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A theorical, empirical research on "Digital Divide" according to progress of regional informatization

Research Project

Project/Area Number 12410060
Research Category

Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)

Allocation TypeSingle-year Grants
Section一般
Research Field 社会学(含社会福祉関係)
Research InstitutionOtsuma Women's University

Principal Investigator

SUMITANI Akio  Otsuma women's University, Social Information Studies, Professor, 社会情報学部, 教授 (90196915)

Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) UMEZU Kenichiro  Kure University, Social Information Studies, assistant professor, 社会情報学部, 助教授 (90281526)
MORIHIRO Hitoshi  Kumamoto Gakuen University, Social Welfare, assistant professor, 社会福祉学部, 助教授 (90230143)
MAENO Hiromu  Otsuma Women's University, social Information Studies, Professor, 社会情報学部, 教授 (60123030)
東山 禎之  大妻女子大学, 社会情報学部, 教授 (30255244)
Project Period (FY) 2000 – 2002
Project Status Completed (Fiscal Year 2002)
Budget Amount *help
¥7,700,000 (Direct Cost: ¥7,700,000)
Fiscal Year 2002: ¥1,900,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,900,000)
Fiscal Year 2001: ¥2,300,000 (Direct Cost: ¥2,300,000)
Fiscal Year 2000: ¥3,500,000 (Direct Cost: ¥3,500,000)
Keywordsdigital divide / infomatization / empirical research / solitary island / Tama New Town / information free barrier / public sphere / CATV / 高度情報通信社会 / ニュータウン / 本州四国連絡橋 / 生活様式 / IT / IT革命 / しまなみ海道 / 生活橋
Research Abstract

The Digital Divide may be perceived to be the gap between those people who have access to the new information, and communication technologies and those who cannot. At the present age when the advanced information and telecommunications society progressed, we analyzed the problem of "Digital Divide" as "New difference" caused in the process of informationization.
There are two levels, (1)international divide and (2)domestic divide. In a domestic divide, it is possible to divide into (3)business divide (corporate scale difference) and (4)social divide (difference by economy, the region, and the race and the education, etc.). In this research, the focus was applied to social divide. Micro and the macro were analyzed as a theory research.
Micro analysis concerning the digital divide clarified that there were a technical level ((a) platform, (b) network, and (c) contents) and information literacy (knowledge) divide. In addition, the problem of "information free barrier" and "public sphere of information" was clarified as a macro analysis concerning the digital divide.
The comparison investigation in the solitary island and the farm village district and the city region was executed as an empirical research. People's outlooks on information and the transformations of the region outlook and the living space were researched about the relation between the change in the media environment in the region and the change in a traffic infrastructure. The questionnaire survey clarified a subjective meaning of the digital divide.
Thus, the problem of the digital divide was clarified from both sides of an objective approach and a subjective approach.

Report

(4 results)
  • 2002 Annual Research Report   Final Research Report Summary
  • 2001 Annual Research Report
  • 2000 Annual Research Report
  • Research Products

    (12 results)

All Other

All Publications (12 results)

  • [Publications] 前納 弘武: "情報社会論再考-その系譜と転回"中央大学文学部社会学科紀要. 12. 169-180 (2002)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2002 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] 梅津 顕一郎: "「情報公共圏論」研究序説"社会情報研究. 9. 1-13 (2003)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2002 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] 守弘 仁志: "社会情報ネットワークにおける地域支援-熊本バリアフリーマップ作成から-"社会関係研究(熊本学園大学社会関係学会). 8. 11-22 (2000)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2002 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] 守弘 仁志: "「沖縄における放送制度」ノート"熊本学園大学社会福祉研究所所報. 32. 321-340 (2004)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2002 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] 林茂樹編著, 炭谷晃男執筆: "日本の地方CATV"中央大学出版部. 247 (2001)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2002 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] 前納弘武, 梅津顕一郎, 守弘仁志: "情報化と社会心理"中央大学出版部. 276 (2002)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(和文)」より
    • Related Report
      2002 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Hiromu Maeno: "Reconsideration of Information-Society Theory : Its Genealogy and Inversion"Journal of the Faculty of Literature. No.12. 169-180 (2002)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2002 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Kenichiro Umezu: "An Introduction to the Theory of the "Info-Public Sphere""Social Information Science. Vol.9. 1-13 (2003)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2002 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Hitosi Morihiro: "Regional support in welfare information network"Kumamoto gakuen Univ."Studies of Social Relation". Vol.8,No.1. 11-22 (2000)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2002 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Hitosi Morihiro: "Broadcasting System in Okinawa"Bulletin of The institute of Social Welfere. No32. 321-340 (2004)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2002 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Akio Sumitani: "Rural Cable Television"Shigegyu Hayashi ed. Rural Cable Television in Japan. 247 (2001)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2002 Final Research Report Summary
  • [Publications] Hiromu Maeno, Kenichiro Umezu, Hitoshi Morihiro: "Informationzation and Social Psychology"Shigegyu, Hayashi ed. 276 (2002)

    • Description
      「研究成果報告書概要(欧文)」より
    • Related Report
      2002 Final Research Report Summary

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