The effect of social media to conserve the local traditional performing arts by citizen participation

Abstract

This paper's objective is to measure the effect of social media to conserve the local traditional performing arts in the archive activities by citizen participation. We connected "Twitter" as a social media to "Hanamatsuri-no-sato" which has been in operation as a local web site in mountainous area, Aichi, Japan. The result of the effect measurement, we found 3 points of effects as follows; (1) to promote the citizen participation, (2) to provide the face to face communication opportunity, (3)to encourage some activities such as a posting to retain the relationship.