Overview
- Discusses how social media and the internet are changing people, interpersonal relationships, and the world
- Presents novel integrative research in computational social science, a fusion of social science and informatics
- Is an interdisciplinary collaboration of leading researchers in sociology, artificial intelligence, economics, and related disciplines
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Theory
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Empirical Investigation
Keywords
About this book
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 epidemics, all of which could lead to the extinction of humankind. However, attempting to resolve these issues is extremely difficult, because of the complex, intertwined factors involved, and because these issues are not just matters related to nature and the environment but also to society.
In this book, we investigate this aporia of the social sciences with the help of big data (which has gained considerable attention in recent years) and techniques such as agent-based simulation. Our aim is to resolve the complex system problems characteristic of the present age. In this regard, the book focuses on specific issues such as the reconstruction of public character in our social-media-saturated modern lifestyle, the current state of social capital, and the resultant social changes.Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Satoshi Kurihara is a professor of artificial intelligence at The University of Electro-Communications
Takashi Kamihigashi is a professor of economics at Kobe University
Fujio Toriumi is an associate professor of computational social science at The University of Tokyo
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Reconstruction of the Public Sphere in the Socially Mediated Age
Editors: Kaoru Endo, Satoshi Kurihara, Takashi Kamihigashi, Fujio Toriumi
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-6138-7
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Computer Science, Computer Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-10-6137-0Published: 09 November 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-5578-3Published: 11 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-6138-7Published: 31 October 2017
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 200
Number of Illustrations: 79 b/w illustrations
Topics: Computer Appl. in Social and Behavioral Sciences, Computational Social Sciences