Sustainability and/or mission as the fourth estate : Journalism in the internet age

2012 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 23700301
• 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: Waseda University
• Principal Investigator: TANAKA Mikihito 早稲田大学, 政治経済学術院, 准教授 (70453975)
• Project Period (FY): 2011 – 2012
• Keywords: ジャーナリズム / ウェブ / 東日本大震災

Research Abstract

In this study, we surveyed Japanese journalism sites' struggles against the conflict of its sustainability and public mission, in comparison with U.S. and European sites. The result of the survey had been displayed online as "Sustainable Business Model for Journalism (SuBmoJour)" project. Furthermore, we examined the role and balance of legacy (mainstream) and new (web) journalism in the coming age from the point of view of the information ecosystem.

Research Products

• [Presentation] Functions of Twitter after 3.11 disaster : Deliberative tool or echo chamber apparatus? (2012)
  • Author(s): Mikihito Tanaka
  • Organizer: Society for Social Studies of Science(4S)
  • Place of Presentation: Copenhagen, Denmark
  • Year and Date: 2012-11-19
• [Presentation] Science Reporting on 3.11 Disaster (2011)
  • Author(s): Mikihito Tanaka & Motoko Kakubayashi
  • Organizer: Annual Meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science(4S)
  • Place of Presentation: Cleveland, OH
  • Year and Date: 2011-11-03
• [Book] 'Japan : Journo-based and Journo-oriented', Esa Sirkkunen and Clare Cook (Eds) "Chasing Sustainability on the Net : International Research on 69 Journalistic Pure Players and their Business Models" (2012)
  • Author(s): Mikihito Tanaka
  • Total Pages: 29-41
  • Publisher: Tampere Research Centre for Journalism, Media and Communication
• [Book] 災害弱者と情報弱者-3.11後、何が見過ごされたのか (2012)
  • Author(s): 田中幹人・丸山紀一郎・標葉隆馬
  • Publisher: 筑摩書房
• [Remarks] 本研究の成果を国際比較したデータベース(英語)
  • URL: http://www.submojour.net
• [Remarks] 毛受祐輔 「ソーシャルメディアの発達に対するジャーナリストの認識と利用-Twitterを情報ソースとした 議題構築の可能性-」早稲田大学政治学研究科ジャーナリズムコース,平成23年度修士論文
• [Remarks] 丸山紀一朗 「新聞・ウェブにおける情報多様性の測定と検討～東日本大震災後3ヶ月のメディア内議論の共鳴と偏差～」早稲田大学政治学研究科ジャーナリズムコース,平成23年度修士論文