Artifact design in recent years has focused on user experience. The experience of using artifacts results in subjective meaning generation for different users. To design the process of generating meaning, the concept of information defined in the dynamic phase is available. Dynamic information understands the relationship between users and artifacts as a process to generate meanings. This research reviews earlier research on the concept of information and attempts to examine a method for quantitatively measuring the generated meaning.

Due to aging of the population, In the field of Social Work, Information and Communication Technology has been exploited at various scene. Avobe all, Agents should be accessed to the system on the administrative procedures. What kind of services does governments or public-sectors provide? This study shows a study for certification by E-Government based on previous researches and recent instances. First, Looking back on the change of IT strategy trend while 2000's-early stage of 2010's , It searches that why my-number is required. At last, It explains images for the future.

Public hospitals are obligated to take part in acute phase medical care within the Local Inclution Care System to cope with the aging society. What is the financial situation like in hospitals that contribute to the the community healthcare ? This paper comperes top ranking and lower ranking which practice community healthcare within the DPC/PDPS system. As a result, top hospitals are highly profitable on a large scale, whereas lower ranking hospitals require financial aid in order to function properly and improve the community healthcare.

In recent years, along with the growing popularity of social media there has been an increasing number of incidents involving interaction via social media. We investigated young women's interaction with men via social media using online questionnaire survey and Marketing Research Online Community (MROC). In this paper, we focus on the relationship between the sexual norms of young women and interaction with men via social media.

While the scale of ‘Social media' usage is increasing in the young generation, crimes which target to young women come to attract attention in Japan. We investigated young women's interaction with men via social media, using the MROC -Marketing Research Online Community and online questionnaire survey. In this article, we portray why and how young women encounter men via social media.

This paper shows the effects and directions of ICT literacy education in the disaster-stricken areas of the Great East Japan Earthquake. I have supported such an activity named as "Aiko-kai" in Yamamoto, which is a town located in Watari District, Miyagi Prefecture, together with some researchers since 2012. The activity was voluntarily initiated by the people in Yamamoto. Our research group conducted a questionnaire to the people in Yamamoto who are participating in its activity. In this paper, I discuss the results of the questionnaire.

In the Japanese local autonomy, dualistic representative structure is adopted. Therefore it is necessary to consider relationship between the executive organ and the proceedings organization to examine the management in the local autonomy. The proceedings organization receives reporting about the management from the executive organ and bears a role to clarify information about the management through the deliberation. In this study, it examines the existence of the assembly which is proceedings organization as the place to accumulate and exhibit the local government management information.

This paper aims to investigate how local SNSs are discussed in municipal assemblies. Recently, the number of local SNSs has decreased. According to GLOCOM's research, the number of local SNSs peaked at about 500 as of 2010, but by 2013, the number of local SNSs declined to 300. However, with the exception of a series of studies conducted by the author, there are only a few surveys of the reasons why local governments closed down their social media platforms.

This research is based on the minutes of 19 proceedings of municipal governments. Municipal governments were classified into two groups: the first is governments which continue the operation of local SNSs, and the second is governments which have already abolished the local SNSs. The results are as follows: municipalities (excluding Mitaka, Kakegawa and Mishima) in the first group did not discuss the topic of local SNSs topic. On the other hand, Mitaka, Kakegawa, and Mishima discussed the possibilities of Local SNSs from a unique perspective of each municipality. Municipalities in the second group focused on the two following topics: one was related to management policies after the abolition of local SNSs, and one was the criticism of the stagnation of usage.

We have proposed the use of media strategy model listening, cognitive acquisition, raised interest, search induction, the landing point development, behavioral facilitation consists of seven phases of information sharing support, in government public relations.

For media utilization strategies model, the evaluation results, and has the meaning of certain revealed. In addition, I can be considered skill and willingness of certain is necessary for an understanding of the use of media strategy model.

Recently some Japnanese local governments have started providing local residents with their information and communicating with local residents and potential visitors by using social media such as Facebook and Twitter in addition to the traditional media such as monthly information magazines and fliers and relative new media such as internet website and BBS(Buletin Board Service). Though a lot of local governments are interested in social media, few studies have done to clarify the effects and risks of information provision and communication through social media. In this study, based on a nationwide websurvey conducted in 2014, we try to reveal the current state and problems of ulilizing social media in the field of public hearing and public relations activities.

To analyze how Open Source Software (OSS) affects business growth both through simple use and by deeper engagement as a stakeholder in OSS community, we conducted questionnaire survey to Japanese IT companies in 2012. And 2013. In this paper, we capture the present situation of the utilization and contribution of OSS, and analyze how these indicators affect business growth. In 2013 survey, we make deeper analysis on the intangible effects by the utilization and contribution of OSS.

The influence of emotions is attracting attention as a psychological research approach for engaging in effective marketing activities. At the same time, sales promotion based on price appeal is the norm in marketing, directly influences consumers, and affects buying behavior. The primary focus of previous studies that have applied emotional factors in marketing has been products and retail environments. Accordingly, in this study, we focused on emotional factors in relation to incentives in sales promotions frequently conducted at retail locations. Empirical analysis elucidated both emotional and stimulation factors of incentives, and that they are positively correlated.

The aim of this paper is to show elements of content industry as a complex system and to consider how the noise for the system which is arisen frequently from each element has adapted to the system. Technology, institutions, economics, and culture are interconnected elements of those industry. This paper points out that “reproduction business and copyright business” is a logic to reconstitute the system of this industry. The whole system does not work smoothly if a new current from the element is not rearranged suitable for this logic. This theory would explain why a technological change of digitization could be a whole change of the content industry system.

This paper shows Policy Cases of “ImPACT” by CAO and “異能vation” by MIC cases for Promoting of Destructive Innovation. These Policy needs to follower support and shows Approval Rating as much as possible, because Manitain of the Society may not be difficulty sustainable support for Budget Projects which Encourage “Useful Lessons” using “Failure Valuable”. Wide Ripple Effect and Future Impact of Potencial Transformative Research protected by Assessment Systems.

This paper shows the current status of democracy and information society in the Kingdom of Bhutan. Bhutan was democratized in 2008, and it was led by the King. There was no precedent for this kind of political reform. Before that, in 1999, Internet and TV broadcasting service started, and it was also led by His Majesty. Information Society had come strategically ready for coming democracy.

This study presents the extent of exposure to shared news via social media in Japan and its effects to Political Efficacy and Common Knowledge. The online survey results showed that only 14.9% to 22.3% of the respondents had accessed shared news, while 95.2% had watched television news, and 72.4% had read newspapers. Regression analyses indicated that exposure to the shared news via LINE was positively associated with Political Estrangement and negatively associated with Common Knowledge. This result suggests that the social media which promote communication on close relationships could reduce the diversity of news exposed to people.

The popularity of social media has been increasing. It raised questions about the role of social media in the political process. This study examines that how the use of social media affects voting behavior. This paper is based on a survey(n=930) conducted after the 21th and 23th House of Councilors election. This survey's conclusions are as follows: (1) As a media for acquiring political information, this paper shows that they use the Internet more frequently than newspapers. (2) The result of logistic regression analysis indicates that SNS is one of the significant predictive variable.

Much has been said about the political potential of media, especially among young people. How do they effect young voters in Japan then? We have conducted a survey over 378 undergraduate Otsuma Women's University student, in order to analyse the effect of their media use on their voting behaviour. This study reveals that both new and traditional media do have political potential, but it depends on whether they are used in private or political context, and whether the users are politically active. Firstly, respondents who have voted significantly more often talk with their family, read newspapers and use election bulletins for political information gathering, than those who have not. At the same time, in their daily private life, those who have voted more often utilize newspapers, video sharing websites and SNS for job hunting. Secondly, there are significant correlation between private and political use of SNS and newspapers, while there are not between the private and political use of television, blogs, BBS and video sharing websites. Thirdly, however, significant correlation is shown between private use of television, SNS, blogs and BBS, when the analysis is limited to respondents who have voted.

This paper illustrates the conception of educational broadcasting in the U.S. and its implication for the Internet age today. Around 1910 to 1920, the term “educational broadcasting” was coined by a land-grant university experimenting with wireless-communication in the U.S. Educational broadcasting further shaped the public broadcasting system in the U.S. A university involvement with broadcasting development also led to create an ordinary yet underrated concept, “broadcasting media = a great way to disseminate ideas and knowledge.” This conept has been inherited to U.S. non-profit media and still relevant to internet age today.

This paper shows Mathematical Model for prosperity and decline of Online Community, and reason of prosperity and decline of Online Community. People Who join some Online Community, break away at a fixed rate. We mathematical-modelized decreasing the rate exponentially. That the person gathering in an online community decreases does not cause a decline. It turned out that that many people gather in an online community causes a subsequent decline.

This paper shows relationship between strength of ties on Facebook and offline and online reciprocity as social capital by panel survey on Internet. The result is number of strength ties on Facebook have negative effect to online reciprocity, number of weakness ties on Facebook have positive effect to online reciprocity, and strength of ties that number of strength ties - number of weakness ties has positive effect to offline reciprocity.

This study focuses on constructs for cross-national comparative survey, Internet literacy, cultural self-construal, trust, and high-context/low-context communication, and investigates their influence on social media use. The hypotheses that communication through LINE is a higher context and that through Facebook is a low context were tested. Difference between people using LINE and Facebook are smaller than difference between people using both social media and using only one of those. The other results, implications, and limitations are presented.

This research is research on the effect of the cooperation program of television and social media. The relation with viewership was investigated paying attention to the TV program side. The remote effect was seen although the influence of the viewership on the TV program which cooperated with social media was not accepted. However, since viewership is based on a household, cooperation of social media is not necessarily reflected in a numerical value. A new index is needed.

The coverage source concealment right that the journalist has is regarded as a constitutional right. And it is usually considered to be a very important right. Thus, it is thought that we cannot easily set a limit. However, it becomes the problem now at a point bringing about news damage. Therefore I discuss whether we cannot limit it in this article. I think that we should limit it to some extent.

This research examined the factors which influence intentions of evacuation. A questionnaire-based survey was conducted to residents(N=401) living in the Shizuoka and Kōchi. As a result, intention of evacuation was affected by the risk recognition, self-responsibility, norms and costs. The factors which influence intentions of evacuation and the intention of evacuation in the Great East Japan Earthquake are different. These factors should be considered in the risk communication.

Japan is a frequent occurrence of natural disasters nation. However, less people than expected have suffered natural disasters that caused extensive damage in fact. Actually, it is considered that the concepts on disasters and disaster phenomena are learnt through the Popular Culture or Media. Among that, the influence of movies is especially deeply and the significant turning point is considered to be the 1970s. This study suggests that in the 1970s, that various kinds of panic hit films were released leads to the formation of stereotypes and concepts of natural disasters.

In late years, libraries of various places have introduced an E-library. Aoyama Gakuin University School of Social Informatics has been operating an E-library since April, 2013. An E-library has been used by doing the extensive reading assignments. This investigation did the user survey. I considered utilization of university student’s E-library from the result of this survey. As a result, it has been understood that there is a problem in recommended system requirements in an E-library.

By referring to issues of Benjamin, this paper deals with the problem of traces in detective story. In other words, we would like to consider that technique of linking of traces that detective uses and fragments that baroque (17th-century) handles. And, by associating the problem of traces with the show of creativity in modern, this paper is intended to explore the clue to overcome the closed situation in the Information Age.

Deleuze "Cinema" is possible while being movie theory, also be read as a quest of the problem of the origin of information.By Turning to the framing of the film the concept of information philosopher Ruille called "framing", he was greatly expanded its range.Taxonomy of the movie is indispensable to the description of the occurrence and the deployment of various information.This paper shows the validity of the that talk about information by movie.

The aim of this paper is to analyze the ideal beauty and lifestyles of Japanese women represented in the MAQuillAGE advertising of lipsticks from 2005 to 2011. Shiseido, founded in 1872, is the oldest and largest cosmetics company in Japan, and sells six major lines in the area of hair care and cosmetics. MAQuillAGE covers a full-line makeup products of a middle price range for women in their twenties. Using a semiotic approach, the paper traces how the brand messages connoted in the MAQuillAGE lipsticks ads have changed before and after the economic downturn precipitated by the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy in 2008.

This paper attempts a phenomenological analysis of the corporeal schema or body-image in the movie Ghost in the Shell directed by Mamoru Oshii. The analysis focuses on the main character, Major Motoko Kusanagi, to examinee three types of the corporeal schema or body-image in the movie. Prior the incident of Puppet Master , the reconstructed ‘body'with connection to the machine formed an element of the consciousness of ‘self ‘for Major Kusanagi. The corporeal schema or body-image suggests the post-humanistic frame. After the encountering to Puppet Master, the intentionality towards the ‘body'as organic unity appeared in the thinking of Major Kusanagi. Such intentionality is the remains of humanistic frame. At the end of the movie, the network and interaction with ‘others'became the ‘body' for Major Kusanagi. The concept of the ‘body'as such network and interaction means the next stage of the post-humanism.

In this study, we carried out questionnaire surveys toward A junior high school students to clarify change of the Internet use over three years. Firstly, we were able to find a tendency that 2014 students used the Internet by using smart phones, although 2012 and 2013 students used PC and cell phones by correspondence analysis. Secondly, 2014 students did not exchange messages by using e-mail compared with others. Thirdly, although there was a tendency that the Internet use time per a day increased year by year in the previous studies, it wasn't cleared that 2014 students actively used the Internet compared with others on A junior high school.

This paper shows a young man (16-30 years old) has a tendency which chooses different communication media according to the partner and the contents of conversation. The analysis method is correspondence analysis. The data is the cross-tabulation table obtained from the web questionnaire survey.

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.

In this paper, we will discuss read message neglect（kidoku-mushi）in social media communication. We conduct some interview surveys to clear how first-year university students think about read message neglect, and how they respond to it. The following results are five points. 1) They divide message passing into two types. One type is not to answer messages of question. Another type is to ignore consummatory messages. 2) They criticize the former type neglect. 3) They do not expect any time to get a response in consummatory communication. Despite there is no reply when they feel disappointed. Therefore they recognize that read message neglect is an offense. 4) They seek some means to be faced with negative emotions associated with read message neglect. 5) They feel more insecure about no reply from arm’s-length friends than from close friends.

Total revenue from international sales of Japanese TV programs and associated activities amounts to 131million dollar in FY2012. Comparing with domestic revenue of 45.7 billion dollar, revenue from the international market is still very small amount. In this article, comparing with foreign countries' international exports of TV content, what is needed for Japanese TV content exports is considered. We also take up the “Cool Japan” strategy which is set out by Japanese government, consider problems of the exports of Japanese TV content in the global marketplace.

This study focuses on mutual awareness of Mongolian and Japanese people. We conducted a questionnaire survey on the “Japanese view about the Mongolian” and “Mongolian view about the Japanese” to reveal a current mutual awareness of Mongolian and Japanese people. As a result, it clarified the difference of consciousness among people of two nations. Furthermore, to compare the awareness of inter-generation, we divided the subjects of a survey into two groups, middle-aged and the younger generations, and its results will be discussed in this paper.

In this paper we conduct Granger causality test among 213 countries and regions to examine how pervasion of mobile phone and per capita GDP relate in different development stage globally. This study reveals that higher income leads diffusion of mobile phone in 1990s among developed countries while rapid spread of the mobile technology in 2000s promote increase of per capita GDP among not only developed but also developing countries such as African nations.

The environment where a cinema is put greatly changes. By the digital cinema and the rise of the cinema complex, a traditional cinema is on the verge of the continuation. On the other hand, there are many people feeling need in a traditional cinema. It is necessary to examine the way of a new cinema so that the cinema of the country survives. In this paper, I perform the inventory survey about a cinema and consider an element necessary for cinema in the future.

In this paper, we examine whether the function of cable TV is influenced by the introduction of AJC-CMS that Japan Cable and Telecommunications Association developed. For this purpose, we conducted a sampling survey focused consciousness on cable TV enterprises. Questionnaire was send by mail to 429 cable TV enterprises in December 2013. The response rate is 42.4%. The summarized results are as follows: (1)AJC-CMS will become a new source of cable TV contents supply. (2)Cable TV introduced AJC-CMS doesn't always function as Community Media to cable TV subscribers.

After the Great East Japan Earthquake, in the disaster area, thirty emergency-broadcast FM stations had started. The main objective of the study is to obtain the knowledge of the functions of these “community FM radio”. We have focused on the two radio stations. As a result of study, we have recognized three functions, such as the function of broadcasting detailed information to the sufferers, the function of circulating information among community, and the function of reducing anxiety of the sufferers.

While some authors in the area of social choice theory have paid attention to individual preference information utilized in this field, there have been few efforts to systematically examine observations from an information-focused viewpoint. To fill this gap in the literature, this paper reconsiders major results in an information perspective. After setting forth its objectives, the paper notes that Arrovian social choice theory presupposes the idea of ordinal utility about which interpersonal comparison is impossible. Next, I discuss seminal theorems concerning cycle in multidimensional issue space, utilizing a distinction between assessment-promoting information and dimension-proliferating information. I also reconsider Liberal Paradox and strategic voting in terms of meta preference and object preference. Then, I explore normative implications of the fact that different voting rules require different quantities of preference information. The paper concludes by noting the significance of information perspective in understanding findings in social choice theory.

From the perspective of decision science, the phrase "development of social choice theory in the framework of information study" can be linked with distinct multiple senses and research approaches. This article summarizes the history of decision science and explains how the phrase can be interpreted in different contexts. One of the most fruitful interpretations might be found in the context of deliberative democracy.

A Shannon-based calculation method was recently proposed in the field of socio-informatics as an attempt to evaluate the amount of information processing in a social choice procedure. Although still in its conceptual stage, the approach appears to have the potential to develop social choice theory in the framework of computer-based information studies. The present study explores mathematical backgrounds of the original calculation method and presents a prototype system to automatically process the basic calculation.

Recently, in the United States, the Open Government Initiative has been implemented. This promotes citizen participation and collaboration between government and citizens. A case of collaboration is crowdsourcing. Ushahidi and Sahana are knowned as overseas crowdsourcing service at disaster. Then Volunteer and Technical Communities (V&TCs) served these services, and the role of their communities becomes very important. At the Great East Japan Earthquake some volunteer communities served the same crowdsourcing services. However, verification of the effectiveness and problems by these services are very few. In this paper, I examine the disaster responses by overseas Open Government Collaboration. Considering the Great East Japan Earthquake, I will verify the effectiveness and problems by the crowdsourcing services and the direction of open Government in the future.

Recently, hackhathon events for addressing social issues are frequently organized by civic tech sector. Such civic-tech-oriented hackathon requires to share importance of social issues to be addressed. We aim to build a linked open dataset of social issues and develop a platform for collaborative curation of the social issue dataset. For this purpose, we have been developed GoalShare, a Web application for facilitating public collaboration. In this paper, we discuss how to expand and apply GoalShare to collaborative curation of the social issues among citizens, hackathon participants, and hackathon operators.

The aim of this paper is to examine Events that by linking each other MLA, governments, the history, cultural activities organizations local residents, and digital open data creation community. As a result, to able through the use and distribution of regional information by open data, rediscovery of the region, increase the likelihood that regional development.