Information Behavior of Residents in Local Community --On The Cases of Minakuchi, Shiga pref. and Ikoma, Nara pref. --

Research Project

Project/Area Number	01490026
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for General Scientific Research (B)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Research Field	広領域
Research Institution	Bukkyo University
Principal Investigator	ARAKI Isao Bukkyo University Dept. of Sociology Professor, 社会学部, 教授 (20097869)
Project Period (FY)	1989 – 1990
Project Status	Completed (Fiscal Year 1990)
Budget Amount *help	¥2,700,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,700,000) Fiscal Year 1990: ¥700,000 (Direct Cost: ¥700,000) Fiscal Year 1989: ¥2,000,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,000,000)
Keywords	Information / Behavior / Residents / Communication / Cable-TV / Media / Minakuchi, Shiga pref. / Ikoma, Nara pref.
Research Abstract	This study is a field survey mainly planed to make clear some aspects of peoples' information or communication behaviors in their daily lives such as those at their homes and local communities. Minakuchi, Shiga pref. and Ikoma, Nara pref. was selected as the fields of survey and the researchers delivered and gathered specially designed questionnaire to and from subjects of the study selected among residents. The characteristics of those two area and residents are in a sharp contrast. The former is a traditional town including old agricultural villages and the rate of population growth is comparatively mild. On the other hand, the latter is largely showing a typical feature as newly developed so-called bed-room towns surrounding larger city and its inflow of population is very large in the number. These differences seen in such sociological factors seem to give also some clear cut differences in peoples' information behaviors in tow communities. For example, residents in Minakuchi tend to use more inter-personal communication channel than residents in Ikoma and they also tend to like more community-and-its-people-oriented contents even if they watch programs featured in cable television. However, residents in Ikoma tend to watch more informative and instrumental type of programs than the residents in Minakuchi. We may be able to sum up these tendencies as differences in an aggregate pattern of information or communication behaviors of residents in two local communities.