The support for media literacy in the periferal area

2016 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26540179
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Learning support system
• Research Institution: Hirosaki University
• Principal Investigator: HABUCHI ICHIYO 弘前大学, 人文社会科学部, 准教授 (70333474)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2017-03-31
• Keywords: メディア利用 / 周縁地域

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study have had the research for mobile media usage in Turkana, Kenya. The media use of the youth was a phenomenon to be seen in only the African urban area, and, in the peripheral area, it became clear that an action to far from improvement of the media literacy of a youth and the child was not performed.
Previous studies of mobile media have produced an interesting result. The possibility of developing their lives by expanding the field of activities through the use of the media have been pointed out in a set of a previous studies. Improvement of the media literacy is an urgent problem in the peripheral area particularly.

Free Research Field

社会学