Media Historical Study of Rumor Effect in Modern Japan

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 25540155
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Library and information science/Humanistic social informatics
• Research Institution: Kyoto University
• Principal Investigator: SATO Takumi 京都大学, 教育学研究科(研究院), 教授 (80211944)
• Project Period (FY): 2013-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: 流言 / デマ / 誤報 / あいまい情報 / メディア史 / うわさ / 陰謀論 / 情報統制

Outline of Final Research Achievements

From a viewpoint of the influence by which rumor gave it to opinion formation through media, I considered the Japanese contemporary media history systematically. This research subject is the serial monograph, "The Time of the Media rumor" in "the Kangaeruhito". The full version of this monograph shall be published in book form.
To examine this issue of the media rumor actually, I attempted to sort out the future points for discussion about "the False Report problems of Asahi Shimbun in 2014" with the 2 articles, "Older layer of the false report" ("Tosho") and "Paradigm conversion of false report" ("Journalism"). To consider those problems more theoretically, "the use of the history in digital society" was contributed in "Iwanami lecture: The Present Times 1".

Free Research Field

メディア史