A comparative study on value consciousness and information ethics for mutual understanding of East Asia in the information age

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26380668
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Sociology
• Research Institution: University of Tsukuba
• Principal Investigator: NAKADA Makoto 筑波大学, 人文社会系, 教授 (50172341)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): 海後 宗男 筑波大学, 人文社会系, 准教授 (60281317) ; 佐藤 貢悦 筑波大学, 人文社会系, 教授 (80187187) ; 石井 健一 筑波大学, システム情報系, 准教授 (90193250)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 情報倫理 / ロボット倫理 / 東アジアの価値観 / 比較情報倫理 / 日本 / 伝統的価値観 / 情報社会 / 技術と存在論

Outline of Final Research Achievements

In this project, we tried to analyze ‘cultural meanings and values’ associated with some of the important IIE (intercultural information ethics) topics in ‘Far East, ’i.e. ‘human and robot interaction(HRI)’ and ‘privacy.’ While focusing on these relatively newly emerging topics in ‘Far East,’ we examined the roles of Japanese Seken-related views or Japanese Ba-related views in detail. What we found is: In Japan, Seken-related views or Ba-related views make a kind of form of bird-eyes views which hold various meanings and views in the information era as a set of views on life within it ; A similar tendency (presence of bird-eyes views or a combination of views of observation and reflection) can be found in China and South Korea too; On the other hand, people’s views on the distinction between public and private are different among Japan and East Asian countries.

Free Research Field

情報倫理　ロボット倫理　情報社会論