The Study on the Cultural, Psychological, and Social Effects of the Revolution in Information Technology(IT)

这项研究探讨了一种新的不平等，即信息社会中的数字鸿沟。我们的目的是阐明信息技术革命（IT）的文化、心理和社会影响。在文化方面，我们讨论了信息社会中价值观的动态。在社会方面，我们关注生活方式或通信方式的变化，并从性别、年龄、地区、教育、工作和收入等社会阶层之间的不平等角度分析了数字鸿沟。在心理学方面，我们关注IT的使用对工作与人格的关系、高度信息化社会中的自主性、智能灵活性、权威性之间的相互关系、社会意识的影响。为了研究上述问题，我们进行了一系列全国性调查，即日本信息社会调查（JIS）。到目前为止，已经进行了三次调查：2001年的第一次调查（JIS 2001）、2002年的第二次调查（JIS 2002）和2004年的第三次调查（JIS 2004）。JIS调查的样本为20至89岁的男性和女性（2004年JIS为20至79岁）。抽样方法为多阶段分层随机抽样。JIS2002采用的调查方法是面对面访谈法。在JIS2001和JIS2004的案例中，我们采用了面对面访谈和自填问卷的方法。样本量为2，000（JIS 2001为1，500）。JIS 2001、JIS 2002、JIS 2004的完成率分别为67.4%、62.8%、64.7%。为了报告JIS调查及其结果，我们出版了《日本信息社会调查中期报告》。“我们的社会研究数据库，社会研究问卷数据库（SRDQ），也在网站（http：//www.example.com）上提供JIS调查的信息和数据。srdq.osaka-u.ac.jp

This research took up a new kind of inequality, the digital divide in an information society. Our purpose is to clarify the cultural, psychological, and social effects of the revolution of information technology (IT)As for cultural aspects, we discussed about the dynamic states of sense of value in an information society. As for social aspects, we focused on the change of lifestyle or way of communication, and analyzed the digital divide from the viewpoint of inequalities among social stratifications such as gender, age, region, education, job and income. As for psychological aspects, we placed importance on the effects of IT use on the relationship between work and personality, the inter-relationship among self-direction, intellectual flexibility, and authoritarianism, and social consciousness in the highly-sophisticated information society.To examine the issues as noted above, we conducted a series of national surveys, The Japan Survey on Information Society(JIS). Three surveys have been conducted thus far, Survey 1 (JIS 2001) in 2001, Survey 2 (JIS 2002) in 2002 and Survey 3 (JIS 2004) in 2004. The samples of the JIS surveys are men and women aged 20 to 89 (20 to 79 for JIS2004). The sampling method used is multi-stage stratified random sampling. The survey method used for JIS2002 is a face-to-face interview method. In the cases of JIS2001 and JIS2004, we used both a face-to-face interview method and self-administered questionnaire. The sample size are 2,000 (1,500 for JIS2001). The completion ratio is 67.4% for JIS2001, 62.8% for JIS2002 and 64.7% for JIS2004.In order to report JIS surveys and their findings, we published "The Interim Report of The Japan Survey on Information Society." Our database of social research, Social Research Database on Questionnaire(SRDQ), also offers the information and the data of JIS surveys on the web site (http://srdq.osaka-u.ac.jp).