Abstracts:
“Credit Card Payment over Internet and Consumer’s Utility – A Socio-Cultural Approach ”
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The increasing of the trading volume over Internet generate a change on the perspective of the utilization of credit card payments and the number of credit card holders all over the world. In the real world where cash and credit payments share the same bond of the market both consumers and dealers can treaty according to their necessities and actual payment possibilities.
In the virtual, in this case Internet, direct cash payment is an option that is out of consideration. There are no possibilities of variation between one payment method and another and the financial transaction occurs generally by credit card companies.
“Japanese Celebrities’ Blogs – Publicity, Privacy and Self-Presentation”
(日本における芸能人のブログ – ブログによる広報及びプライバシーと自己提示に関して)
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This is a presentation I have made in Tohoku University concerning my research work in privacy, publicity and self promotion in celebritie’s blogs. This paper is a report of a work in progress and it is fully in Japanese (please, e-mail me if you would like to receive an English version of this paper).
“Internet’s Next Horizon: A Profile of Video Chat Users”
(インターネットの次なる展開 － ビデオチャット利用者の姿を通して －)
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This article investigates the connection between the use of CMC – Computer Mediated Technologies – and the actual level of interpersonal communication in society. It explores how human sciences can work to synthesize the way technology, in this case represented by video chat, has been an active part of the social interaction process.
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Recreating Japan through the Internet: How foreigners rewrite Japan through Blogs and Photologs Presented at the Japan Anthropology Workshop (JAWS Conference), 2005.
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For the social researcher, travel blogs are open books telling not just stories of the people behind them but also telling, from a broader point of view, particular experiences about the culture and society where these individuals are living. This paper focus on Japan, seeking to explore the Japanese virtual scenario created by foreigners blogging from there; to recreate the Japanese social and cultural landscape from the foreigner’s point of view.
Foreseeable Futures?
Contemporary Cell Phone Use in the Lives of Japanese Youth
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The cell phone – or “keitai” – has been in existence in Japan for nearly a generation now and has become so much pervasive as to be described as “indispensable” in the lives of Japanese youth (Ministry of Posts and Communications White Paper 2004: 43). The evolution of the device has gone hand-in-hand with the maturation of the Japanese population. Historians of technological development point to a three-staged process (e.g. Kohiyama 2003; Holden and Tsuruki 2003): from ‘pokebell’ (electronic pager) to PHS (Personal Handy-Phone System) cell phone.
Budget, as well as limited space, and the desire for free movement, also accounts for why Japan is the top country in terms of cell phone Internet access: 79.2% of mobile users subscribe to Internet service, with e-mail (83.3%), music (46.8%) and paid content (37.3%) the top three reasons for Internet use (International Communication Union 2002).
Influences of Neo-Confucianism in the Information Society
The Spreading of China in Internet Mediated Communications
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An essay about Neo-Confucianism and its relations on Chinese policies concerning copyrights and Internet use in the 21st Century.
Randomization Script – A small script I created in PHP where you can randomize any interval between two given numbers.
Thesis:
Internet’s Next Horizon: A Profile of Video-Chat Users (Unpublished Thesis)
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“The objective of this research work is to create a model that can help to better understand how new technologies and Computer Mediated Communication (CMC) have introduced changes to the human daily life and consequently changed the socialization system and communication among individuals. This research work intends to go further from past research studies that used text-based chat for their analyses of Computer Mediated Communication. Focusing its considerations in video chat as the central object of study; the current work proposes to generate an overview of a not yet well-explored field of social studies taking under analysis the simulation of face-to-face encounters through the use of video and audio technologies in Internet.
In other words, the main objective of the present study is to investigate a linkage between the use of CMC – Computer Mediated Technologies – and the actual level of interpersonal communication in society. The research has the intention to explore how the social sciences can work to synthesize the way technology, in this case represented by video chat, and has been part of the social interaction process.“
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