purpose The online comments on news content have become social information and are understood based on deliberative democracy. Although the related research has focused on the relationship between online comments and their deliberative quality, the social information provided by online comments consists of not only direct information such as comments themselves but also indirect information such as 'likes' and 'dislikes'. Therefore, the research on online comments and deliberative quality should study this direct and indirect information together, and the direction and the degree of the indirect information should be also considered with them. Design/methodology/approach This study distinguishes comments by the attached 'likes' and 'dislikes', identifies highly supported and highly unsupported comments by the intensity of 'likes' and 'dislikes', and investigates the relationship between their existence and the deliberative quality measured as the topic diversity. Then, we applied topic modeling to the 2,390 news articles and their 74,385 comments collected from five news sites. Findings The topic diversities of the supported and unsupported comments are related to the topic diversity of all comments but the degree of the relationship is higher in the case of supported comments. Furthermore, the existence of highly supported and unsupported comments is led to less diversity of all comments compared to the case where those comments are absent. Particularly, when only highly supported comments are present, topic diversity was lower than in the opposite case.

• 디지털콘텐츠학회 논문지
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• 제19권8호
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• pp.1489-1497
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• 2018

온라인 뉴스에 개인의 참여가 활성화되면서 댓글의 중요성은 더욱 커지고 있다. 특히 이용자들에게 많은 공감을 받는 '베스트 댓글'은 주된 여론으로 인식되고 큰 영향력을 가진다. 따라서 본 연구는 온라인 뉴스 댓글 데이터를 이용하여 베스트 댓글의 특성을 알아보고자 하였다. 이를 위해 일반 댓글과 차이점을 보일 가능성이 있는 요소를 설정 후, 데이터를 수치화하여 일반 댓글과 베스트 댓글의 차이를 분석하였다. 본 연구는 최근 댓글 조작 등의 문제 해결에 실마리를 제공하고 개인 및 학술단체, 정부기관 등을 주체로 하여금 기초 자료로 활용될 것으로 기대된다.

• 한국IT서비스학회지
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• 제14권2호
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• pp.159-176
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• 2015

As a public medium and one of the big data sources that is accumulated informally and real time, online news comments or replies are considered a significant resource to understand mentalities of article readers. The comments are also being regarded as an important medium of WOM (Word of Mouse) about products, services or the enterprises. If the diffusing effect of the comments is referred to as the degrees of agreement and disagreement from an angle of WOM, figuring out which characteristics of the comments would influence the agreements or the disagreements to the comments in very early stage would be very worthwhile to establish a comment-based eWOM (electronic WOM) strategy. However, investigating the effects of the characteristics of the comments on eWOM effect has been rarely studied. According to this angle, this study aims to conduct an empirical analysis which understands the characteristics of comments that affect the numbers of agreement and disagreement, as eWOM performance, to particular news articles which address a specific product, service or enterprise per se. While extant literature has focused on the quantitative attributes of the comments which are collected by manually, this paper used text mining techniques to acquire the qualitative attributes of the comments in an automatic and cost effective manner.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제15권4호
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• pp.391-406
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• 2015

온라인 뉴스에서 개인의 참여가 활성화 되면서 댓글의 중요성이 부각되고 있다. 최근엔 개인의 SNS(social networking site) 계정을 이용하여 댓글을 게재할 수 있는 소셜댓글 서비스가 활성화 되고 있다. 본 연구에서는 실제 온라인 뉴스 댓글 현황 데이터를 이용하여 (1) 댓글의 일반적 특성요소 중 일반댓글과 소셜댓글이 차이점을 보일 가능성이 있는 요소를 도출한 후, (2) 일반댓글에 비해 소셜댓글이 각 특성요소별로 어떻게 다른지 비교 분석하고, 마지막으로 (3) 소셜댓글 이용 업체별로 각 특성요소가 어떻게 달라지는지를 실증 분석해보았다. 이를 위해 기존문헌 조사 및 전문가 인터뷰를 진행하여 여섯 가지 특성요소를 도출하였다. 다음으로 SPSS Statistics의 t-test의 분석 방법을 사용하여, 소셜댓글과 일반댓글이 모든 요소에서 유의한 차이를 보임을 확인하였고, ANOVA와 Duncan test 결과 트위터와 페이스북 그룹 간 차이가 유의함을 확인하였다. 본 연구를 통해 소셜댓글의 실제적인 가치를 명확히 파악할 수 있을 뿐만 아니라, 소셜댓글을 이용한 악성댓글 문제 해결에 실마리를 제공하고, 개인, 기업, 정부기관 등을 주체로 다른 분야의 적용가능성도 살펴볼 수 있을 것으로 기대한다.

• 지식경영연구
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• 제17권4호
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• pp.191-213
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• 2016

Since the smartphone era has spurred world-over, social network services have become a part of people's daily lives. However, this relatively new phenomenon of technology development raises several negative side effects such as cyberbullying. One of the representative cases of cyberbullying is posting malicious comments online. Multiple social issues arising from this have given impetus to the "benevolent comments campaign" in order to restrain the diffusion of malicious comments. Benevolent comments have advantages that generate positive externalities such as inspiring ethics for an appropriate internet culture, but there is a lack of theoretical research on the deeper understanding of posting benevolent comments. This study thus aims to extract the motivations behind posting benevolent comments through in-depth interviews and suggest alternatives for relative issues through the causal relationship diagram of the system dynamics methodology. This work contributes to our understanding of the factors that affect the increase and decrease in benevolent comments in distinct structural frameworks.

• 예술인문사회 융합 멀티미디어 논문지
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• 제8권12호
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• pp.817-826
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• 2018

악성댓글이 사회적 문제로 떠오르면서 이에 대한 해결책이 요구되고 있다. 이에 많은 연구들은 악성댓글을 이해하고 예방하기 위해 여러 관점에서 연구를 진행해왔다. 그 중 기존 연구에서 악성댓글에 대한 중화는 악성댓글을 설명하는 중요한 요인으로 나타났지만 아직까지 성별에 따른 중화 정도의 차이는 크게 고려되고 있지 않고 있다. 또한, 온라인은 현실과는 다른 환경적 특성들이 다수 존재함에도 악성댓글과의 연구는 미흡한 상황이다. 이러한 사실들을 기반으로 본 연구는 악성댓글과 중화의 관계에 성별의 조절효과를 살펴보았으며, 악성댓글에 온라인의 환경적 요인들(익명성, 사회적 실재감 부족)의 영향력을 실증하였다. 연구 결과, 온라인 환경적 요인들의 영향력을 발견되지 않은 반면, 악성댓글에 대한 중화는 강한 직접적 영향력과 성별 차이의 조절효과가 존재한다는 사실을 발견하였다. 본 연구의 결과를 기반으로 학문적 실무적 시사점을 논의하고 연구 한계점 및 향후 연구 방향을 제언한다.

• KSII Transactions on Internet and Information Systems (TIIS)
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• 제13권6호
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• pp.3023-3036
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• 2019

This study investigated the television (TV) content viewers' behavior influenced by online communication at the choice of new TV series on a terrestrial streaming platform. For exploring the impact of the anchoring effect on the TV content consumption, this study analyzed the correlation between the first episode's TV ratings and the data of online comments or reactions. These data were potential audiences' communication, which were generated on the online article three weeks before the first broadcasting began. To avoid the crucial influence by external factors, such as season and social issue, the test was done with eight (8) TV series which have same genre (drama), similar core audience targeting (20-49's women), similar broadcasting period (Jun-Oct 2016), same scheduling (10.00 to 11.00 pm, weekdays) and aired on terrestrial TV platforms. This research found that not only the amount of comments and reactions, but also the attitude about the comments created before broadcasting, positively influence the audiences' decision-making behavior for new TV content choices. This investigation contributes to the literature on media economics and management by exploring the media content users' consuming behavior with behavioral economics perspectives (anchoring effect) and making a first step for finding a new effect on the media content consumption.

• Asia pacific journal of information systems
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• 제31권1호
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• pp.1-16
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• 2021

Cyberbullying has become a social problem as malicious text messages and online comments among teenagers have increased in the late 2000s. Some serious reporting has attempted to impress on us the need to pay more attention to reducing malicious online content as a typical type of cyberbullying. Meanwhile, despite environmental changes that have made it easier to report perpetrators of such messages, it is often the case that the crime occurs in a public place and is tolerated. However, there is a growing tendency for people to exhibit the bystander effect, the problem of personal indifference to witnessing or knowing about crimes, but individuals do not offer any means of help to a victim when other people are present. This effect is rampant in the case of cybercrimes. This study aims to extract the motivations behind posting malicious comments through in-depth interviews and to suggest recommendations for relative issues by demonstrating how the bystander effect can be reduced using causal relationship diagrams of the system dynamics methodology. Hopefully, this work will contribute to a better understanding of factors that could cause a decrease in malicious online comments.

• 유통과학연구
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• 제21권3호
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• pp.61-69
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• 2023

Purpose: This study's purpose is to conduct empirical research on online comments affect Vietnamese consumers' impulsive buying in e-distribution. This study also considers affecting of browsing toward the urge to buy, and the urge to buy toward impulse buying in e-distribution. Research design, data and methodology: This study used the non-probability method to assemble data from 273 customers' online buying experiences via a Google Forms online survey. By using SmartPLS, the data were examined for reliability, convergent validity, discriminant validity of the variables, and proposed hypothesis testing. Results: The empirical study discovered that internet comments with utilitarian and hedonistic values had a positive effect on browsing, the urge to buy, and impulse purchases in e-distribution. Additionally, the result revealed that browsing had a positive influence on the urge to purchase. Likewise, the findings also disclosed that the urge to buy had a favorable effect on impulse buying. Conclusions: This study offered a thorough conceptual model of internet feedback influencing browsing, urge to buy, and impulsive purchases in e-distribution. Also, to increase impulsive buying, this study will assist e-distribution managers in concentrating on developing innovative marketing strategies and action plans that take into consideration consumers' internet reviews, browsing, and urge to buy.