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  • e-Research applications for tracking online socio-political capital in the Asia-Pacific region

    • Authors: Steven Sams; Yon Soo Lim; Han Woo Park (2011)

  • Online content offers with it the potential to provide a rich source of data for academic researchers. To capture this data an e-Research tool was developed to utilise results from prominent Korean search engine Naver in the analysis of online political presence, thereby bridging a lack of coverage for this approach in the Asia-Pacific region. This paper will outline the development of this specific tool as well as highlight e-Research tool development in general. Whilst e-Research tools offer greater access to large datasets from online sources than more established data collection methods, they also present challenges to implementation and a lack of consensus exists on the responsib...
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  • Introduction to the special issue: social media interaction between public and government in Asia-Pacific

    • 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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  • Mediated relations: new methods to study online social capital

    • Authors: Maurice Vergeer; Yon Soo Lim; Han Woo Park (2011)

  • The Web has expanded the research agenda for communication scholars to study social capital. In this field of Internet studies, new indicators of social behavior and social relations have surfaced to describe and understand how social capital develops online and what the consequences are for social capital in general. Specifically, Web 2.0 as characterized by User Generated Content on weblogs and the enormously popular social network sites significantly increased the impor-tance of studying online social capital. To study online social capital, traditional and new means of data collection and analysis can be used. This study focuses on the origins of the concept of social capital, ho...
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  • SNS use by the Korean government: a case of Me2Day

    • 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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  • Social media communication strategies of government agencies: Twitter use in Korea and the USA

    • 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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  • The filter bubble generated by artificial intelligence algorithms and the network dynamics of collective polarization on YouTube: the case of South Korea

    • 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...