KEIO SFC JOURNAL

RESEARCH PAPERS Linguistic Diversity and Multilingualism in Information Society − Bridging the linguistic digital divide Keisuke Kamimura Doctoral Program, Graduate School of Media and Governance, Keio University This article presents a theoretical framework to discuss the issue of software localization from a perspective of language planning. Secondly, it provides analysis on the status of software localization to show that the difference among languages in the extent to which localization is achieved is not attributed to technological and economic factors alone. Thirdly, the article provides a language planning model to intervene into the processes for software localization, followed by a study...

RESEARCH PAPERS A Longitudinal Study of Stress and Burnout among Employees of an Elderly Care Institution − A case study at a group home for dementia people Emiko Ban Doctoral Program, Graduate School of Media and Governance, Keio University The purpose of this study is to explore the longitudinal change of stressors and burnout experienced by workers of group home for dementia people. Using questionnaires, approximately 40 workers at a group home were surveyed every three month for 5 times. The organizational restructuring occurred between the third and forth survey. The stressors which were experienced most frequently throughout the research...

Issues on Environmental Studies

SPECIAL ISSUE PAPERS A Study on the Modern Sukiya Architecture − An analysis on the works by the "Sukiya Architect": Sotoji Nakamura Wakako Sawada Doctoral Program, Graduate School of Media and Governance, Keio University When Japan opened its' country to the Western culture after the Meiji Restoration, the architecture industry was already highly systemized and qualified in terms of wooden construction and manufacturing of timber. In Japan, together with the main stream of the "architecture" industry in Western terms, there has always been another stream of architecture industry which survived through "modernization". The long search for their national identity, and...

New Paradigms in Climate Change and Environment

SPECIAL FEATURE ARTICLESINVITED PAPERS Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation: International Response Hironori Hamanaka Project Professor, Graduate School of Media and Governance, Keio University Masataka Watanabe Project Professor, Graduate School of Media and Governance, Keio University International community has been taking actions to address climate change under the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change and its Kyoto Protocol. In order to avoid serious impact of climate change, it was recognized that mitigation and adaptation actions, as well as the support by developed countries to developing countries in terms of finance, technology development and transfer, and capacity building, would need to be...

Expanse of Communication Theory and Practice

INVITED REVIEW PAPERS Communication and Interaction Michiaki Yasumura Professor, Faculty of Environmental Information, Keio University From the beginning, communication is an action or process conducted by human to human. Recently these relations have been broadened not only to machines but also to media. In such situations, communication should be discussed from the view point of human interface or human-computer interactions. This article first describes the three models of communication, then argues what is "understanding" in communication. Next, it focuses on the characteristics of communication, such as situation dependency, attractor, multi-modality and non-verbalization. As for the relationship between media and communication,...