2008, Vol.15, No.2

Informatization Policy 2023 KCI Impact Factor : 4.08

pISSN : 1598-3498
https://journal.kci.go.kr/nia

Information system (IS) audit is a unique policy implemented only in Korea. Since 1980's, Korea has launched very active informatization program across country and initiated a large number of IT projects. Korea government was greatly concerned about the success of IT projects, and introduced a mandatory policy of IS audit, in whcih a government funded project with over a certain amount of project money be subject to IS audit. IS audit has been recognized as a helpful activity to government contractors. However, there is a rising concern about utility of IS audit in these days. Typical complains are subjective audit results that cannot be agreed or audit results not helping management decision making. The study focuses on problems of IS audit in Korea, suggests future directions that IS audit gains its utilityagain. Reviewing diverse management and IT related literature, the study attempts to build a scientific foundation of IS audit, which could lead the discipline more useful and sound.

This study tries to explore journalistic features of the portal in Korea. Although portal’s gatekeeping role has been suggested to explain its journalistic role, it is, however, highly limited because it neither produces news stories, nor did choose individual news stories. Concept of the gatewatching, meaning to watch out numerous news outlets, could explain more effectively the role of portal journalism. This paper examines sourcesites’ networks of 12 portals in Korea focusing on three analytic points such as: the scale of sourcesites, preferential sites, and relations among portals in terms of sharing sites. The results reveal that the portal possesses a potential of gatewatcher. It provides multi-perspective news by aggregating a number of sourcesites. However, the portals intend to depend on a few types of sourcesites: mainly on mainstream journalism. They also share same sourcesites with other portals, which used to generate a homogeneous news contents. From these findings, it suggests that if the portal would develop the function of gatewatching, it is more important to widen the range of sourcesite diversity and to develop differences among the portals than just to focus on increase the number of sourcesites.

Today, the Internet network is widely disseminated in the world. People have the chance to communicate political information and build up the Internet-based connection. So, web campaign plays an important role in the political process. The political candidates for the U.S. Presidential election have been using the web 2.0 YouTube.com as an outlet for advertising their candidacies. Web 2.0 is a term describing the trend in the use of World Wide Web(www) technology. And the YouTube.com is the largest User Created Content (UCC) web site in the world. The UCC refers to various kinds of media content, publicly available, that are produced by end-users. This paper analyzes the perspective and characteristic of the U.S. Presidential campaign - so called“ YouTube politics”or “UCC politics”. The paper explores the connection among political institution, culture, and the ICTs, by analysing CNN-YouTube Presidential debates. There are general conclusions which can be drawn from the analysis on the development of the UCC politics.