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Generation Z (born between late 1990s and early 2010s) is considered to be more motivated to contribute to society and more enthusiastic about solving social issues such as the SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals) than other generations before them. We conducted a survey on willingness to contribute to society by asking regional university students to select their WTP (willingness-to-pay) for the importance they attach to specific items of the SDGs. This study examines the factors that influence the level of willingness to contribute to society by comparing the results of the survey across faculties.

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ウィズ / ポストコロナ時代における都市政策 自治体とシェアリングエコノミー
「シェアリングエコノミーの概念やシェアリングビジネスは、現在の日本において様々な形で浸透しつつあり、シェアリングサービスの利用やそのビジネスの推進が SDGs（Sustainable Development Goals）の達成に貢献し得るという論調も見られる。その中で、特に若年世代はシェアリングエコノミーやその SDGs への貢献に対してどのような認識や期待をもつのであろうか。本稿では、2021 年に実施したアンケート調査結果のうち、愛媛県と都市部における大学生の回答結果から、シェアリングエコノミーや SDGs、シェアリングビジネスの SDGs への貢献に関する若年世代の認識や期待等を検討し、都市部と愛媛県の回答を比較する。また、その上でシェアリング
エコノミーの推進に向けて、自治体に期待される役割について示唆する。」

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Generation Z (born after the mid-1990s) is considered to be more motivated to contribute to society and more enthusiastic about solving social issues such as the SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals) than other generations before them. Many of these surveys are in the form of questions asking whether or not or which specific items are important. In this study, based on the results of a survey conducted on student at a regional university in the form of questions asking WTP (Willingness To Pay) of specific items of SDGs, we will examine Generation Z's willingness to contribute to society.

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The global coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) epidemic has substantially changed Japanese society, including the ways people live and work. The higher education environment is no exception. Since February 2020, when Japanese universities busied themselves with their administering entrance examinations and preparations for the next academic year, they have struggled to deliver high-quality education in the voluntary-regulation-based new normal caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, along with countermeasures planned and implemented by the Japanese central and local governments. Most courses were delivered online synchronously or asynchronously during the academic years 2020 and 2021, and students’ opportunities to interact were substantially limited at school, socially, and in daily life. Given the unprecedented experiences that Japanese students had during these years were, it was expected that they would want to return to their pre-COVID-19 lifestyles. However, according to the results of questionnaire survey the authors conducted, Japanese students recognised the advantages and disadvantages of the new normal with COVID-19. We may be in the midst of a transformation to a new normal educational and learning environment after the COVID-19 pandemic.

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A brain-machine interface (BMI) is a cyborg technology that enables the communication between the human brain and an external device by interpreting brain signals. This cyborg technology is expected to develop further to be utilised for supporting people with disabilities, in particular, those who cannot move their limbs by themselves. However, the social implications of BMI, even the negative impacts or social influences on people with disabilities who are expected to use this interface, have not been discussed thoroughly. In this study, we invited two people with disabilities to participate in our experiment with a non-invasive BMI device (EEG input device). The device was placed on their heads so that the robotic arm can be operated remotely by their brain signals. Semi-structured interviews were conducted with them before, during, and after the experiment to assess their reactions and views to the BMI device and their ethical awareness of a BMI device and to estimate the benefits and risks of using such devices for people with disabilities. The result of this experimental survey provided some meaningful insights: the importance of understanding the differences in the perception of people with and without congenital disabilities; the effect of such technologies on the individual identities and the social relationships of people with disabilities; risks caused by the gaps between the expectations from such technologies and their actual use; and social importance of communication among engineers, policymakers, researchers and people with disabilities in order to develop and utilise cyborg technologies to assist people with disabilities.

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This study deals with people’s attitudes towards the use of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies in the field of sports through a questionnaire survey, mainly focusing on the propriety or inappropriateness of AI systems’ substituting for human referees, umpires, or judges. Valid responses, 297 in total, were obtained from a questionnaire survey conducted online from May to July 2021. Statistical analyses of the responses indicate positive attitudes towards such AI use on the whole and that it could be socially acceptable for use in sports, as well as a broader range of fields. A large majority of respondents considered AI technologies would help evolve sports. On the other hand, however, the survey revealed nonnegligible objections and concerns in regard to some aspects of AI use, such as to replace human umpires, referees and judges.

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The sharing economy is expected to promote economic revitalisation through the utilisation of idle assets, and is said to promote social values, such as through addressing environmental issues and implementing flexible work culture. In recent years, there have been occasional indications that the sharing economy can contribute to attaining the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Based on the results of a questionnaire survey conducted from July to August 2021 and follow-up interviews with the respondents conducted from October to December 2021, this study examines the current status of the usages of the sharing economy services, respondents’ awareness on the social values of the sharing economy, its relationship with SDGs, and the contribution of the sharing economy to SDG-related environmental issues.

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The Online Attention Game (OAG), which has been developed by the authors, is a gaming simulation that allows players to experience simulated online attention competitions through posting headlines of online news or articles, which are created by the players or selected from among headlines found by internet, and evaluating those posted headlines. The game is intended to increase players' awareness of their digital identity development, and to enable to analyse individual players' online posting behaviour under the situation of online attention competition. In this study, we conduct the OAG, which was played in a classroom setting, in a remote environment, and discuss the results of it to investigate the nature of online posting behaviour and the effectiveness of the game for digital identity education.

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Ill-considered postings by young social media users hungry for attention have recently garnered headlines. Imprudent online posts distort the posters’ digital identity, which refers to one’s online image as perceived by others. Online attention-seeking behaviour may result in digital identities that are separate from a person’s true nature, which can lead to social and mental harm. To mitigate these impacts, effective educational material is needed to help non-technical users understand the risks and consequences of thoughtless, attention-seeking online behaviour. This study takes the first step towards fulfilling this educational need by developing the Online Attention Game (OAG), which is played in a laboratory or classroom setting (OAG-CS) or remotely (OAG-R). It replicates the online competition involved in seeking other social media users’ attention. Through five OAG games (two OAG-CS games with students, two OAG-CS games with researchers, and one OAG-R game with researchers), we confirmed the tendencies and characteristics of young university students’ and adult researchers’ online posting behaviour. Through carrying out the OAG-R successfully, we ensured the OAG was useful for digital identity education even at the difficult time of the COVID-19 pandemic.

DOI： 10.1007/s12626-021-00077-6

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In this paper, we aim to investigate how researchers in Japan and Sweden perceive and approach the term “sharing economy” in research publications. Systematic literature reviews were used to explore academic discussions in both countries. The main finding of this research is that although researchers in both contexts use similar definitions and concepts, the meanings and connotations of the sharing economy differ among the two contexts. In summary, Japanese researchers tend to focus first and foremost on the economic effects of the sharing economy, as it serves the purpose of economic revitalisation. In contrast, Swedish researchers focus on its environmental effects. The differences reflect country-specific socio-cultural, technological, and economic contexts. Finally, we suggest future directions for research and policy development.

DOI： 10.1007/s12626-021-00068-7

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In another paper in this special issue, we explored how the sharing economy was understood and promoted by researchers in Japan and Sweden, respectively. In this second paper, which is based on two separate archival studies, we proceed by focusing on how the concept is used and understood in the political sphere by politicians and policymakers in the two contexts. On a general level, the sharing economy is understood as an economic model based on the acquisition, provision, and sharing of goods and services, facilitated by digital platforms. This study concludes that within the political spheres in Japan and Sweden there are, however, many different more specific understandings of and assumptions related to the concept. For example, the sharing economy is primarily promoted as a tool for economic revitalization and growth in Japan, while in Sweden its environmental benefits are emphasized. In Japan, there seems to be more consensus around what the sharing economy is, what its main effects are, and how it should be promoted. In Sweden, political parties instead advance different understandings of, and assumptions related to, the sharing economy to advance their political agendas. While the concept has been successfully translated in Japan by powerful political institutions and actors, we argue that the concept remains open to many different interpretations in Sweden.

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DOI： 10.1145/3429395.3429399

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Reprinted from Journal of Information, Communication and Ethics in Society, Vol. 6, No. 3, pp. 233-245, 2008. https://doi.org/10.1108/14779960810916237

DOI： 10.4324/9781003075011-16

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DOI： 10.1007/978-3-319-99605-9_21

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The authors conducted questionnaire and interview surveys of university students on attitudes towards Edward Snowden's revelations of the NSA's indiscriminate mass surveillance programmes as part of their SIGINT activities, which were started in June 2013, in eight countries including Japan in October and November 2014. The survey results demonstrates that Japanese youngsters are the outliers amongst those studied internationally in terms of social attitudes towards state surveillance. In this research, the authors show the characteristics of those attitudes in Japan, where a highly networked information society has been built, based on the survey outcomes, and examine their meaning for privacy protection, individual freedom and autonomy and democracy in Japanese society taking the Japanese socio-cultural and political environment surrounding privacy and state surveillance into account.

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This study attempts to investigate women’s career change experiences and advantages female workers can enjoy in the process of their career development, through examining the results of an interview survey of sixteen female workers in Ehime and Tokyo. While the survey is primarily<br />
preliminary and exploratory aiming to identify the direction of our research on female workers’ career<br />
development, the results of it indicate which factors may affect the interviewees’ opportunities to change their career and what sort of advantages they gained through their career development, provide analytical perspectives on differences of female workers’ attitudes between Ehime and Tokyo, and implied challenges in this research area.

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This study attempts to investigate factors which have influenced over the formation of women’s career attitudes, through examining the results of an interview survey of sixteen female workers in Ehime and Tokyo. While the survey is primarily preliminary and exploratory aiming to identify the<br />
direction of our research on female workers’ career development, the results of it indicate the human and organisational factors which may affect the interviewees’ career attitudes, provide analytical perspectives on differences of those attitudes between Ehime and Tokyo, and imply challenges in this research area.

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DOI： 10.29297/orbit.v1i2.40

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This study deals with young people&#039;s attitudes towards and social acceptance of &quot;cyborg technology&quot; including wearables and insideables (or implantable devices) to enhance human ability in Japan as part of the international research project on cyborg ethics, taking Japanese socio-cultural characteristics surrounding cyborg technology into consideration. Those subjects were investigated through questionnaire surveys of Japanese university students, which were conducted in November and December 2016. The survey results demonstrated respondents&#039; relatively low resistance to using wearables and insideables to improve human physical ability and intellectual power. On the other hand, the morality of insideables was questioned by respondents. In various aspects, statistically significant differences in attitudes towards the technologies between genders were detected.

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This study deals with grassroots informatisation of healthcare through examining an existing case of empathetic and spontaneous formation of an online community of a surgeon and his patients. He is a highly reputable surgeon as a specialist of a rare disease, and was committed to online provision of information about the disease and ways to cure it through setting up and operating a bulletin board system to enhance communication between him and his existing/potential patients. On the other hand, his patients set up bulletin board systems and blogs to share information about the diseases, treatment experiences, burdens, lives and the medical doctor’s treatments among those who suffer the same disease and the surgeon, and an online community of them has spontaneously arisen. This online community based on empathy for other patients and the surgeon is an object of analysis of this study as a case of grassroots informatisation of healthcare. Interviews with a patient of the disease who develops and operates online community sites and with two patients who have been audience (read-only community members) of the sites she and the surgeon set up were conducted.

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Purpose: This paper aims to deal with the attitudes towards and social impact of Edward Snowden’s revelations in Japan, taking the Japanese socio-cultural and political environment surrounding privacy and state surveillance into account. Design/methodology/approach: A questionnaire survey of 1,820 university students and semi-structured follow-up interviews with 56 respondents were conducted, in addition to reviews of the literature on privacy and state surveillance in Japan. The outcomes of the survey were statistically analysed, and qualitative analyses of the interview results were also performed. Findings: Snowden’s revelations have had little influence over Japanese youngsters’ attitudes towards privacy and state surveillance, mainly due to their low level of awareness of the revelations and high level of confidence in government agencies. Practical implications: The study results imply a need for reviewing educational programmes for civic education in lower and upper secondary education. Social implications: The results of this study based on a large-scale questionnaire survey indicate an urgent necessity for providing Japanese youngsters with opportunities to learn more about privacy, liberty, individual autonomy and national security. Originality/value: This study is the first attempt to investigate the social impact of Snowden’s revelations on Japanese youngsters’ attitudes towards privacy and state surveillance as part of cross-cultural analyses between eight countries.

DOI： 10.1108/JICES-08-2016-0026

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The authors conducted questionnaire and interview surveys of university students on attitudes towards Edward Snowden's revelations of the NSA's indiscriminate mass surveillance programmes as part of their SIGINT activities, which were started in June 2013, in eight countries including Japan in October and November 2014. The survey results demonstrates that Japanese youngsters are the outliers amongst those studied internationally in terms of social attitudes towards state surveillance. In this research, the authors show the characteristics of those attitudes in Japan, where a highly networked information society has been built, based on the survey outcomes, and examine their meaning for privacy protection, individual freedom and autonomy and democracy in Japanese society taking the Japanese socio-cultural and political environment surrounding privacy and state surveillance into account.

DOI： 10.11497/jasmin.2017f.0_317

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Purpose: A survey of the attitudes of students in eight countries towards the revelations of mass surveillance by the US’ NSA and the UK’s GCHQ has been described in an introductory paper and seven country-specific papers (The People’s Republic of China and Taiwan are combined in a single paper). This paper aims to present a comparison of the results from these countries and draws conclusions about the similarities and differences noted. Design/methodology/approach: A questionnaire was deployed in Germany, Japan, Mexico, New Zealand, The People’s Republic of China, Spain, Sweden and Taiwan. The original survey was in English, translated into German, Japanese and Chinese for relevant countries. The survey consists of a combination of Likert scale, Yes/no and free-text responses. The results are quantitatively analysed using appropriate statistical tools and the qualitative answers are interpreted (including, where appropriate, consolidated into quantitative results). Findings: There are significant differences between respondents in the countries surveyed with respect to their general privacy attitudes and their willingness to follow Snowden’s lead, even where they believe his actions served the public good. Research limitations/implications: Owing to resource limitations, only university students were surveyed. In some countries (Germany and New Zealand), the relatively small number of respondents limits the ability to make meaningful statistical comparisons between respondents from those countries and from elsewhere on some issues. Practical implications: Snowden’s actions are generally seen as laudable and having had positive results, among the respondents surveyed. Such results should give pause to governments seeking to expand mass surveillance by government entities. Originality/value: There have been few surveys regarding attitudes to Snowden’s revelations, despite the significant press attention and political actions that have flowed from it. The context of attitudes to both the actions he revealed and the act of revelation itself is useful in constructing political and philosophical arguments about the balance between surveillance activity for state security and the privacy of individual citizens.

DOI： 10.1108/JICES-03-2017-0016

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Language：Japanese   Publisher：日本情報経営学会  

DOI： 10.20627/jsim.37.2_1

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DOI： 10.29297/orbit.v1i2.42

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This study investigates &quot;traditional&quot; values concerning communication privacy in Japan from the perspective of Japanese socio-linguistic culture with a view to appropriately conceptualising communication privacy that is compatible with Japanese traditional social norms concerning communications as well as with today&#039;s networked world. The current and revised Japanese personal information protection law lacks conformity to those norms, while the functioning of the social norms in question has deteriorated, due to socio-technological changes in Japan. A re-examination of Japanese traditional communication ethics, a proper conceptualisation of the right to communication privacy based on such a re-examination, and the development of appropriate measures to protect that right are urgently needed in Japanese society.

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This study attempts to propose hypotheses concerning the connection between the participatory surveillance environment, which we has been created by the widespread use of social networking services (SNS), and mental disorders such as dissociative disorder youngsters would develop, based on observations of individual and organisational surveillance in the SNS sphere and research findings in the field of psychopathology.

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This study attempts to examine the (un)necessity, (un)importance and (im)possibility of conceptualising the right to privacy of the deceased and its implication for people living in the age of digital immortality or e-mmortality. Legally, the dead almost universally have little, if any, right of privacy. However, if many people regard the importance of protecting privacy and/or personal data of deceased people as quite natural, and if the protection of decedents&#039; privacy promotes human welfare, privacy after death is worth considering. Because people&#039;s views of life and death and thus of rights of the dead is inevitably affected, especially, by religious and cultural elements, this study is conducted with taking into account the Japanese religious and cultural environment. The outcomes of theoretical considerations, literature research and a questionnaire survey conducted in this study seem to show that in Japan there are social expectations that the right to privacy of the deceased should be established and the protection of it has a significant meaning not only for the dignity of the dead but for the happiness of the living.

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With the growth of the current socio-technological environment, whereby personal data on individuals are collected, stored, and exploited using advanced methods made possible by information and communication technologies, individuals are treated as dividuals (Deleuze, 1992), that is, as a dividable existence in which a set of their personal data is used to represent a specific aspect of them. The nature of dividualisation is associated with dis/re-embodiment of the individual, and leads the objectification and partialisation of human beings. Due to this objectification, holistic approaches to understanding individuals are undermined, and this may seriously affect individuals&#039; ways of thinking, ideas of what an individual is, and paradigms of good societies. In this study, the social risks caused by the objectification and partialisation of human beings are discussed.

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This chapter examines the social influence of Social Networking Services (SNS) which encourage users to reveal their real names, and considers user ability to manage their digital identity. Various issues related to using real name SNS are described and in particular, the subsequent dilemma stakeholders face, and avenues for how to ameliorate these concerns, are outlined.

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The widespread acceptance of the value and culture of openness in cyberspace owing to the proliferation of social media paradoxically encourages clever people to utilise social media in a closed or controlled fashion to their own advantage. This would lead to social issues such as the spread of people&#039;s online behaviour to treat others as only a means, the distortion of digital identity of a wide range of people and human alienation. In this paper, the nature of these issues is examined and measures to address them are proposed.

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This study attempts to examine social risks caused by the introduction of a new e-governance system in Japan centred on a national code-number resident identification system called the My Number System, focusing on architectural characteristics and discriminatory structures embedded in it. The operation of the e-governance system could bring the unignorable social risks, even though the architecture of the My Number System is designed in consideration of personal data and privacy protection. In addition, this study analyses the social risks from the perspectives of non-Japanese residents in Japan as well.

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This study deals with pathology similar to schizophrenia, which may be developed by the widespread use of social media, based on careful observation of individual and organisational behaviour in the current Net society and the results of studies on phenomenological psychiatry. Anyone can undergo an identity crisis with the feeling of strangeness that his/her independence is taken over by others, a symptom unique to schizophrenia, in the current Net environment which is characterised by the vanishing boundary between real space and cyberspace and great difficulty in protecting information privacy.

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There is just less effective privacy protection law in Japan. The Act for Protection of Personal Information (APPI), which was put into effect in April 2005 as the basic law for personal information protection covering both the public and private sectors, was crafted centred on protection of personally identifiable information (PII) collected, stored and used by organisations, and the makers of the law deliberately precluded the elements of privacy protection beyond PII protection on the ground that the concept of privacy was elusive. Actually, APPI is not endorsed by careful theoretical considerations of the social importance of privacy protection but superficially follows the OECD&#039;s (1980) eight principles and EU&#039;s (1995) Directive 95/46/EC. This law is characterised more as regulation for organisations&#039; personal data handling than as law for protecting the right to privacy.<br />
Since soon after its enforcement, various problems of APPI have been pointed out. Moreover, in the current circumstance where the widespread use of social media enhances individual users&#039; revelation of personal information of themselves and others and the integrated reformation of taxation and social security

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This study attempts to conceptualise the right to forget/be forgotten, which would have to be protected by a legal scheme, along with building a theoretical foundation of this individual&#039;s right and to examine the social necessity to establish the right in the current socio-technological environment. Although the mentation of forgetting as well as remembrance is observed in organisations, communities and states (Shimokobe, 2000), the study focuses on forgetting as human mentation. The right to be forgotten has recently started to be discussed (e.g. Werro, 2009) and European Commission&#039;s press release on 4 November 2010 mentioned that people should have that right when their data is no longer needed or they want their data to be deleted in the context of personal data protection (European Commission, 2010). In addition to the right to be forgotten which is centred on individuals&#039; capability to control their own personal information on the Web as well as stored in organisational databases, the authors propose the concept of the right to forget which relates to the restriction of organisations&#039; and individuals&#039; ways of using personal information and, thus, the scope of which is beyond

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This study attempts to conduct comparative analysis of young people&#039;s awareness and behaviour concerning online privacy between Japan and Korea based on the results of the questionnaire surveys undertaken in 2008 and 2011 in Japan and in 2010 in Korea taking into account socio-cultural circumstances surrounding the Internet in the both countries. Considering the similarities and differences in socio-cultural settings between the two countries, the cross-cultural study promises to provide fruitful findings to the academic research of online privacy as well as to business practices of B to C e-commerce.

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This study attempts to conceptualise the right to forget/be forgotten, which would have to be protected by a legal scheme, along with building a theoretical foundation of this individual&#039;s right and to examine the social necessity to establish the right in the current socio-economic and technological environment. The permeation of information and communication technology centred on database and network technology throughout society has brought about the progress of artificialisation or externalisation of human memory and this forces people to refresh their memory or prohibits them from forgetting the past of them through being provided the personalised, paternalistic services based on digital records stored in the external human memory. The forced remembrance has harmful effects on personal identity development and intellectual ability and therefore establishing the human right to forget/be forgotten is socially significant.

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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to examine the social impacts of “silent control” of individuals by means of the architecture of dataveillance systems. It addresses the question whether individuals, in reality, can actually determine autonomously the kinds of information that they can acquire and convey in today's dataveillance environments. The paper argues that there is a risk of a “counter-control revolution” that may threaten to reverse the “control revolution” described by Shapiro. Design/methodology/approach – Using relevant business cases, this paper describes the nature of dataveillance systems, then it examines situations in which the intellectual freedom of individuals is silently constrained by the architecture of such systems. This analysis leads to the conclusion that individuals in today's information society face the risk of a “counter-control revolution” that can threaten their intellectual freedom. Given this troubling conclusion, the present paper addresses the challenges of establishing socially acceptable dataveillance systems. Findings – Intentionally or unintentionally, the architecture of dataveillance systems determines what kinds of information an individual can access or receive. This means that social sorting occurs based upon the processing of personal information by dataveillance systems
and, as a result, individuals' intellectual freedom could be constrained without their realising that it is happening. Under this circumstance, the ability of individuals to control the transmission and flow of information, recently made possible by the “control revolution”, already has been compromised by business organisations that operate dataveillance systems. It is business organisations, and not the individuals themselves, that control the kinds of information that individuals are able to acquire and transmit. Originality/value – This paper provides an analysis of social risks caused by the architecture of dataveillance systems, and it introduces the concept of a “counter-control revolution”. These contributions provide a good starting point to evaluate the social impacts of dataveillance systems and to establish better, more socially acceptable dataveillance systems. © 2011, Emerald Group Publishing Limited.

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In this study, we examined the motivations behind information-offering in social media. To this end, we investigated the case of Japanese human flesh search, which involved the participation of large numbers of anonymous users. Our analysis can be explained based on from the expectancy theory of motivation and information prospect ability. © 2011 IEEE.

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The construction of a secure and safe society using information and communication technology (ICT) is recognised as an urgent issue in Japan. This recognition is based on public fear for crimes and the fear has created the social atmosphere that hasten to develop and implement security systems using ICT such as security cameras, smart IC cards and mobile phones to establish complete security and safety in Japanese society. However, the illimitable, never-ending quest for social security and safety with ICT will inevitably cause manufactured risk which should lead to serious problems in the future. We have to recognise such risk and control it appropriately.

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Many business organisations have made an attempt to provide individual consumers with the customised information services, which requires the development of dataveillance systems that continually collect and use personal information. However, the architecture of dataveillance systems decides what kind of the information individuals can access or receive. In this situation, social sorting based on personal information processing by dataveillance systems occurs and the intellectual freedom of individuals is restricted without their awareness. Under these circumstances, the ability to control the information resources that individuals had gained thanks to the widespread availability of the Internet seems to have shifted into the business organisations which operate dataveillance systems. In this study, based on the observations of relevant business cases, social influence of the dataveillance systems is examined, and the concept of &quot;the counter-control revolution&quot; is proposed.

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In general, there exists a trade-off between pursuing production efficiency and ensuring flexible and agile response to changing customer needs in manufacturing industries. One of the promising ways of resolving this trade-off is the development and implementation of a mass-customisation system into which supply chain management (SCM) is incorporated. In this study, we examine how this mass-customisation system can be applied to manufacturing operation management in order to achieve the proper balance between the efficiency and the effectiveness. In particular, we analyse this problem using the high-low entropy framework model. This model describes that the problem can be resolved through the mass-customisation system which contains both entropy heightening factors and lowering factors. In order to make this clearer, we propose "the high-low entropy framework for mass-customisation with SCM" to show that the mass-customisation system could realise the compatibility between entropy heightening factors and lowering factors, even though the complete compatibility can never be attained.

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We analyse the contention that privacy is an alien concept within Japanese society, put forward in various presentations of Japanese cultural norms at least as far back as Benedict in The chrysanthemum and the sword: patterns of Japanese culture. Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1946. In this paper we distinguish between information privacy and physical privacy. As we show, there is good evidence for social norms of limits on the sharing and use of personal information (i.e. information privacy) from traditional interactions in Japanese society, as well as constitutional evidence from the late 19th century (in the Meiji Constitution of 1889). In this context the growing awareness of the Japanese public about problems with networked information processing by public sector and commercial organisations from the 1980s (when a law governing public sector use of personal information was first passed) to recent years (when that law was updated and a first law governing commercial use of personal information was adopted) are not the imposition or adoption of foreign practices nor solely an attempt to lead Japanese society into coherence with the rest of the OECD. Instead they are drawing on the experience of the rest of the developed world in developing legal responses to the breakdown of social norms governing interchange and use of personal information, stressed by the architectural changes wrought by networked information processing capabilities. This claim is supported by consideration of standard models of Japanese social interactions as well as of Supreme Court judgements declaring reasonable expectations of protection of privacy to hold in Japan. © 2009 Springer-Verlag London Limited.

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A large majority of commercial websites or B to C e-business sites now post their privacy policies online. Many of them put privacy seals online as well. Although the recognition of the right to privacy is inevitably affected by socio-cultural circumstances, there has been very little examination of the recognition of online privacy policies from a socio-cultural perspective. Do privacy policies and seals put on e-business websites function well as tools to engender consumers&#039; trust in e-business companies in Japan? The results of a questionnaire survey that investigated young Japanese people&#039;s awareness of online privacy policies are analysed to consider socio-cultural factors in this area. Through the analysis and discussions of the survey results, the current picture of Japanese B to C e-business with respect to online privacy policies is described and the implications for Japanese society and businesses committed to the protection of online privacy are stated.

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to reconsider the concept of the right to information privacy and to propose, from a Japanese perspective, a revised conception of this right that is suitable for the modern information society. Design/methodology/approach First, the concept of privacy and personal information protection in the information society is briefly explained. After that, confused situations in Japan caused by the enforcement of Act on the Protection of Personal Information are described followed by the analysis of the Japanese socio-cultural circumstances surrounding privacy. Based on these, the effectiveness of the concept of the right to information privacy in the Japanese socio-cultural and economic context is examined and the need to rethink the concept of the right to information privacy discussed. Finally, a revised conception of the right is proposed. Findings In view of the circumstances in Japan, the concept of the right to information privacy, defined as “an individual's right to control the circulation of information relating to him/herself”, as well as the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development's eight principles already become outdated in today's sophisticated information-communication society. There is a need to control/restrict use of personal information so that individuals' autonomy and freedom is ensured in the current situation and to revise the concept of the right to information privacy based on this idea. Originality/value This paper proposes a revision of the concept of the right to information privacy focused on control of, not access to, use of personal information. The revised concept is defined so that individuals' autonomy and freedom is ensured even in the “informational transparent” society. © 2008, Emerald Group Publishing Limited

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Almost every shopping website now posts its privacy policy online. Although the recognition of the right to privacy is inevitably affected by socio-cultural circumstances, there has been very little examination of the recognition of online privacy policies from a cross-cultural perspective. We analysed the results of a survey that investigated young Japanese people&#039;s awareness of online privacy policies as the first step in considering socio-cultural factors in this area. Through the analysis and discussions of the survey results, we considered the implications for Japanese society and businesses committed to the protection of online privacy.

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Three general challenges face the establishment of information and communication technology (ICT) professionalism in Japan: the working environment of ICT professionals, the business practices in the Japanese ICT industry and the Japanese education system. In this study, we examine these challenges descriptively and propose effective countermeasures to establish a globally acceptable level of ICT professionalism in Japan.

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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyse incidents of personal information leakage in Japan based on Japanese socio-cultural characteristics of information privacy and to consider how best to develop an effective personal information protection policy that conforms to Japanese situations as well as to the global requirement of personal information protection. Design/methodology/approach After describing recent incidents of personal information leakage in Japan, the paper examines the defects of the Act on Protection of Personal Information (APPI) that permit these incidents to continue. Subsequently, these incidents and the responses of the Japanese people in a manner that reflects the unique Japanese socio-cultural characteristics of information privacy are analysed. Finally, the paper proposes a revision of APPI that conforms to these Japanese socio-cultural characteristics as well as to the global requirement for personal information protection. Findings Personal information leakage cases and social responses in Japan reflect three Japanese socio-cultural characteristics: Uchi/Soto awareness, insular collectivism and Hon'ne/Tatemae tradition. An effective law protecting personal information in Japan's cultural environment cannot be made simply by copying the privacy protection laws in western nations. Instead, legal protection of personal information should be drafted that reflects and takes into account these socio-cultural characteristics. Originality/value This paper conducts analysis of incidents of personal information leakage in Japan based on Japanese socio-cultural characteristics. A revision of APPI is proposed on the basis of the analysis. The paper's analysis and proposal would provide a good clue to develop effective measures to protect personal information and the right to information privacy in the global, multicultural information society. © 2008, Emerald Group Publishing Limited

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Language：Japanese   Publisher：日本情報経営学会  

Successful quality management of personal data on consumption behaviour is vital for most business organisations in the consumer-oriented business environment; it should enhance customer satisfaction and contribute to build a favourable relationship with their individual customers. Although the widespread availability of information and communication technology (ICT) has made it easier for business organisations to collect, store, process and use personal data, ensuring the high quality of personal data is not easy for any business organisation. In order to wrestle with the difficult challenge of personal data quality management, business organisations should extend the scope of data quality management and develop the &quot;transparent&quot; data quality management systems which can continually ensure accuracy and up-to-dateness of personal data they collect.

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Since the 1950s, information system departments of Japanese firms have evolved their functions, roles and structures to respond to the changing internal/external environmental changes. On the other hand, diverse functions the departments are now expected to provide are often outsourced. In this study, we review the transition of roles and functions of the information systems department, and examine challenges the department now faces.

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Recently, while information society is progressing rapidly, accidents or scandals concerning the way of handling information/data are increasing. As a consequence, the role of information security to halt such problems is gaining more attention from practitioners and academicians. In particular, issues related to computer virus cases have brought considerable consequences on the society from a wide range perspective. Accordingly, an in-depth examination of problems related to computer virus cases became an emergent issue to the information society. This study explores the problem of computer virus based on the framework of "Problem structure of information handling". It shows that computer virus cases are related to all aspects of "Problem structure of information handling" and suggests the necessity of anti-computer virus measures for our everyday life and business activities.

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Radio frequency identification (RFID) wristband systems have recently attracted a great deal of attention as an effective tool to avoid medical malpractice such as misidentification of patients. However, in the ICT-dependant society, this type of ICT-based information systems should be designed through careful deliberation from a social point of view, because the systems inevitably use patient information which contains sensitive data like medical history of the patients. One of the most promising ways of attaining socially responsible design of RFID wristband systems is to perform stakeholder analysis of the systems. In a stakeholder analysis session, participants ought to try to recognise as many kinds of risks regarding the use of RFID wristband systems as possible from their own points of view, and control of and trade-off between the risks should be deliberated.

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This paper deals with socio-cultural influence on protection of personal data and privacy in Japan and its meanings for Japanese business. The enforcement of the Act for Protection of Personal Data in April 2005 has prompted broad recognition that Japanese firms, which collect, store and use personal data, should enhance their effort in protecting personal data and privacy as a part of development of their social responsibility. However, Japanese socio-cultural characteristics related to the notion of privacy tend to make ordinary Japanese people consider protection of privacy is identical to compliance with the Act. This would distort Japanese firms&#039; ways of approaching protection of personal data and privacy and result in putting Japanese firms as well as Japanese economy in jeopardy in the global business environment.

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This paper presents a description of the early stages of a collaborative, cross-cultural, multidisciplinary project that seeks to investigate how privacy online is understood in Japan as compared with the United Kingdom. Much still remains to be done - and perharps there will be a lot more to report by the time this paper is presented at conference. Previous studies have examined this topic in the context of Western democracies, and to a limited extent also in the Middle East. But relatively little attention hax thus far been paid to cross-cultural factors, and those few studies that have addressed this topic have so far been inconclusive about the role of culture in relation to privacy issues and Internet behaviour. The Internet is now emphatically a global phenomenon with little respect for national, cultural or language differences. It is not under the hegemony of any one social group, whether at local, national ore regional level. In recognition of this, the study aims to address the gap in our knowledge.

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A closer look at the growing trend in studies concerning CSR and the role of Business Corporation to halt any misdoing arises the necessity to dig into the origin of the organization's scandals. This study analyses the "third risk" occurrence process and provides a new framework to explain the time lag between the occurrence of the misdoing and the discovery of the scandal. Based on prior related works, the paper explores the development of the risk from operating one to "third risk" through the three levels of organization hierarchy (bottom, middle, top) and emphasizes the role of top management in the development of "third risk". It shows that corporations need to balance between its concern to its financial achievement and the one to the good of community. The study suggests that this balance has to shift to favor the latter concern on the former one when risk moves from operation one towards "third risk". Finally, the paper explains the effect of time lag related to top management's change in the development and the expansion of "third risk".

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This paper suggests a duality of reverse logistics in &#039;Circulation-Oriented SCM&#039;. The duality means that &#039;Circulation-Oriented SCM&#039; has two purposes, namely one is through-put increasing as well as ordinal SCM and the other is integrity of the earth environment. Although it seems to be a trade-off relationship between them in general, there is a possibility of the compatibility between them. Then this paper suggests that the compatibility motivates many firms toward &#039;Circulation-Oriented SCM&#039; construction.

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The purpose of this study is to overview how the spread of COVID-19 was covered by the news media from January to May 2020. In this period, the pandemic declaration was issued by the World Health Organization on March 11th and a state of emergency was declared in Japan on April 7th. The main sources of information we investigated are articles from national and regional papers and news agencies. We grouped the articles into 15 categories based on their contents, and examined the trends and transitions of such news coverage over time and the relationships between them and fake information on the disease.

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A closer look at the growing trend in studies concerning CSR and the role of Business Corporation to halt any misdoing arises the necessity to dig into the origin of the organization's scandals. This study analyses the "third risk" occurrence process and provides a new framework to explain the time lag between the occurrence of the misdoing and the discovery of the scandal. Based on prior related works, the paper explores the development of the risk from operating one to "third risk" through the three levels of organization hierarchy (bottom, middle, top) and emphasizes the role of top management in the development of "third risk". It shows that corporations need to balance between its concern to its financial achievement and the one to the good of community. The study suggests that this balance has to shift to favor the latter concern on the former one when risk moves from operation one towards "third risk". Finally, the paper explains the effect of time lag related to top management's change in the development and the expansion of "third risk".

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Virtual reality (VR) technology is expected to be used in the social welfare field for education and training. However, such usage is currently in the introductory stage, and it has not been examined enough to understand what possibilities and issues the use has, and whether it helps improve the motivation for learning of existing social welfare workers and attracting potential workers. In this study, the application status of VR in the field of social welfare, benefits and challenges are summarised, and an exploratory questionnaire survey of 10-20s people, potential workers, on VR technology and its application in the field is conducted, and the survey results are examined.

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Venue：Brussels   Country：Belgium  

Panel：THE SOCIAL AND ETHICAL IMPLICATIONS OF IMPLANTABLE ENHANCEMENT TECHNOLOGY Most implantable technology approved for human use currently is therapeutic or designed to provide the user with minimal, or at best average, capabilities compared to organic functionality. However, there is a great deal of technical research into implantables which would enhance capabilities beyond human norms, or even beyond human limitations, as well as a community which actively desires to have such technology implanted. Based on interviews with experts in France, Spain and Japan, the panel will provide an overview of the social, legal and ethical concerns (such as privacy, security, autonomy and inequality) about whether such technologies should be allowed and if so under what kinds of regulatory systems. Physical and mental augmentation technologies as well as the impact of national culture on attitudes will be covered.

• What physical and intellectual enhancements are likely possible from implantable technology in the next thirty years?
• Should research (including human trials) into enhancement implantables be permitted?
• What social, legal and ethical issues arise from the potential availability of enhancement implantables?
• How should implantable enhancement technologies be regulated?

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Event date： 2021.11

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In Japan, the term and concept of the "sharing economy" began to be observed around 2010's, with businesses such as home sharing and skill sharing has been operated. In this study, based on the observation of current situation on the sharing economy in Japan and the authors' previous research comparing the arguments of the sharing economy in Japan and Sweden from the perspectives of policy making and academic research, the characteristics of Japanised“sharing economy" and future tasks are discussed.

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Event date： 2021.11

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The Online Attention Game (OAG), which has been developed by the authors, is a gaming simulation that allows players to experience simulated online attention competitions through posting headlines of online news or articles, which are created by the players or selected from among headlines found by internet, and evaluating those posted headlines. The game is intended to increase players' awareness of their digital identity development, and to enable to analyse individual players' online posting behaviour under the situation of online attention competition. In this study, we conduct the OAG, which was played in a classroom setting, in a remote environment, and discuss the results of it to investigate the nature of online posting behaviour and the effectiveness of the game for digital identity education.

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This paper discusses an empirical study undertaken of a sample of Japanese people across the digital divide, focusing on their perception of both connectivity and being informed as the pandemic unfolds. The aim is to identify common themes regarding how digital technology is used to support information and interaction during the pandemic. These are used to propose changes which might halt the grey digital divide becoming the grey digital chasm and improve support through fit-for-purpose digital technology to the most vulnerable in times of emergency. To achieve the aim, questionnaire surveys were conducted and 136 valid responses including ones from grey digital natives and outcasts were analysed. The results of the analysis demonstrate that the grey digital divide did not seem to exist in terms of the acquisition of information about COVID-19, and that both grey digital natives and outcasts preferred to receive such information via low- and no-tech media.

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The protection of privacy, which has always been considered to be an important social issue. The business models adopted by many contemporary organisations are premised on the mass collection of personal data by 24/7 electronic surveillance systems and sophisticated analysis of those data by AI-based information systems with the intention of controlling their existing and/or potential customers’ behaviour. However, the implicit assumption that privacy protection is identical to personal data protection seems to be made frequently. Such a narrow or trivialised understanding of privacy or privacy protection has brought about a new societal challenge: legally and/or technologically appropriate approaches to the protection of privacy or personal data have paradoxically caused and even justified serious invasions of privacy, especially decisional and psychological/mental privacy. This study investigates the modern-day version of the privacy paradox and proposes policies to resolve it.

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A brain-machine interface (BMI) processes signals acquired from a human brain and translates them into a meaningful output in accordance with a given purpose such as operating a machine remotely. Thanks to these functions, BMI systems are expected to be adopted to support people with disabilities. However, the ethical issues and social concerns surrounding the use of BMI systems for people with disabilities have not been exhaustively discussed. The social and ethical implications for social welfare should be carefully considered in advance of the actual use of BMI, to secure users’ well-being. In this study, the authors conducted experiments on two healthy social welfare professionals, with specialised knowledge and experience, as subjects using a non-invasive wearable BMI device. The subjects completed an interview survey, before, during, after the experiment, to investigate the availability, usability and ethical issues of BMI systems for people with disabilities.

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Event date： 2020.10 - 2020.11

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Venue：Kaohsiung Taiwan   Country：Taiwan, Province of China  

Ill-considered postings by young social media users hungry for attention have recently garnered headlines. Imprudent online postings may distort posters' digital identity, which is someone's online image as perceived by others. Online attention-seeking behaviour may result in digital identities that are divorced from a person's true nature, which can lead to social and mental harm. To mitigate these harms, effective educational material is needed to help non-technical young users understand the risks and consequences of thoughtless, attention-seeking online behaviour. Because such materials do not exist, we took the first step towards fulfilling this educational need by developing the Online Attention Game (OAG). The OAG is an online game played in a laboratory or classroom setting that replicates the online competition involved in seeking other social media users' attention. Through four OAG games (two with students and two with researchers), we confirmed the differences in posting and evaluation behaviour between young university students and adult researchers.

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This study deals with pathology similar to schizophrenia, which may be developed by the widespread use of social media, based on careful observation of individual and organisational behaviour in the current Net society and the results of studies on phenomenological psychiatry. Anyone can undergo an identity crisis with the feeling of strangeness that his/her independence is taken over by others, a symptom unique to schizophrenia, in the current Net environment which is characterised by the vanishing boundary between real space and cyberspace and great difficulty in protecting information privacy. © 2012 IADIS.

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Recent days, job hunting processes using social media, which are called as "So-katsu", are conducted. In particular, university and college students who look for a job have great concerns with the issues relating job hunting using social media. Under such situations, constructions of digital identity which can be formed online as a persona of self by providing their personal information on the social media websites have influence over their social life including job hunting process. In this study, based on the observation of recent job hunting processes using social media, constructions of youngster's digital identity and educational methods for them are examined.

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Venue：横浜国立大学ビジネスシミュレーション研究拠点  

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Since the 1950s, information system departments of Japanese firms have evolved their functions, roles and structures to respond to the changing internal/external environmental changes. On the other hand, diverse functions the departments are now expected to provide are often outsourced. In this study, we review the transition of roles and functions of the information systems department, and examine challenges the department now faces.

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ISBN 978-951-29-8989-8

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Presentation type：Public lecture, seminar, tutorial, course, or other speech  

Venue：Ehime University   Country：Japan  

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Other Link： https://dialnet.unirioja.es/descarga/articulo/9326123.pdf

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本研究では、若者世代の消費者が飲食店を選択する際にクチコミ情報やクチコミサイトがどのように利用されているのか、クチコミを書かれる飲食店側にとってのクチコミ情報の意義や価値があるのかについて、アンケート調査やインタビュー調査を通じて考察する。

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