In this paper, we apply the Shannon-Weaver model of communication to the academic public relations (PR) and propose a general framework that can be used to develop an evaluation system for the academic PR. To sketch out the current landscape of the academic PR, a survey on documents of PR principles in Japanese universities and research institutes is conducted. Based on this analysis, we 1) apply the Shannon-Weaver model, 2) identify the three levels of communications problems, that is technical, semantic, and effectiveness, introduced by Weaver clearly in the scenario of the academic PR, and 3) discuss the framework as an evaluation system of the academic PR. Finally, we apply this framework to analyse PR practitioners' abilities and skills.

In this paper, we propose the realization of an equality society for persons with the disabilities who can be distinguished from non-handicapped persons (social strong peoples and weak peoples). The persons with disabilities are a suppressed group of the society. The suppression is only increasing in conflicting society with multiple unequal distributions of the power, the status, and the wealth, such as the controlled society. In this society, persons with the disabilities have always considered coexistence with non-handicapped persons, however the different groups have the different worlds and the concepts. Therefore, although We consider that the solidarity is possible in the society, the coexistence is impossible. This means a high degree of impartiality about the segregation. We call this region of segregation Asylum. The asylum is a safety net for the social weak peoples The society seems to have gradually converged to an equilibrium point after a great historical conflict. In the trend, we have considered the way of a better society, including the research of our predecessors. However, we believe that the human can not manage the society. The asylum can be realized in a highly digitized controlled society by the advent of the artificial intelligence and highly functional machines with the control of social norms and power, the automatic production of things, It is a basic component of a society (system) that provides services and redistributes wealth. We propose such a system as this digital asylum model. The Digital Asylum Model advocates the anarchism..

This study criticizes the unity of the public sphere concept advocated by the German sociologist Jurgen Habermas and supports the pluralism. Among them, in particular, it is an attempt to criticize or support them in relation to the so-called Internet public sphere theory. It is clear from the criticism of the public sphere concept by many arguers that the unity of the public sphere must be criticized, but not all of the public sphere concept should be abandoned. Based on these, we showed the possibility of pluralistic public spheres in relation to the theory of the Internet public sphere.

This paper examined our attitude towards nihilism in today's society. First of all, we focused on the term “Satori generation” which is used for young people. Next, we pointed out that network society is a factor of “Satori”. Moreover, we argued that network society is also nihilism, but data mining technology makes it imperfect. Finally, we said that “Satori” is an attitude of resignation in imperfect today's nihilism.

This study tests the following hypothesis: "People with extreme opinions tend to express those more on social media, and the opinion distribution on social media differs from that of society." I analyze the impact of extreme opinions on the number of posts on social media, using questionnaire of 5,986 people in Japan, Korea, and the United States and Tobit model. The results show that my hypothesis was supported. Further, the more sensitive the topic, the more the number of social media posts increased depending on opinion extremity. This finding suggests that the distribution of posts on social media has bias compared to the opinion distribution in society.

This study is concerned with a method of extracting similar cities, towns, and villages in consideration of regional characteristics and visualization. Municipalities that have similar regional characteristics such as disaster risk, natural characteristics, and social characteristics are likely to have the same required disaster prevention measures, and it is considered that mutual efforts can be utilized. In this presentation, we will select the index for extracting similar cities, and visualize and relativize similar cities based on the index. After that, we will present the validity and evaluation of the method of extracting similar municipalities based on the 6 indicators.

We hypothesized that college students who exhibit new type of depressive tendency, have a higher internet addiction disorder tendency, and lead stressful lives, all of which tend to develop a more severe digital dementia tendency. Conversely, students who have a higher psychological resilience, show a preference for exercising with others and higher levels of quality of life (QOL), all of which suppress this digital dementia tendency. Longitudinal data collected by questionnaire surveys of university students in the information sciences were analyzed by structural equation modeling, and the results appeared to support our hypothesis.

With the continuous development of new media, many changes have taken place in the output, dissemination and consumption of news in recent years. Based on the current new media environment, this paper investigates what problems mobile media brings to online news, discusses why these problems are brought about, and how to solve these problems.

The purpose of this study is to conduct a comparative analysis of Japan, the U.S., and China about inter-industry structure between ICT-producing and ICT-using industries by observing data from Japanese and international input-output tables. In the 1990s, ICT-using industries and producing industries progressed, with each being inseparable from the other. Subsequently, as globalization progressed in the 2000s and beyond against a “leakage to import” background, the ripple effect of the “ICT-using industries” toward the promotion of the “ICT-producing industries” weakened. Furthermore, this is mainly due to increased inputs from China, South Korea, etc. This is a distinctly different trend from that in the U.S., which increased domestic input while utilizing global supply systems.

Programming education was introduced in elementary school from April 1, 2020. In order to practice programming education in elementary schools, it is necessary to establish an environment in which teachers can practice education. This study conducted an analysis to clarify the relationship between the psychology aspects to programming education and the state of preparation for educational practice, using elementary school teachers as subjects. From the results of the analysis, this study found that many elementary school teachers had anxiety about programming education, which was related to the degree of preparation for programming education.

An online questionnaire survey was conducted on 3671 men and women between the ages of 15 and 69 to analyze the situation of watching and participating in e-sports and its impact on their lives and health. Subjective assessments by eSports participants were generally positive, but there were concerns that they could lead to problems such as poor eyesight and Internet addiction. In addition, e-sports participants were more likely to be depressed, sociable, and self-controlled than spectators.

We think that the existence of the relevant population has taken some effective action to sustain the region. Since there is a certain relationship between the willingness to recommend to the community and the behavior under the COVID-19, the improvement of the willingness to recommend may have important significance for regional sustainability.

We analyzed the factors that affect cooperative behavior and punishment norms in the early stages of the spread of the coronavirus (COVID-19) in Japan using a framework of a social dilemma. This study focused on the effects of psychological attitudes, which have been shown to promote prosocial behavior in previous studies. Furthermore, We analyzed the effect of media contact on prosocial behavior. We conducted an online survey of 2000 participants. As a result of the analysis, we found that the psychological attitudes which have been shown to promote prosocial behavior had a similar effect on the self-restraint caused by the COVID-19. Contrary to intuitive predictions, we found that media contact has a negative effect on cooperative behavior.

In this study, we examined whether the amount of resources in a Prisoner’s Dilemma differs in partners’ choice and cooperative behavior. The results of the scenario-based experiment showed that there are no differences in the cooperation rate according to the amount of resources. However, in the selection of partners, most participants chose the rich partner in the game. We also found that rich players tend to underestimate the rate of cooperation when they choose poor partners. These results suggest that information on socioeconomic disparities has the effect of distorting cooperation estimates.

This study applies the network theory and graphical modeling analysis to demonstrate how ICT- enabled offshoring transformed international services trade since the global financial crisis in 2008. Our analyses yield three observations. First, high-income countries traditionally have strong service trade links with the U.S. due to income level proximity. Second, H-1B or L-1 visas appeal to skilled labors in lower income countries and create intensive human networks, thus expanding services trade with the U.S. Third, skilled labor networks and ICT-networks have had the most direct impact on trade in services, whereas the income level proximity had less significant and indirect impact since 2009.

This paper explores Iwai's [6] dynamic disequilibrium model, recreating it through the integration of the principles of New Keynesian models. Iwai's aforementioned model was a bold experiment in its attempt to come to grips with disequilibrium; however, the macroeconomic descriptive model packaged with it was a traditional IS-LM model. This paper endeavors to construct a model in line with New Keynesian models that incorporates Iwai's dynamic disequilibrium model.Here, this paper proposes a new dynamic disequilibrium model, comprising four equations that integrate New Keynesian models and Iwai's dynamic disequilibrium model. In addition, it discusses how to extend this model to open economies and the implications suggested by this new model. Further, an empirical analysis reveals and indexes levels of disequilibrium in product and labor markets. Issues for further study include bolstering the microeconomic foundations of the open economy model.

The sharing economy has an aspect of disruptive innovation. But, on the other hand, the sharing economy companies also cooperate with the business of the existing companies. This study is a case study on the introduction of the sharing economy and the competition and cooperation with existing businesses.

Crowdfunding (CF) systems appear to resemble one another at first glance; however, their practices vary. These seemingly trivial differences influence other actors―such as operating companies, projects' proponents, and consequences―in the socio-technical network of CF ecosystems. In this study, the author sorted the implemented settings of the CF information systems into four types and examined the differences in ecosystems and in strategies of the operating companies stemming from the differences in types.

In Japan, there were many people who were not good at keyboard operation in the 1980s, and it was said that they got "keyboard allergy." However, in the mid-1980s, some Japanese word processors were released that had been equipped with a Japanese syllabary keyboard, which helped people who were not good at keyboard operation. They wanted to use word processors because they found value in printed text, even if it took a long time to operate. And that laid the foundation for many people’s use of digital media in Japanese.

This research explores the situation of domestic open data promotion in 2020. In addition, in the effort to promote open data implemented by Nagano Prefecture, we studied and designed an effective open data promotion method in a short period of time and actually implemented it in cooperation with the prefecture’s local governments. we also describe the implementation of the proposed method in Yasugi City and Shimane Prefecture, as an example of lateral development. Through these practices, we confirmed certain effectiveness of the proposed method.

Cloud computing is not being introduced due to security concerns. In this paper, based on the Privacy Impact Assessment (PIA) published by the Personal Information Protection Commission, we analyze what kind of information security programs execute by organizations that have already deployed the cloud computing for the local governments cloud are taking measures to implement. Through this process, we examine problems for the Open Government.

The aim of this paper is to examine quantitatively clarified the influence of the proximity of local governments on the approach to open data by The spatial cluster Analysis of Open data initiative local government on transition in Japan.As a result, (1) After setting a maximum distance threshold of 30 km and extracting the clusters, we found 16 Clusters of opendata municipalities with data initiatives were extracted. By region, 2 in Tohoku, 4 in Kanto, 2 in Hokuriku, 4 in Tokai, 1 in Kansai, 1 in Sanyo, 1 in Shikoku, 1 in Kyushu. (2) In the open data utilization rate by cluster in the 30-km region, Noshiro City (Akita Prefecture), Hitoyoshi City (Kumamoto Prefecture) and Saito City (Miyazaki Prefecture) were selected as clusters with 0% utilization rate.Thirteen clusters were extracted including Asahikawa, Hokkaido, as clusters with less than 20% of the population.In order to achieve the opendata 100% adoption rate, it will be effective to encourage the municipalities that form this cluster to implement open data policies.

The purpose of this paper is to show the characteristics of people's use of telecommunication media in a rural area. This survey, focusing on “Gujo-mura” in a rural area of central Japan, has been conducted over 50 years. This paper mainly shows a part of the knowledge obtained through the 7th survey. As a result, it became clear that residents there are actively and selectively using various kinds of media such as telephone and the Internet.

This study aims to clarify the relationship between the actual situation of open data efforts in prefectures and the discussions in Congress. Prefectures are expected to play a leading role in promoting open data in open data initiatives. Therefore, by focusing on the status of efforts in prefectures, we will consider future open data promotion.

Closed Captioning (CC), converting audio information into subtitles - visual information, ensures accessibility of information for the hearing impaired. CC is also useful for elderly people, who is losing hearing capability. However, few academic studies on CC specially for elderly people are found. In addition, the Japanese standard of CC has various problems. For instance, the old standard based on the analog broadcasting has still been generally used while TV broadcasting is already shifted to digital. In this research, authors propose some models of CC specially for elderly people through comparison with the current Japanese standard CC.

In February 2019, two community broadcasters in Okinawa broadcasted interactive programs by young people in their 20s with different opinions and viewpoints. Ishigaki city's “FM Ishigaki Sansan Radio” and Nago city's “FM Yanbaru” stations took up the topic of local referendums on opinions regarding the Japan Self-Defense Force base positioning and the Henoko land reclamation, respectively.

By carefully examining the program content, interviews with those who appeared on the programs, and interviews with the radio operators, this thesis explores attitudes toward these young peoples' varying opinions and viewpoints.

The paper then uses the young people's initiatives to interpret the implications for the construction of new “political” programs shared with these other programs, and discusses ways to open up communication in communities in which it has been obstructed. It then explains the significance of community broadcasters providing a public space in which people can talk in a way that is connected to everyday life, rather than avoiding political content.

The purpose of this research is to examine the possibility of sustainable development of the sharin g economy, regarding the problem of public transportation using the sharing economy and its problems in the regions where the population is decreasing and it is difficult to maintain public transportation.

This study explores the contribution of information technology to the interaction between art and humans. Art is an environment in which the artist and the viewer interact with each other. Through a review of prior research, we found that the relationship between art and people has been considered interdisciplinary through a variety of means. Particularly in interactive art, human-computer interaction has played an active role. This paper concludes with a discussion of interactivity in the exhibition of art works.

In this paper I analyze the issues of Japanese companies in realizing Digital Transformation(DX) from the viewpoint of IT management, and investigate the ideal IT management of Japanese companies. DX is to change the socio-economic direction by utilizing the latest information technology (IT) and digital data to transform the business. To realize DX, it is important for Japanes companies to use IT to enhace corporate value through IT management. Japanese companies are required to have a competitive advantage with DX, but DX is not progressing in many companies.

A virtuous cycle of the service profit chain is essential for the growth of the BtoC business run by traditional travel agencies in real shops. Traditional travel agencies should ensure employee satisfaction with job designs that give them comfort and allow consumers to easily visit real stores to meet their needs. Then they should put OMO into customer relationships. And they need to specialize the real shop as a consultation place for customers. Traditional travel agencies must redefine real shops as spaces where there is value that can only be presented to people.