• 경영정보학연구
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• 제21권3호
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• pp.63-86
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• 2019

정보통신기술(ICT) 사용이 사회생활 깊숙이 융화됨에 따라, 온라인 커뮤니티와 같은 새로운 유형의 사회집단형태가 출현하였다. 온라인 커뮤니티는 시공간을 초월한 많은 사람들이 함께 참여하고 공헌함으로써 집합적 지식이 생성되고 분배될 수 있도록 한다. 대게 온라인 커뮤니티에서는 익명성을 제공하는데, 익명성은 여러 가지 사회적 제약을 가지고 있는 사람들의 적극적인 사회적 참여를 가능케 하여 다양한 의사표현과 보다 많은 이들의 참여 활동 증가 등의 긍정적인 역할을 할 수 있다. 그러나 익명성은 개인의 실제 정체성을 파악할 수 없는 상태를 제공하므로, 이를 악용하여 심각한 사회적 병리현상을 초래하기도 한다. 이에 따라 최근 익명성이 제공되는 온라인 커뮤니티에서 사람들의 행위에 근본적으로 영향을 주는 것은 무엇이며, 사람들의 행위가 어떻게 통제되는가에 대한 연구의 필요성이 증가하고 있다. 본 연구는 익명성 환경에서 인간의 행위를 통제하는 주요 요인으로 사람의 정체성에 주목하고, 정체성에 대한 이론을 종합적으로 검토하여 연구 모델을 설정하였다. 본 연구에서는 자아를 형성하는 다양한 측면인 사회적 집단 정체성과 개인 정체성(공적 자아의식, 사적 자아의식)을 전체적으로 살펴봄으로써 익명성이 보장된 온라인 환경에서 인간의 행위 통제에 영향을 주는 요인과 그 결과를 온라인 토론 커뮤니티를 중심으로 분석하였다. 특히 건전한 온라인 커뮤니티 토론 운영을 위해서는, 참여 멤버들이 커뮤니티에서 형성된 집단 규범을 준수하고, 적극적으로 참여하도록 동기가 부여되어, 결과적으로 양질의 토론의 장이 펼쳐질 수 있도록 하는 것이 매우 중요하다. 이에 대해 본 연구는 사회적/기술적 익명성과 다양한 정체성 측면, 내적 참여 동기부여 정도, 집단 규범 준수, 그리고 온라인 토론의 질이 어떠한 인과관계가 있는지 실증적으로 검증하였다. 또한 익명성 수준별, 커뮤니티의 토론 주제별, 남녀별, 연령대별, 커뮤니티 가입기간별 그룹 간 차이점을 분석하였다. 본 연구를 통해, 물리적인 대면 조직이 아닌 가상의 온라인 커뮤니티 상에서 사람들의 행동 통제에 대한 영향 요인과 결과적 현상을 분석함으로써, 온라인 커뮤니티 운영 전략과 양질의 인터넷 토론 문화 정립에 관한 이론적, 실무적 시사점을 제시할 수 있다.

• 한국방송∙미디어공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국방송공학회 2009년도 IWAIT
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• pp.178-183
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• 2009

Online image dictionary has become more and more popular in concepts cognition. However, for existing online systems, only very few images are manually picked to demonstrate the concepts. Currently, there is very little research found on automatically choosing large scale online images with the help of semantic analysis. In this paper, we propose a novel framework to utilize community-generated online multimedia content to visually illustrate certain concepts. Our proposed framework adapts various techniques, including the correlation analysis, semantic and visual clustering to produce sets of high quality, precise, diverse and representative images to visually translate a given concept. To make the best use of our results, a user interface is deployed, which displays the representative images according the latent semantic coherence. The objective and subjective evaluations show the feasibility and effectiveness of our approach.

• Asia pacific journal of information systems
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• 제19권1호
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• pp.147-165
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• 2009

Virtual community(VC) will increasingly be organized as commercial enterprises, with the objective of earning an attractive financial return by providing members with valuable resources and environment. For example, Cyworld.com in Korea uses several community services to enable customers of Cyworld to take control of their own value as potential purchasers of products and services. Although initial adoption is important for online network service success, it does not necessarily result in the desired managerial performance unless the initial usage is continuously related to the continuous usage and purchase. Particularly, the customer who receives relevant online services and is well equipped with online network services, will trust the online service provider and perceive less risk and experience more activities such as continuous usage and purchase. Thus, how to promote continued online service usage or, alternatively, how to prevent discontinuance is a critical issue for VC service providers to consider. By aggregating a wide range of information and online environments for customers and providing trust to its members, the service providers of virtual communities help to reduce the perceived risk of continuous usage and purchase. Drill down, online service managers realize that achieving strong and sustained customers who continuously use online service and purchase on it is crucial. Therefore, the research into this online service continuance will identify the relationship between the initial usage and the continuous usage and purchase. The research of continuous usage or post adoption has recently emerged as an important issue in the IS literature. Individuals' information systems(IS) continuous usage decisions are congruent with consumers' repeat purchase decisions. The TAM(Technology Acceptance Model) paradigm has been strongly confirmed across a wide range from product purchase on EC to online service usage contexts. The analysis of IS usage based on TAM has proven to be successful across almost online service contexts. However, most of previous studies have focused on only an area (i.e., VC or EC). Just little research has tried to analyze the relationship between VC and EC. The effect of some factors on user intention, captured through several theories such as TAM, has been demonstrated. Yet, few studies have explored the salient relationships of VC users' EC acceptance. To fill this gap between VC and EC research, this paper attempts to develop a research model that extends the TAM perspective in view of the additional contributions of trust in the service provider and trust in members on some factors that affect EC and VC adoption. In this extension, we applied the TAM-to-TAM(T2T) model, and analyzed the transfer effect of trust between these two TAMs. The research model was empirically tested on the context of a social network service. The model was to extend TAM with the trust concept for the virtual community environment from the perspective of tasks. By building an extended model of TAM and examining the relationships between trust and the existing variables of TAM, it is aimed to explain a user's continuous intention to use VC and purchase on EC. The unit of analysis in this paper is an individual user of a virtual community. The population of interest is the individual with the experiences in virtual community. The data for this paper was made available via a Web survey of VC users. In total, 281 cases were gathered for about one week, but there were some missing values in the sample and there were some inappropriate cases. Thus, only 248 cases were finally analyzed. We chose the structural equation analysis to test the hypotheses and it is better suited for explaining complex relationships than the other methods. In this test, AMOS was used to test the Structural Equation Model (SEM). Noticeable results have been found in the T2T model regarding the factors affecting the intention to use of virtual community and loyalty. Our result showed that trust transfer plays a key role in forming the two adoption beliefs. Overall, this study preliminarily confirms the salience of trust transfer in online service.

• Asia pacific journal of information systems
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• 제25권4호
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• pp.805-822
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• 2015

Online communities are an important source of electronic word-of-mouth (e-WOM). However, few studies have examined the use of such messages within the Middle Eastern context. This study focuses on Saudi women as members of an online beauty forum. Previous work suggested a mediating effect of gender, with women being more likely to trust word-of-mouth and follow it up with a purchase. A conceptual model with a theoretical underpinning from existing contributions in literature provides the basis of a coding framework for the message characteristics that influence members' e-WOM adoption. A total of 310 threads and 2200 messages coded into 5725 units were content analyzed to demonstrate cases where e-WOM was adopted and indicate further continuance intention with members returning to the forum. A new category of 'community bonding' was created from the content analysis given the prevalence of emotional aspects in messages. Emotion expressed in messages, often expressed in religious terms, is as influential and important as the cognitive aspects of community bonding.

• Journal of Information Science Theory and Practice
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• 제5권4호
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• pp.26-38
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• 2017

Even through many professional organizations increasingly use Q&A sites in their online communities for information sharing, there are few studies which examine what is really going on in the Q&A activities in professional online communities (POC). This study aims to examine the interaction patterns and contents posted in the Q&A site of a POC, KOSEN, a science and technology online community in South Korea, focusing on how actively scientific information and knowledge are shared. The interaction patterns among the participants were identified through social network analysis (SNA) and the contents in the Q&As were examined by content analysis. The results show that the overall network indicated a moderate level of participation and connection and answerers especially tended to be active. Also, there are different interaction patterns depending on academic fields. Relatively few participants were posting leaders who seemed to steer the overall interactions. Furthermore, some content related to manipulation and explanation for experiments, which are in urgent need, seem to be posted in the sites more frequently with more amounts. Combining both SNA and content analysis, this study demonstrated how actively information and knowledge is shared and what types of contents are exchanged. The findings have practical implications for POC managers and practitioners.

• 한국전자거래학회지
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• 제16권3호
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• pp.23-45
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• 2011

가상 공간의 익명성으로 인하여 개인들은 물리적 세계와 다른 자기를 가상 세계에서 창조한다. 본 연구의 목적은 물리적 세계의 자기와 가상 세계의 자기 사이에 존재하는 차이가 개인의 온라인 커뮤니티 활동에 어떠한 영향을 미치는지 고찰하는 것이다. 먼저, 자기차이이론(Self discrepancy theory)을 기반으로 자기차이에 대한 개념적 정의를 도출하고 자기차이를 가상 세계 내에 존재하는 자기차이(Self-discrepancy in virtual world)와 물리적 세계와 가상 세계 사이에서 존재하는 자기차이(Cross-world self-discrepancy)로 세분화 하였다. 또한 각각의 자기차이를 요인 분석을 통하여 개인적 자기차이(Personal self-discrepancy)와 사회적 자기차이(Social self-discrepancy)로 구분하였다. 도출된 서로 다른 유형의 자기차이가 개인의 커뮤니티 지속사용 및 지식 기여 사이에 어떠한 영향을 미치는지 이론적 모형을 개발하고, 수집된 300개의 설문자료를 바탕으로 이를 검증하였다. 분석 결과, 가상 세계 내에서 존재하는 자기차이는 지각된 자기표현 유용성에 부의 영향을 미치는 반면, 가상 세계와 물리적 세계 사이에 존재하는 자기차이는 자기표현 유용성에 정의 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 또한 지각된 자기표현 유용성과 사용 용이성은 커뮤니티 지속 사용과 지식기여에 모두 정의 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 본 연구는 전통적인 자가차이 이론에서 논의되어온 자기에 대한 개념을 가상세계의 자기로 확장하였으며, 서로 다른 유형의 자기차이가 개인의 행위에 미치는 영향을 온라인 커뮤니티 정황에 적용함으로써 자기 개념에 대한 이론적 발전에 기여하였다.

• 정보교육학회논문지
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• 제11권1호
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• pp.79-89
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• 2007

10대 학생들의 지속적인 인터넷 이용률 상승과 높은 온라인 커뮤니티 참여율을 고려할 때, 그들이 인터넷 이용을 통해 경험할 수 있는 역기능을 최소화하고 긍정적인 경험을 쌓을 수 있도록 지도하는 것이 필요하다. 학생들은 온라인 커뮤니티 활동을 통해서 다양한 사회성을 경험하고, 자아성을 탐색할 수 있다. 그러나 다른 한편으로, 학생들을 대상으로 하는 상당수의 온라인 커뮤니티들이 사회적인 배려와 관심을 제공하지 못하여 학생들의 가치관 혼란이나 잘못된 행동을 유도하기도 한다. 이러한 문제를 고려하여, 본 연구는 10대 학생들의 요구를 수용하면서 동시에 그들의 요구를 학습 활동과 연계할 수 있는 온라인 학습 커뮤니티에 초점을 두고, 활발한 공동체 활동과 학습 활동을 진행할 수 있는 온라인 학습 커뮤니티를 설계하고 개발하였다. 커뮤니티는 운영 취지를 소개하고, 알림방, 요구함 등을 제시하는 'e-Tivity소개', '이벤트홀' '자료파크' 'e-Tivity센터' 등으로 구성된 커뮤니티 활동 공간, '교사연구실' '관리실'로 구성된 교사와 관리자 공간, 'My Room' 아바타 꾸미기 등의 기능을 제공하는 학생 개인 공간 등으로 구성되었다.

• 유통과학연구
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• 제21권1호
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• pp.107-117
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• 2023

Purpose: This study attempted to confirm the mediating effect of brand experience and to travel brand community satisfaction in the relationship between the characteristics of brand community contents and travel product purchase intention. This study also investigated the moderating role of consumer characteristics. Research design, data and methodology: Based on a total of 381 bytes of data, hypothesis verification was conducted using Smart-PLS 3.2.8 statistical package programs. Results: First, the content community travel brand attributes, personal affordability and creativity are a lingering fragrances on the intended consumers ' shopping trip. Second, information provision, interaction, and creativity, which are the characteristics of travel brand community content, influenced consumers' intention to purchase travel products through brand community satisfaction. Third, playfulness, vitality, and creativity, which are the characteristics of travel brand community content, influenced consumers' intention to purchase travel products through double mediation of the experience and community satisfaction of brand. Conclusions: Tourism industry managers should be able to market content by forming their own brand community. It is necessary to create an environment in which tourism industry managers can use social media travel brand community content to give discounts to consumers, provide creative, playful and vivid travel information.

• 한국정보시스템학회지:정보시스템연구
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• 제33권1호
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• pp.45-68
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• 2024

Purpose This paper examines the role of local market-based communities in driving regional revitalization, using detailed analysis of online networks. We aim to dissect a local community's communication network, highlighting members with high engagement levels and exploring their characteristics. Our goal is to identify the conditions that allow local community networks to grow independently and to demonstrate how the activation of these networks contributes to regional revitalization. Design/methodology/approach We employ a mixed-methods approach, combining social network analysis with statistical techniques to investigate the structure of online communication networks. Specifically, we use ANOVA to determine the statistical significance of our findings, ensuring their reliability. To complement our quantitative data, we include qualitative insights from interviews, adding depth and context to our analysis. Findings Our results show that individuals with high centrality in the online network are crucial for maintaining active local communities. We find that leveraging local resources to create a supportive and adaptable environment is essential for the communities' sustainability and expansion. Importantly, our research draws a direct connection between the vitality of local community networks and the broader process of regional revitalization. We argue that energizing local communities is an effective way to address the risk of regional decline. By integrating quantitative analysis with qualitative feedback, this study contributes to the understanding of local market-based communities as key drivers of regional development. It emphasizes the importance of building vibrant, resourceful community networks to revitalize areas experiencing socio-economic challenges.

• 공학교육연구
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• 제26권4호
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• pp.36-46
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• 2023

This paper presents a case study and online-offline (hybrid) course structure for project-oriented community-based service learning in order to solve real-world problems for society. It examines social issues and conduct student projects to develop solutions that can generate sustainable value. This course helps students to use their major knowledge to assess and solve the problems faced by the local community. The outcomes of this course conducted via online lectures and offline project activities are discussed. The operation of this blended type of social problem-solving course is also stated.