“Ibasho” as Social Problems in Information Society

in the Case of Sasebo Incident Reporting

Abstract

With the dissemination and development of information and communication technology mainly on the Internet, social problems in the information society of today are intending for the web service that the individual uses. In this paper, we focus on the media use of individual people as social problems, and consider how it are made as an issue of "ibasho (places of being)" through analysis of reporting of Internet-related juvenile crime.