新潟日報投稿欄からみる「生活記録」の役割と意味

抄録

  The purpose of this study is to explain the practice of Niigata Nippo “Seikatsu-kiroku” column from the viewpoint of editors and readers' communications, and to consider the role and meaning of the column.

  The Niigata Nippo was influenced by the seikatsu-kiroku movement, and established its own “Seikatsu-kiroku” column. The “Seikatsu-kiroku” column is a forum in which readers write seikatsu-kiroku essays, and editors select and comment on them in the newspaper. The form is different from the Seikatsu-kiroku movement, where comments are written continuously among the group, and discussed within the group communication between editors and readers is difficult and interactive communication does not work easily.

  The “Seikatsu-kiroku” column in, which communications were restricted, was practiced by a method different from the Seikatsu-kiroku movement in the following points: (1) A method of criticism concerning content. Because the process was centered on the role of the editors, individual problem became tied to issues in regional society. (2) The method of criticism concerning written expression.

  Editors corrected written expression to transmit the appearance and the ideas to readers. This is not an improvement in the technique of the Seikatsu-kiroku movement. The individual voice of the writers is lost.

  The “Seikatsu-kiroku” column is played the role of communicating problem solving processes to a lot of readers. And the “Seikatsu-kiroku’ column helped promote Seikatsu-kiroku movement.