Research on technological development of narrative communication in public and its applicability

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15K14047
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Civil engineering project/Traffic engineering
• Research Institution: Kyoto University
• Principal Investigator: FUJII Satoshi 京都大学, 工学研究科, 教授 (80252469)
• Project Period (FY): 2015-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: ナラティブ / ナラティブ型コミュニケーション / 公共政策

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The purpose of this research is to clarify theoretically the definition of literal activity in narrative form, to apply the narrative communication into the realm of public communication, and to verify its effects empirically.Through the reviews of various fields of research, two main factors of narrative have been extracted: “temporality”, which means the events are sorted in chronological order, and “intentionality of actors”, which means the intentions of actors in these events are clearly depicted. We performed a scenario experiment with narrative scenarios designed with these factors. The result suggested the effectiveness of narrative communication.

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