Does rule change cause activity change? An empirical study of online news comments in Korea

Baek, Hyunmi; Jang, Moonkyoung; Kim, Seong-Cheol

doi:10.1016/j.telpol.2020.102008

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“…Particularly, Naver News serves as a platform that collects articles from over 70 media outlets and provides news aggregation services. It has been extensively utilized in research to analyze online opinions and commenting behaviors ( Kwak et al, 2018 ; Baek et al, 2020 , 2022 ; Lee and Lee, 2023 ).…”

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The characteristics of online gerontophobia expressions in South Korea

Kim,

Ryu

2023

Front. Psychol.

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Recently, South Korea has been transitioning into a super-aged society. The purpose of this paper is to identify the patterns and underlying causes of gerontophobia expressions in South Korea. This paper refines the patterns of gerontophobia expressions into five types: “Fear of Aging,” “Resource Burden,” “Social Isolation,” “Criticism of Social Behavior,” and “Stereotypes of Political Orientation.” Based on these types, this study develops a deep learning algorithm to detect the type of gerontophobia expressions. To do this, kc-BERT was used and 760,140 news comments (for six years from May 1, 2017, to June 31, 2021) in Naver news was used. The result shows that “Fear of Aging” type exhibited a significant decreasing trend, while the other types showed no meaningful changes. The results of topic modeling on news articles indicated that various aspects of elderly life, unresolved historical events, COVID−19, digital and financial exclusion, economic and social welfare, and other critical societal issues co-occur and contribute to gerontophobia. This study provides a framework to understand the characteristics of online gerontophobia, offering insights into its underlying causes, and providing practical implications for policy makers.

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The characteristics of online gerontophobia expressions in South Korea

Kim,

Ryu

2023

Front. Psychol.

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“…In addition, news platform operators try to adopt news comment ordering systems to reduce malicious comments. For example, Baek et al (2020) analyzed the impacts of changing comments ordering system on malicious Technically, portal sites are trying to improve the platform from a long-term perspective by introducing a clean bot to automatically delete malicious comments or to manage the history of commenters by disclosing their past comment writing history. Finally, studies have been conducted on the characteristics of malicious commenters.…”

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How people perceive malicious comments differently: factors influencing the perception of maliciousness in online news comments

Lee,

Baek,

Kim

2023

Front. Psychol.

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This study proposes a comprehensive model to investigate the factors that influence the perceived maliciousness of online news comments. The study specifically examines individual factors, including demographic characteristics (e.g., gender and age), personality traits (e.g., empathy and attitudes toward online news comments), and reading-related factors (e.g., the amount of news comment reading). Contextual factors such as issue involvement, perceived peer behavior, and the presence of malicious comments in news articles are also considered. The results suggest that most of the proposed variables have a significant impact on the perceived maliciousness of online news comments, except for morality and issue involvement. The findings have important theoretical implications for research on malicious online news comments and provide practical guidelines for online news platforms on how to reduce malicious comments by visualizing them alongside other news comments.

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