Development of the Information Society and Communication-actions within the Community

近年来，信息社会的发展引起了我们社区交往行为和社会关系的变革。为了弄清楚这一转变，我们对维持传统社会关系并构建东京郊区现代关系的具体社区“河口”进行了调查。1997年，研究集中在社区状况上。因此，我们举行了关于川口市问题的听证会，听取了老城社区的领导人、政府工作人员和更多正在重新组织新社区网络的年轻人(例如，库拉诺凯)。1998年，我们在九州岛旧城区进行了一次问卷调查。1999年，在新的郊区“鹿儿村”进行了比较问卷调查。2000年，我们对社区居民和邻里小组进行了集体访谈，研究结果表明，使用多媒体工具的人有增加的趋势。另一种趋势是与社区没有联系的居民的延伸。1999年，我们报告了日本新闻与大众传播研究学会和日本社会信息研究学会问卷调查的部分结果。该项目的最终成果包括提交给教育、科学、体育和文化部的一份研究报告的出版物。

The recent development of information society has caused transformations of our communicative actions and social relations in communities. In order to make clear this transformations, we made our survey on specific community "Kawagoe", that maintains traditional social relations, and constructs modern relations as suburbs of Tokyo on the other hand.In 1997, the research concentrated on the conditions of community. So we held hearing on the issues of Kawagoe-city from leaders at old town community, stuffs of government and more young persons who had been re-organizing new community net-work (ex."Kuranokai"). In 1998 , we carried out a questionnaire survey at old town district "KYU-JUKKATYO". In1999 , comparative questionnaire survey was conducted in new suburban district "KASUMIGASEKI-KITA". And in 2000, we conducted group-interviews from the community residents and neighborhood groups.The research results showed a trend towards increasing of the people using multiple-media instruments . The another trend is an extension of the residents that have no connections with community..In 1999, we reported a part of the result of questionnaire surveys at Japan Society for Studies in Journalism and Mass communication, and at Japan Society for Socio-Information Studies. And the final output of the project includes the publications of a research report submitted to the Ministry of Educations, Science, Sports and Culture.