• International Journal of Knowledge Content Development & Technology
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• 제10권2호
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• pp.19-37
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• 2020

There are limited research questioning the relationship between the disabled community and media, particularly in Malaysia. The lack of awareness and common assumption of specialty towards the disabled community have caused a small amount of local disability researches that question the relationship between the disabled community and the media. This research aims to find out the types of representation of disability in the Malaysian mainstream media, particularly press. Interview with visual disabled personnel and content analysis from news coverage of mainstream press are deployed in the study. The findings indicated the invalidity of disability culture as the misrepresentation of disabled community in Malaysia is not as severe as depicted by scholars because the news coverage focusing on them is getting more positive. Besides that, disabled people are not defensive towards the terms used to refer them as long as media practitioners do not over amplify their disability. The application of charity approach is still common in news coverage to portray the disabled community as victim, and therefore they are partially marginalized due to the misrepresentation in Malaysian mainstream press.

• Asian Journal for Public Opinion Research
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• 제8권3호
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• pp.197-221
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• 2020

We collected national newspaper articles on the largest Chinese investment project in Malaysia, Forest City, and examined media sentiment polarity using alternative automated sentiment analysis tools. We further checked the robustness of these results using content analysis, and consistently found that sentiment polarity for mainstream news is more volatile than independent online journalism. We also found that the sentiment polarity of Malaysian mainstream media towards Chinese investments is aligned with government interactions between the two countries. This suggests that the sentiment of Malaysian mainstream media towards Chinese investments complies with local government attitudes, while independent online media are less constrained by government control. In light of this, foreign investors looking to more effectively estimate risks should monitor both independent and mainstream media to calculate the sentiment of the host country towards their foreign direct investment projects.

• Journal of Contemporary Eastern Asia
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• 제21권1호
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• pp.33-42
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• 2022

The world has witnessed the outbreak of the Covid-19 epidemic. Mainstream and social media are playing an important role in Covid-19 pandemic prevention. This research explores awareness, communication channels and effectiveness of communication in the Covid-19 pandemic in rural areas of Thua Thien Hue province, Central Vietnam. Primary information was collected from 181 respondents, who are farmers, non-farmers and students. Secondary information was collected from reports and statistical data. Television, word of mouth and local loudspeakers are the main channels of mainstream media while social media mentions the role of Facebook and Zalo to transfer Covid-19 pandemic information. Mainstream media is still the main channel of farmers and old people while non-farmers and young people tend to access information through social media. Communication has significantly contributed to improving awareness and action of rural people in the Covid-19 epidemic prevention.

• Journal of Information Science Theory and Practice
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• 제11권4호
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• pp.1-13
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• 2023

Being one of the first and hardest hit countries by the coronavirus, Iran still continues to preserve its place among nations with the highest rates of infection and COVID-19 related deaths. While on the surface, such worrying status evinces the failure of the authorities in handling the crisis, at deeper levels, it points to the fundamentalist nature of the government and political system of the country. In this view, the current devastating condition in Iran is a clear indication of the all-out influence of the Islamic regime's ideologies on officials' decision-making and their political agendas throughout the pandemic. Accordingly, the staterun mainstream media, as the most preeminent institution of power, have been incessantly engaged in disseminating a series of ideology-laden information around the issues concerning the coronavirus, and in line with the developing political discourses during pandemic. Far from being based on factual accounts or scientific facts, these disseminated messages inevitably grew into a source of disinformation, ultimately resulting in overall public confusion and skepticism. Through examining the data gathered from some of the most prominent online news agencies run by the government, this study identifies five major discursive trends through which the mainstream media propagated ambiguous and manipulative information about COVID-19. These findings are then explained in the light of media system dependency theory, leading to the argument that within autocratic nation-states, public reliance on media during a national/global crisis brings about new opportunities for state exploitation, and further distressing consequences for the people.

• International Journal of Advanced Culture Technology
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• 제12권1호
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• pp.158-168
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• 2024

With Wenhai big data SaaS cloud platform.2.0, this study analyzed data of 135 news reports relating to Chinese city Chongqing from Yonhap News Agency and ten South Korean mainstream newspapers from May 1^st, 2018 to September 30^th, 2022. Under the framework of Frame Theory, this research conducted data mining and analysis on how Korean mainstream media shaped city image of Chongqing, what kind of city images were shaped from dimensions of politics, economy, society, culture & sports as well as tourism and whether they are consistent with those in Chinese media. At the last part, discussions and suggestions was made.

• 한국콘텐츠학회논문지
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• 제16권3호
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• pp.269-287
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• 2016

이 연구는 유병언 사망 사건과 관련된 언론 보도를 네트워크 분석하고, 이 사건이 소셜네트워크사이트를 통해 어떻게 확산되는지 이슈의 확산 과정을 네트워크 분석했다. 지상파 언론과 종편을 분석 대상으로 언론보도의 이슈 현저성, 단어의 가시성과 연결성을 분석했다. 네트워크 분석 결과 종편은 사건과 관련된 핵심 정보보다는 유병언 유류품, 브랜드, 시신에 대한 루머를 강조했고, 지상파 방송은 국과수의 DNA 검사 결과를 중심으로 보도했다. 시기별로 보면 1기 지상파는 '유병언 시신 발견 프레임'을, 종편은 '수사 비난 프레임', '명품 강조 프레임'으로 사건을 틀지었다. 2기 지상파는 '유병언 사인 분석 프레임'을, 종편은 '의혹 제기 프레임'을 강조했다. 3기 지상파는 몇 건 밖에 보도하지 않아 분석의 의미가 없고 종편은 '주변 정보 강조 프레임'이 부각되었다. 언론의 보도는 유투브와 SNS를 통해 확산되었는데, 네트워크 분석 결과 유병언 사망과 관련된 루머가 주목을 받은 것으로 나타났다. 인터넷과 SNS의 발달로 독자들이 적극적으로 의견을 표출하면서 루머를 확산시킨 것으로 생각된다. 음모론의 확산 과정에서 주류 언론은 종편의 선정적이고 자극적인 보도에 밀려 영향을 발휘하지 못했음이 밝혀졌다.

• Asian Journal for Public Opinion Research
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• 제9권1호
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• pp.25-47
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• 2021

This study analyzes 419 fake news items published in India, a fake-news-prone country, to identify the major themes, content types, and sources of social media fake news. The results show that fake news shared on social media has six major themes: health, religion, politics, crime, entertainment, and miscellaneous; eight types of content: text, photo, audio, and video, text & photo, text & video, photo & video, and text & photo & video; and two main sources: online sources and the mainstream media. Health-related fake news is more common only during a health crisis, whereas fake news related to religion and politics seems more prevalent, emerging from online media. Text & photo and text & video have three-fourths of the total share of fake news, and most of them are from online media: online media is the main source of fake news on social media as well. On the other hand, mainstream media mostly produces political fake news. This study, presenting some novel findings that may help researchers to understand and policymakers to control fake news on social media, invites more academic investigations of religious and political fake news in India. Two important limitations of this study are related to the data source and data collection period, which may have an impact on the results.

• 한국환경과학회지
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• 제21권9호
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• pp.1131-1138
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• 2012

The aims of this study were to investigate and confirm the occurrence and distribution patterns of iodinated X-ray contrast media (iopromide) in Nakdong river basin (mainstream and its tributaries). Iopromide was detected in 16 sampling sites. The concentration levels of iopromide on February 2011 and on October 2011 in surface water samples ranged from not detected (ND) to 1481.1 ng/L and ND to 1168.2 ng/L, respectively. The highest concentration level of iopromide in the mainstream and tributaries in Nakdong river were Goryeong and Jincheon-cheon, respectively. The sewage treatment plants (STPs) along the river affect the iopromide levels in river and the iopromide levels decreased with downstream because of dilution effects.

• 한국언론정보학보
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• 제84권
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• pp.152-188
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• 2017

이 연구는 루머의 사회적 확산 과정에서 한국 언론이 어떤 역할을 하는지 네트워크 분석과 프레임 분석을 통해 밝혔다. 언론의 이념적 성향과 뉴스생산 과정의 차이에 따라 언론 매체를 구분하고, 매체별 보도를 비교했다. 이념적 성향에 따른 보도량의 차이는 나타나지 않았다. 보수 언론은 사드 루머를 불필요한 오해로 보고, 사드 유언비어가 사회적 갈등을 유발한다고 했다. 진보 언론은 황교안, 외부세력, 거짓말을 많이 언급했고 '괴담을 반대하는 외부세력이 있다'는 정부의 입장을 비판했다. 루머 프레임을 비교해 보면 보수언론은 루머의 확산 원인을 악의적 괴담이 확산되고 있다고 본 반면에, 진보 언론은 사드의 유해성을 입증하기보다는 정부와 보수 언론이 사드 괴담을 유포한 세력을 비판하는 것에 주목했다. 오프라인 매체와 비교해서 온라인 매체는 감정적 표현과 비논리적인 이야기 구성으로 선정적인 보도 경향이 강했다. 한국 언론은 사실 확인이나 과학적 검증보다는 각자의 정파적 성향에 따라 사드 루머 이슈를 보도했다. 보수 진보 매체는 사드 루머의 발생 원인과 반대 시위 주체, 전자파의 유해성 등에서 양극화된 프레임을 제시했다. 한국 언론의 정파적 보도는 우리 사회의 정치적 대치 관계를 더욱 심화시킬 것으로 판단된다. 이와 같은 결과는 한국 언론이 식견 있는 공중(informed public)을 확보하는 데 성공적이지 못하며 오히려 민주주의 질서 자체를 위협할 수 있다는 가능성을 제시한다.

• Asian Journal for Public Opinion Research
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.126-143
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• 2020

Since 2008, strategic partnerships have been established between China and Korea. From 2009 to 2019, the bilateral relationship kept a generally stable rate of development with conflicts and uncertainties. It is necessary to study national image construction in the respective mainstream media of the two countries. The present study analyzed Korea-related reports (N = 744) in the People's Daily from 2009 to 2019, aiming to examine the Korean national image framing under Fairclough's three-dimensional Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) framework: "whatness," "how," and "whyness." The results shed light on what the Korean national image in the People's Daily was and how and why it was framed in that way. This study provided some implications for readers to further recognize the role that media play in constructing a particular image of one country and a frame for researchers to study foreign national image framing in one of China's mainstream newspapers.