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Kyoto Workshop on Digital Cities

Digital Cities 2001: Digital Cities II: Computational and Sociological Approaches pp 270–282Cite as

Creating City Community Consanguinity: Use of Public Opinion Channel in Digital Cities

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People moving into cities have trouble acquiring informal information because it is not easy for them to join discussions of the people already living there. We therefore developed an automatic community broadcasting system helping city residents share informal information. This Public Opinion Channel (POC) collects opinions from city residents and broadcasts them continuously. Here we describe the conceptual framework of the POC, a prototype POC system, and the evaluation of that prototype system. The results from a social psychological experiment show that the prototype system helps newcomers express their opinions to a community easily.

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  1. Synsophy Project, Communications Research Laboratory, 2-2-2 Hikaridai, Seika-cho, Kyoto, 619-0289, Japan

    Tomohiro Fukuhara, Ken’ichi Matsumura, Kazunori Terada & Koji Yamashita

  2. School of International Cultural Relations, Hokkaido Tokai University, 5-1-1-1 Minamisawa, Minami-ku, Sapporo, Hokkaido, 005-8601, Japan

    Shintaro Azechi

  3. Research Center for School Education, Naruto University of Education, Takashima, Naruto, Tokushima, 772-8502, Japan

    Nobuhiko Fujihara

  4. School of Engineering, The University of Tokyo, 7-3-1 Hongo, Tokyo, 113-8656, Japan

    Toyoaki Nishida

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  1. Ube National College of Technology, Tokiwadai, Ube City, Yamaguchi Pref., 755-8555, Japan

    Makoto Tanabe

  2. Department of Social Sciences Netherlands Institute of Scientific Information NIWI, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, Joan Muyskenweg 25, PO Box 95110, 1090 HC, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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  3. Social Informatics Program, Faculty of Social and Behavioral Sciences, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

    Peter van den Besselaar

  4. Department of Social Informatics Laboratory for Global Information Network, Kyoto University, Yoshida-honmachi, Sakyo-ku, 606-8501, Kyoto, Japan

    Toru Ishida

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Fukuhara, T. et al. (2002). Creating City Community Consanguinity: Use of Public Opinion Channel in Digital Cities. In: Tanabe, M., van den Besselaar, P., Ishida, T. (eds) Digital Cities II: Computational and Sociological Approaches. Digital Cities 2001. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2362. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45636-8_21

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