• 한국정보시스템학회지:정보시스템연구
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• 제21권2호
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• pp.97-114
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• 2012

Given the rapid growth of social network services (SNS) such as Facebook and Cyworld, it is important to understand SNS users' decision-making processes such as purchasing and continuance intention. Especially, as a number of SNS providers such as Cyworld and Habbo Hotel recognize the sales of digital items as the main source of their profits, it is critical to in-depth understand SNS users' purchasing behaviors. In this regard, this study explores continued usage behaviors and purchase behaviors of digital items in an SNS environment using a longitudinal research method. This paper develops a theoretical model to deeply understand the key drivers of purchase behavior of digital items through constructs prescribed by two established research streams on information systems, namely continuance usage and habitual usage. Moreover, this study examines the effects of actual and ideal self-image congruity on SNS continuance intention and habit. The research model was tested by using survey data collected from 307 users who have experience with Cyworld. The analysis results show that SNS actual usage directly influence purchase behavior of digital items. SNS users' continuance intention and habit are key drivers to enhance the level of actual usage of the SNS. Both actual and ideal self-image congruity play a key role in enhancing continuance usage and habitual usage. The implication of research and discussions provides reference for SNS providers in marketing and IT strategy.

• 디지털산업정보학회논문지
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• 제11권2호
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• pp.181-192
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• 2015

A new communication revolution such as social networking service (SNS) has been transforming the way of interaction between people in both of individual level and organizational level. Recently many people have switched to closed type SNS such as Naver Band and Kakao group due to the several reasons. The purpose of this study is to investigate the usage motivation and satisfaction of SNS based on use and gratifications perspectives. Based on prior studies on use and gratifications of Internet-related media and SNS, information motivation, relationship motivation, pleasure/entertainment motivation, self-expression motivation, work motivation were identified as usage motivation of SNS. This empirical study explores how these motivations vary between open type SNS(facebook and twitter) and closed type SNS(band and kakao group). This study contributes to provide the base of activation strategies and practical implications for companies using SNS as a marketing tool.

• 한국정보시스템학회지:정보시스템연구
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• 제24권1호
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• pp.1-25
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• 2015

Social Network Service (SNS) has been played an important role in the life with the expansion of the modern technology in the cellular communication. More knowledge and understanding should be inevitable even if companies have taken advantage of SNS through word of mouth as one of the new paradigm. In most cases the crucial benefit or peculiarity of SNS has been overlooked because only general aspects of SNS have been applied in the online situation. As a result of this, same paradigm has been considered in reality as SNS was just used one of the marketing tools. However, essential aspects of SNS were investigated to see the relation of usage intention and word of mouth in this study. The hypothesis of the effect of continuous intention of the usage, trust and word of mouth was made and reviewed statistically. The statistical analysis showed there was significant among relationship, context, perceived service quality and continuous intention of the usage. In addition to that, self-expression, relationship, perceived service quality and trust were significant. Finally the continuous intention of the usage and word of mouth was significant as well. Based on this study, SNS provided by the companies could be effective to the customers in terms of word of mouth while different trend was shown in terms of trust.

• 한국의류산업학회지
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• 제22권4호
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• pp.469-480
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• 2020

The study investigated the effects of SNS usage on 20s and 30s female SNS users' internalization of thin body, body surveillance, appearance upper comparison, body dissatisfaction and eating disorders based on objectification theory and social comparison theory. The study examined differences on SNS usage and body image variables between high and low groups of SNS envy and self-compassion. Social Network Service (SNS) is used as a contemporary marketing tool for brands and companies. It also influences the body image of female SNS users. The survey used an online survey company for female SNS users in their 20s and 30s to analyze the effect of SNS usage. The results showed that SNS usage significantly impacted the internalization of a thin body, body surveillance and appearance upper comparison. The internalization of thin body also had a significant impact on body surveillance and appearance upper comparison. Appearance upper comparison positively affected body dissatisfaction and eating disorders. Finally, the group with higher SNS envy showed higher SNS usage, internalization of thin body, body surveillance, appearance upper comparison, body dissatisfaction and eating disorders. The group with higher self-compassion showed opposite results. This study provided a theoretical expansion for a SNS and female body image study with objectification theory and social comparison theory. It also suggests positive SNS marketing strategies use for brands. Lastly, this study emphasized the importance of the proper use of SNS to protect the body image of SNS users.

• 디지털융복합연구
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• 제15권12호
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• pp.147-158
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• 2017

SNS에 대한 기존 연구들에서는 SNS의 이용동기가 복수임을 밝혀내었음에도 불구하고, SNS 이용동기를 결정하는 선행 변수를 규명한 연구는 없었다. 이에 본 연구에서는 한국교육고용패널(한국직업능력개발원) 자료의 10차년도 조사(2013년)부터 12차년도 조사(2015)를 통합하여 분석을 진행하였다. SNS 이용동기를 정보 교류, 친목/인맥 관리, 재미 추구의 세 가지로 구분하고, 결정요인으로 이용자의 직장관련 요인, 인구통계적 요인, 건강 및 심리상태, 성격 요인 등을 구분하여 탐색적인 분석을 진행하였다. 그 결과, 이용동기가 정보 교류일 때, 성별, 건강 상태, 성격 중 외향성과 성실성이 영향을 주었다. 이용동기가 인맥 관리일 때, 직장 규모, 교육, 건강생태, 주관적 행복, 직무만족도, 신경성, 친화성이 영향을 주었다. 이용동기가 재미 추구일 때, 외국계 기업 여부, 자녀 유무, 직무만족도가 영향을 주었다. 이러한 결과는 청년 직장인들의 SNS 이용패턴에 대한 기존의 이해를 확장하여 관련 연구 및 유관 분야에 기여할 수 있을 것으로 판단된다.

• Journal of Information Technology Applications and Management
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• 제23권2호
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• pp.207-224
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• 2016

Investments in information and communication technologies (ICT) around the world have grown at an enormous rate over the past two decades, which reflects a new emphasis on consumer mobile devices. A social network service (SNS) is an online service that aims to build social relations among people who share interests and activities. The role of SNS is enormous for communicating ideas and opinions among social participants. The use of SNS has recently become one of the most popular social activities worldwide. This research investigated relation between personal characteristics, social characteristics and user satisfaction on SNS then, analyzed how these factors affecting continuance usage intention on SNS users. The conclusion is summarized as below. The study results show that informativeness, pleasure, innovativeness, relationship and empathy of SNS are having positive impact to some degree on the user satisfaction. Further, the user satisfaction of SNS users and quality of life have a positive impact on the continuance usage intention of SNS users. This results show that various SNS qualities are necessary to actively explore and obtain further information that users intend to find, while they are insufficient in function to provide the information other users require or exchange information with other users through the SNS.

• 감성과학
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• 제26권1호
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• pp.87-100
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• 2023

본 연구는 초기 성인의 조건부 자아존중감이 열등감에 미치는 영향에서 SNS 상향비교와 SNS 이용동기가 어떠한 역할을 하는지 탐색하고자 하였다. 선행연구를 토대로 각 변인들의 관계에 대한 연구모형을 설정하여, 조절된 매개 효과를 검증하고자 하였다. 이를 위하여 온라인 설문지를 구성한 후, SNS를 이용하는 초기 성인 400명을 대상으로 설문조사를 실시하였으며, 최종적으로 총 351부를 분석에 활용하였다. 본 연구의 주요 결과는 다음과 같다. 첫째, 조건부 자아존중감, SNS 상향비교, SNS 이용동기, 그리고 열등감은 모두 정적 상관을 나타내었다. 둘째, 조건부 자아존중감이 열등감에 영향을 미쳤으며 SNS 상향비교는 완전 매개하였다. 셋째, SNS 상향비교와 열등감의 관계에서 SNS 이용동기의 조절을 확인하였다. 마지막으로, 조건부자아존중감이 SNS 상향비교를 매개로 열등감에 미치는 간접효과를 SNS 이용동기의 영향으로 조절하는 것을 확인하였다. 본 연구 결과를 바탕으로 초기 성인이 열등감을 경험하는 것과 관련하여 심리적이고 정서적인 함의를 제시하였다.

• 지식경영연구
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• 제16권1호
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• pp.143-170
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• 2015

In the rapidly changing business environment, companies are introducing information technology to effectively manage internal resources in order to achieve a sustainable competitive advantage. We presented the Enterprise Social Network Service(SNS) as new information technology. Enterprise SNS provided employers with sociable functions like Facebook while supporting general task such as mail, authorization and notice. In this research, we focused on Enterprise SNS and suggested self-disclosure, enjoyment in helping others, perceived organizational support, generativity capacity as antecedent variables of Enterprise SNS usage. In addition, we verified the effect of the mediating role of generativity capacity between Enterprise SNS usage and job performance. For empirically verifying the proposed model, we collected sample data from 225 workers using Enterprise SNS and conducted analysis using a structural equation modeling. We expect that this study provides managers who are interested in introducing enterprise SNS with insights on how to facilitate enterprise SNS usage. Also, this study suggests useful theoretical implications to researchers who are interested in the use of enterprise SNS from the context of knowledge management.

• 한국심리학회지 : 문화 및 사회문제
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• 제28권3호
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• pp.393-417
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• 2022

본 연구는 문화성향에 따른 SNS의 사용 및 중독과의 관련성을 알아보고자 고안되었다. SNS 사용에 영향을 미치는 성별, 성격, 연령의 개인 내적 변인의 효과를 통제하고자 하였으며, 또한 SNS상에서의 문화성향과 오프라인상의 문화성향은 일치하지 않을 수 있기 때문에, 두 문화성향을 독립적으로 측정하고자 하였다. 이를 위해 혈족-비혈족 맥락으로 SNS상의 문화성향을 측정하는 문항들을 새로 개발하였다. 13~15세의 청소년 253명과 18~25세의 성인 246명을 연구대상자로 모집하여 총 499명의 자료가 분석되었다. 분석 결과 SNS상에서의 개인주의는 SNS 사용량 및 중독 경향성과 정적인 상관관계를 보여주었다. 또한 남성에 비해서 여성이 SNS 사용 시간과 SNS 중독 경향성이 높았으며, 청소년에 비해서 성인의 사용 기간 및 시간이 높았으나 중독 경향성에는 유의미한 차이가 없었다. 상관분석 결과 SNS 문화성향과 오프라인 문화성향 간의 상관은 높은 편이 아니었으며, 성별, 성격, 연령 및 오프라인 문화성향 변인의 효과를 통제한 후에도 SNS 혈족 개인주의 성향은 SNS 중독 경향성을 유의미하게 예측하였다. 이러한 결과는 SNS 사용과 중독을 예측하는 데 있어서는 SNS 맥락에 적절한 문화성향을 측정할 필요가 있음을 시사하며, SNS 중독에 있어서 SNS 혈족 개인주의가 주요 변인이 될 수 있다는 가능성을 보여주었다.

• 디지털산업정보학회논문지
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• 제10권4호
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• pp.237-249
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• 2014

The technological advances within the Internet industry have led to a revolution in terms of how people communicate with each other. For example, users are no longer limited to using face to face interactions to connect and communicate with their peers but can use email, instant messaging and more. A recent trend that researchers are observing is the adaption of SNS. SNS such as facebook and myspace has been a dominant global trend and has grown dramatically in the past 5 years. The purpose of this study was to test SNS usage motivations influencing the user satisfaction. The research model was developed based on literature review. SNS usage motivations consist of five factors: expression, relationship formation, social exchange, information seeking, trend. 189 questionnaires were used for the main part of regression analysis. The analysis results revealed that relationship formation, social exchange and information seeking were very significant factors influencing the user satisfaction. Especially, social exchange was the most significant factor. We can prospect that importance of user satisfaction on SNS usage motivations is more and more increasing in the future.