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Analyzing Patterns in News Reporters’ Information Seeking Behavior on the Web

  • Journal of the Korean Society for Information Management
  • Abbr : JKOSIM
  • 2010, 27(4), pp.109~130
  • DOI : 10.3743/KOSIM.2010.27.4.109
  • Publisher : 한국정보관리학회
  • Research Area : Interdisciplinary Studies > Library and Information Science
  • Received : November 14, 2010
  • Accepted : November 24, 2010
  • Published : December 30, 2010

Hye-jin Kwon 1 Dong-Youl Jeong 2

1동아일보
2이화여자대학교

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ABSTRACT

The purpose of this study is to identify th patterns in the news reporters’ information seeking behaviors by observing their web activities. For this purpose, transaction logs collected from 23 news reporters were analyzed. Web tracking software was installed to collect the data from their PCs, and a total of 39,860 web logs were collected in two weeks. Start and end pattern of sessions, transitional pattern by step, sequence rule model was analyzed and the pattern of Internet use was compared with the general public. the analysis of pattern derived a web information seeking behavior modes that consists of four types of behaviors: fact-checking browsing, fact-checking search, investigative browsing and investigative search.

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