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Akiyoshi, Mito.

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Unmediating community: The non -diffusion of the Internet in Japan, 1985-2002.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Unmediating community: The non -diffusion of the Internet in Japan, 1985-2002./
Author:	Akiyoshi, Mito.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2004,
Description:	260 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 65-11, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International65-11A.
Subject:	Sociology. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3116963
ISBN:	9780496643950

Unmediating community: The non -diffusion of the Internet in Japan, 1985-2002.
Akiyoshi, Mito.

Unmediating community: The non -diffusion of the Internet in Japan, 1985-2002. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2004 - 260 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 65-11, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--The University of Chicago, 2004.

This item must not be added to any third party search indexes.

Theory. Existing sociological research on communication technology tends to desensationalize its object of study in an effort to disclaim technological deterministic accounts of its impact on community. Daniel Boorstin has argued, "the telephone was only a convenience, permitting Americans to do more casually and with less effort what they had already been doing before" (Boorstin 1973:72-3). Similarly, Claude Fischer finds that "Americans apparently used home telephones to widen and deepen existing social patterns rather than to alter them" (Fischer 1992:262). Such an emphasis on the conservative rather than revolutionary development of new technology is a sound and valuable approach toward rigorous analysis of social implications of communication technology. It is crucial, at the same time, to attend to the emergence of genuinely new types of interaction and the re-prioritizing of existing relationships. Cultural codes that govern communicative practices do more than just naturalize and legitimate a new medium. They are also employed for experimental modes of community building. The Internet is used both to maintain existing social ties and cultivate new forms of associations and community that would be otherwise impossible. Hypotheses. As a case in point, uses of the Internet in Japan are explored. The case of the Internet in Japan is an excellent example of community experiments with a new communication technology constrained as well as enabled by traditional norms and values. I expect that the relative invisibility of the Internet in Japan is explained, not by the absence of the interest in the technology among the general public or by blind allegiance to traditional practices of communication, but by availability of alternative technology and by the very selective deployment of communicative possibilities offered by the Internet. Methods. A history of the Internet in Japan. Statistical analysis of Internet user surveys. An ethnography of a virtual community. Results. When the Internet is used for a substitute for other communication media, concern toward traditional norms influences the manner in which the Japanese make use of the Internet. The relatively well-defined system of values and norms, however, does not discourage them from trying out new ways of socializing.

ISBN: 9780496643950Subjects--Topical Terms:

516174
Sociology.
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Communication

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