How can we develop the public in the media in the rise of multi-cultural societies, by applying the concept of 'cultural citizenship'? It can be summed up as follows; first while the representation of foreign residents in Japan are recognizable to a certain extent in the mass media, in particular, television, most of them are of celebrities or sports players; those of ordinary foreign residents are still limited. Second, the media representation of Chinese or Korean residents can be rarely found; considerable racist and discriminative discourses are sometimes seen instead. Third, foreign residents are not primarily considered as media audiences. Fourth, independent films are important as they show a variety of their representations. Fifth and finally, it may take a long time to accept the idea of 'cultural citizenship' in Japanese society

The change of the scholarly publishing culture in the 1980s was brought from the activity of the editors in small publishing company. They took a distance from the conventional ‘Kyoyoshugi’, and took a devising of tooling of a book and its design. As a result, they created the route of the new scholarly publishing culture

In 1970s, most of news of the mass media constructed a Minamata Disease Affair as a struggle of "Minamata" by patients and their families and supporters in media environment. Above all, the TV news drew a Minamata Disease Affair as an event to symbolize this time.However, in the Minamata Disease Affair news to construct the struggle of "Minamata" characterizing the times of "the protest" in media environment, as for the media discourse to talk about the historical transformation of the social movement enough, it is not formed.In addition, by the news, "salvation" and "the indemnity" of the patient were placed for equivalent relations, and "the acknowledgement" of the patient came to be said with "indemnity" more that it was equivalent.The TV documentary draws the Minamata Disease Affair as the struggle of "Minamata" in media environment, too. However, the images of the same patient repeated by some documentary programs is one of the records of "Minamata" that TV formed by an inh rent method. And it may be said that experiences to watch such programs form memories of "Minamata" for many people. The archive of such a TV documentary enables the images of TV to represent life and time of patients forced to live in Minamata disease

The following three topics were investigated in this research: (1) Research and development of a SIBOK Formulation Aid System named WikiBOK, (2) Research on formulating SIBOK (Body of Knowledge of Social Informatics) using WikiBOK, and (3) Research on validating the SIBOK. By serious efforts, most of the research purpose was successively done in this research period. It should be stressed that the power of the “collective intelligence” was successively proved taking SIBOK formulation as an example in the sense that this research was a pioneering work to a new discipline of the Web era called “social computing.

How can we develop the public in the media in the rise of multi-cultural societies, by applying the concept of 'cultural citizenship'? It can be summed up as follows; first while the representation of foreign residents in Japan are recognizable to a certain extent in the mass media, in particular, television, most of them are of celebrities or sports players; those of ordinary foreign residents are still limited. Second, the media representation of Chinese or Korean residents can be rarely found; considerable racist and discriminative discourses are sometimes seen instead. Third, foreign residents are not primarily considered as media audiences. Fourth, independent films are important as they show a variety of their representations. Fifth and finally, it may take a long time to accept the idea of 'cultural citizenship' in Japanese society.

Based on empirical researches in various fields such as globalization, environmental problem, immigrant minority groups, youth, mass media, ubiquitous society and social care, this project has developed theoretical studies in sociology, focusing social control system, public sphere and normative theory. Key factors for ameliorating controllability in contemporary society are an enrichment of the public sphere and formation of actors who can participate actively in the public sphere. Regarding to normative principles, in addition to the rationality, the reasonability is necessary

Firstly、 we introduced three key concepts called the "body" "media" "information space" to build the communication theory as the basics theory of Socio-Informatics. The body is the meta media, and various media functions through the connection with the body. Social communication and the information space have mutual and constitutive relations.Secondly, we proposed an informational view of the world as a new view of the world distinguished by the modern view of the world that put foundations in the material view of the world

This research pays particular attention to political reality that presented through the relationship between television news and its audience. It examines three sides, the actual condition of media using, the characteristic of news text of television, and citizen's political consciousness. In doing so, it assesses that television still influences political judgment of citizens in increase of using time of internet. And the author insists that news text which is constructed of multimodality mode sometimes plays the role of producing "fear" and "affection" of audience. It is difficult for citizen to deliberate various issues in such a media environment.

First, we have clarified the multilayered effect of Americanism on the postwar Japanese Popular Culture in 1945-1969. The issue is how what is cut and lost in the process of multilayered changes in the post-war Japan has supported the post empirical order in Eastern Asia. In pursuing the analysis of this, we could connect the global military and political geopolitics to people's feelings and desires and the experience and meaning in daily life, not in the dualistic theory separating superstructure and substructure, micro and macro, text and context.Second, in order to study the culture of American policy in East Asia, we made the digital archive system of the CIE films which was recently discovered in Kiryu City Library. We have had several research meetings on CIE Films.Third, we have integrated the several digital archives administrated by variant universities which contain the materials concerning the theme, War and Media

For that Minamata disease was caused by CHISSO, until it was authorized by a government in 1968, at Minamata disease incident report, the discourses that repressively represented the sufferers of Minamata disease and their families were formed. Just as a harm responsibility of CHISSO Minamata Factory wasn't made clear, MIMAIKIN-KEIYAKU (a consolatory money contract) that tried to settle compensation to the sufferers and their families with monetary payment only to be scant, was concluded in December in 1959. Since that, the discourses to talk of the sufferers and their families as existences to receive monetary payment, and the narrative to tell that Minamata disease incident came to an end were formed in media environment.The result, Minamata disease incident didn't occur now, as an event at a media environment.For Economic White Book since 1956, a discourse of economic nationalism that Japanese independence and an international position are established by economic development was formed, the discourse that was formed in Minamata disease incident report also showed a similar ideological characteristic. And furthermore, in a discourse of such a report, a characteristic of ideology of ar after the war Japanese high economic growth that economic development indeed settles various contradiction by that appears.The labor dispute that occurred in CHISSO Minamata Factory in 1962 also in large way was reported as considering that it is an affair that contradiction of an economic policy to persue economic development came to the surface. However, a discourse to report a dispute like this made the scoop in 1963, to disclose that a cause material of Minamata disease was included in drainage of CHISSO Minamata Factory, latent. In other words, a report to be concerning a labor dispute as a contradiction caused economic development obstructed a formation of a discourse that investigated a harm responsibility of CHISSO that was one of a powerful enterprise that supported economic development in those days

We want to conclude this survey by drawing the main issues. The objects of analysis are linguistic and audio-visual texts of evening news programs and night news programs in commercial broadcasting. To approach to the texts we adopt critical discourse analysis and multi-mode analysis.1 A large part of television news programs is clearly designed as mixture of entertainment and information. So what is involved here can be thought of as a shift in the internal structure of the television, relaxation of the boundary between public affairs and entertainment in television. This shift can be seen in more general terms as part of an intensified "marketization of the television".2 We emphasize Conversationalization in information programs or news show in Japan. It is indeed a hallmark in contemporary social life and the particular structural properties of mass-media communication involved the contradiction between the public nature of media production and the private nature of media consumption. Two connected questions about the tensions and tendencies we have highlighted are related to power relations within the social system. There is an ambivalence in the case of Conversationalization. It cannot be simply dismissed as ideological, indded ofen is, but it does nevertheless represent some degree of cultural democratization

This study tried to clarify the dynamic processes of the rise of global information, network society, and to show that the developments of communal or regional societies are essential in these processes.Theoretically this study examined tree theoretical currents of development, that is, Silicon Valley model of development, developmental state model of development and national development model of development (a variant of EU model of development). It is essential for he best theory of development today to pay attention or network society is rising in the process of Empire like globalization. Silicon Valley model is very important for today's social innovation, but the Empire like globalization is so problematic. Authoritarian States are definitely against the rise of network society. But state can still take very important role in development, if it is radically democratized. Therefore the combination between Silicon valley model and national development model which came from experiences of Scandinavian and Nordic countries.Empirically this study dealt with the Japanese national, regional and local government's policies and plans on information or network society. This study pointed out outstanding examples of these policies and plans. This study also analyzed the role of informatization and network in Okinawa prefecture and Hokkaido. Furthermore this study clarified that environmental issue, welfare issue, gender and age issue are closely related with informatization and network. In the nutshell, to solve these issues will make local, regional and global society possible

When the resident voting around the construction of nuclear power plant was practiced in 1996, opposition groups had a victory. There exist two groups to have introduced resident voting (referendum) for a success. First, a meeting to practice resident voting (JUUMIN TOUHYOU WO ZIKOUSUSU KAI). Second, a meeting of Blue sea and Green (AOIUMI TO MIDORINO KAI).
The woman of 30 and 40 years old charges took part in the former. The man of 40 and 50 years old charges took part in the latter. They insisted that a large scale development is not necessary in Maki-Town and they must take good care of regional nature and tradition when they think about the future of Maki-Town. Therefore, it is important to reform the conventional decision making system. It was a large purpose of this social movement to make a new decision making system that resident in Maki-Town participates in.

The recent development of information society has caused transformations of our communicative actions and social relations in communities. In order to make clear this transformations, we made our survey on specific community "Kawagoe", that maintains traditional social relations, and constructs modern relations as suburbs of Tokyo on the other hand.In 1997, the research concentrated on the conditions of community. So we held hearing on the issues of Kawagoe-city from leaders at old town community, stuffs of government and more young persons who had been re-organizing new community net-work (ex."Kuranokai"). In 1998 , we carried out a questionnaire survey at old town district "KYU-JUKKATYO". In1999 , comparative questionnaire survey was conducted in new suburban district "KASUMIGASEKI-KITA". And in 2000, we conducted group-interviews from the community residents and neighborhood groups.The research results showed a trend towards increasing of the people using multiple-media instruments . The another trend is an extension of the residents that have no connections with community..In 1999, we reported a part of the result of questionnaire surveys at Japan Society for Studies in Journalism and Mass communication, and at Japan Society for Socio-Information Studies. And the final output of the project includes the publications of a research report submitted to the Ministry of Educations, Science, Sports and Culture

The aim of this research project is to investigate and analyze the process of the revitalization of local communities by the local people.In the first year, we carried out library research of the preceding studies on this theme in anthropology and sociology and discussed theoretical framework for this research. In the second year, each investigator made some field studies mainly in Niigata : collecting material of local government and tourism related enterprises of his own field, analyzing them and interviewing the local government officials and the local people concerned.Based on the results of each investigation, we wrote up a final report. The contents of this report are as follows : examining the theories in 'cultural studies, ' it is suggested that communication including tourism is deeply involved in political issues and discussing discourses on tourism ; our discussion about theoretical issues confirmed that sociology of media should be indispensable as the theoretical framework for this kind study ; as for case studies, from the analyzes of the policy of touristic development and the relationships between traditional culture and local museum in Ryotsu, either tourism or the local museum plays an important role in engendering local identity ; the discourse analysis on Huis-ten-bosch theme park shows its particular space-time structure ; it is also suggestd the possibilities of local independency from the central government through the analyzes of the participations of local residents in politics concerning the issue of the construction of a nuclear power plant in Maki town and the struggle of meaning through discourses concerning "development" and "tradition" in Bali

Our research project aimed at understanding a social-cultural change of modern japanese society, structured by communication-acts and the quolity of social relations formed by that communication-acts. So, we researched by questionnaire method at kawagoe city, last year. And we follow up the data by group-interview, this year. The result of analysis is1. So called "information society" is accept with differential dimensions by people's cognitive frames at their bodily levels, that regulate their life-consciousness and structures of their life-world.2. That life-consciousness made factors of the difference of people's communication acts at the community and the community-culture.3. The structures of people's communications could be grasped by the relation of their communication acts and their fields of communications.4. That idea , structure of communication propose the conceptual models that mediate the structure of people's life-world to the structure of their community