This study aims to analyze the text terms posted on an online cafe of people from the same hometown and to understand the topic and trend of nostalgia composed online. For this purpose, this study collected 144 writings posted from January 1 through D ...
This study aims to analyze the text terms posted on an online cafe of people from the same hometown and to understand the topic and trend of nostalgia composed online. For this purpose, this study collected 144 writings posted from January 1 through December 31, 2016 on an online cafe in which people from Area B. in City A. and conducted morpheme analysis and association rule of the writings. First, this study extracted 2924 morphemes with the largest number of frequencies in the 144 writings. Also, this study analyzed the terms extracted and investigated the characteristics of the terms related to nostalgia. In addition, this study conducted association rule, dividing the texts into Set A, the original files and Set B, for which the researcher coded emotional languages with the texts, and visualized them. The main results of the study are as follows.
First, as a result of an analysis of terms with high frequencies used for nostalgia, composed online, the concepts of time and figure mainly appeared. Nostalgia-related studies till now insisted that nostalgia strongly has a temporality of the past. Along with this, like Yun (2014) argued, the concept of person, too, is the main material that constitutes nostalgia.
Second, as a result of visualization through the association rule, it was found that Set A, that of the texts, the objects of study consisted of four large groups with the terms ‘today’, ‘thought’, ‘heart’ and ‘man’ as hubs and interrelated groups centering around ‘happiness’, ‘gratitude’, ‘we’, ‘everyone’ and ‘preciousness.’ In addition, it was found that Set B, which was coded by the researcher, centering around emotions that appeared in Set A consisted of four groups with ‘pleasure’, ‘happiness’, ‘regret’ and ‘longing’ as hubs. This means that just defining nostalgia as ‘a mind longing for hometown’ is not an enough explanation.
Third, texts composed online have abstractness rather than persons’ individual stories. A study comparing this study only with the texts posted online with Yun (2014) that had interviews with a few persons who posted plenty of writings among the members of the online cafe, the object of this study supports this. In the result of the analysis through the interviews, the names and methods of specific games and the stories of daily life concretized by each person appeared, while the texts posted online have a characteristic that they did not often deal with individuals’ concrete stories.
This study figured out the relationship that had the most critical and closest mutual association among the terms that constituted nostalgia through literature research, morpheme analysis and association rule concerning nostalgia. The result of this study has a characteristic that it summed up the core terms and emotions related to nostalgia.