- The Design of Addiction: Social Media and Tobacco／依存の設計図：ソーシャルメディアとタバコ
The design of addiction: Social media and Tobacco Social media companies design their platforms to be as addictive as possible, knowing this harms users’ mental health. How is this different from — or similar to — a tobacco company that knew its products caused cancer? Social media and tobacco are different industries. Even though tobacco…
- Anonymity and Relational Intimacy/ 匿名性と親密性
Anonymity and Relational Intimacy / 匿名性と親密性 Why might individuals exhibit a greater propensity for disclosing intimate or vulnerable information to strangers in online environments than to known individuals in offline contexts, and what does this suggest about the interplay between anonymity, trust, and relational intimacy? 人はなぜ、オフラインの知り合いよりも、オンライン環境の見知らぬ人に対して親密な情報や脆弱な情報を開示する傾向が強いのだろうか。そして、このことは匿名性、信頼、そして親密な関係の相互作用について何を物語っているのだろうか。 English Version The internet has significantly influenced the shape…
- Yokai/妖怪（ようかい）
Yokai There was a small town in the Northern rural part of Japan where nothing caught your eye but nature. At its peak, the town was vibrant, with a newly built factory. When the business failed, people left, and the remaining residents were mostly elders who were holding onto the past and didn’t leave at…
- Epistolary to Digital Messaging/手紙からデジタルメッセージへの変化
Epistolary to Digital Messaging How has the transition from epistolary correspondence to instantaneous digital messaging reshaped not only temporal expectations of communication, but also the cognitive depth, rhetorical structure, and reflective quality of interpersonal discourse? Epistolary has a long history dating back 5000 years. Unfortunately, it has become less common in the late 20th century…
- Cloning / クローン技術
Cloning could theoretically let same-sex couples or single people have genetically related children without a partner. How might this shift the cultural and political debates around family, parenthood, and reproductive rights? This question is a controversial, complex ethical territory. In a status quo, same-sex couples or single people have limited choices should they harbor a…
The design of addiction: Social media and Tobacco Social media companies design their platforms to be as addictive as possible, knowing this harms users’ mental health. How is this different from — or similar to — a tobacco company that knew its products caused cancer? Social media and tobacco are different industries. Even though tobacco…
Anonymity and Relational Intimacy / 匿名性と親密性 Why might individuals exhibit a greater propensity for disclosing intimate or vulnerable information to strangers in online environments than to known individuals in offline contexts, and what does this suggest about the interplay between anonymity, trust, and relational intimacy? 人はなぜ、オフラインの知り合いよりも、オンライン環境の見知らぬ人に対して親密な情報や脆弱な情報を開示する傾向が強いのだろうか。そして、このことは匿名性、信頼、そして親密な関係の相互作用について何を物語っているのだろうか。 English Version The internet has significantly influenced the shape…
Yokai There was a small town in the Northern rural part of Japan where nothing caught your eye but nature. At its peak, the town was vibrant, with a newly built factory. When the business failed, people left, and the remaining residents were mostly elders who were holding onto the past and didn’t leave at…
Epistolary to Digital Messaging How has the transition from epistolary correspondence to instantaneous digital messaging reshaped not only temporal expectations of communication, but also the cognitive depth, rhetorical structure, and reflective quality of interpersonal discourse? Epistolary has a long history dating back 5000 years. Unfortunately, it has become less common in the late 20th century…
Cloning could theoretically let same-sex couples or single people have genetically related children without a partner. How might this shift the cultural and political debates around family, parenthood, and reproductive rights? This question is a controversial, complex ethical territory. In a status quo, same-sex couples or single people have limited choices should they harbor a…