Youngju Kim

TL;DR: This study attempts to identify the predictors of e-book reader diffusion with regard to consumer awareness, interest, and intention to use by assessing the relative influence of demographics, media usage/ownership, and personal traits/perception variables in the technology-adoption process.

TL;DR: This article examined how exposure to uncivil online comments influences individuals' attitude polarization along political party lines, perceived political polarization of the public, and expectations about public deliberation, and found that exposure to online discussion does not affect attitude polarization, but it does significantly affect the perceived polarization.

TL;DR: Investigations showed that both the public and journalists' evaluations were varied by the manipulation of author notification, confirming the public's negative attitude toward journalists' credibility and craving for new information and communication technology (ICT) products/services in Korea.

TL;DR: Lee et al. as discussed by the authors assesses the degree of burnout among newspaper firm employees in Korea and investigates the causes and consequences of this phenomenon, finding that employees suffer from burnout due to overload, a non-autonomous, non-supportive work environment, and dissatisfaction with the work itself.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on the ironic situation in which news is more available than ever but people are becoming overwhelmed and thus avoid it, and a theoretical model is suggested to investigate the relat...