• Journal of Contemporary Eastern Asia
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• 제18권1호
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• pp.49-69
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• 2019

Over the last couple of years, digital diplomacy has become a fascinating area of research among Mass Communication, Peace and Conflict Studies, and International Affairs scholars. Social media and new technology open up new avenues for governments, individuals, and organizations to engage with foreign audiences. However, developing countries' governments are still lacking in the realization of the potential of social media. This study aims to analyze the usage of social media (Facebook & Twitter) by the two biggest countries in South Asia (Pakistan and India). I selected 10 government officials' social media accounts including prime ministers', national press offices', military public relations offices', public diplomacy divisions', and ministries of foreign offices' profiles. The study relies on quantitative content analysis and a comparative research approach. The total number of analyzed Twitter tweets (n=1,015) and Facebook posts (n=1,005) include 10 accounts, five from each country. In light of Kent and Taylor's (1998) dialogic communication framework, the results indicate that no digital engagement and dialogue occurs between government departments and the public through social networking sites. Government departments do not engage with local or foreign audiences through digital media. When comparing both countries, results reveal that India has more institutionalized and organized digital diplomacy. In terms of departmental use of social media, the digital diplomacy division and foreign office of India is more active than other government departments in that nation. Meanwhile, Pakistan's military public relations office and press office is more active than its other government departments. In conclusion, both countries realize the potential of social media in digital diplomacy, but still lack engagement with foreign audiences.

• 유통과학연구
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• 제13권8호
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• pp.97-104
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• 2015

Purpose - This study examines the positive impact of the social distance between producers and users of online content, investigating and analyzing the most popular Web content. In addition, it tries to elicit the matching effect that appears when the individuals'cultural background is consistent with social distance. Research design, data, and methodology - We collected and analyzed actual data about 4,981 videos clips on YouTube, looking at six countries in order to verify the content of this study. Based on the results of the data analysis, the study conducted behavioral measurements on popularity, social distance, culture, and user engagement. The unit of analysis was the content and we collected information about the content producers and the content records. We controlled the views, comments, likes, calendar dates, and ages in the empirical models. The data was collected in 2011, with the records coming from South Korea, Japan, China, U.S., German, and France. A total of 4,980 elements were analyzed in the model. The empirical model estimated is the bivariate negative binomial distribution (NBD) model. Results - It turns out that there is a possibility that the matching effect can be diminished by variables that reflect the psychological involvement of user engagement. This study proposes academic and practical implications based on these research results. This research shows the positive effect of social distance between users and producers on the increased performance of the online content. We find the effect of social distance to be a stronger tendency in collectivism. The collectivists follow their sense of friendship and intimacy in their culture and, the social congruence effect can be found there as well. The effect, however, could erode in a social case where users are motivated by strong intrinsic and psychological factors. In addition, user engagement complicates the process of user decision making regarding the information. Conclusions - This study examines how the differential effects of social distance caused by culture could disappear through user commitment as a complicated user motivation. Some potential implications are as follows. First, a firm in the collectivism culture has to communicate based on the social distance. In fact, most online channels do not have a function that indicates the social distance as measured by favorites or subscribers. This function could help increase the performance of the content in online channels, but this increasing effect can only be found in a collectivist culture. Based on this, the firms have to communicate and announce to users the actual social distance between users and producers. Second, firms should develop a system that discovers the social distance and culture and shows these measures to users and producers, since the congruence effect between social distance and culture is found only for low user engagement. The firms can take the advantage of the congruence effect only for the development of the social distance and culture visualized system.

• 디지털융복합연구
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• 제10권6호
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• pp.33-39
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• 2012

본 연구는 대학에서 이루어지고 있는 강의에 있어 전통적인 오프라인 강의실 강의에 정보기술 발달과 함께 급속도로 확산되고 있는 SNS(Social Network Service)를 접목할 경우 학습성과의 변화에 어떠한 영향을 미치는지를 살펴보기 위해 시작되었다. 이를 위하여 101명을 대상으로 설문조사를 실시하였고 분석결과는 다음과 같다. 첫째, 소셜 네트워킹 참여(online social networking engagement)와 사회적 수용(acculturation)은 교수와의 상호작용 품질(interaction quality with professors)에 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 또한 교수와의 상호작용품질은 협력학습(collaborative learning)과 학습성과(learning performance)에 유의한 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다.

• 정보관리학회지
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• 제34권3호
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• pp.269-290
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• 2017

본 연구는 국내 문화유산기관에서 디지털 콘텐츠의 효과적인 접근과 활용을 도모하고 이용자 참여를 활성화할 수 있는 소셜 태깅의 활용방안을 제안하는 것을 목적으로 한다. 이를 위해 정보기술을 활용한 아카이브의 성과를 바탕으로 국내외 아카이브의 기술 적용 현황을 파악하고, 소셜 태깅이 적용된 국내외 디지털 아카이브의 사례연구를 통해 소셜 태킹의 활용 현황과 특성을 분석하였다. 이용자 참여 단계유형을 재구성하여 소셜 태깅을 통한 참여 단계 모델을 제시하고, 디지털 아카이브에서 이용자의 참여와 콘텐츠의 기여도를 중심으로 표현, 커뮤니케이션, 협업에 따른 소셜 태깅의 활용 방안을 제안하였다.

• The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.571-582
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• 2021

Employers and employees are seriously suffering from perceived organizational politics exhibited in the workplace, and they are searching for remedial ways. The current study was carried out to measure the (i) effects of the employees' perceived organizational politics on their behavioral outcomes, and (b) the remedial role of employees' social astuteness in the relationship of their perceived organizational politics to behavioral outcomes (i.e., work engagement and turnover intention). Seven hundred and twenty-five employees working in Nepalese A graded banks were surveyed to collect the perceptual cross-sectional data. The data were quantitatively analyzed, adopting the deducting reasoning approach. Regression analysis revealed that (i) perceived organizational politics negatively impacted on work engagement and positively impacted on turnover intention, (ii) social astuteness moderated the relationship between perceived organizational politics and employees' behavioral outcome. Moreover, perceived organizational politics' detrimental impact was less severe for employees who possess high social astuteness as compared to those who have less social astuteness. The remedial effect of social astuteness was measured more useful for high organizational politics perceiver than for low perceiver. A number of theoretical and practical implications are suggested to improve the employees' behavioral outcomes from the detrimental impact of perceived corporate politics.

• The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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• 제8권7호
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• pp.313-322
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• 2021

This study aims to analyze the influence of religiosity, spiritual leadership, and work-life balance and its impact on innovative behavior through the mediating effect of employee engagement on the state-owned sharia bank of Central Java Province. The total sample of this study is 226 respondents taken from state-owned sharia bank in 6 Regencies/Cities in the former Karisedenan of Central Java. Samples are taken using a cross-sectional approach. The sampling technique is using the division of regions based on clusters (cities) and is carried out using a purposive sampling method. The results indicate that the indirect influence of all independent variables on innovative behavior through the mediating effect of employee engagement is found to be significant. This study views employee engagement from the perspective of religiosity-based social exchange theory so that religious values in the interaction relationship can be fairly applied and respected by the employees of the state-owned sharia bank. Managers can socialize the importance of spirit behavior to employees so that it can be their everyday attitude and becomes their guide for work. Leaders can become role models in straightening intentions while working as well as conditioning the conscience to always think positively at work by strengthening work engagement in sharia banking institutions.

• 지식경영연구
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• 제23권2호
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• pp.211-228
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• 2022

소비자와의 소통을 위한 온라인 커뮤니티의 중요성이 점차 강조됨에 따라, 이용자의 참여를 증진시키고 성공적으로 커뮤니티를 운영하기 위해서는 관리자의 역할에 대한 이해와 세분화된 운영 전략 도출이 필요하다. 본 연구에서는 온라인 커뮤니티 이용자 참여를 소극적 참여와 적극적 참여의 두 가지 유형으로 분류하고, 관리자로서의 전략적 참여 요소가 어떻게 이용자 참여에 차별적으로 영향을 주는지 살펴보았다. 구체적으로, 관리자가 가시적으로 존재하는 대학별 대나무 숲 데이터를 활용하였으며, 상관관계를 반영하여 보다 효율적인 추정이 가능한 SUR(Seemingly Unrelated Regression; 겉보기 무관 회귀분석) 모형을 적용해 실증적으로 검증하였다. 분석 결과, 관리자의 직접적인 커뮤니티 참여는 이용자의 소극적 참여와 적극적 참여 모두에 긍정적인 영향을 주는 것으로 나타났다. 한편, 관리자가 간접적인 커뮤니티 참여의 일환으로 게시글 및 댓글을 관리함에 있어, 게시글에 포함된 감성 단어의 수는 이용자의 소극적 참여에 긍정적인 영향을 주지만 적극적인 참여에는 오히려 부정적인 영향을 주는 것으로 나타났다. 또한, 게시글의 감성과 극성이 일치하는 댓글이 상단에 노출된 경우, 이용자의 소극적 참여가 증진되었다. 본 연구는 온라인 커뮤니티 이용자 참여에 영향을 주는 요인에 대한 실증 분석을 통해 관련 이해의 확장에 기여하고 이를 토대로 커뮤니티 관리자의 역할 및 운영 전략의 방향을 제시한다는 점에서 이론적 의미와 실천적 의미를 지닌다.

• Asia Marketing Journal
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• 제24권2호
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• pp.62-77
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• 2022

Seeded marketing campaign (SMC) is a newly created type of marketing activities with the widespread use of social media. Previous research has examined to find out the optimal seeding strategy that yields the best outcome from the campaign. This research explores the relationships between the characteristics of the seeded influencer and user engagement. The data consists of information from 1062 seeded Instagram posts posted in September 2020 in Korea and 778 seeded influencers who posted those contents. Analyzed by negative binomial regression, our quadratic model suggests that the relationship between user engagement and the number of followers of the seeded influencer draws an inverted U-shape, indicating influencers with greater number of followers may not always be the best choice for the marketers. Moreover, this research shows that the negative marginal impact coming from the huge number of followers can be attenuated when the influencer is an expert of the seeded product.

• 한국정보시스템학회지:정보시스템연구
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• 제33권1호
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• pp.183-205
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• 2024

Purpose This study aims to identify the factors that form the social identity of metaverse community users and to investigate the processes that influence engagement behavior. Specifically, this study is to verify the structural relationship between socio-technical factors and social identity of metaverse community. Furthermore, we would figure out the role of psychological ownership and virtual assets in engagement of metaverse community members. Design/methodology/approach Hypotheses were derived through literature research and a survey was conducted for users of the metaverse community. 357 collected responses were analyzed for the structural equitation modeling(SEM) with AMOS 24.0. Findings As a result of the study, all of the proposed hypotheses were supported. As a result, it was found that technical and social perceptions of the metaverse community platform had a positive effect on social identity. Social identity affects the intention to engage in the metaverse community through psychological ownership, and its influence is reinforced by the perceived value of virtual assets.

• International Journal of Internet, Broadcasting and Communication
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• 제15권4호
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• pp.21-30
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• 2023

The aim of this study is to investigate how travelers' destination visit intentions are influenced by avatar self-congruence in the metaverse platform. We extended the impression management theory by considering both perceived enjoyment and social engagement, and illustrated the interaction effect based on users' digital age. To achieve this, we conducted an online survey with 302 users. The survey results revealed that avatar self-congruence significantly influenced users in terms of perceived enjoyment and social engagement, thereby affecting their destination visit intentions. This study also revealed a significant interaction effect between digital age type and avatar self-congruence on users' perceived enjoyment. The results of this study are expected to provide not only a theoretical reference for metaverse research and travel research but also managerial implications for destination management and metaverse applications.