How social media affects our identity in fluid society

• Project/Area Number: 24700251
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Library and information science/Humanistic social informatics
• Research Institution: Meiji University
• Principal Investigator: ASAI Ryoko 明治大学, 公私立大学の部局等, 研究員 (40461743)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Project Status: Completed (Fiscal Year 2014)
• Budget Amount: ¥2,340,000 (Direct Cost: ¥1,800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥540,000); Fiscal Year 2014: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000); Fiscal Year 2013: ¥1,040,000 (Direct Cost: ¥800,000、Indirect Cost: ¥240,000); Fiscal Year 2012: ¥650,000 (Direct Cost: ¥500,000、Indirect Cost: ¥150,000)
• Keywords: 情報倫理 / ソーシャルメディア / アイデンティティ / ジェンダー / 意思決定 / 意思決定過程 / 感情 / 社会的リスク / インターネット / ソーシャルクライシス / 情報通信技術

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The research shows how people use social media and technology in the critical situation, especially under big disasters and political turmoils, based on narrative and qualitative researches. And also it works on exploring how social media influence and technology the process of forming our identities. First, this research picked up two critical social occasions "the Great East Japan Earthquake" and "the Arab Spring" and considered about the way of social media. Through the research, this research also focused on the emotional bond and love among people in order to show how technology including social media help people grow an intimate relationship. This research conducted some interviews with social media users and explored how people use social media to find their companies or partners. In the process of the interview research, this research revealed sexual orientations and desires also got influenced by technology. And we developed the tool for people's autonomous decision making.

Research Products

• [Journal Article] 情報倫理研究におけるジェンダーの射程 (2014)
  • Author(s): 浅井亮子
  • Journal Title: 経営情報学会誌：経営情報フォーラム Volume: 23(2) Pages: 158-161
• [Journal Article] Can machines make ethical decisions? (2013)
  • Author(s): Kavathatzopoulos, Iordanis., and Ryoko Asai
  • Journal Title: Artificial Intelligence Applications and Innovations Volume: 412 Pages: 693-699
  • DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-41142-7_70
  • ISBN: 9783642411410, 9783642411427
  • Peer Reviewed
• [Journal Article] ソーシャルメディアがつくる新しい絆のカタチ (2012)
  • Author(s): 浅井亮子
  • Journal Title: 情報経営学会大会予稿集 Volume: 第６４回春号 Pages: 141-144
• [Presentation] Responsibility and Competence in Political Ethics (2014)
  • Author(s): Ryoko Asai and Iordanis Kavathatzopoulos
  • Organizer: 23rd World Congress of Political Science 2014
  • Place of Presentation: Palais des Congres, Montreal, Canada
  • Year and Date: 2014-07-19 – 2014-07-24
• [Presentation] Supporting Politician's skill to handle moral issues (2014)
  • Author(s): Iordanis Kavathatzopoulos, Ken Coghill, Ryoko and Asai
  • Organizer: 23rd World Congress of Political Science 2014
  • Place of Presentation: Palais des Congres, Montreal, Canada
  • Year and Date: 2014-07-19 – 2014-07-24
• [Presentation] Philosophical method and the conflict liberty-security (2014)
  • Author(s): Iordanis Kavathatzopoulos and Ryoko Asai
  • Organizer: ETHICOMP2014
  • Place of Presentation: University Pierre et Marie Currie, Paris, France
  • Year and Date: 2014-06-27
• [Presentation] Between Insanity and Love (2014)
  • Author(s): Ryoko Asai
  • Organizer: Epistemologie Sociale. Autorite Epistemique et Genre
  • Place of Presentation: Ecole des hautes etudes en sciences sociales（社会科学高等研究院）, Paris, France
  • Year and Date: 2014-05-05
• [Presentation] Emotion Online (2014)
  • Author(s): Ryoko Asai
  • Organizer: Visual Information and Interaction Seminar (VI2 Seminar)
  • Place of Presentation: Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
  • Year and Date: 2014-04-28
• [Presentation] Research in Computer/Information Ethics: A Gender Gap Analysis and Consequences(Panel) (2013)
  • Author(s): Ryoko Asai
  • Organizer: CEPE2013
  • Place of Presentation: Universidade Autonoma de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal
• [Presentation] Tools and methods for security: Stimulating the skill to philosophize (2013)
  • Author(s): Iordanis Kavathatzopoulos, Ryoko Asai and Mikael Laaksoharju
  • Organizer: European Intelligence and Security Informatics Conference
  • Place of Presentation: Uppsala University, Sweden
• [Presentation] Social Media Supporting Democratic Dialogue (2013)
  • Author(s): Ryoko Asai
  • Organizer: CEPE2013
  • Place of Presentation: Autónoma University, Lisbon, Portugal
• [Presentation] Methods for IT security and privacy (2013)
  • Author(s): Iordanis Kavathatzopoulos and Ryoko Asai
  • Organizer: ICT, society and human beings 2013
  • Place of Presentation: Prague, Czech Republic
• [Presentation] ICT supported crisis communication and dialog (2013)
  • Author(s): Asai, Ryoko. and Iordanis Kavathatzopoulos.
  • Organizer: ETHICOMP2013
  • Place of Presentation: University of Southern Denmark, Kolding, Denmark
• [Presentation] Designing "Open Education": How does the ICT-based system function as a new medium of participation for sustainability? (2013)
  • Author(s): Ryoko Asai
  • Organizer: ETHICOMP 2013
  • Place of Presentation: University of Southern Denmark, Kolding, Denmark
• [Presentation] Can machines make ethical decisions? (2013)
  • Author(s): Iordanis Kavathatzopoulos and Ryoko Asai
  • Organizer: Artificial Intelligence Applications and Innovations: 9th IFIP WG12.5 International Conference
  • Place of Presentation: Paphos, Cyprus
• [Presentation] IT security and sustainability (2013)
  • Author(s): Kavathatzopoulos, Iordanis. and Asai, Ryoko
  • Organizer: IT security and sustainability, ICT4S
  • Place of Presentation: ETH, Switzerland
• [Presentation] The paradoxical nature of privacy (2012)
  • Author(s): Asai, Ryoko. and Kavathatzopoulos, Iordanis.
  • Organizer: The Asian Privacy Scholarly Network
  • Place of Presentation: Tokyo, Japan
• [Presentation] Social movement and social media (2012)
  • Author(s): Asai, Ryoko., and Kavathatzopoulos, Iordanis.
  • Organizer: 4th ICTs and Society-Conference 2012
  • Place of Presentation: Uppsala University, Sweden
• [Presentation] ソーシャルメディアがつくる新しい絆のカタチ (2012)
  • Author(s): 浅井亮子
  • Organizer: 情報経営学会第６４回大会
  • Place of Presentation: 明治大学, 東京
• [Presentation] 男女共同参画社会って何だろう?:日本とスウェーデンの現状から 考える私たちの「ライフスタイル」
  • Author(s): 浅井亮子
  • Organizer: 平成２５年度第1回男女共同参画推進のための意見交換会
  • Place of Presentation: 墨田区役所, 墨田区
  • Invited
• [Presentation] Social media influence on cooperation and coordination
  • Author(s): Ryoko Asai
  • Organizer: ICT-ethics: Sweden and Japan
  • Place of Presentation: Linköping University, Sweden
• [Presentation] Social media as informal public spheres: how social media affect social capital in a crisis situation
  • Author(s): Ryoko Asai
  • Organizer: International Federation of Information Processing (IFIP) 9.2 social accountability and computing and special interest group 9.2.2 on framework of ethics of computing
  • Place of Presentation: Uppsala university, Sweden
• [Book] ICT-ethics: Sweden and Japan (2013)
  • Author(s): Elin Palm, Ryoko Asai, Kiyoshi Murata, Yohko Orito, Thomas Taro Lennerfors and Iordanis Kavathatzopoulos
  • Total Pages: 63
  • Publisher: Linkoping Univeristy
• [Remarks] 明治大学ビジネス情報倫理研究所
  • URL: http://www.kisc.meiji.ac.jp/~ethicj/