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KMID : 1001320140410040325
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Social Welfare Policy
2014 Volume.41 No. 4 p.325 ~ p.349
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Analysis on Semantic Structure Shared among the Older Adults in the Online Community
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Choi Hye-Kyung
Key Young-Hwa
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Abstract
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This research was done to discover the understanding and the shared meaning of life for older adults participating in the online community. For this observation, the key words were selected from the texts recorded on the bulletin board in the representative online communities for elders, “The Beautiful 5060” and “The Beautiful 60s”, and their structural characteristics and shared meanings were evaluated through the semantic network analysis. The result showed that, from the centrality analysis, the structural characteristics of the two online communities were dominated by the words “mother, sons and daughters, appreciate, health” and many others in the total network structure, and the structural forms appeared to be similar. Also, the shared meaning among the older adults was to share everyday life stories and entering into relationships through offline meetings, to exercise for a healthy and enriched senescence, and to maintain a community of encouragement through the online community. These results suggest that a senior citizen experiences physical, emotional, cognitive, and societal developments through the course of his or her entire lifespan. Therefore, an implication to a social welfare policy for their connection into the society was to be provided in order to focus on the older adults who are participating in online communities, the novel living space in the information society, and help lead them to form connections with people of similar interests and furthermore expedite their social activities.
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KEYWORD
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online community, older adults, semantic structure, content analysis, semantic network
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