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Tadamasa KIMURACURRICULUM VITAE

Professor
Department of Communication and Media Studies,
College of Sociology, Rikkyo University
3-34-1 Nishi-Ikebukuko, Toshima, Tokyo 171-8501, Japan
URL: http://www2.rikkyo.ac.jp/web/tdms/
EDUCATION
2010
Ph.D. (Cultural Anthropology), Dept. of Anthropology, State University of N.Y. at Buffalo. "TheDigital Divide as Cultural Practice: A Cognitive Anthropological Exploration of Japan as an'Information Society'"
1992
M.A. (Cultural Anthropology), Dept. of Anthropology, State University of N.Y. at Buffalo. MA
thesis: “Cultural Schemas of Medical Knowledge in Japan: Cognition in Practice among Laypersons
and Experts”
1989
M.A. (Cultural Anthropology), Dept. of Anthropology, University of Tokyo, Japan1987
B.A. (Cultural Anthropology), Dept. of Anthropology, University of Tokyo, Japan
WORK EXPERIENCE
Apr. 2015 – present
Apr. 2012 – Mar. 2015
Sep. 2012 – Feb. 2013
Apr. 2006 – Mar. 2012
Apr. 2004 – Mar. 2006
Sep. 2001 – Mar. 2004
Apr. 2000 – Mar. 2001
Apr. 1998 – Sep. 2001
Apr. 1997 – Mar. 2005
Apr. 1995 – Mar. 1998
Jan. 1992 – May 1992
Aug. 1991 – Dec. 1991

Professor, Department of Communication and Media Studies, College ofSociology, Rikkyo University
Professor, Dept. of Cultural Anthropology, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences,
University of Tokyo
Visiting Scholar, The Todai-Yale Initiative, Yale University
Associate Professor, Dept. of Cultural Anthropology, Graduate School of Arts andSciences, University of Tokyo
Professor, Dept. of Science and Engineering, Waseda University
Associate Professor, Dept. of Science and Engineering, Waseda University
Visiting Associate Professor, Institute of Socio-Information and Communications
Studies, University of Tokyo
Associate Professor, Dept. of Engineering, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute ofTechnology
Visiting Scholar, Research Institute of System Science, NTT Data Corporation
Assistant Professor, Center for Global Communications, International Universityof Japan
Teaching Assistant, Undergraduate College, SUNY at Buffalo
Teaching Assistant, Dept. of Anthropology, SUNY at Buffalo

ACADEMIC INTERESTS
 Formation, structure and societal effects of online public opinion.
 Empirical and critical examination of Digital Natives.
 Empirical and critical examination of Digital Divide.
 Log data analysis of smartphone use and social data.
 Ethnographic study of CMC (computer-mediated communication) and its sociocultural effects, esp. basedon hybrid methods approach and communicative ecological approach.
 Theoretical investigation of the meaning of deindustrialization and the role of ICT in its process.

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FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, SCHOLARSHIPS, FUNDING AWARDS (SELECTION)
Apr. 2018
Research Fund, Hoso Bunka Foundation
Jun. 2014
Research Fund, Murata Science Foundation
Apr. 2012
Research Fund, The Telecommunications Advancement Foundation (TAF)
Jul. 2009, Jun. 2010 and Jun. 2011
Research Fund, KDDI R&D Laboratories
Apr. 2007
Research Fund, JSPS, the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
Mar. 2007
Research Grant, International Communications Foundation (ICF)
Mar. 2005
Research Fund, Ministry of Education
Mar. 2001
Research Fund, Ministry of Education
Mar. 2000
Research Fund, Ministry of Education
Sep. 1998
President Special Research Fund, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Technology
Apr. 1997
Research Fund, Japan Multimedia Forum (JMF) (until March 1998)
Apr. 1997
Research Grant, International Communications Foundation (ICF) (until March 1998)
Apr. 1996
Research Fund, Japan Multimedia Forum (JMF) (until March 1997)
Apr. 1996
Research Fund, JISPRI (Global Industrial and Social Progress Research Institute) (until March
1997)
Apr. 1994
JSPS Research Fellowships for Young Scientists, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science(until March 1995)
Jan. 1993
Graduate Assistantship, Center for Cognitive Science, SUNY at Buffalo (until May 1993)
Jun. 1992
Field Research Travel Fund, Graduate School of Social Sciences, SUNY at Buffalo
HONORS & AWARDS
Sep.2009
Japan Association for Social Informatics, Excellent Article Award for the article, ‘Relation
between the Internet behavior and general social trust/uncertainty avoidance.’ Written with
Masahiro Fujiwara. Journal of Japan Association for Social Informatics. Vol.20, No.2, pp.43-55.
Mar. 2002
Telecommunications Advancement Foundation, Telecom Social Science Publication Award forthe publication, " What is Digital Divide?: Toward Consensus Community” Iwanami Shoten.
Sep. 2001
Japan Association for Social Informatics, Excellent Publications Award for the publication, "What is Digital Divide?: Toward Consensus Community” Iwanami Shoten.
ACADEMIC & COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES
2018– present
Deputy Director of Japanese research team of WIP, World Internet Project
2012– 2017
Chair of the Committee for International Outreach of SSI, Society of Socio-Informatics
2012– 2017
Member of the board of directors, Society of Social-Informatics
2012– present
Member of SSI, Society of Social-Informatics
2010– 2012
Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Waseda Society of Cultural Anthropology.
2009– 2017
Member of the editorial board of Journal of Waseda Society of Cultural Anthropology.
2008– present
Member of World Internet Project.
2008– 2012
Member of the board of directors, Japan Association for Social Informatics
2007– 2012
Member of the editorial board of the Journal of Socio-Informatics (Journal in English).
2004– present
Member of the board of directors, Waseda Society of Cultural Anthropology
2001– 2012
Editorial member of the Journal of Japan Association for Social Informatics
2001– 2012
Member of Academic Research Committee, Japan Association for Social Informatics
1996 – 1999
Member of Informatization Committee of Japanese Society of Cultural Anthropology
1999 – present
Member of Japan Society of Information and Communication Research
1999 – 2012
Member of Japan Association for Social Informatics
1997 – 2003
Member of Japanese Cognitive Science Society
1996 – 2015
Member of Japanese Society of Cultural Anthropology

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CONTRIBUTIONS TO NATIONAL GOVERNMENT POLICY-MAKING
Feb. 2008 – June 2010
Member of Comprehensive Legal System for Communications and Broadcasting
Committee of the Telecommunications Council, MIC, Ministry of Internal Affairs andCommunications.
April 2007 - July 2008
Member of Study Group on Work Hours of Teleworking, NPA, National
Personnel Authority.
June 2006 - March 2007
Member of Planning and Analysis Committee of "Fifth Survey on Information
Society and Juveniles." Director-General for Policies on Cohesive Society, Cabinet Office ofJapanese government.
March 2005 - June 2005
Deputy Chairperson of Study Group on Information Frontier, MIC, Ministry ofInternal Affairs and Communications.
Feb. 2002 - June. 2003
Member of Employment, Human Resources and Informatization Committee ofthe Quality-of-life Policy Council, Cabinet Office of Japanese government.
PRESENTATIONS AT INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES
2018/7/5
Overview of Internet use in Japan. World Internet Project Annual Meeting 2018. International
House Brest City, Brest, France.
2018/7/4
Trolling, Flaming, Propagation and Development of Online Public Opinion Space in Japan.
2017/11/25
The Internet, media and public opinion in Japan. International ResearchWorkshop, Public Opinion, Health and Future of Communication. College of Communication,
Fu Jen Catholic University, Taiwan.
2016/12/3
Ito, Shigeaki, Atsushi Hirasawa, Changhaeng Choi, and Tadamasa Kimura. Some Structures andCharacteristics of Japanese Online News Space: An Analysis of “Net Yoron” (Public Opinion on
the Internet) Emerging on “Yahoo! News.” International Joint Workshop, Public Spaces andPrivate Lives in the Digital Age. College of Sociology, Rikkyo University
2016/3/14“Karamu” (Entwined) Communication: expansion of the “phygital” world among Japanese
Digital Natives. Homo Sapiens, Mortality and the Internet in Contemporary Asia. Asia ResearchInstitute, National University of Singapore.
2015/11/28“Karamu” (Entwined) communication: Innovation in communication among Japanese Digital
Natives. International Research Workshop, Communication and Innovation in the Digital Age.
College of Communication, Fu Jen Catholic University, Taiwan.
2013/2/4
The age of digital natives: Why do they tweet and not send mail? Todai-Yale Lecture Series,
Todai-Yale Initiative, Dept. of Anthropology and The Council on East Asian Studies, Yale
University.
2010/10/8
Digital divide in Japanese society from international perspective. International Conference for
Celebrating 1000 Years of Thang Long, International Conference Centre, Hanoi, Vietnam
BESETOHA
2010/8/31
Keitai, Blog, and Kuuki-wo-yomu (Read the atmosphere): Communicative ecology in Japanesesociety. Ethnographic Praxis in Industry Conference, American Anthropological Association.
2008/9/19
Plurality of information societies: Japanese way of informatization. Invited Speaker at Research
Meeting of The Virtual Knowledge Studio. The Virtual Knowledge Studio, Amsterdam,
Netherland
The Virtual Knowledge Studio.
2007/7/24
Plurality of information societies: Japanese case. Expert Meeting on RFID and the ubiquitous
society. Royal Netherlands Embassy in Tokyo.
2005/11/21
Praxis of cultural anthropology of and in information societies. International Conference on the
Use of Information Technology in the Research and Education in Social Sciences. The Institutefor Cross-Cultural Studies, Seoul National University.
2004/11/13
Kimura, Tadamasa and Yoshitaka Saito. Socio-cultural differences in the use of personal web
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the Role of the Internet in Daily Lives of the Youth in Finland and Japan, Working Group for
Information Behavior Research, JSICR: Japan Society of Information and Communication
Research.
PUBLICATIONS (All publications are in Japanese unless otherwise noted. Titles and names of
periodicals originally in Japanese are translated into English unless otherwise noted.)
Books
2018
Hybrid Ethnography. Shinyo-sha.
2012
The Age of Digital Natives: Why Do They Tweet and Not Send Mail? Heibonsha.
2004
Network Reality: Understanding Post Advanced Consumer Society. Iwanami Shoten.
2001
What is Digital Divide?: Toward Consensus Community. Iwanami Shoten.
2000
Political Economy of Online Education. NTT publication.
1998
New Paradigm for Social Agreement in the Age of Info-Communications (with Motohiro Tsuchiya).
NTT publication.
1997
Strategic Visions of Second Generation Internet. NTT publication.
Chapters, Entries
2018
SNS: Social Networking Services. Japanese Association for American Studies ed. Encyclopedia of
American Culture, pp.500-501. Maruzen publication.
2016
Use of social media and video-sharing websites. Hashimoto, Yoshiaki ed. Information Behavior
among the Japanese 2015. Chapter 3, pp.143-179. University of Tokyo Press.
2014
Mass media. In National Museum of Ethnology ed. Encyclopedia of Ethnicity in the World, pp.394395. Maruzen Publication.
2014
Internet. In National Museum of Ethnology ed. Encyclopedia of Ethnicity in the World, pp.394-395.
Maruzen Publication.
2012
Japanese Society as Information Network Society: Current State of Digital Natives. School of Arts
and Sciences, University of Tokyo ed. Lecture Live for High School Students of University of Tokyo:
Academic Universe. Chapter 14, pp.240-255. University of Tokyo Press.
2012
Deconstructing the desire for “Community Network.” In Sugimoto, Seiko ed. Local Community in
the Age of Information Society: Construction of Local Network with the aid of ICT. Chapter 2, pp.4160. National Museum of Ethnology.
2012Japanese translation of the entries: Cultural Variation, Cultural Consensus Theory, Ecological
Validity, Economics and Cognitive Science, Language and Communication, Language and Culture,
Linguistic Relativity Hypothesis, Rational Choice Theory. In Nakajima, Hideyuki ed. MIT Ninchi
Kagaku Dai-jiten, Kyoritsu Publication. Japanese translation version of Robert A.Wilson and Frank
C.Keil eds. The MIT Encyclopedia of the Cognitive Sciences. MIT Press.
2011
Kimura, Tadamasa and Yoshitaka Saito. Lack of dynamics between online and offline activities
among the Japanese: How culture constitutes cyberspace. In Sonja Kangas ed. Digital Pioneers:
Cultural drivers of future media culture. Pp.40-63. Nuorisotutkimusverkosto (Finnish YouthResearch Network)
2009
Cyberspace. In Japanese Society of Cultural Anthropology ed. Encyclopedia of Cultural
Anthropology, pp. 696-699.
2009
Virtual Ethnography. In Japanese Society of Cultural Anthropology ed. Encyclopedia of Cultural
Anthropology, pp. 700-701.
2008
Wikipedia and Japanese society: Collective intelligence or the cultural logic of neo-liberalism. In theJapanese translation version of Pierre Gourdain el.al. Wikipedia Revolution, pp. 118-158. Iwanami
Shoten.
2007
Bologna: Perspective of Network Society as Civic Society. In Harada, I. ed. Creative City:
Generation of Innovative Contents Business, pp. 115-136. NTT publication.

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Barcelona: Toward Creative Network Society. In Harada, I. ed. Creative City: Generation of
Innovative Contents Business, pp. 137-151. NTT publication.
Information society and digital divide. in RISTEX ed. Science and Technology and Society: Its
Transformation from 20th to 21st century. Maruzen Planet Publications.
Cyberspace as Socio-psychological Space: Cross-Cultural Comparison between the Finnish, Japanand Korea. with Yoshitaka Saito. In Katja Valaskivi ed. Vaurauden Lapset: Näkökulmia
japanilaiseen ja suomalaiseen nykykulttuuriin. (Children of Affluence. Approaches to Japanese andFinnish Contemporary Culture). pp.85-109. Vaptapaino (In Finnish.)
Current Picture of Digital Divide. In Hashimoto, Y. ed. Network Society, Series Contemporary
Media and Journalism Vol. 2, pp. 102-133. Minerva Shobo.
Information Network and Japanese Society. In Hashimoto, Y. ed. Media, Course on Sociolinguistics
Vol. 2, pp. 240-263. Hitsuji Shobo.
Ethnography of "Information Society", In Yamashita, S. and M. Fukushima eds., Praxis ofContemporary Anthropology, pp.62-82. Yuhikaku.
Toward the Scandinavian Model of Post Advanced Consumer Society. In Negoro R. ed. SocioEconomic System in the Digital Age, pp. 291-297. Media Select.
Value System. In Kokuryo, J. et.al. eds., Keywords to Understand Information Society. Vol. 1,
pp.121-131, Baifukan.
Digital Divide. In Kokuryo, J. et.al. eds., Keywords to Understand Information Society. Vol. 1,
pp.262-269, Baifukan.
Perspective from Medical Anthropology. In Hayakawa, H. ed. To Become a Doctor: As a Person to
Study Medicine. pp.41-81. Yurumi Shoten.
Socio-cultural Comparative Study of "Digital Divide." In C&C Promotion Foundation ed. Digital
Divide: Its Structure and Issues, pp. 25-101. NTT publication'structuralism'; 'transformation', 'symbolic mechanism', 'symbolic statement', 'encyclopedic
knowledge', 'mode of information', 'folk theory', 'ethnopsychology', 'indigenous psychology','collective memory', 'basic color terms', 'focal color', 'cultural schema', 'culture theory', 'culture andinference', 'cultural models and motivation', 'formal semantic analysis', 'componential analysis','cross-cultural analysis', 'lexeme', 'cognitive division of labor', 'navigation', 'basic emotions', 'culturalconsensus theory', In Japanese Cognitive Science Society ed. Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science.
Kyoritsu Publication.
E-business is not disruptive in The Principles of Modern Japanology. Vol. 1: Work, pp.94-98,
Iwanami Shoten.
Internet Governance: What it is. In Internet Problematics 2001, pp.49-64, Iwanami Shoten.
Why domain name is important?: A political-economic view. in Internet Problematics 2001, pp.6579, Iwanami Shoten.

Extension of “symmetry” in terms of explanans based on the methodology of ethnographic study of
CMC. Trends of Academics. 23(4), pp.24-30. Japan Science Support Foundation.
Kitamura, Satoshi, Yoshiaki Hashimoto, Tadamasa Kimura, Ron Korenaga, Daisuke Tsuji,
Yasutoshi Mori, Morihiro Ogasawara, and Daisuke Kawai. Cross-national comparison of
information behavior and social attitudes: Online survey in Japan, China, South Korea, Singapore,and United States. Research bulletin of the Institute of Socio-Information and Communication Studies,vol.34, pp. 119-211, the University of Tokyo.
Why the liberal are ridiculed by the conservative in online opinion: Based on empirical data. Chuo
Koron. 132(1): 134-141. Chuo Koron Shinsha.
Seeking
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OnlineOpinion.
Currents,
nippon.com.
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The Internet, Media, and Public Opinion in Japan. Currents, nippon.com.
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Political attitudes and online activities among Japanese and Chinese “digital natives” based on mixed
methods research. Annual report of the Murata Science Foundation No.30, pp.252-263.
Children and network society. Children’s Culture, July-August 2017, pp.45-51. Kodomo-no Bunka
Kenkyujo (Institute of Childeren’s Culture).
On academic society in terms of disciplines and associations. Journal of the Japanese Society for
Artificial Intelligence. 26(6):602-605.
Keitai, Blog, and Kuuki-wo-yomu (Read the atmosphere): Communicative Ecology in JapaneseSociety. Ethnographic Praxis in Industry Conference Proceedings. 2010(1), pp. 199–215. In English.
Fujiwara, Masahiro and Tadamasa Kimura, Relation between the Internet behavior and general social
trust/uncertainty avoidance. Journal of Japan Association for Social Informatics, Vol.20, No.2,
pp.43-55.
Hashimoto, Yoshiaki, Kenichi Ishii, Tadamasa Kimura, Sangmi Kim, Morihiro Ogasawara, andInbae Kim. Comparative study of information behavior at the election period between Japan and
Korea: Relation between the use of media and the voting behavior in case of the election of JapaneseHouse of Councilors and Korean President. Research bulletin of the Institute of Socio-Information
and Communication Studies, vol.25, pp.73-122, the University of Tokyo.
Virtual ethnography: Toward restructuring a methodological foundation of cultural anthropology.
Journal of Waseda Society of Cultural Anthropology, vol.10, pp.46-76.
Hashimoto, Yoshiaki, Sangmi Kim, Kenichi Ishii, Morihiro Ogasawara, Tadamasa Kimura, andInbae Kim. Comparative study of Internet use and online community between Japan and Korea.
Research bulletin of the Institute of Socio-Information and Communication Studies, vol.24, pp.1-47,
the University of Tokyo.
Hashimoto, Yoshiaki, Masato Ishizaki, Morihiro Ogasawara, Tadamasa Kimura, Kenichi Ishii,
Sangmi Kim, and Inbae Kim. Comparison of Internet images on the leading newspapers in Japan,
Korea and China. Research bulletin of the Institute of Socio-Information and Communication Studies,vol.24, pp.49-77, the University of Tokyo.
Saito, Yoshitaka, and Tadamasa Kimura. Socio-Cultural Differences in the Use of Personal Web
Homepage and Electronic Communities among Japanese, Finnish, and Korean Youth. Journal of
Socio-Informatics Vol.1, No.1, pp.137-146. In English.
Cyberspace as Socio-psychological Space: Cross-Cultural Comparison among the Japanese, Koreansand Finns. Journal of Socio-Informatics Vol.1, No.1, pp. 57-70. In English.
Cognitive Anthropology of "Getting Sick." Journal of Waseda Society of Cultural Anthropology,
vol.7, pp.66-96.
Saito, Yoshitaka and Tadamasa Kimura. Factors to Affect Setting Up of Their Own Homepage
among Internet Users: Comparison among the Japanese, the Korean and the Finns. with Yoshitaka
Saito. Journal of Japan Society of Information and Communication Research. Vol.23 no.1, pp.45-52.
Digital Divide and Japanese Society. Studies of Broadcasting and Media. Vol.3, pp.9-56.
SNS (Social Networking Service) and Interpersonal Trust Based on the Study of its Early Adoptersamong College Students. Journal of Japan Association for Social Informatics, vol.17 no.2, pp.23-31.
Interaction Between Internet Media and Mass Media is Gaining Momentum. NIRA Policy Research,
vol.18 no.12 pp.23-31.
Saito, Yoshitaka and Tadamasa Kimura. "Rational ignorance" in a society with information
technology innovations: Do people’s attitudes toward the digital divide differ among social groups?
Journal of Japan Association for Social Informatics, vol.16 no.2, pp.45-58.
Hashimoto, Yoshiaki, Kenichi Ishii, Tadamasa Kimura, Daisuke Tsuji, and Sangmi Kim. Analysis
of effects of Internet use based on a panel study. Research bulletin of the Institute of SocioInformation and Communication Studies, vol.20, pp. 205-345, the University of Tokyo.

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Network Reality: Conceiving a plot of information society as post advanced consumer society. NIRA
Policy Research, vol.17 no.12 pp.6-26.
Hashimoto, Yoshiaki, Kenichi Ishii, Tadamasa Kimura, and Sangmi Kim. Cross-cultural study ofinternet use among Japanese and Korean college students. Research bulletin of the Institute of SocioInformation and Communication Studies, vol.20, pp. 205-345, the University of Tokyo.
Hashimoto, Yoshiaki, Daisuke Tsuji, Kenichi Ishii, Sangmi Kim, and Tadamasa Kimura.
Investigation of "Internet Paradox." Research bulletin of the Institute of Socio-Information andCommunication Studies, vol.18, pp.335-485, the University of Tokyo.
Nordic countries as IT nations. Public Administration & Auto Data Processing, Jan. 2001, Instituteof Administrative Information Systems
On information society as PACS, Post Advanced Consumer Society. Intelplace, vol.66, pp.16-20,
International University of Japan
New paradigm for social agreement in networked society. IMIDAS2000, pp.30-31, Shueisha.
Digital divide: Comprehensive restructuring of World System and decision to be made of Japanesesociety. Memoirs of Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Technology, vol. 14, pp.1-6.
Internet use and information literacy. Proceedings of Japan Association of Social Informatics 14th
Annual Conference, pp. 195-200.
Performance measurement and IT strategy in local government – A case study of New York City.
Proceedings of Japan Association of Social Informatics 14th Annual Conference, pp. 141-146.
Growing Use of ICT among Japanese college students in the late 90s and its Social Implications.
Memoirs of Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Technology, vol. 13, pp.17-22.
Ethnography of fever. Culture and Mind, vol.2 no.3, pp.34-54.
Grammar of media and passive attitude toward network among college students. Linguistic Study ofJapanese, vol.17 no.11, pp.188-203.
Electronic mail as a means of cyber politics. Proceedings of Japanese Association of Sociolinguistic
Sciences 5th Annual Conference, pp.1-14.
Cultural Models of “fever.” Proceedings of Japanese Society of Ethnology 49th Annual Conference,
pp.25-32.
Electronic mail as socio-cultural activity. Linguistic Study of Japanese, vol.15 no.12, pp.12-26.
ITs effect on community: pursuit for new way of political activities. NIRA (National Institute for
Research Advancement) Policy Research, vol.8 no.5, pp.26-31.