The current situation of the usage of websites to vitalize knowledge sharing in depopulated rural areas.

鬼塚, 健一郎; 星野, 敏; 中塚, 雅也

doi:10.2750/arp.30.321

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“…While digital penetration is no longer an overriding focus in a country where broadband is available to 100 per cent of households and where ‘even in rural areas, an information infrastructure environment comparable to that of cities’ was already fast developing back in 2015 (Onitsuka and Bao, 2016: 112), concerns over differences in technical support, rates of utilization and information dissemination remain (see, e.g. Kimura and Bai, 2004; Onitsuka and Bao, 2016; Onitsuka et al, 2011). Most often, the studies addressing these questions take a social scientific approach and rely on quantitative data.…”

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‘You are just dealing with machines’: Negotiating the spread of digital media from a small Japanese town

Darling‐Wolf

2022

Global Media and Communication

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This project ethnographically explores how individuals in a small Japanese town negotiate the changes brought about by the increased omnipresence of digital technologies in their everyday lives. It delves into the affective dimensions of individuals’ imagination of a global digital order, of the impact of digital media on social organization, and of their own sense of place in a globalized world. It demonstrates that while digital media’s connective affordances help reduce the sense of isolation stemming from the community’s geographic position, conflicting feelings of disconnection, alienation and loss simultaneously arise in its members’ broader relationship to the digital world.

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confidence: 99%