• Asia pacific journal of information systems
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• 제24권2호
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• pp.191-210
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• 2014

As mobile devices that can be connected to the Internet have spread and networking has become possible whenever/wherever, the Internet has become central in the dissemination and consumption of news. Accordingly, the ways news is gathered, disseminated, and consumed have changed greatly. In the traditional news media such as magazines and newspapers, expert editors determined what events were worthy of deploying their staffs or freelancers to cover and what stories from newswires or other sources would be printed. Furthermore, they determined how these stories would be displayed in their publications in terms of page placement, space allocation, type sizes, photographs, and other graphic elements. In turn, readers-news consumers-judged the importance of news not only by its subject and content, but also through subsidiary information such as its location and how it was displayed. Their judgments reflected their acceptance of an assumption that these expert editors had the knowledge and ability not only to serve as gatekeepers in determining what news was valuable and important but also how to rank its value and importance. As such, news assembled, dispensed, and consumed in this manner can be said to be expert-based recommended news. However, in the era of Internet news, the role of expert editors as gatekeepers has been greatly diminished. Many Internet news sites offer a huge volume of news on diverse topics from many media companies, thereby eliminating in many cases the gatekeeper role of expert editors. One result has been to turn news users from passive receptacles into activists who search for news that reflects their interests or tastes. To solve the problem of an overload of information and enhance the efficiency of news users' searches, Internet news sites have introduced numerous recommendation techniques. Recommendations based on popularity constitute one of the most frequently used of these techniques. This popularity-based approach shows a list of those news items that have been read and shared by many people, based on users' behavior such as clicks, evaluations, and sharing. "most-viewed list," "most-replied list," and "real-time issue" found on news sites belong to this system. Given that collective intelligence serves as the premise of these popularity-based recommendations, popularity-based news recommendations would be considered highly important because stories that have been read and shared by many people are presumably more likely to be better than those preferred by only a few people. However, these recommendations may reflect a popularity bias because stories judged likely to be more popular have been placed where they will be most noticeable. As a result, such stories are more likely to be continuously exposed and included in popularity-based recommended news lists. Popular news stories cannot be said to be necessarily those that are most important to readers. Given that many people use popularity-based recommended news and that the popularity-based recommendation approach greatly affects patterns of news use, a review of whether popularity-based news recommendations actually reflect important news can be said to be an indispensable procedure. Therefore, in this study, popularity-based news recommendations of an Internet news portal was compared with top placements of news in printed newspapers, and news users' judgments of which stories were personally and socially important were analyzed. The study was conducted in two stages. In the first stage, content analyses were used to compare the content of the popularity-based news recommendations of an Internet news site with those of the expert-based news recommendations of printed newspapers. Five days of news stories were collected. "most-viewed list" of the Naver portal site were used as the popularity-based recommendations; the expert-based recommendations were represented by the top pieces of news from five major daily newspapers-the Chosun Ilbo, the JoongAng Ilbo, the Dong-A Daily News, the Hankyoreh Shinmun, and the Kyunghyang Shinmun. In the second stage, along with the news stories collected in the first stage, some Internet news stories and some news stories from printed newspapers that the Internet and the newspapers did not have in common were randomly extracted and used in online questionnaire surveys that asked the importance of these selected news stories. According to our analysis, only 10.81% of the popularity-based news recommendations were similar in content with the expert-based news judgments. Therefore, the content of popularity-based news recommendations appears to be quite different from the content of expert-based recommendations. The differences in importance between these two groups of news stories were analyzed, and the results indicated that whereas the two groups did not differ significantly in their recommendations of stories of personal importance, the expert-based recommendations ranked higher in social importance. This study has importance for theory in its examination of popularity-based news recommendations from the two theoretical viewpoints of collective intelligence and popularity bias and by its use of both qualitative (content analysis) and quantitative methods (questionnaires). It also sheds light on the differences in the role of media channels that fulfill an agenda-setting function and Internet news sites that treat news from the viewpoint of markets.

• 지능정보연구
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• 제22권3호
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• pp.23-43
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• 2016

최근 IT기술의 발전에 따라 많은 사람들이 자신들의 여가활동에 대한 경험을 공유하고 있으며, 역으로 다른 사람들의 여가활동에 대한 경험을 참고하여 더 나은 여가활동을 누릴 수 있는 기회를 얻게 되었다. 이러한 현상은 영화, 숙박, 음식, 여행 등 여가활동 전반에 걸쳐 나타나고 있으며, 그 중심에는 여가활동에 대한 정보를 요약하여 제공하는 수많은 사이트가 있다. 대부분의 여가활동 정보 사이트는 각 상품에 대한 평균 평점뿐만 아니라 상세 리뷰를 제공함으로써, 해당 상품을 구매하고자 하는 잠재고객의 의사결정을 지원하고 있다. 하지만 기존 대부분의 사이트는 한 단계의 평가기준에 따라 평점과 리뷰를 제공하기 때문에, 각 평가기준을 구성하는 세부요소에 대한 특징과 평가기준 별 주요 이슈를 파악하기 위해서는 상당히 많은 수의 리뷰를 직접 읽어야 한다는 불편이 따른다. 즉 사용자는 자신이 중요한 것으로 생각하는 평가기준에 대한 조건을 파악하기 위해, 많은 수의 리뷰를 하나하나 읽어보는 과정에서 많은 시간과 노력을 소비하게 된다. 예를 들어 호텔의 접근성, 객실, 서비스, 음식 등 한 단계의 평가기준만을 사용하여 평점과 리뷰를 제공하는 사이트의 경우, 접근성 중 특히 지하철역과의 거리, 객실 중 특히 욕실의 상태를 살펴보고자 하는 사용자에게 필요한 정보를 충분히 제공하지 못하게 된다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 기존 여가활동 정보 사이트의 한계, 즉 평가기준별로 입력된 리뷰를 신뢰하기 어렵다는 점과 평가기준을 구성하고 있는 세부 내용을 파악하기 어렵다는 점을 극복하기 위한 방안을 제시하고자 한다. 본 연구에서 제안하는 방법론은 사용자가 별도의 구분 없이 입력한 리뷰를 그 내용에 따라 평가기준별로 자동 분류하고, 각 평가 기준 별 주요 이슈를 요약하여 제공한다. 제안 방법론은 최근 텍스트 분석에 활발하게 사용되고 있는 토픽 모델링(Topic Modeling)에 기반을 두고 있으며, 각 리뷰를 하나의 문서 단위로 사용하는 것이 아니라 리뷰를 문장 단위로 끊어 개별 리뷰 유닛(Review Unit)으로 분해한 뒤, 평가기준별로 리뷰 유닛을 재구성하여 분석한다는 측면에서 기존의 토픽 모델링 기반 연구와 큰 차이가 있다고 할 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 제안 방법론을 실제 호텔 정보 사이트에서 수집한 423건의 리뷰 문서에 적용하여 6가지 평가기준에 대해 총 4,860건의 리뷰 유닛을 재구성하고, 이에 대한 분석 결과를 소개함으로써 제안 방법론의 유용성을 간접적으로 보인다.

• 한국사회복지학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국사회복지학회 2003년도 추계학술대회 자료집
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• pp.185-216
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• 2003

본 연구에서 지체장애근로자들의 직업성공을 구성하는 요인들을 분석하고 이들 요인이 직업성공과 이직에 영향을 미치는 정도를 조사하여 가설적 이론모형을 검증하려는 목적을 두었다. 이를 위해서 지체장애를 가진 근로자 374명과 일반근로자 453명을 대상으로 구조화된 설문지를 통해 나타난 주요 연구결과들은 다음과 같이 요약되었다. 첫째, 장애근로자와 일반근로자의 직업성공을 구성하는 요인은 개인, 가정, 조직의 측면에서 나타났다. 개인적인 측면은 자아존중감과 자아효능감으로 구성되었고, 가족적인 측면은 다중역할스트레스와 자녀의 수로 구성되었다. 조직적인 측면은 자원활용능력, 네트워킹, 그리고 조언자로 구성되었다 이 밖에도 주관적인 직업성공과 객관적인 직업성공이라는 잠재변수에서 종 10개의 측정변수가 도출되었다. 둘째, 장애근로자와 일반근로자 집단 모두 직종이 직업성공에 영향을 미치는 것으로 조사되었다. 관측변수에서는 두 집단에서 직업성공에 영향을 주는 변수가 서로 다르게 나왔다. 장애근로자집단은 이직을 했을 때 평균적으로 근속한 년수와 임금을 제외하고 나머지 모든 관측변수에서 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났으며, 일반집단은 조언자와 근속년수를 제외하고 나머지 모든 관측변수에서 영향을 미치는 것으로 조사되었다. 셋째, 장애근로자와 일반근로자 집단 모두 연령과 이직 경험이 이직 (이직횟수)에 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 그러나 장애집단은 친구의 수, 일반집단은 직업선택 시 중요하게 고려하는 사망이 각각 이직에 강한 영향을 미치는 것으로 조사되어 두 집단의 자이를 보여주었다. 또한 관측변수에서도 장애집단은 배우자의 직업과 근속년수, 일반집단은 다중역할 스트레스와 이직평균 근무년수에서 각기 다르게 이직에 영향을 미치는 것으로 나타났다. 넷째, 가설적 경로모형을 검증한 결과 제 1모형은 어느 정도 타당하고 직업성공을 예측할 수 있는 것으로 나타났으며, 제 2모형은 카이스퀘어와 자유도 ($x^2=64950$, df=61, P=0341), 기초부합치 (AGFI)는 .954, 비적합지수 (CFI)는 997, 그리고 원소간의 평균차이 (RMR)도 .038로써 모형의 적합도 지수는 모두 허용된 범위 안에 있기 때문에 매우 적합한 모형으로 직업 성공을 보다 높게 예측할 수 있는 것으로 조사되었다. 이상의 연구결과를 바탕으로 본 연구에서는 다음과 같이 결론을 도출하였다. 첫째, 직종이 두 집단 모두에서 직업성공을 예측하는데 주요한 변수로 나타나 장애근로자들의 학력을 높이고 계속해서 전문화 육에 많은 노력이 필요할 것이다. 특히, 임금정도와 같은 객관적인 직업성공 보다는 임금과 진급에서의 만족과 같은 주관적인 직업성공에 더욱 더 많은 고려를 기울여야 할 것으로 사료된다. 둘째, 장애근로자의 이직을 줄이기 위해서는 직장 내에서 유용한 인적 자원과 네트웍의 수를 늘여야 할 것이다. 이것은 장애집단이 일반집단보다 대인관계에 대해서 더 많은 시간과 노력을 기울여야 한다는 것을 의미한다.

• 호스피스학술지
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• 제1권1호
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• pp.46-69
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• 2001

Hospice Care is the best way to care for terminally ill patients and their family members. However most of them can not receive the appropriate hospice service because the Korean health delivery system is mainly be focussed on acutly ill patients. This study was carried out to clarify the situation of hospice in Korea and to develop a hospice care delivery system model which is appropriate in the Korean context. The theoretical framework of this study that hospice care delivery system is composed of hospice resources with personnel, facilities, etc., government and non-government hospice organization, hospice finances, hospice management and hospice delivery, was taken from the Health Delivery System of WHO(1984). Data was obtained through data analysis of litreature, interview, questionairs, visiting and Delphi Technique, from October 1998 to April 1999 involving 56 hospices, 1 hospice research center, 3 non-government hospice organizations, 20 experts who have had hospice experience for more than 3 years(mean is 9 years and 5 months) and officials or members of 3 non-government hospice organizations. There are 61 hospices in Korea. Even though hospice personnel have tried to study and to provide qualified hospice serices, there is nor any formal hospice linkage or network in Korea. This is the result of this survey made to clarify the situation of Korean hospice. Results of the study by Delphi Technique were as follows: 1.Hospice Resources: Key hospice personnel were found to be hospice coordinator, doctor, nurse, clergy, social worker, volunteers. Necessary qualifications for all personnel was that they conditions were resulted as have good health, receive hospice education and have communication skills. Education for hospice personnel is divided into (i)basic training and (ii)special education, e.g. palliative medicine course for hospice specialist or palliative care course in master degree for hospice nurse specialist. Hospice facilities could be developed by adding a living room, a space for family members, a prayer room, a church, an interview room, a kitchen, a dining room, a bath facility, a hall for music, art or work therapy, volunteers' room, garden, etc. to hospital facilities. 2.Hospice Organization: Whilst there are three non-government hospice organizations active at present, in the near future an hospice officer in the Health&Welfare Ministry plus a government Hospice body are necessary. However a non-government council to further integrate hospice development is also strongly recommended. 3.Hospice Finances: A New insurance standards, I.e. the charge for hospice care services, public information and tax reduction for donations were found suggested as methods to rise the hospice budget. 4.Hospice Management: Two divisions of hospice management/care were considered to be necessary in future. The role of the hospice officer in the Health & Welfare Ministry would be quality control of hospice teams and facilities involved/associated with hospice insurance standards. New non-government integrating councils role supporting the development of hospice care, not insurance covered. 5.Hospice delivery: Linkage&networking between hospice facilities and first, second, third level medical institutions are needed in order to provide varied and continous hospice care. Hospice Acts need to be established within the limits of medical law with regards to standards for professional staff members, educational programs, etc. The results of this study could be utilizes towards the development to two hospice care delivery system models, A and B. Model A is based on the hospital, especially the hospice unit, because in this setting is more easily available the new medical insurance for hospice care. Therefore a hospice team is organized in the hospital and may operate in the hospice unit and in the home hospice care service. After Model A is set up and operating, Model B will be the next stage, in which medical insurance cover will be extended to home hospice care service. This model(B) is also based on the hospital, but the focus of the hospital hospice unit will be moved to home hospice care which is connected by local physicians, national public health centers, community parties as like churches or volunteer groups. Model B will contribute to the care of terminally ill patients and their family members and also assist hospital administrators in cost-effectiveness.