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A Comparative Study on Online Civic Journalism Practice and Civic Influence in the U.S. and Korea - Focus on News about the 'Oil Price' (온라인 시민저널리즘 양상과 시민 영향력에 관한 한.미 간 비교 연구 - '유가' 관련 보도를 중심으로)

  • Yang, Min-Je;Kim, Min-Ha
    • Korean journal of communication and information
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    • v.45
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    • pp.463-495
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    • 2009

  • Korea has started to pay attention to civic journalism in recent years while it initially emerged in the United State since late 1980s. Furthermore, albeit some discernable limitations, the Internet has played an important role in fertilizing civic journalism as indicated by the emergence of online news media and the increasing number of civic journalists engaged in the online activities. Whereas there are some patterns of civic journalism practice and the civic influence commonly observed in both countries, there are significant factors that distinguish th1e case of Korea from that of the U.S. The purpose of this study is to compare the two countries in terms of the patterns of civic journalism practice and civic influence. This goal has been achieved by analyzing ‘CNN iReport’ in the U.S. and ‘Ohmynews’ in Korea, both of which are prime civic journalism websites. Those websites have been compared in light of four standards of civic journalism: first, the degree of post-objectivism; second, the search for effective resolutions of social problems; third, civic engagement in the news making process to enhance bottom-up agenda setting; and finally, citizens’ interaction with the news. The results reveal that the American civic journalism website is more likely to shed light on deviating from the principle of objectivity and seeking alternatives and resolutions of social problems. Moreover, it effectively utilizes civic engagement in the news Abstracts 551 making process as indicated by the higher numbers of civic journalists and civic news resources. Also, readers’ interaction with the news was found to be more active in the iReport website than in the Ohmynews.

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How the Three Major Korean Network Television News Report on Issues Involving their Own Interests A Content Analysis (방송은 자사의 이익과 관련된 이슈에 대해 어떻게 보도하는가? 광고총량제, 700MHz 대역 주파수 재분배, 수신료 인상 보도 내용 분석)

  • Kim, Dokyung;Yoon, Youngmin
    • Korean journal of communication and information
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    • v.74
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    • pp.109-135
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    • 2015

  • This study investigated the news report tendency and frame by three major Korean television networks(KBS, MBC, and SBS) in their news reports on issues involving their own interests and considering in social level. The three issues chosen for this study are 'advertising regulations for total amount', 'the reallocation of 700MHz spectrum' and 'raising TV license fee'(this issue applicable only to KBS). By using content analysis method, this study identified extremely weighted tendency toward themselves by the network television channels. They have used highly biased tone and sources to reinforce their private interests in news reports about the three controversial issues. In terms of story content, the news reports have used attribution of responsibility frame dominantly in 'advertising regulations for total amount' issue, whereas the moral frame was dominant in the other two issues.

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