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Cancer News Coverage in Korean Newspapers: An Analytic Study in Terms of Cancer Awareness

  • Min, Hye Sook;Yun, E Hwa;Park, Jinsil;Kim, Young Ae
    • Journal of Preventive Medicine and Public Health
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    • v.53 no.2
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    • pp.126-134
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    • 2020
  • Objectives: Cancer diagnoses have a tremendous impact on individuals and communities, drawing intense public concern. The objective of the current research was to examine news coverage and content related to cancer-related issues in Korean newspapers. Methods: Primarily using the database system of the Korea Press Foundation, we conducted a content analysis of 2806 articles from 9 Korean daily newspapers during a recent 3-year period from 2015 to 2017. Thematic categories, the types of articles, attitudes and tone, and the number of sources in each article were coded and classified. Results: Many news articles dealt with a diverse range of themes related to cancer, including general healthcare information, the latest research and development, specific medical institutions and personnel, and technology and products, which jointly accounted for 74.8% of all articles. Those thematic categories differed markedly in terms of article type, tone, and the number of cited sources. News articles provided extensive information about healthcare resources, and many articles seemed to contain advertising content. However, the content related to complex social issues such as National Health Insurance did not include enough information for the reader to contextualize the issues properly or present the issues systematically. Conclusions: It can be assumed that the media exert differential influence on individuals through news coverage. Within the present reporting framework, the availability and usefulness of information are likely to depend solely on individuals' capabilities, such as financial and health literacy; this dependency has a negative impact on knowledge gaps and health inequities.

Social Media Rumors in Bangladesh

  • Al-Zaman, Md. Sayeed;Sife, Sifat Al;Sultana, Musfika;Akbar, Mahbuba;Ahona, Kazi Taznahel Sultana;Sarkar, Nandita
    • Journal of Information Science Theory and Practice
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    • v.8 no.3
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    • pp.77-90
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    • 2020
  • This study analyzes N=181 social media rumors from Bangladesh to find out the most popular themes, sources, and aims. The result shows that social media rumors have seven popular themes: political, health & education, crime & human rights, religious, religiopolitical, entertainment, and other. Also, online media and mainstream media are the two main sources of social media rumors, along with three tentative aims: positive, negative, and unknown. A few major findings of this research are: Political rumors dominate social media, but its percentage is decreasing, while religion-related rumors are increasing; most of the social media rumors are negative and emerge from online media, and social media itself is the dominant online source of social media rumors; and, most of the health-related rumors are negative and surge during a crisis period, such as the COVID-19 pandemic. This paper identifies some of its limitations with the data collection period, data source, and data analysis. Providing a few research directions, this study also elucidates the contributions of its results in academia and policymaking.

Topic Modeling and Keyword Network Analysis of News Articles Related to Nurses before and after "the Thanks to You Challenge" during the COVID-19 Pandemic (COVID-19 '덕분에 챌린지' 전후 간호사 관련 뉴스 기사의 토픽 모델링 및 키워드 네트워크 분석)

  • Yun, Eun Kyoung;Kim, Jung Ok;Byun, Hye Min;Lee, Guk Geun
    • Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing
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    • v.51 no.4
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    • pp.442-453
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    • 2021
  • Purpose: This study was conducted to assess public awareness and policy challenges faced by practicing nurses. Methods: After collecting nurse-related news articles published before and after 'the Thanks to You Challenge' campaign (between December 31, 2019, and July 15, 2020), keywords were extracted via preprocessing. A three-step method keyword analysis, latent Dirichlet allocation topic modeling, and keyword network analysis was used to examine the text and the structure of the selected news articles. Results: Top 30 keywords with similar occurrences were collected before and after the campaign. The five dominant topics before the campaign were: pandemic, infection of medical staff, local transmission, medical resources, and return of overseas Koreans. After the campaign, the topics 'infection of medical staff' and 'return of overseas Koreans' disappeared, but 'the Thanks to You Challenge' emerged as a dominant topic. A keyword network analysis revealed that the word of nurse was linked with keywords like thanks and campaign, through the word of sacrifice. These words formed interrelated domains of 'the Thanks to You Challenge' topic. Conclusion: The findings of this study can provide useful information for understanding various issues and social perspectives on COVID-19 nursing. The major themes of news reports lagged behind the real problems faced by nurses in COVID-19 crisis. While the press tends to focus on heroism and whole society, issues and policies mutually beneficial to public and nursing need to be further explored and enhanced by nurses.

A Study on the Media Coverage of Public Issue: Focusing on Drinking-Water Issues (공적 이슈에 대한 미디어 보도 분석: 수돗물 관련 기사를 중심으로)

  • Kim, Sung-Tae;Lee, Chang-Ho
    • Korean journal of communication and information
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    • v.39
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    • pp.40-68
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    • 2007
  • Despite many efforts to improve water and publicize Arisu, ordinary citizens' distrust in water is still intense. This study aims to analyze how newspapers, television and internet media in Korea covered water-related news, focusing on the type of articles, themes, news sources, and news values. As a result, the mostly mentioned theme in the media was the discussion about suitability of water as a drinking water, followed by impurified water, governmental policy on water, coverage on the water pipe, and result of examination of water quality. Also among newspapers, broadcasting, and the internet, the internet medium showed the most negative tone in covering water. Stories written by journalists with expertise were less than 1% whereas stories by ordinary journalists were mostly found. In conclusion, to cover public issues like water desirably, it is necessary to bring up journalists with expertise in environmental issues, to diversify news sources, and to do investigative reporting rather than reporting appealing to audience's amusement.

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Analysis of Review Data of 'Tamna' Franchisees to Promote Sustainable Travel in Jeju City (제주시의 지속가능한 여행 활성화를 위한 지역화폐 '탐나는전' 가맹점의 리뷰 데이터 분석)

  • Sehui Baek;Sehyoung Kim;Miran Bae;Juyoung Kang
    • The Journal of Bigdata
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    • v.7 no.2
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    • pp.113-128
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    • 2022
  • After COVID-19, interest in "sustainable tourism" increased, and the number of tourists who wanted to experience "sustainable tourism" also increased. However, there is a problem that the programs and methods for 'sustainable tourism' are not specific and diverse. In addition, since most of the interests of "sustainable tourism" focus on "environment" and "carbon neutrality," there are not many programs or government policies that can contribute to the community. Therefore, in this study, news data and review data were analyzed to suggest a method for promoting 'sustainable tourism'. First, in this study, major themes of sustainable travel were derived through news big data analysis. Through this analysis, policy themes and events of 'sustainable tourism' were derived. By analyzing news big data related to "sustainable tourism," we would like to analyze the reasons why sustainable travel has not been activated in Korea. Finally, in order to promote sustainable travel in Jeju island, we analyzed user review data of Jeju local currency, and propose a idea to coexist with the local community.

Information Verification Practices and Perception of Social Media Users on Fact-Checking Services

  • Rabby Q., Lavilles;January F., Naga;Mia Amor C., Tinam-isan;Julieto E., Perez;Eddie Bouy B., Palad
    • Journal of Information Science Theory and Practice
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    • v.11 no.1
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    • pp.1-13
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    • 2023
  • This study determines how social media users (SMUs) verify the information they come across on the Internet. It determines SMUs' perception of online fact-checking services in terms of their ease of use, usefulness, and trust. By conducting a focus group discussion and key informant interviews, themes were derived in determining fact-checking practices while a survey was further conducted to determine such perceived ease of use, usefulness, and trust in fact-checking services. The thematic analysis revealed major information verification practices, such as cross-checking and verifying with other sources, inspecting comments and reactions, and confirming from personal and social networks. The results showed that SMUs considered fact-checking services easy to use. However, a concern was raised about their usefulness stemming from the delayed action in addressing the information issues that need to be verified. As to perceived trust, it was found that SMUs have reservations about fact-checking services. Finally, it is believed that fact-checking services are expected to be credible and need to be promoted to mitigate any form of fake news, particularly on social media platforms.

Analysis of News Articles on Child Welfare Policies in South Korea: K-Means Clustering (대한민국 정권별 아동복지정책 관련 뉴스 기사 분석: K-평균 군집 분석)

  • Kim, Eun Joo;Kim, Seong Kwang;Park, Bit Na
    • Journal of East-West Nursing Research
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    • v.29 no.2
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    • pp.185-195
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    • 2023
  • Purpose: The purpose of this study is to analyze changes of child welfare policies and provide insights based on the collection and classification of newspaper articles. Methods: Articles related to child welfare policies were collected from 1990, during the Kim, Young-sam administration, to May 9, 2022, under the Moon, Jae-in administration. K-Means clustering and keyword Term Frequency-Inverse Document Frequency analysis were utilized to cluster and analyze newspaper articles with similar themes. Results: The administrations of Kim, Young-sam, Kim, Dae-jung, Roh, Moo-hyun, and Park, Geun-hye were classified into two clusters, and the Lee, Myung-bak and Moon, Jae-in administrations were classified into three clusters. Conclusion: South Korea's child welfare policies have focused on ensuring the safety and healthy development of children through diverse policies initiatives over the years. However, challenges related to child protection and child abuse persist. This requires additional resources and budget allocation. It is important to establish a comprehensive support system for children and families, including comprehensive nursing support.

A Study on the Polarity of Apartment Price News Using Big Data Analysis Method (빅데이터 분석기법을 활용한 아파트 가격 관련 뉴스 기사의 극성 분석)

  • Cho, Sang-Yeon;Hong, Eun-Pyo
    • Journal of Digital Convergence
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    • v.17 no.9
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    • pp.47-54
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    • 2019
  • This study confirms the polarity of news articles on apartment prices using Opinion Mining which has widely been used for a big data analysis. The analyses were carried out utilizing internet news articles posted on the Naver for two years: 2012 and 2018. We proposed a sentiment analysis model and modeled a topic-oriented sentiment dictionary construction methods. As a result of analyzing the proposed sentiment analysis model, it was confirmed that there was a difference according to the tendency of the media companies in selecting social issues at the time of rising apartment prices. At the same time, we were able to find more affirmative articles in the media companies which share similar sentiment with the government in charge. In this paper, we proposed a sentiment analysis model that can be used in real estate field and analyzed the polarity of unformatted data related to real estate. In order to integrate them into various fields in the future, it is necessary to build the sentiment dictionaries by themes, as well as to collect various unformatted data over extended periods.

The Aesthetic Qualities Featured in Vivienne Westwood's Works (비비안 웨스트우드(Vivienne Westwood)의 작품세계와 미적특성)

  • 염혜정
    • Journal of the Korean Society of Costume
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    • v.37
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    • pp.71-88
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    • 1998
  • This study will analyze the aesthetic qual-ities revealed in the work of Vivienne Wes-twood in order to gain an understanding of the development process and uniqueness of modern avant-garde fashion. Westwood gained worldwide recognition in the 1970s as the Punk movement emerged in London. Although her works have often been described as decadent and anti-establishment, her anarchic view of fashion has had a considerable influence on other designers, both in England and around the world. Vivienne Westwood's works can be divided into three periods. In the first period(1971∼78). Westwood design demonstrated elements which were variations of the subcultural Punk style. The noteworthy designs of this period included ripped T-shirts, bondage clothes, and fetishist accoutrements. In the second period(1979∼83), her designs expressed elements from ethnic and primitive tribal societies through the 'Pirate', 'Savages', 'Buffalo Girls', 'Witches' collections, which inspired New Romanticism movement. In the third period (1985∼ ), through works such as 'Mini-Crini'collection, her works identified elements from the old west and used materials such as crinoline and Harris tweed and contemporized them by rearranging the innovative technique. In the end the news synthesis helped formulate new ideas. The aesthetic qualities in Vivienne Wes-twood's works can bed identified with the following themes : Punkature, Erotic Intelligent-sia, Anarchic Collage. First, within Punkature, Westwood's ideas are at the forefront as her impact on the cut of clothes and creative detailing have been considerable. Also, while her ideas can be extreme, her clothes are wear-able, resulting in the synthesis of Punk and couture. Second, as Erotic Intelligentsia, Vivienne Westwood does not present sexuality as a straight forward attribute that fashion so often tends to do, but instead as a matter for inquiry, exploration and debate. She asserts that sexuality is always an interplay between the polarities of masculine and feminine, of dress and undress. Third, as Anarchic Collage, she has taken, juxtaposed, and transformed objects and symbols from dominant culture, like every modern subversive movement from Dada to Punk. She has continued this form of anarchic collage, mixing styles from various times and places, taking them out of their traditional context. From thiss viewpoint, Vivienne Westwood's works can be considered to be made up of past themes merged with is contemporary. The usage of contrasting elements such as Punk and couture to communicate her ideas visually or technically.

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Exploring Issues Related to the Metaverse from the Educational Perspective Using Text Mining Techniques - Focusing on News Big Data (텍스트마이닝 기법을 활용한 교육관점에서의 메타버스 관련 이슈 탐색 - 뉴스 빅데이터를 중심으로)

  • Park, Ju-Yeon;Jeong, Do-Heon
    • Journal of Industrial Convergence
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    • v.20 no.6
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    • pp.27-35
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    • 2022
  • The purpose of this study is to analyze the metaverse-related issues in the news big data from an educational perspective, explore their characteristics, and provide implications for the educational applicability of the metaverse and future education. To this end, 41,366 cases of metaverse-related data searched on portal sites were collected, and weight values of all extracted keywords were calculated and ranked using TF-IDF, a representative term weight model, and then word cloud visualization analysis was performed. In addition, major topics were analyzed using topic modeling(LDA), a sophisticated probability-based text mining technique. As a result of the study, topics such as platform industry, future talent, and extension in technology were derived as core issues of the metaverse from an educational perspective. In addition, as a result of performing secondary data analysis under three key themes of technology, job, and education, it was found that metaverse has issues related to education platform innovation, future job innovation, and future competency innovation in future education. This study is meaningful in that it analyzes a vast amount of news big data in stages to draw issues from an education perspective and provide implications for future education.