The era of ‘Internet of Things’ (IoT), in which all objects and the internet are connected and information is shared without human involvement, has arrived. According to <IoT Tech Road Map> published by SRI Consulting Business Intelligence in 2013, representative areas of IoT which will lead the market in...</iot>

Media technologies have evolved over time, competing with one another. Media are socially important agents rather than mere technological objects as they penetrate deeply into people's lives. For example, TV has been leading the mass communication age for a long time since the emergence of...

Connected to various media technologies such as smart phones or navigation systems, automobiles today are transforming into so-called 'smart cars'. Smart cars are not just mechanical devices, but information media systems. The smart car is a prosthesis that assists the driver, enhancing the...

What should academic journals do when the media and communication environment changes so rapidly? Apart from the scholarly rigor, academic journals are increasingly required to respond promptly to social needs and provide preemptive agendas for social discussion. Special issues are often...

LINE, the global mobile messenger service provider, has been extending its online business to the offline platform. Among many services, LINE FRIENDS, which manages the character business of LINE, launched an offline flagship store in Korea, Japan, and Southeast Asia (LINE FRIENDS, 2018.01.25)....

As the amount of data collected by individuals increases and working and education environments are digitalized, the demand for personal cloud storage services (PCSS) has been expanded as well. Users can upload their data to the storage in the cloud service and use or share the data seamlessly...

While Covid-19 has accelerated the digital transformation, increasing labour costs and 52-hour workweek rules are replacing human labor with self-service technologies (SSTs). Self-service technology is increasingly implemented and is expected to become a usual phenomenon in restaurant settings....

Car is now more than just a transportation method. Now a smartphone or a portable device can be easily connected to your car and this allows us to enjoy broader range of contents like music and navigation. This study aims to study investigate what leads drivers to use such car-connectivity...

With the increasing use of smart devices recently, mobile traffic has been increasing rapidly, which in turn results in greater demand for the frequency. Many countries have attempted to use the vacant frequencies known as TV White Space (TVWS) in an effort to solve the frequency problem. Super...

This study identifies and analyzes the causes for WiBro's failure in the Korean telecommunications market within the context of the technological systems framework and the actor-network theory. The reverse salients of WiBro were identified according to the activities of the actors from three...