An Empirical Study of Changes in Pring Media as Knowledge Infrastructure

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25280120
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B)
• Allocation Type: Partial Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Library and information science/Humanistic social informatics
• Research Institution: Toyo University
• Principal Investigator: Toda Shinichi 東洋大学, 社会学部, 教授 (10183493)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): 影浦 峡 東京大学, 大学院情報学環・学際情報学府, 教授 (00211152) ; 海野 敏 東洋大学, 社会学部, 教授 (80232891)
• Research Collaborator: SHIMURA Ruri 東京大学, 大学院教育学研究科 ; YAMADA Shohei 東京大学, 大学院教育学研究科
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: 情報メディア / 出版 / 知識基盤

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Print media have occupied the privileged status of the knowledge infrastructure before the advent of electronic media. We chose bestsellers, publisher's paperback series, and university textbooks as the most typical modern print media and investigated these books in detail from the point of (a) physical characteristics, (b) quantitative aspects of language, (c) logical structure of the text and (d) market values. We analyzed the data statistically and clarified empirically the chronological changes in print media in Japan since WWII.

Free Research Field

図書館情報学