Reconstruction of the Public Sphere in the Socially Mediated Age

The aim of this book is to establish a basis for resolving the various issues facing modern society by exploring the field of Computational Social Science, which fuses the social and natural sciences. Today, society is threatened by problems concerning the environment, population growth, hunger and...

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Other Authors: Endo, Kaoru (Editor), Kurihara, Satoshi (Editor), Kamihigashi, Takashi (Editor), Toriumi, Fujio (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Singapore Springer Nature Singapore 2017, 2017
Edition:1st ed. 2017
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Collection: Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1 Public Sphere and Social Capital in the Age of Intermediality: Approach from Computational Social Science
  • Part 1 Theory
  • Chapter 2 What is Public Opinion?: In the Age of Comlexedly-Mediated Democracy and Scandal Politics
  • Chapter 3 Does Agent-based Modeling Flourish in Sociology?: Mind the Gap between Social Theory and Agent-based Models
  • Chapter 4 Does the Internet Make People Selfish?: Effects of the Internet on Citizens’ Political Attitudes
  • Part 2 Empirical Investigation
  • Chapter 5 Social Capital on Social Media
  • Chapter 6 An Examination of a Novel Information Diffusion Model for Social Media
  • Chapter 7 What Are Practical User Attributes in the Social Media Era?: Proposal For User Attribute Extraction From Their Social Capital
  • Chapter 8 Measuring Social Change Using Text Data: A Simple Distributional Approach
  • Chapter 9 Value co-creative manufacturing methodology with IoT-based smart factory for mass customisation
  • Chapter 10 Has the 3.11 Disaster Brought about Conservatism in Japan?