The expansion of the online market is expected to change the purchasing environment. The purpose of this study is to examine the difference in the moderating effect of each characteristic on perceived quality and purchase intention according to the group according to product involvement and purchaser age. The first step is to identify the characteristics of online information sources and social media platforms through a literature review. Next, when perceived quality affects purchase intention, we verify the moderating effect according to the characteristics of online information sources and social media platforms. The moderating effect is verified at the stage by dividing it into a group according to product involvement and a group according to age. The following results were confirmed throughout the study: First, perceived quality significantly affects purchase intention. Second, in the relationship between perceived quality and purchase intention, the influence of the moderating effect is different depending on the high-involvement product and the low-involvement product. Third, it was confirmed that there was a difference in the moderating effect of online information sources and social media platforms in the relationship between perceived quality and purchase intention according to age. This study intends to increase consumers' purchase intentions by identifying specific age groups and product groups of involvement and establishing strategies suitable for the characteristics of online information sources and social media platforms.

The purpose of this study is to analyze the effects of English learning through social media on the perception and affective factors of college students. To this end, researchers examined whether the educational use of YouTube and KakaoTalk, popular among college students in Korea, differs according to English improvement, affective factors, and English level. The subjects of this study were 63 freshmen majoring in Medical Convergence, who were taking college English at C University located in Gangwon-do. An online questionnaire was used for data collection. The collected data were analyzed using Jamovi, a statistical program. The results are as follows. First, the participants positively changed the perception that the use of social media had on the overall improvement of English. Second, the affective domains such as self-confidence, attitudes, values, beliefs, and interests of the participants also changed positively. Finally, it was confirmed that social media has educational value regardless of English level.

Abstract: Mental health problems leading to depression have become a critical concern due to the growing engagement of people on social media platforms. Several past approaches have been implemented by analyzing the pattern and behaviour of the posts by users on social networking sites. This research study proposed a system for predicting users who may be depressed, based on the characteristics of users who is already affected. A combination of both the tweet-level and the user-level architecture was used to generate a more robust and reliable system where semantic embeddings trained from advanced neural networks were adopted under the tweet-level. SVM with Word2Vec and TF-IDF has been used and yielded an accuracy of 98.14% and recall of 95.63%.

본 연구는 스마트폰에 대한 소셜 빅데이터를 활용한 감정분석을 통해 스마트폰 속성에 대한 이용자의 감정의 정도를 측정함으로서 타당하게 만족도를 파악할 수 있는 새로운 방법론적 가능성을 탐색하였다. 연구결과는 다음과 같다. 첫째, 각 모델에 따른 연관어를 비교하면, 갤 s8는 제품불량과 관련된 단어가 많이 포함되어 있는 반면 갤 s9는 배터리, 카메라, 스피커와 같은 기능과 관련된 단어가, 갤 s10은 배터리, 카메라와 함께 색상에 대한 단어가 많이 사용되었다. 또한 타 단어와의 관계성 분석 결과, 배터리의 경우 갤 s8에서는 중립적 의미로 사용된 반면에 갤 s9와 갤 s10에서는 배터리의 빠른 소모를 나타내는 부정적인 의미로 쓰이고 있다. 이와 함께 기술의 진화에 따라 같은 단어가 다른 맥락에서 사용되는 의미의 변화도 이루어지고 있음을 확인했다. 둘째, 각 모델에 대한 24개월간의 감정 추이를 보면, 제품 출시 초기에는 부정적인 평가가 주를 이루다가 출시 1년 정도를 기점으로 긍정적인 감정 평가를 보이게 되며 20개월 정도 지나게 되면 다시 부정적인 평가로 변화되고 있다. 마지막으로, 감정의 주요 속성을 비교해 보면, 세 모델 모두 출시 초기에는 다양한 속성에 대해서 이야기하지만 1년 정도의 시간이 흐르면 가격과 배터리에 대한 논의로 수렴되어지는 특징이 공통적으로 나타났다. 본 연구는 이용자 만족도 조사의 전통적인 설문조사 방법의 한계를 뛰어넘어 소셜 빅데이터를 활용한 감정분석으로 방법론적 확장을 시도했다는 점에서 그 의의가 크다 하겠다. 마케팅적 시사점으로는 소수의 인플루언서나 파워 유튜버들이 아니라 초기채택자들을 어떻게 공략하느냐가 매우 중요하다는 점과 초기 품질 관리가 어떤 홍보 노력보다 더 중요하다는 점이 본 연구를 통해 도출되었다.

The aim of this study is to investigate fashion activism that supports sustainability by pursuing social transformation through social media. This is achieved by publicizing the environmental and labor problems of the fashion industry. For this study, a literary survey and netnography were conducted from January 2017 to November 2020. We classified and analyzed environmental and labor issues that could be considered fashion activism on social media. The results are as follows. First, movements for conscious consumption appeared as #haulternative, #fashionourfuture, #SecondHandSeptember, and #wornwear projects. These movements are concerned with buying used goods, re-dressing clothes owned by individuals, and transforming and wearing them with new methods. Second, activism for environmental protection includes #fashionOnclimate by Global Fashion Agenda and Sustainable Fashion Matterz’ #Watermatterz. These movements are directly involved in learning about the seriousness of environmental destruction caused by the fashion industry and participating in environmental protection with critical awareness. Third, the #whomademyclothes and the Clean Clothes Campaign are activism for improving the working environment, and are playing a role in publicizing labor issues by informing the general public about inadequate working conditions linked to the fashion industry. Thus, fashion activism on social media examined in this study can contribute to visualizing chronic problems that hinder sustainable development within the fashion industry.

The social media influencer (SMI) phenomenon is attracting attention from academia and business. A SMI refers to an individual who has accumulated a sizable social network of followers and thereby has influence over others (Ki et al., 2020). Due to the influence SMIs possess, an increasing number of brands are approaching SMIs and asking them to create and share branded content that includes product placements or brand recommendations. This practice is commonly referred to as influencer marketing. Reflecting the trend of influencer marketing, this study investigated: (1) whether consumers are ‘inspired-by’ SMIs and ‘inspired-to’ adopt the exemplars of SMIs (e.g., SMIs’ lifestyles, styles, and recommendations) as their social defaults that provide desirable standards that consumers will like and follow, and if so, (2) what are its causal factors and effects, and (3) whether the inspiration mechanism between SMIs and consumers differs between male and female consumers. In so doing, we drew on social defaults theory (Huh et al., 2014) and customer inspiration theory (Böttger et al., 2017).

The study builds and tests a framework investigating the determinants of customer engagement with luxury brands on social media platforms.

The study builds and tests a framework investigating the determinants of customer engagement with luxury brands on social media platforms.