• Research in Community and Public Health Nursing
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• v.29 no.3
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• pp.371-381
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• 2018

Purpose: The purpose of this study is to identify the mediating effects of self-esteem between social comparison orientation and social network service (SNS) addiction in university students. Methods: Descriptive cross-sectional survey design was employed. The data were statistically analyzed by using the descriptive and inferential statistics. Sobel test and Bootstrap method, and Kappa squared mediation effect size measure were used to identify the mediator's significance. A convenience sample of 195 subjects was recruited from two universities in Korea. Results: The mean age of the subjects was $22.58{\pm}1.81$. The subjects showed relatively high levels of SNS addiction with a mean score of $14.33{\pm}4.80$. The overall model significantly explained 37.0% of variances in the subjects' SNS addiction after controlling gender, age, grade, major, period of SNS using, time spent on SNS per day, and times accessed SNS per day. Of the predictors, time spent on SNS per day, social comparison orientation, and self-esteem were significantly associated with SNS addiction. Self-esteem was the mediator between social comparison orientation and SNS addiction. Conclusion: When developing strategies for preventing SNS addiction, interventions for reducing time spent on SNS per day, not having upward social comparison orientation, and improving the self-esteem should be considered. These findings might provide a theoretical basis for developing effective strategies for preventing SNS addiction in university students.

• Journal of Digital Convergence
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• v.12 no.2
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• pp.183-191
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• 2014

SNS uses the Internet as its base. It is created in order to achieve communication between the users. Up until now, most previous research were focused on the users of SNS. But, there are still a great deal of people who do not use or discontinuously use SNS. This is because users have natural resistance against SNS when using the service. In this study, time shortage perception, awareness of SNS, self-efficacy, suitability, information quality of SNS, subjective norm and privacy concern are considered as influence factors by previous research. An empirical study for Chinese students and internet users was conducted to identify how these factors influence perceived risk and perceived usefulness, and how this influence to user's resistance. This study can explain the reason why users don't use SNS and resist SNS use.

• Journal of Internet Computing and Services
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• v.18 no.5
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• pp.95-102
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• 2017

With the development and popularization of Internet, the competition of SNS market is now getting fiercer and fiercer. SNS service providers need to keep updating their service to sustain their customers' continuance use. However, due to the homogenization of functions and services from different applications provided by different developers, there comes a new phenomenon that users shift from one SNS to another SNS. In line with this, the current study aims to explore factors affecting switching intention among SNS users by applying migration theory which explains people's migration behavior from one place to another. Findings from surveys of Korean and Chinese college students suggest that there was a difference of factors influencing switching intention among the two countries. For Korean college students, alternative attraction was the strongest factor leading to SNS switching intention. On the other hand, peer pressure was the strongest factor leading to SNS switching intention among Chinese college students.

• The Journal of Korea Institute of Information, Electronics, and Communication Technology
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• v.8 no.6
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• pp.544-550
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• 2015

The opinion mining technique which analogize significant information from SNS message is increasingly important because opinions communicated through SNS are increasing. This paper propose SEIAS(SNS Emotional Information Analysis Strategy) based on opinion mining that analogize emotional information from SNS setting a different weight according to position of antonym and adverb. Firstly, the proposed SEIAS constructs a emotion dictionary for opinion mining analysis, Secondly, it collects SNS data on real time, compare it with emotion dictionary and calculates opinion value of SNS data. Specially, it increases the precision of opinion analysis result compared to the existing SO-PMI because it sets up the different value according to the position of antonym and adverb when it calculates the opinion value of data.

• The KIPS Transactions:PartD
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• v.19D no.4
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• pp.271-280
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• 2012

Currently, contents generated by SNS services are increasing exponentially, as the number of SNS users increase. The SNS is commonly used to post personal status and individual interests. Also, the SNS is applied in socialization, entertainment, product marketing, news sharing, and single person journalism. As SNS services became available on smart phones, the users of SNS services can generate and spread the social issues and controversies faster than the traditional media. The existing indexing methods for web contents have limitation in terms of real-time indexing for SNS contents, as they usually focus on diversity and accuracy of indexing. To overcome this problem, there are real-time indexing techniques based on RDBMSs. However, these techniques suffer from complex indexing procedures and reduced indexing targets. In this regard, we introduce the TK-Indexing method to improve the previous indexing techniques. Our method indexes the generation time of SNS contents and keywords by way of NoSQL to indexing SNS contents in real-time.

• The Journal of the Convergence on Culture Technology
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• v.4 no.4
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• pp.267-272
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• 2018

Today, SNS exists as the most influential medium. A variety of designs are being produced in the context of numerous SNS marketing designs and the increasing exposure of ads to SNS and portal sites. Recognizing the current status of sns advertising design, which is heating up more than a decade ago, we will study strategies to introduce an important part of education to be conducted in universities and the current way in which it is used and produced. Modern SNS marketing designs include promotional posters, card news, and banner ads, and are evolving into various forms and content that are combined with advertisements. In communicating or sharing information, the importance of real-time advertising product work and the saving of caustic costs are important. This requires a diversification of university education, as well as a change in quality and speed of production. When the graduates of SNS Design Production Education Development Plan and design work were carried out, they conducted a study on the education section where real-time work is possible to proceed to the industrial field. Through this research, we would like to consider the development of SNS marketing design personnel and the practical implications of training methods.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Information and Commucation Sciences Conference
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• 2016.10a
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• pp.507-510
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• 2016

SNS connect off-line and on-line so that it forms a relationship by sharing users' life and interests. Especially, marketing through SNS is not only economical also it spreads in the fast pace. Thus, many enterprise recognize SNS as a part of platform of ads and they are constantly investing on SNS ads. Also, with the spread of smartphones, the rate of adolescents who use SNS has soared and the rate of exposure to SNS ads also has increased. However, SNS ads have great impact on adolescents'decision-making, because their values of decision-making has not been well developed so that they are easy to influenced by external factors. Therefore, this study aims to understand the effect of SNS ads on adolescents'decision-making.

• Journal of the Korea Academia-Industrial cooperation Society
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• v.22 no.6
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• pp.499-506
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• 2021

The purpose of this study is to verify the effect of SNS addiction on cyber-bullying among adolescents, considering the adjustment effect of friendship on this relationship. This study involved 811 middle/high school students with a gender distribution of 391 males and 420 females. According to the analysis, the higher the level of SNS addiction, the higher the level of cyber-bullying. A hierarchical regression analysis was conducted to verify the moderating effect of friendship. The result shows that better peer communication and reliance lowers the impact of cyber-bullying from SNS addiction. Based on research results suggesting the popularization of proactive pre-diagnosis programs to solve SNS addiction, practical intervention plans and the limitations of research on SNS addiction and cyber-bullying in youth are suggested.

• Journal of the Korea Institute of Information Security & Cryptology
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• v.20 no.6
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• pp.261-270
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• 2010

As the usage of social network service(SNS) increases recently, great attention has been shown to the information security in SNS. However, there has been little investment in SNS environment for security while preferential investment to attract subscribers has been made so far. Moreover, there is still a lack of confidence for investment effect and an absence of framework to analyze the threat factors of information security in SNS. In this paper, we propose to model for decision-making standard of SNS information security investment by the AHP. The result shows that 'service image' is the most important criterion for the decision of SNS information security. It also shows that 'Profile-squatting and reputation slander through ID thefts' and 'Corporate espionage' are important threat factors in SNS information security.

• The Journal of the Korea Contents Association
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• v.22 no.3
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• pp.189-196
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• 2022

This study confirmed the moderating effect of online social support on the rejection sensitivity and SNS addiction tendency of adults. For this purpose, a survey was conducted using the SNS addiction propensity scale, rejection sensitivity scale, and online social support scale targeting 486 adults nationwide. The collected data were analyzed using SPSS 27 and PROCESS Macro 3.5. As a result of this study, first, SNS addiction tendency, rejection sensitivity, and online social support were all positively correlated. Second, in the relationship between rejection sensitivity and SNS addiction tendency, online social support showed a moderating effect in the male group. The results of this study are significant in that they confirmed the importance of rejection sensitivity and online social support in confirming the tendency of SNS addiction in male and female groups. Based on these results, the limitations of this study and suggestions for follow-up studies were presented.