2018
DOI: 10.3390/su10124736
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An Analysis of a Repetitive News Display Phenomenon in the Digital News Ecosystem

Abstract: In South Korea, approximately 88.5% of online users have obtained news and information from news aggregators such as Naver and Daum. Since most users read news on the internet, a new type of tabloid journalism, referred to as “news abuse,” has emerged in South Korea. “News abuse” is jargon used in South Korea to mean the repetitive display of news by online news publishers. “News abuse” is similar to “clickbait” in its use of clickbait headline links to attract online users’ attention and encourage them to cli… Show more

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“…Thus, links, such as "accounts-media literacy-media-literacy", "accounts-twitter-political communication", were distinguished, which could allude to the importance of having an information literacy that allows distinguishing whether the origin of the information is an official account or a fake one, as argued by authors in previous research (Trujillo-Torres et al 2020). In addition, links between descriptors, such as "Parody-politics-BIAS", "Science-Impact-BIAS", confirmed, on the one hand, the importance of the concept of fake news, understood as news that parodies certain events, but which has the intention of influencing the population on a certain perception or idea (Kwak et al 2018).…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 94%
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“…Thus, links, such as "accounts-media literacy-media-literacy", "accounts-twitter-political communication", were distinguished, which could allude to the importance of having an information literacy that allows distinguishing whether the origin of the information is an official account or a fake one, as argued by authors in previous research (Trujillo-Torres et al 2020). In addition, links between descriptors, such as "Parody-politics-BIAS", "Science-Impact-BIAS", confirmed, on the one hand, the importance of the concept of fake news, understood as news that parodies certain events, but which has the intention of influencing the population on a certain perception or idea (Kwak et al 2018).…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 94%
“…The arrival of information and communication technologies (ICT) has brought many benefits to the lives of citizens. Among them, the immediate access to information through different web portals allows society to keep up to date with the latest news and information developments worldwide (Kwak et al 2018;Jamil et al 2015).…”
Section: Introductionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Also, most people consume news delivered by the major portal sites such as Naver and Kakao. Notoriously, because Naver, the top portal site shares the advertising revenue with the news outlets based on the number of viewers (Dwyer and Hutchinson, 2019), every online news tries to get attention of as many users as possible (Kwak et al, 2018). Further, the news media found another reliable way to generate revenue: producing online news articles sponsored by other companies.…”
Section: The Context Of Korean Journalismmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Technological shifts in media consumption change the way people use newspapers, and consequently, the way newspaper companies make profits. Also, media firms' reactions to a current revenue structure have been studied [12]. They analyzed a phenomenon.…”
Section: Related Literaturementioning
confidence: 99%