「情報生活論」序説 : 生活の情報化に関する生活者主体の理論枠設定の試み

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In this article, in order to understand"informationalization in the home, "it is asserted that the field of home informatics should be established and the phenomena of informationalization in the home should be conceptually dealt with in the course of changes of lifestyles or structures of life. The field of home informatics has to be established as an outcome of efforts to integrate studies in the field of media and information use with various studies on lives by many approaches like sociology and"life study"that is unique in Japan. Studies on media and information use have not been well related with studies on lives of people in Japan. In fact, in the studies on mass media, lives are often treated as such very abstract concepts as environments or life consciousness. On the other hand, in the studies on lives in Japan, the social phases of urbanization and consumption-oriented society are emphasized and the phenomenon of informationalization or media use is mostly neglected. Many recent phenomena in the media or information-related activities of people in the daily lives are well understood in the field of home informatics. For example, in the course of changes in the lives of the Japanese in recent years, posession of many information media in their homes is regarded as another example of increasing goods in their households. Personal possession of media is increasing as a result of such trend. Networking activities could also be seen in the consideration of social relations in the lives of people. Japanese lifestyles are going to the stage where people use much more media and information than before. Some parts of their life structures should be re-categorized into information-oriented parts and we should study these parts as established categories of home informatics.