Online experimental study on surveillance and trust in the information society: An analysis of creation, damage, and recovery processes

2021 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 19K20634
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Review Section: Basic Section 90020:Library and information science, humanistic and social informatics-related
• Research Institution: Meiji University
• Principal Investigator: GOTO Akira 明治大学, 情報コミュニケーション学部, 専任講師 (80707886)
• Project Period (FY): 2019-04-01 – 2022-03-31
• Keywords: オンライン実験 / 監視 / 信頼 / クラウドソーシング

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study focuses on surveillance in the information society, focusing on the trust among the three parties: the surveillance target, the surveillance medium, and the surveillance subject. In particular, we attempted to clarify the "creation, destruction, and recovery process of trust among the monitoring subjects and monitoring media in the information society" based on the assumption that unexpected events occur.
Using awareness surveys and repeated economic game experiments, we found that the tolerance level of surveillance differs depending on the combination of surveillance target, surveillance medium, and surveillance subject. The occurrence of an unexpected event such as the Corona disaster changes surveillance preferences. The results also revealed that individuals become nominally altruistic but real egocentric when unexpectedly fortunate.

Free Research Field

行動経済学，社会情報学，実験/計算社会科学

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

本研究はオンライン上における監視についても監視対象・監視媒体・監視主体の三者関係が重要であり，一律に監視を否定も肯定もできないことを指摘した．さらに，想定外の事象の発生によって向社会性や選好が影響を受けることを指摘した点については，想定外の事象が起こった場合の政策・施策のあり方に課題が存在することを示唆するという意味で，学術的意義・社会的意義が高いと考えられる．
また，本研究の中心はクラウドソーシングを用いたオンライン実験であることから，国内におけるクラウドソーシング実験の先駆的な実践としても意義がある．