The internet media play an increasingly powerful role in the process of constructing political reality. Especially, internet news is a new medium of news distribution, which provides the platform where its users can have a direct and convenient access...
The internet media play an increasingly powerful role in the process of constructing political reality. Especially, internet news is a new medium of news distribution, which provides the platform where its users can have a direct and convenient access to all the news produced by a variety of media.
This study considers that an active interaction of diverse factors facilitated the rapid growth of internet media′s news, a news distribution agency, into an influential media player during the Korean presidential election in 2007.
Accordingly, the purpose of this study was to examine the mechanisms engaged in the internet media′s agenda-setting, agenda-rippling and gatekeeping, appeared in the 17th presidential election. In this regard, four questioning issues are drawn out as follows;
Research Question 1: What is the internet media′s method of agenda-setting, and what are the differences of the meaning of news about the election?
Research Question 2: During the presidential election, how is made of the gatekeeping and what are the differences between the internet media and the traditional media?
Research Question 3: What are the user′s motive and pursuit of satisfaction, participating in the use of internet media′s agenda-rippling?
Research Question 4: What are the affects that user′s characteristic, the motive of use, participate in the agenda-rippling perceive and evaluate of the presidential candidates among the internet media?
To resolve the four questions above, this study was performed on the quantitative and qualitative content analysis and research for the online surveys, the in-depth interviews, the participation observation and the related documents and data. The study results maybe summarized as follows;
First, the content on the internet media news is a variety of ways that take advantage of OSMU(One Source Multi Use) system and the COPE(Created Once, Publish Everywhere) was demonstrated in the election strategy that might be visible. It also includes a range of media, there is a portal site, but it does not belong in newspapers and broadcasting capabilities beyond the capacity to perform. Therefore, the medium of Internet media capabilities and legal responsibility for the interpretation of a new vision is needed.
Second, the unfairness reporting of internet media process during the presidential election, which is noticeably biased reporting. The internet portal sites are especially severe than the other internet medias.
Third, in the election process, the internet media are the most relevant traditional media′s articles on the election rather than self articles. Particularly, traditional media such as newspapers and broadcast media in the dot product of news value, rank it and establish a system to assess the portal sites, but these elements into consideration without any other media′s news provided by the individual articles will be treated as supporters of a particular political party to a particular batch of biased stories.
Fourth, users of the internet bulletin board discussion and comments for the media interaction, including participation in the internet are the medium of the gatekeeper to take reciprocal relationship, the internet media as a factor that affects the gates differently. Research shows, the internet media′s gatekeeping is external factors and internal factors. External factors include executives and political groups, in addition to advertising associated with economic factors, social opinion, and there is a sense of civic groups, with not being significantly different from traditional media, but internal factors, the news portal site for the primary processing of selective editing articles provided by the traditional media editors and media influence is much higher than the gatekeeper.
Fifth, the internet media users participate in the election process, that the agenda-rippling of motivation and satisfaction will pursue it through sex, witnessed the interaction experiences vary. Indirectly, as well as work-related attributes, and the interaction of experience and the motivation is found out the difference.
Sixth, the user characteristics of internet media and a motive of use, participation in agenda-rippling affected assess of the presidential candidate. Internet users among voters, the media and the other candidates who are candidates for the cognitive structure of the discrimination to check the effectiveness of the measured results of the election agenda passed, the 17th presidential elections voters have used the Internet for election-related information and news TV most had heard through, followed by portal sites, the newspaper, but the presidential candidate, in order to determine the structure of perception and judgment and evaluation elements of portal sites with more than Internet use affects the newspaper.
In addition, the presidential candidate's image and decisiveness, purity, openness, credibility and leadership qualities of the six are evaluated to using elements and the use of attributes motives, agenda-rippling factors participation by those with the highest actual elements were found to be reliable, then higher order, decisiveness and leadership. Consequently, the 17th presidential election process in the domestic mass media and interpersonal internet media has worsen more than the 16th presidential election but had all the characteristics of the media.