• 경영정보학연구
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• 제21권4호
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• pp.175-195
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• 2019

본 연구는 온라인 소비자 커뮤니티의 소비자 욕구와 행동을 분석하기 위해 빅데이터-네트노그라피 통합모델을 사용하였다. 빅데이터 분석은 상관관계를 파악하기에는 용이하나, 인과관계는 알아내기 어렵기 때문에 네트노그라피 분석을 함께 사용하였다. 온라인 환경에서 수행하는 질적연구방식인 네트노그라피 방법론은 맥락파악에 있어서는 탁월하나, 장시간에 걸쳐 축적된 많은 양의 데이터를 분석하기에는 시간과 비용이 많이 든다는 한계가 있다. 따라서 본 연구에서는 빅데이터 분석을 통하여 온라인 커뮤니티 사이트에서 축적된 전반적인 자료의 패턴을 찾고, 네트노그라피 분석이 필요한 특이점을 발견한 뒤, 특이점 전후 지점에서만 네트노그라피 분석을 수행하였다. 본 연구에서 빅데이터 분석을 통해 드러난 다양한 현상의 원인을 네트노그라피 분석을 통해 설명할 수 있었다. 뿐만 아니라 빅데이터 분석으로는 잘 드러나지 않는 커뮤니티의 내부 구조적 변화까지도 파악할 수 있었다. 따라서 본 연구를 통해 그동안 빅데이터가 놓쳐온 비정형데이터로부터 맥락적 의미 분석은 물론 이해하기 어려웠던 온라인 소비자 행동 중 많은 부분을 효과적으로 설명할 수 있었다. 본 연구에서 제안한 빅데이터-네트노그라피 통합모델은 온라인 환경에서 소비자 욕구를 새롭게 발견하기 좋은 도구로 활용될 수 있을 것이다. 향후 연구에서는 다양한 사례 적용연구를 통해 본 연구에서 제시한 방안의 적합성과 우수성을 검증하고 보완하고자 한다.

• Journal of Information Technology Applications and Management
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• 제28권3호
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• pp.1-21
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• 2021

Recently, the importance of entrepreneurship based on innovative ideas is being emphasized. Most startup companies misunderstand that a good solution is a good idea, so they try to start a business by choosing an idea that prioritizes solutions, products, and technology rather than problem-first. However, to be a successful startup, it is essential to focus on the quality of the problems your customers are trying to solve. The online community is a place where many people exchange their thoughts and communicate with each other through a network, and communities about consumption, a concern of modern people, are developing. Against this background, this study proposed an integrated methodology that combines big data and netnography analysis so that entrepreneurs can use online community data to derive customer-centered startup ideas. The integrated methodology was verified based on the actual start-up case, who derived a startup idea based on the data of domestic cloth diapers online cafe. The case company found customer problems based on online community data and used it to develop startup items and new products. The integrated methodology for deriving entrepreneurial ideas in this study is expected to be an important guideline that explains in detail the consumer-centered idea derivation process.

• 유통과학연구
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• 제21권1호
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• pp.33-43
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• 2023

Purpose: The present study demonstrates the netnography technique to explore and understand crowds' perceptions on the donation distribution by charitable crowdfunding platform official social media, Facebook. Research design, data and methodology: This paper conducts a netnography design to examine the perceptions of online communities on four prominent charitable crowdfunding platforms' Facebook. A total of 93 comments are studied by collecting and analyzing their comments thematically. Results: This study illustrates two main themes which are 'Recommended Review' and 'Non-Recommended Review'. 'Recommended Review' can be explained into six sub-themes which are 'Role of Religion', 'Encouragement to Donate', 'Platform Reliability', 'Volunteering Value', 'Platform Support', and 'Donation Convenience'. While 'Non-Recommended Review' reveals that 'Rejected Donation Amounts', 'Rejection of Advertisements', and 'Review by Authorities'. Conclusion: Online community comments play an important role in providing input to the experience of donating through charitable crowdfunding. The crowdfunding platform can make a benchmark for the services offered. The comments are needed to be given attention by maintaining the interaction between the platform and donors to recruit new donors and maintain existing donors. This study provides better understanding on online community perception towards charitable crowdfunding platforms. This study also contributes the discussion on charitable crowdfunding and online marketing literatures.

• International Journal of Costume and Fashion
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• 제13권2호
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• pp.15-29
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• 2013

Today's technology enables consumers to trade millions of dollars, conduct online banking, access entertainment, and do countless other activities at the click of a button. Online social networks (OSN) have become a cultural phenomenon that allows for individualistic consumerism. Consumers are increasingly utilizing OSN to share ideas, build communities, and contact fellow consumers who are similar to themselves. The relevance of online communities to the music is immense especially because musicians are now using social media to build global audiences. Not only is information about music and performance disseminated online, but musical commodities are sold and traded online. Online music communities allow consumers to elect and create new identities online through the purchase of subcultural commodities. Given the growing economic importance of online music communities it is important to get a holistic view of subcultural communities online. This study utilized content analysis of online music community websites using the Netnography methodology as developed by Kozinet for data collection to analyze consumers' purchasing and consumption behavior of subcultural commodities online as related to the formation of subcultural identities. Findings showed that subcultural items are predominantly purchased online, especially digital music, and there is a need for more custom craft items. The authors presented a new conceptual taxonomy of online subcultural consumer classifications based on online behavior patterns.

• 한국게임학회 논문지
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• 제17권4호
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• pp.117-128
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• 2017

본 연구는 모바일 게임 플랫폼에서 게임 품질에 대한 정보의 비대칭을 해결하기 위해 게임이용자들이 사용하는 시그널에 대한 질적 연구이다. 시그널 이론을 바탕으로 인터넷 문화기술지 방법을 이용하여 데이터를 수집하였다. 연구결과로 시그널 유형에는 플랫폼 기반의 소비자 참여도가 높은 시그널, 플랫폼 기반의 소비자 참여도가 낮은 시그널, 게임회사 기반의 소비자 참여도가 높은 시그널, 게임회사 기반의 소비자 참여도가 낮은 시그널이 있다. 시그널을 이용한 게임 이용자들의 의사결정의 특징은 첫째, 순위와 다운로드 수는 게임이용자들의 판단의 기준이 되며 둘째, 게임 마케팅 플랫폼은 또 하나의 시그널이 될 수 있으며 마지막으로 게임이용자가 선호하는 시그널은 게임이용 목적이나 행태에 따라 다르다는 것이다.

• 한국정보시스템학회지:정보시스템연구
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• 제31권1호
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• pp.147-173
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• 2022

Purpose As the use of social network services has become common, it has become possible to freely communicate and establish relationships with other people anytime, anywhere for communication and information sharing. Influencers who have a strong influence on consumers' perceptions and attitudes through their own opinions and stories have appeared on various social media channels such as YouTube. Recently, companies utilize influencers with a large number of followers to check interactions with customers to understand customer attitudes and opinions about products in real time. Start-ups with insufficient resources need to quickly examine customer responses to reduce the probability of failure after product planning. The Lean process of creating an MVP and quickly confirming and learning the market response should be repeated over and over again. Findings In this paper, we try to suggest that the YouTube platform can play a sufficient role as a customer experiment space through examples. The case company is a company that has successfully commercialized products by continuously interacting with customers through the YouTube platform for the first four months of its founding. This paper is expected to be helpful in the experimental process for prospective founders and early founders to examine customer responses to reduce the probability of market failure before commercialization. Design/methodology/approach This paper analyzed the YouTube channel data of case companies based on the netnography methodology and presented the contents of the lean process management carried out in the experimental stage and the post-production stage through interview research.

• 경영과정보연구
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• 제36권3호
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• pp.131-150
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• 2017

본 연구의 목적은 공개 소프트웨어(Open Source Software, 이하 OSS)가 운영 기간 내 주변의 행위자들과 관계를 수립하는 동안 OSS의 개발 및 확산 패턴을 확인하는 것으로, OSS 참여자들의 변화 패턴을 조사하기 위해 OSS 통과시간을 기반으로 그 변화 양상을 추적할 수 있는 온라인 데이터와 네트노그라피 방법을 이용하였다. 이를 위해 대표적인 OSS 자바스크립트 프레임워크인 jQuery, MooTools, YUI 등 이상 세 가지 사례에 대하여 블로그, 웹 서치와 함께 GitHub 공개 API(Application Programming Interface)로 수집된 데이터를 활용하였다. 본 연구에서는 OSS 변형 과정의 변화 패턴을 분류하기 위하여 행위자-네트워크 이론의 전환(translation) 과정을 적용하였으며, 관찰된 OSS 변형 과정을 살펴보면 다음과 같다. 먼저, '프로젝트 개시' 단계에서 소스 코드, 프로젝트 책임자 및 관계자, 내부 참여자 등과 같은 세 가지 유형의 OSS 관련 행위자들을 확인하였고, 그들 사이의 관계성을 개념화 하였다. 이후 프로젝트 책임자가 최초로 프로젝트를 착수하는 '프로젝트 성장' 단계는 관계자들에 의해 소스 코드가 유지 보수되는 과정을 통해 개선된다. 마지막으로 OSS는 홍보 활동을 통해 참여자들의 관찰기를 갖고, 소스 코드 사용을 통해 학습기를 거친 사용자가 본격적으로 등장함으로써 '참여자의 도약' 단계로 진입한다. 이 시기에는 기업과 외부 관계자들도 출현하는 모습도 살펴볼 수 있다. 본 연구결과는 OSS 참여자들이 OSS를 선택하는데 있어 홍보 과정의 중요성을 강조하고, OSS의 급속한 개발속도가 오히려 참여자의 출현을 지연시키는 구축 효과(crowding-out effec)가 발생하는 것을 확인하였다. 본 연구는 행위자-네트워크 이론을 토대로 주요 OSS 사례를 네트노그라피를 활용하여 종단적인 관점에서 분석함으로써 OSS의 발전 과정을 일반화시키기 위한 노력을 시도했다는 점에서 학술적인 의의가 있으며, OSS가 지배적인 위치에 오르기 위한 단계별 영향 요인, 세부적인 변화 양상 등을 확인함으로써 OSS 개발자와 관리자들에게 다양한 시사점을 제공할 것으로 기대된다.

• 유통과학연구
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• 제18권8호
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• pp.23-33
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• 2020

Purpose: In the digital age, visual cues in computer-mediated environments are becoming a very popular means of communication. Therefore, it is a very critical market for marketers to utilize for marketing communication and platform providers and manufacturers of mobile devices which create and distribute the visual cues While the prevalent research on visual cue consumption focuses on the positive side, the dark side of consuming visual cues has not been investigated. Therefore, in this research, the dark side of using visual cues, such as difficulties and problems in their application, will be investigated. Research design, data, and methodology: Due to the nature of this study, a netnography approach was adopted. Twitter which the users regularly utilise visual cues in their communications was a prime source for data of this research. Results: This research suggests that visual cue users experience anxiety about the subordination of expression and suffer from the myth of an ideal practice of expression. Conclusions: As the previous research emphasised the complementary role of visual cues, has failed to recognise the problems associated with the extensive and growing dependence on visual cues. This awareness demonstrates that we need to take a careful approach to visual cue usage.

• 복식문화연구
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• 제28권6호
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• pp.815-829
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• 2020

The aim of this study is to investigate fashion activism that supports sustainability by pursuing social transformation through social media. This is achieved by publicizing the environmental and labor problems of the fashion industry. For this study, a literary survey and netnography were conducted from January 2017 to November 2020. We classified and analyzed environmental and labor issues that could be considered fashion activism on social media. The results are as follows. First, movements for conscious consumption appeared as #haulternative, #fashionourfuture, #SecondHandSeptember, and #wornwear projects. These movements are concerned with buying used goods, re-dressing clothes owned by individuals, and transforming and wearing them with new methods. Second, activism for environmental protection includes #fashionOnclimate by Global Fashion Agenda and Sustainable Fashion Matterz' #Watermatterz. These movements are directly involved in learning about the seriousness of environmental destruction caused by the fashion industry and participating in environmental protection with critical awareness. Third, the #whomademyclothes and the Clean Clothes Campaign are activism for improving the working environment, and are playing a role in publicizing labor issues by informing the general public about inadequate working conditions linked to the fashion industry. Thus, fashion activism on social media examined in this study can contribute to visualizing chronic problems that hinder sustainable development within the fashion industry.

• 한국의류학회지
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• 제46권6호
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• pp.1105-1127
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• 2022

This study investigated the role of fashion granfluencers as cultural intermediaries in the present digital era. The concept of fashion granfluencer as cultural intermediaries and their fashion style characteristics were defined and examined. The literature on cultural intermediaries, social media, and seniors in the context of fashion was reviewed. Primarily, three characteristics of cultural intermediaries-interactive communication, nonconformist attitude, and aesthetic disposition-were identified and used as analytical variables in this study. Through netnography, 1,452 Instagram posts from the renowned fashion granfluencer Iris Apfel (@iris.apfel) were examined. This study presented Iris as a fashion granfluencer and a senior professional, who uses fashion to express herself and define her identity. As a cultural mediator, she contributes to revitalizing the cultural economy and creating cultural products. Iris Apfel' fashion and style embody her digital persona. Her engagement in fashion activities-producing fashion content or attending fashion events-mediates the relationship between fashion producers and fashion consumers, thereby promoting the aesthetic value of fashion.