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  • Authors: Yeon-Ok Lee; Han Woo Park (2014)

  • Some argue that the label ‘Web 2.0’ is problematic, as it constitutes a dominant discourse by which professional elites define ‘what is associated with the Web today as common sense’ and ‘what enters the public discourse about the impact of the Internet on society’ (Scholz, 2008; see also Allen, 2013). Despite the controversy over the term, nevertheless, what can be safely said is that with the rise of whatever is labelled as Web 2.0 platforms, such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and the likes, and their permeation into people’s everyday lives in recent years, social media1 have become an indispensable milieu for political interactions.

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  • Authors: Chung Joo Chung; Seong Eun Cho; Han Woo Park (2014)

  • This study examines the debates and discussions surrounding the Korean govern-ment’s Me2Day, the largest social networking and microblogging site in the country used by 26 government bureaus, including the Blue House. Me2Day users post messages composed of up to 150 characters and establish links with other users through multimedia-based information and knowledge obtained from their browsers, desktop computers, e-mail messages, and mobile phones. This study provides a better understanding of the characteristics and structures of cyberspace communication between the Korean government and citizens. The results indicate that although each bureau had different goals in terms of using Me2D...

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  • Authors: Gohar Feroz Khan; Ho Young Yoon; Han Woo Park (2014)

  • This study examines Twitter use by the central government in Korea and the federal government in the USA by employing the webometric technique to extract their Twitter activity (basic Twitter statistics such as the numbers of followers, followings, and Tweets) and the social network analysis technique to map the relationship between their Twitter accounts and the direction of outlinks in their Tweets. The results of the initial analysis indicate some differences in Twitter strategies between the two governments. For example, Korean ministries were well connected through a dense network, engaged in collective cooperation, and retweeted common content to reinforce their collective agend...

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  • Authors: Han Woo Park; Sejung Park (2024)

  • This study examined the role of the ‘filter bubble,’ an algorithm mediated YouTube video suggestion system, in political polarization and the presence of echo chamber patterns in public engagement. We examined the mechanism by which automated YouTube recommendations augment selective exposure to ideologically similar content and the network-based dynamics of collective polarization. We collected lists of videos recommended by conservative and progressive news media and the accompanying replies using YouTube application programming interfaces (APIs) embedded in YouTube Data Tools and Webometric Analyst 2.0. The study examined similarities in content of related videos and conversation n...