This paper deals with "Relaxation (Ablenkung)" in cyberspace by referring to issues of Benjamin. Relaxation is what makes a pair with "To concentrate（Sammlung）", and one of the starting point of this is to live in residence. This produces "room (Spielraum)" as a result. In the 19th century, people with this appear as promenader. In the 20th century, we consciously train "Relaxation" by movie. Then, when grasping a cyberspace as passage, how is a promenader in the information society generated? It’s the purpose of this paper to sketch this.

I examine the theoretical validity of the media theory of Noam Chomsky. Specifically, I see the basic concept in the media theory of Chomsky. For example, Paradoxical Opinion about the Democracy, Spectator Democracy, Manufacturing Consent, Propaganda Model. And, assuming it, I consider "the biggest crime of the media" that Chomsky says. Through the consideration, I want to arrive at something contributing to understanding of the mass media.

This paper tries to show a possible contribution of aesthetics to popular culture studies. In order to do so, I introduce the idea of ‘criticality'. In chapter 2 I trace the idea of criticality back to its origin and take a look at the transformation of the idea in the field of art and art theory from the 20^th to the 21^st century. In the third chapter I find the idea in current popular culture. Then in the final chapter I propose the ways in which aesthetics can contribute to popular culture studies from the point of criticality.

This paper tries to explore the body view of Hatsune Miku by connecting with the "digital performance." Specifically, Hatsune Miku is weighed against digital performances of Merce Cunningham. It is concluded that Hatsune Miku and digital performances of Cunningham suggest that the body is not the expression of internal substance. That is to say, this genealogical study shows they attempt to release the body from the soul, which is “the prison of the body” according to Foucaut. Also, it suggests that Hatsune Miku and Cunningham's digital performances denaturalize the existing body view and open possibilities of new views.

This paper shows the result of web investigation about “anshin” while using internet services. Especially, this paper shows the change in “Anshin” status before and after use starting of each internet service. The investigation has implemented on Feburuary 20-25, 2015. This paper also shows the consideration about the result.

We set up the hypotheses on the effects of internet usage on a new depressive tendency. Data from questionnaire surveys conducted on university students in the information sciences were analyzed by structural equation modeling. The results of verification suggested that the students with more internet usage for escaping from reality show association with the worse new type of depressive tendency, but the students with a preference for exercising with partners suppress those, on the other hand, the students with more e-mail usage for taking someone’s advice show association with a higher mental resilience (resilience), and it suppresses the new type of depressive tendency into a chain reaction. With reference to deterioration and suppression of the new depressive tendency in the information society nowadays, it is possibel that the internet usage of escape and e-mail usage for taking someone’s advice effect those.

The purpose of this study is to analyze the influence that the internet usage have an effect on the mental resilience (resilience). The targets of the internet usage are the internet usage of escape and e-mail usage for taking someone’s advice. Our hypothesis assumes that the former reduces the resilience and the latter improves the resilience. Data from questionnaire surveys conducted on university students in the information sciences were analyzed by structural equation modeling. The results appeared to verify our hypothesis. In addition, the effect of improvement of e-mail usage for taking someone’s advice on the resilience was smaller than altruistic values, but slightly larger than the reading of good books. It was suggested not to be able to disregard the effect.

This paper shows it was suggested that the difficulty in improvement of lake environment was due possibly to a decline of social concern on lake water use and environment. We try the quantitative study of social concern. A content analysis was applied to the newspaper articles related to lake utilization and lake environment at three lake basins (Lakes Kasumigaura, Biwa and Suwa). And we investigated the inhabitants concern for the lake environment using a web-based questionnaire.

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. In this study, I performed the inventory survey about the movie theater and analyzed difference in movie theater use between generations. As a result, the environment that wanted to use a movie theater with a friend was necessary for a young generation and understood that eating and drinking and the movie information on the Internet were important.

Recent years, reduced scale and withdrawal of stores have occurred with the decreased number of customers in central shopping streets of the local city. The main target market of the shopping area has been focused on the layer of senior citizen and housewife layer, thus, the loss of young customers is one of factors accounting for the recession. In order to prosper the shopping area, it is necessary to attract the attention of young people. So we have worked on this problem from a viewpoint of ICT and developed an application for smart phone that is being used widely in young people. This application aimed at helping them develop an interest in the shopping area. In this research, we conducted a survey on the convenience and utility of the application with questionnaires, and then evaluated the effect of this application.

This study aims to reveal longitudinal changes of characteristics of local mascot characters managed by local governments or local public institutions. The authors chose 89 popular characters that are known as so-called Yuru-chara and investigated their characteristics focusing on owners, aims of activities, and social media. The study quantitatively compares these characteristics between pre-boom period, before 2006, and boom period, after 2007. The result shows statistically significant differences in their aims of activities and uses of social media.

ICTs have been transforming tourism globally and change traveller's behavior, it undoubtedly change both business practices and studies as well as tourism industry. This paper aims to review the issues related to destination image and travellers' behavior on the Internet, including studies on the Internet development on tourism and the following impact on tourism industry. Based on literature review, this paper shows that researchers start to pay more and more attentions on tourism and ICTs area. Also, as many studies have demonstrated the influence on destination image, this paper founds that alough the Internet has changed the tourism industy a lot, it brings not only positive affection but also negative imapact. How the destination image can be achieve to develop a marketing strategy by the Internet and its relationship should be determined.

This paper aims to show the Socio-Informatical significance on Bhutan and to make a base for future research. In 1999, Bhutanese government decided to start TV broadcasting and Internet services together. After that, ICT led them into peculiar Information Society under their semi-closed environment. And we also have to consider that Bhutan was not industrialized and democratized at the end of 20th century.

We examined the impact of 2014 FIFA World Cup on images of national people. Six-hundred eighty six Japanese participated in web survey before and after World Cup. Participants rated images of nine national people and responded the Internet usage during World Cup. Images of most national people changed in positive direction, but a few images changed in negative direction. The internet usage for gathering formal information about World Cup made the images of some national people positive, but image of Cameroonian negative. The internet usage for gathering informal information made Korean image negative.

As a result of considering emergency-broadcast FM from the circuit of the social communication, it got knowledge that the emergency-broadcast FM was the flexible organization which has all the role at the circuit of the social communication. However, here is a problem in the operation. If making a mistake in the timing, it has made the mass media and that the interactive system becomes wasteful, too.

The old film a home movie was recorded is found, and the archive activity that people of a community collect is practiced at a various part of Japan. Those also include showing activity. This report is explained that a community people of the various generation and age should create an archive in independent way. The significance of the archive isn’t only to preserve a picture. It’s the significance of the community archive that people see the picture together, remember the past and talk each other.

In this paper, we inspected the current baby-rearing situation of Nagoya city to find out a better way to enhance regional baby-rearing activities in Japan. As the result, we construct of Information Transmission and Share Model for Regional Baby-rearing Network. Through the proving test, we made it clear that this model is useful to provision of information and discussed issues of them.

Resident’s sense of values and needs are diversified, and a social task and various needs are caught as "Market" while correspondence to the social task is difficult, and attention has gathered in "Social business" that progresses the match to solve it as continued active conduct of business only by the administration. The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry has promoted a centering social business in Japan. The middle support is taken up in the social task solution as a problem of an important social business and the use of an open innovation as the means for solving the problems is considered..

In this paper, we regard a regional IT industry promotion by Matsue City as a process of Open Innovation in local area. We analyze how OSS effects Japanese IT companies'business growth both through simple use and by deeper engagement as a stakeholder in OSS community, with Special Reference to the "Region". Consequently, it has become clear that IT industry promotion by local government advances the practical use of OSS. At the same time, it has also become clear that it works a minus incentive to the development contribution to OSS.

This paper shows the analysis about the development of sixth-order industry of agri-food sector using public statistics. In particular, we compare each prefectures, and show the status of the development of sixth-order Industry in the Chugoku Region. For example, In Yamaguchi and Tottori, the sales of "(1)processor" accounts for a large percentage.

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. From a result, I considered actions at the time of the book purchase of the university student. As a result, contents confirmation was done at the time of the book purchase. However, contents confirmation is not possible in E-library. It will be necessary to improve the point in the future.

The computer came to have big meaning and influence as the social infrastructure of information society, and it is necessary today to wear information literacy as a member of society. It is said that information education in university is important, but is hard to say to be suited to education for this era when we look the current state. In this thesis, I grasp the transition of information education and the problem of the general information education in university, and consider what is necessary to information education in universities today. Therefore, based on precedent studies and experiences in the corporate world, we consider viewpoints required for information education in universities today mainly with focus on Socio-Informatics and clarify new information literacy concept.

In 1983, MSX architecture standard was announced. It was supposed for 8-bit personal home computers. At that time, however, video game machines and Japanese word processors became widespread among ordinary families. MSX competed with sales against these computers which specialized in the single purpose.

This paper focus on the development of ITS(Intelligent Transportation Systems) in the U.S., EU and Japan during the period from late 60s to the beginning of 21 century, aiming to identify the factors which influence the structure of ITS in every period and make it change. The paper find out at the initial period, National Innovation System had a stronge influence to the Technical System and the government played an important role from R&D to implementation. However, at the development stage, the Technical System has been affected by Sectoral Innovation System acrossing the national boundary.

In Japan, social media use by political parties and candidates during election campaign had long been prohibited. However, the rule changed in 2013 and now they can utilize social media such as twitter or Facebook for their election activities. In addition, the first "General Election" introducing new rule were conducted in December 2014. On the other hand, since most of all Japanese politicians had never used social media for their election, there are few literature related to Japanese election and "real" social media use. This means the lack of literature may make evaluation of effective use difficult.

In this research, we focus on candidate’s twitter use during the election campaign and try to clarify usage tendencies of social media by each political party. The result indicates that twitter analysis conducted by news paper companies may have great mistake in terms of definition of target tweets. If usage tendencies of social media are greatly different among political parties, we should re-consider definition of target tweets.

This paper studies structure analysis of tweets distributed. More and more people use social media and receive news via social media. Some news media try to find “formulas” to make tweets distributed ,but they have not found them yet. To figure out what words make news distributed on Twitter, we carried out research on investigation of tweets on news media and Internet investigation. As the result , we found that popular tweets are likely to contain photos and outstanding phrases.

This presentation explores the use of the Internet by a youth protest group, SEALDs (Students Emergency Action for Liberal Democracy), who is against policies of the Abe government. They are post 311 generation who have commonly experienced 3.11 disasters when they were 14 to 18 years old. After long absence of wide ranged protest actions by students, SEALDs has come to the fore and involved many young assenters to their actions. We analyse 5-+their strategies with the Internet and motivation through participation observation and interviews.

Japan has been constantly engaged in nuclear power plant construction even during a difficult situation. Media has been related to promotion of nuclear power generation. This paper focused on PR Films between the late 1960's and the 1980's, and analyzed transition of the representation of nuclear power generation: modernization, safety, coexistence and co-prosperity.

The aim of this paper is to examine put into practice Events by linking each other public library, 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.

We aim to design Linked Open Data (LOD) for structuring social issues towards use of civic tech activities. We consider approaches to collecting social issues widely and requirements for designing the data model with assuming that our proposed LOD is utilized for a citizen-participatory event for addressing social issues, e.g., a civic hackathon or an idea workshop. To support such civic tech activities, we aim to visualize the overview of social issues and to recommend innovative relationships between social issues and useful tools, e.g., elemental techniques or government open datasets.

The demand of open data promotion is growing rapidly from early 2012. In this paper, we discuss the trials for promotion of open data strategies through Industry-Government-Academia-Citizen collaboration. Through the 2 studies, we confirmed the effectiveness of our proposed methods.

How we should consider the "information" that is neither a mere physical reality, nor is it intended linguistic? In this study, we consider the origin of the information still ambiguous in foothold on framing of the movie. As previous research, The concept of "language table" by Foucault, it can be considered with the information through the discussion of the framing.

This paper is an attempt to describe the knowledge to come, by proposing the term of “quasi-object of information” and developing some considerations about it. “Quasi-object” itself is based on French philosopher Michel Serres' some consideration, but “quasi-object of information” is developed in this paper. Also by referring to Pierre Lévy who is Serres' pupil and his joint researcher, and plays active part in the field of philosophy of information, “quasi-object of information” is examined. Through these considerations, this paper shows the relation between individuals and knowledge.

This paper aims to analyze the concept of gift, as communicative motor, in cyberspace. Indeed, the gift suggests the possibility of an exchange that remains neither in the general economic movement nor in the conversion to monetary value. We stress how receipt act increase the value of gif and then, its impact on information's value in cyberspace. Therefore, we will able to consider the question of the necessity to communication to be reduced to utility. If not, we could examine how greats advantages occur to knowledge exchange and by the way to the collective intelligence.

In this research, we pick up the philosophy of Whitehead. By real-time comunication with advanced information society, changes in the way of human experience will be discussed. Simultaneity of Whitehead is quite different from the Bergson and Einstein. In this world, the perspectives of now and here and now and theres coexist. Collective intelligence is becoming by folding up of the fold

The action of open data spreads worldwide. Then, this study clarifies significance of the promotion of open data. Specifically, it shows that the promotion of open data becomes the ignition point to lead a chain of the activity in local area.

This paper reports the current situation of Open Data promotion of local public entities in Aichi Pref. One of the problems of Open Data is the data formats are not standardized. In order to create public services, such as applications, using Open Data, these data should be standardized in appropriate formats. Therefore, we present a method for standardizing formats for Open Data on tourism event information.

In recent years, the social media have received increasing attention from local governments. By the way, how many local governments use the social media? The results of research that I accessed the website of all local governments in Japan, I found out that about 60% of local governments has used social media. However, social media has been used as a new public relations tool in some local governments. In other words, some local governments are using social media merely as the means of “publication” and they have not been able to find the meaning of “social” media.

In Japan, disclosure of proceedings is progressing. However, not many citizens are eager to read redundant minutes. In order to promote democracy, it is necessary to visualize minutes. Although data processing may not be free from defects, it will still make it easier for citizens to access minutes, which helps reflect citizens’ opinions to politics. This article shows our efforts for visualizing proceedings in HINO City, benefits and limitations of visualization, and discusses how to overcome problems. Also suggested ideas of implementation of visualization of minutes as a social tool are discussed.

The purpose of this paper is to clalify the creation prosess and function of “Not for Sale-Magazine ” which was distributed in early Showa era. For this purpose, this paper pays attention to the relationship between the “Study” Group, The Bungei Shiryou Kenkyuu-Kwai (The Study Group of Literary Materials), and the Membership-Based Distribution System. Through this analysis, we show that the “Study” practices and distribution system were complementary with each other to avoid the prohibitation.

This paper shows the utility of "Format Theory", which is advocated by Jonathan Sterne, in order to reconsider the suitability of "music files" as a classification of media. The concept of "music files" has formed as a new music medium by the contribution of recording industry after the late of 1990s. However, it is difficult to consider "music files" by using a frame of media because of today’s characteristic of "mediality". This paper argue the utility of "Format Theory" as the alternative analitycal frame.

After the 1964 Summer Olympics was held in Tokyo, television, especially television documentary programs underwent a great transition. They became experimental and went beyond simple divisions of fiction and non-fiction. Moreover, television repeatedly tried to pick up Shinjuku, one of the 23 special wards of Tokyo, as their target object. This study shows that this experimental phenomenon in Japanese television was closely related to an urban space in Tokyo of the late 1960s.

The purpose of this paper is to clarify the relationships between using public library in Japan and user’s economic, cultural, and social capital. This paper considered whether the modern public libraries functions as the redistribution of capitals. We analyzed data from the “2014 Annual Survey on the Library User’s Tendency of Information Behavior and Library” published by the National Diet Library. As a result, This study revealed that heavy public library users tend to have abound capital. In other words, it is presumed public libraries does not fully function as the redistribution of capital.

This study examines how the interaction of socioeconomic status and News consumption on TV, newspaper and SNS moderates the effects of political knowledge acquisition (i.e., issue knowledge, civic knowledge) in the era of Smartphone. We conducted a web-based questionnaire survey (n = 1035) and examined how political knowledge was affected by demographic factors, news consumption. The results indicated that people with higher SES (as operationalized by higher levels of education) scored higher in issue and civic political knowledge than their less-educated counterparts. In addition, we found lower-educated people are heavier viewers of television and SNS news, however, with regard to newspaper reading, people with higher SES were read more thatn people with lower SES. To examine the effect of interation of News consumtion and SES, we added three interactional variables (newspaper reading x SES, TV news viewing x SES, and Internet use for political information x SES) and ran a regression model. To avoid multicollinearity, standardization was conducted just before we crossed each interactional variable. We found TV News viewing , Newspaper reading and News acquisition on SNS appears to significantly moderate SES-based gaps in civic political knowledge. On the other hand, only News acquisition on SNS proved to be a significant leveler in issue political knowledge.

This research aims to empirically assess factors that influence usage of ultra-high speed broadband service in the disadvantageous rural areas in Japan. The result shows that per capita income and ratio of elder person in an arear statistically significantly correlate with usage rate of the ultra-high speed broadband servicedd. Moreover, the author shows estimations of usage rates in the disadvantageous rural areas in Japan.

This paper presents a novel framework for an anonymization. The proposed scheme uses a block design to create blocks which are free from a kind of combinatorial bias. The proposed scheme can present the typical values of generated blocks instead of the typical values of the whole data set. The proposed scheme does not present any data of particular sample. Applications of the proposed scheme with a messaging infrastructure is discussed. A messaging infrastructure is an intelligent infrastructure which is based on a messaging network. Messaging network is a class of content-aware network and is constructed as a structured overlay network.

This paper proposes a network use control to prevent cyber attacks. In order to realize the proposal, the public security policy is suggested as a social consensus. The proposal evaluates the security level of use environments such as host computers and LAN by penetration tests, and controls the traffic by the packet filtering technology and quality of service. Using a computer simulation, the paper shows an application example of the proposal and illustrates its effectiveness.

In this paper, we said that about the policy on exploratory analysis of BigData. BigData has the characteristics of thickness, diversity, and the thickness of outliers (sub-trends).Therefore in BigData analysis, not only focusing major trend ,but also sub-trends. In this point of view, we devised and developed a method of “Exploratory non hierarchical clustering”, and introduce analysis result using this approach.

Recently, big data and pattern-extracting technologies have been introduced as possible keys for obtaining answers to complicated social issues. One of the main issues in our society is reproducing the meaning of media systems. Certain groups of researchers argue that “supersense” has become the main focus of analysis of the meaning of media systems. The supersense prevents atomized people creating the meaning. This research gives an outline of the possibility of big data and pattern-extracting technologies contributing to our endeavors to create and stabilize social meanings. These technologies will form a part of communication media that supports our ability to create new meanings through the repetition of existing ones.