著者

濱口 恵俊

出版者

日本教育社会学会

雑誌

教育社会学研究 (ISSN:03873145)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.51, pp.14-29, 1992-10-10

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This paper aims at clarifying the basis of education in advanced information society. This type of society depends on four functional requisites : (1) completely digital form of information, (2) congruency of processing of information by computer with its transmission, (3) systematic composition of various media, and (4) an easy search of and retrieval from database as well as data processing, approximating, as much as possible, human brain. Next we examined the demerits of that kind of society from the viewpoint of users as to the following four points : (1) the feasibility of information as economic "goods," (2) the correspondence of eufunction of new media with the neccesity of them, (3) the real possibility of man-machine interface, and (4) dealing with excessive information in the present situation. More important problems in advanced information society are discussed. One is the significance of human nexus in an electronic communication. The realities of "Off-line Meeting" among the chatting members of Bulletin Board System are reported, based on data obtained through participant observation. Face-to-face relations are recognized as significant among them in spite of their intimate contact through nightly computer networking. The other problem exists in the recent developement of "Virtual Reality." This new apparatus produces "more real than reality" using Computer Graphics. But it makes us confound the realities and the computer-made environments. This may prove a possible source of mental crisis because it distorts our proper recognition.