Zac Efron, a two-time winner of MTV Movie Award for Best Shirtless Performance, objectifies his bodies in movies such as That Awkward Moments (2014), Neighbors (2014), and Dirty Grandpa (2016). Although bodies of Hollywood male stars have been portrayed as spectacles since the beginning of movies, representations of Efron’s bodies are somewhat different from those of other macho stars. The movies in which he shows his naked body are comedies on male friendships. These relationships are not gay ones. However, the characters are conscious of gay men and portray male relationships as close to homosexuality. Therefore, Efron’s body could be shown as symbolizing homoerotic desires. Moreover, the friendships in these movies lack male dominance and aggressiveness that ordinarily characterize male buddy movies. Efron appears to be enjoying his body and looks rather cute and innocent. Male audiences can easily identify themselves with him owing to these attributes. They could be muscle men without being like “wolves.” His body could be said to be a symbol of a new kind of male body of the 21st century.

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ENJOYWORKS focus on the bottom-up approach to development to create town and communities with diversity and sustainability. In order to achieve bottom-up development, providing opportunities for people to get involved in the projects over a period of planning stage, building renovation, and even after starting operation is the most important. We utilize investment crowd-funding as a tool for participation. Investors not only support the project financially and receive revenue share, but also are able to involve in project in various ways such as, putting comments about renovation idea on SNS, joining events that cultivate empathy and understanding for the project and build a sense of community, and attending investor meetings that they can think about idea for an improvement on operation. We call this “Participatory crowd funding”. We believe “Participatory crowd-funding” contributes to have them feel like becoming a project member and have a strong and long-term relationship with the project. Actually, there were more investors whose purpose is to contribute to liven up the community or the project, than investors who just focus on their return, according to our actual cases.

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2012年度に東日本大震災の被災地山元町で実施された「山元復興学校」は,ニフティ株式会社,河北新報社,そして山元町役場と連携した社会情報学会(SSI)の災害情報支援チームによるものであった。災害情報支援チームの活動は,当初,日本社会情報学会(JSIS)の研究活動委員会内・若手研究者支援部会の社会貢献活動として実施された。しかし,若手による研究促進の活動は,二つの日本社会情報学会(JASI & JSIS)が統合される以前から,両学会の若手が参加して合同で行われてきた若手研究支援活動の流れを汲むものである。この場所を借りて,学会における若手研究支援活動の経緯を紹介したい。

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A chat-oriented dialogue system can become more likeable if it can remember information about users and use that information during a dialogue. We propose a chat-oriented dialogue system that can use user information acquired during a dialogue and discuss its effectiveness on the interaction over multiple days. In our subjective evaluation over five consecutive days, we compared three systems: A system that can remember and use user information over multiple days (proposed system), one that can only remember user information within a single dialogue session, and another that does not remember any user information. We found that users were significantly more satisfied with our proposed system than with the other two. This paper is the first to verify the effectiveness of remembering on the interaction over multiple days with a fully automated chat-oriented dialogue system.

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