• 유통과학연구
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• 제21권7호
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• pp.1-9
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• 2023

Purpose: This study aims to understand if heterogeneous news is evenly consumed and distributed on portals as it examines people's news use and engagement behaviors and news credibility. Focusing on the four behaviors of news use, i.e., viewing news by keyword search, viewing news from subscribed sources, viewing news from the list of most-viewed news, and reading comments, and the three behaviors of news engagement, i.e., sharing news, 'liking' or 'recommending' news, and posting comments, this study investigates the relation between each of the behaviors and portal news credibility. Research design, data and methodology: From 2022 News Audience Survey in Korea, this study conducts a regression analysis to investigate the relations between each behavior and news credibility. Results: The results show a positive relation for the former two news use behaviors and the latter two news engagement behaviors, and a negative relation for the latter two news use behaviors. Conclusions: The positive relations between active news use and engagement behaviors and portal news credibility indicate that news consumers are more likely to use and engage in attitude-consistent news rather than attitude-challenging news, implying that heterogeneous news is less likely to be consumed and distributed evenly on portals across all news users.

• 한국언론정보학보
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• 제66권
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• pp.5-27
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• 2014

우리나라 온라인 저널리즘 지형의 과거, 현재, 미래는 무엇보다 포털 뉴스서비스와 밀접한 연관이 있다. 전통 저널리즘에서 한정된 뉴스미디어는 뉴스 생산과 유통을 동시에 수행하기 때문에 소비를 완전히 장악할 수 있었다. 이후 다매체다채널 시대에는 뉴스미디어가 큰 폭으로 증가하고 이에 따라 뉴스 생산이 폭발적으로 늘어나면서 수용자의 선택이 중요하게 됐다. 온라인 저널리즘 환경에서는 각종 뉴스 이용을 간편하게 만든 포털 뉴스서비스에 대한 이용의 집중, 뉴스미디어 브랜드보다는 뉴스 콘텐츠에 집중하는 뉴스 소비의 특성 등으로 인해 뉴스 유통이 가장 중요한 영역으로 부각됐다. 포털 뉴스서비스가 온라인 저널리즘의 상징적 존재가 되면서 뉴스 유통 중심의 우리나라 저널리즘 지형이 완성된 것이다. 뉴스 유통만을 담당하는 포털 뉴스서비스가 뉴스를 생산하는 언론사닷컴이나 인터넷신문보다 더 큰 영향력을 가진다는 것은 언론 권력의 변화를 의미한다. 이로 인해 기존 뉴스미디어와 포털 뉴스서비스의 갈등이 곳곳에서 목격된다.

• International Journal of Computer Science & Network Security
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• 제22권2호
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• pp.1-8
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• 2022

This work provides a reliable and classified stocks dataset merged with Saudi stock news. This dataset allows researchers to analyze and better understand the realities, impacts, and relationships between stock news and stock fluctuations. The data were collected from the Saudi stock market via the Corporate News (CN) and Historical Data Stocks (HDS) datasets. As their names suggest, CN contains news, and HDS provides information concerning how stock values change over time. Both datasets cover the period from 2011 to 2019, have 30,098 rows, and have 16 variables-four of which they share and 12 of which differ. Therefore, the combined dataset presented here includes 30,098 published news pieces and information about stock fluctuations across nine years. Stock news polarity has been interpreted in various ways by native Arabic speakers associated with the stock domain. Therefore, this polarity was categorized manually based on Arabic semantics. As the Saudi stock market massively contributes to the international economy, this dataset is essential for stock investors and analyzers. The dataset has been prepared for educational and scientific purposes, motivated by the scarcity of data describing the impact of Saudi stock news on stock activities. It will, therefore, be useful across many sectors, including stock market analytics, data mining, statistics, machine learning, and deep learning. The data evaluation is applied by testing the data distribution of the categories and the sentiment prediction-the data distribution over classes and sentiment prediction accuracy. The results show that the data distribution of the polarity over sectors is considered a balanced distribution. The NB model is developed to evaluate the data quality based on sentiment classification, proving the data reliability by achieving 68% accuracy. So, the data evaluation results ensure dataset reliability, readiness, and high quality for any usage.

• Asia pacific journal of information systems
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• 제25권2호
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• pp.370-402
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• 2015

The dynamic capabilities of social media are changing the nature of contemporary news by allowing users to communicate and create content, deliver and share newsworthy information, and consume news. News organizations engage with social media because this computer-mediated tool provides an alternative platform for delivering news and connecting with global audiences. This role of social media is conceptualized as its complementarity. However, when mass user-generated-content is constantly shared with other users, more users are attracted to indulge in news-seeking activities on social media. This phenomenon potentially fulfills users' news requirements on social media, which is contrary to what news companies envisioned when they began engaging with social media. This dichotomous role of social media, providing complementarity and showing the potential for becoming a superior news medium, is conceptualized as its competing-complementarity. This paper offers preliminary evidence of competing-complementarity by analyzing the news consumption of individuals. Such consumption is explained through the theoretical perspective of punctuated equilibrium by conceptualizing news consumption as a deep structure radically impacted by a disruptive technology. Although social media benefit news organizations, its competing potential poses serious challenges to their monopolistic controls on news production, distribution, readership, and revenue generation.

• The Journal of Asian Finance, Economics and Business
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• 제8권3호
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• pp.1113-1119
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• 2021

This study aims to determine the impact of the news coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic on the composite stocks' movement (IHSG) in Indonesia. This study used secondary data of daily time series with an observation range of March 2020-June 2020. This study used three main variables, namely, COVID-19 news, the daily price of a composite stock market index (IHSG), and interest rate. This study clarifies pandemic news into two forms to facilitate quantitative analysis, namely, good news and bad news. Both pandemic news conditions, which have been clarified, are then processed into the index and reprocessed along with two other variables using vector autoregressive (VAR). The results showed that the good news have a dominant effect on developing the composite stock price index (IHSG) in Indonesia during the COVID-19 pandemic. Although the good news dominates the composite stock price index (IHSG) movement in Indonesia, the bad news must also be anticipated. By implementing a series of macroeconomic policies that follow the conditions of the composite stock price index (IHSG) movements on the stock exchange floor, the bad news response can decrease the potential for a decline in investor confidence, so that the financial system's macroeconomic stability is maintained.

• Asian Journal for Public Opinion Research
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• 제8권2호
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• pp.105-125
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• 2020

The purpose of this paper is to analyze 1) who created and distributed fake news, 2) the distribution channels of fake news, 3) who fake news has targeted, and 4) the effects on voting and the impact of fake news on Korean politics. In South Korea, fake news was mainly created by candidates or election campaigns. The reason is that in the wake of the impeachment of President Park Guen Hye, all the political parties in Korea used fake news as a means of mobilizing supporters for each of their candidates or parties to gain an advantage in situations involving political divisions and confrontations between the pro-impeachment, progressive young generation and anti-impeachment, conservative senior generation. Voters' media usage patterns were polarized through social network services (SNS) media and television. Fake news was mostly received through these two media outlets. According to the spreading structure of fake news in Korea, the younger generation generally uses SNS posts intended for unspecified individuals, and the older generation uses closed SNS like KakaoTalk or Naver's BAND. In the end, it is typically characteristic of the older generation to spread fake news through existing offline human networks. In the 2017 presidential election, fake news has been confirmed to have the effect of mobilizing supporters for each political party. In the presidential election, an increase in voter turnout was confirmed among those in their 20s and those in their 60s or older. Evidently, fake news influenced the election of Moon Jae-In. The influence of fake news is expected to grow further as ideological polarization and consequent political polarization continues to intensify in South Korea.

• 문화기술의 융합
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• 제10권2호
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• pp.391-406
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• 2024

본 연구는 현재 디지털 뉴스 유통 과정이 개인의 선택, 이에 기반한 미디어의 선택으로 인해 이용자들에게 정치적으로 편향된 정보를 제공할 수 있다는 점에 초점을 맞추고 개인의 뉴스 선택에 영향을 미치는 요인과 이용자의 정파적 선호에 맞춤화된 뉴스가 추천됐을 때 발생할 수 있는 의견변화와 정치참여의 효과를 탐색적으로 분석했다. 자신의 정파적 선호에 부합하는 뉴스를 선택하는 선택적 노출의 현상은 개인이 한정적 정보처리를 많이 이용하고, 정치적 신념이 같은 집단 간의 높은 토론 효능감을 경험할수록 그 정도가 높은 것으로 니타났다. 선택적 노출의 정도가 높은 개인에게 정파적 성향과 일치하는 일방향 메시지의 뉴스를 무작위로 제공했을 때 기존 의견이 강화되는 방향으로 의견 공고화와 의견보강 정보처리가 일어나면서 온라인 정치참여가 높아지는 경향성이 발견되었다. 반면 이들에게 미디어가 경쟁하는 두 정파적 입장을 균형있게 다룬 양방향 메시지 뉴스를 무작위로 제공했을 경우 상대편의 견해와 논지를 이해하고 더 나은 의견이 있다면 기존 의견을 조정해보려는 의향이 함께 발견되었다. 이 연구는 숙의민주주의 과정에서 다양한 의견을 균형있게 이용하는 것의 중요성을 지적하고 이와 관련한 미디어 리터러시의 필요성을 제안했다.

• Journal of Contemporary Eastern Asia
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• 제18권2호
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• pp.16-32
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• 2019

Media manipulation of breaking news through article selection, ranking and tweaking of social media data and comment streams is a growing concern for society. We argue that the combination of human and machine curation on media portals marks a new period for news media and journalism. Although intermediary platforms routinely claim that they are merely the neutral technological platform which facilitates news and information flows, rejecting any criticisms that they are operating as de facto media organisations; instead, we argue for an alternative, more active interpretation of their roles. In this article we provide a contemporary account of the South Korean ('Korean') online news media ecology as an exemplar of how contemporary media technologies, and in particular portals and algorithmic recommender systems, perform a powerful role in shaping the kind of news and information that citizens access. By highlighting the key stakeholders and their positions within the production, publication and distribution of news media, we argue that the overall impact of the major portal platforms of Naver and Kakao is far more consequential than simply providing an entertaining media diet for consumers. These portals are central in designing how and which news is sourced, produced and then accessed by Korean citizens. From a regulatory perspective the provision of news on the portals can be a somewhat ambiguous and moving target, subject to soft and harder regulatory measures. While we investigate a specific case study of the South Korean experience, we also trace out connections with the larger global media ecology. We have relied on policy documents, stakeholder interviews and portal user 'walk throughs' to understand the changing role of news and its surfacing on a distinctive breed of media platforms.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제24권2호
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• pp.333-336
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• 2020

AI-powered robot news is drawing attention as artificial intelligence technology is fully spread in the news distribution field. Robot news still has many technical and ethical problems, but academic research on this is insufficient. This study analyzes the issue of robot writing in artificial intelligent based robot journalism industry using SWOT analysis. As a result, the advantages of big data processes, accurate information gathering, high efficiency and disadvantages such as lack of independent arguments and lack of evidence and opportunities for technical development, government support, academic development, and industrial applications, and threats such as uncritical acceptance and lack of talent have been found. This study suggests three future-oriented directions, such as human-machine collaboration, intelligent news, and chat-bot, through previous studies on the development direction of robot journalism-based article writing.

• 한국컴퓨터정보학회논문지
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• 제18권12호
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• pp.103-111
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• 2013

현재 우리나라의 각종 뉴스는 인터넷에서도 가장 중요한 콘텐츠 일뿐 아니라 언론홍보로써의 중요성도 날로 더해가고 있다. 기업의 각종 뉴스는 신문이나 방송매체를 통하여 보도자료로써 일반인에게 제공되고 있다. 이러한 뉴스가 보도자료화 되기 위해서 기업은 뉴스를 제공할 때 기자를 직접 찾아가거나, 우편, 팩스, 퀵 서비스, 이메일 등의 방법을 이용하는데 이러한 방법들은 시간, 인력, 비용 그리고 파일이 손상되는 문제점을 가지고 있다. 또한 기업측에서는 보도자료가 어떤 내용으로 기사화되었는지 확인하는 절차가 번거롭고, 언론사 측에서는 취재하고 싶은 기업에 대해 취재 요청과 기사 내용에 대해서도 수시로 기업측과 연락을 해야 하는 문제점이 있다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 이와 같은 문제점들을 해결하기 위해서 기업측은 언론사측에 보도자료를 배포하고 기사화한 내용을 쉽게 확인할 수 있으며, 언론사측은 기업측에 취재 요청을 간단하게 수행할 수 있는 배포시스템과 언론사나 포털 기사들 속에서 기업의 보도자료를 수집하는 수집로봇을 설계하고 구현하고자 한다.