MoDe Project
10/13 Shin's presentation at MobilityShifts, New School, NYC
- October 8, 2011 11:30 PM
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Shin MIZUKOSHI will attend an interesting conference on mobile media and learning to make a presentation about...something (still under construction haha): the evening of Oct 13, 2011 #Mobilityshifts: An International Future of Learning Summit at The New School in NYC. He will also back to his dear places in Manhattan.
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10/11 Shin's presentation at Japan Society, NYC
- October 8, 2011 11:27 PM
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Japan Society lecture on Mobile and Social Media, "Keitai Kids: Youth, Culture and Social Media in the USA and Japan", 19:00-20:30, Oct 11 NYC. Tomi Ahonen and I will make presentations and discussion moderated by Trebor Scholz. It is a part event of the New School's MobilityShifts conference.
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KDDI研究所との共同プロジェクトの修了報告
- April 9, 2011 11:31 AM
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2010年度末をもちまして、KDDI研究所との共同プロジェクトが修了いたしました。東京大学大学院情報学環の水越伸・山内祐平・岡田猛研究室とKDDI研究所は、2008年度に共同研究体制を作り、3年間「テレコミュニケーションの文化とリテラシーに関する質的、デザイン論的実践に関する共同研究」を進めてきました。MoDeは、ケータイを用いた批判的メディア実践の可能性や意義を探る領域メンバーとして参加していました。
共同プロジェクトは、実践的かつデザイン論的研究方法を導入することによって新しいコミュニケーション文化の潜在可能性を明らかにすることを目的にしていました。市民参加型ワークショップやアイデア創発型ワークショップなど様々な実践的研究を通して、技術開発を中心に語られてきたケータイの新しいあり方を浮き彫りにしたことは大きな成果でしょう。とくに、今回の共同プロジェクトでは、学習環境デザイン(山内祐平研究室)、創造的認知(岡田猛研究室)など、異なる専門領域の研究者たちが共同で研究を進めました。学際的かつ多面的な分析を図ったことも意義深い試みだったと思われます。
本共同研究のなか、MoDeから提出された主な成果は下記の通りです。
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【論文】
・ 金暻和 「パフォーマンス・エスノグラフィー手法を用いたケータイ研究の可能性:文化人類学の視座の示唆」、情報通信学会誌、2010年9月
・ 水越伸・金暻和 「ケータイのリテラシー・ケータイのエスノグラフィー:パフォーマンス型授業「モバイルの比較文化的メディア論」の事例研究」、東京大学大学院情報学環紀要、2010年3月
・ 岡田朋之「ワークショップ的方法を用いたメディアの可能的様態の検討」、関西大学総合情報学部紀要、2010年2月
【発表】
・ KIM, Kyoung-hwa Yonnie, "An "insider's view" in media studies: Case analysis of performance ethnography in mobile media studies", Contemporary Ethnography Across Disciplines, Nov. 2010.
・ 新井田統・金暻和 「ケータイの未来を探る:ワークショップを用いたケータイ研究の試み」、情報通信学会モバイルコミュニケーション研究会、2010年5月
・ 水越伸 「現代社会におけるメディアの影響- ケータイと子どもの関係を問う」、日本教育メディア学会基調演説、2009年9月
・「禁止された遊び」シンポジウム、MELL EXPO 2009年3月
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MoDeは、これからも実践的かつ創造的アプローチを通して、メディアとしてのケータイの可能性を探っていきたいと思います。
(報告:金ヨニ)
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3/25 TV/mobile creative workshop in the University of Tokyo
- March 31, 2011 4:25 PM
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On the 25th March 2011, Alexandre Fleury, a visiting graduate student from Aalborg University in Denmark, organized a workshop investigating the convergence between television and mobile phone. Twelve participants first explored what makes the two devices important to them by: Pointing at the emotions they would experience without a TV and a mobile phone; associating adjectives to each device; and naming functions they felt was essential for each device.
The participants then generated creative scenarios involving their own experiences from both media. By integrating the functions they identified previously into unusual real life situations, the scenarios illustrated not only what makes the two media so vital to modern life but also how to use them simultaneously.

Furthermore, the participants merged their personal scenarios in groups, creating more elaborated stories involving TV and mobile. The groups then acted out their story, enabling reflection and feedback from all workshop attendees and facilitators.

When asked simply, the most important functions of TV and mobile phone mentioned are unsurprisingly related to accessing information and communicating with peers. However, it is interesting to study how these basic functions gradually evolve when transposed to unusual setups. If some functions keep their original purpose, some become insights of what may be the future of converged media. Finally, it should be noted that during the workshop, all group performances referred to an emergency or tragic situation. This unfortunately illustrates the timing of the workshop, only 2 weeks after the disaster of March 11th.
(Reported by Alexandre Fleury)
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2/24 共同研究報告会@KDDI研究所
- March 9, 2011 11:10 AM
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KDDI研究所と東京大学大学院情報学環の水越伸・山内祐平・岡田猛研究室が共同で進めている「テレコミュニケーションの文化とリテラシーに関する質的、デザイン論的実践に関する研究」の成果報告会が、2011年2月24日、KDDI研究所で開かれました。MoDeでは、水越伸、金ヨニが出席して、これまでの研究成果について発表およびディスカッションを行いました。今回の報告会は一般公開はしませんでしたので、開催報告だけにいたします。
(報告:金ヨニ)
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2/6〜2/10 Mobile Story Collector WS in Manila
- March 6, 2011 10:41 AM
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Yonnie Kim, a member of MoDe, held a mobile storytelling workshop in Manila, the Philippines from Feb 7 to Feb 9, 2011. As a collaborative scheme with d'CATCH program, MoDe set a "Mobile Story Collector" booth at its venue in the University of Santo Tomas. In the booth, international participants from the Philippines, Thai and China were invited to join to a storytelling activity on their mobile media experiences. Basically as an extension of the previous action research, the workshop was designed for a cross-cultural performance ethnography on mobile media literacy.

In the first part of the activity, participants were invited to find a unique word to describe their experiences with own mobile phones. Then, they were asked to visualize the word by body expression such as making a face, a gesture or performance. Participants' expressions were taken photos and displayed on iPad photo frame on the spot. Finally, participants made a verbal reflection why they chose the word and matched it with such body expression.
More than 30 young participants joined to the creative activity to present individual experiences with their own mobile media. Meaningful reflections were also made on varying aspects surrounding digital media from their versatility in everyday lives to a self-identical attachment to the mobile phone as a personal belonging.

This workshop program is recommendable as a simple and easy activity on mobile media literacy. It also seems very useful for a cross-cultural approach as it is basically counting on a non-verbal performance, which is a universal communication means in any cultural context.
(Reported by Yonnie Kim)
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11/19 Mode held a presentation at CEAD@NZ
- December 9, 2010 10:10 PM
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Kyounghwa Yonnie Kim, a member of MoDe, had a presentation at Contemporary Ethnography Across the Disciplines held in Hamilton, New Zealand on 19 November. The title of presentation was "An "insider's view" in media studies: Case analysis of performance ethnography in mobile media studies" where the methodological achievement of MoDe project was reported as a new interdisciplinary approach in media studies.



[Presentation abstract] One of emerging issues in media studies is how to develop an integral methodology to describe a digital media phenomenon, whereas conventional methods such as a large-scaled survey and statistical analysis encounter difficulties in their attempts to address multiply contexts of the use of digital devices. This paper reflects on performance ethnography as a methodological perspective to investigate digital media, looking specially at the cultural practices of mobile technology. After a brief discussion on recent attempts to introduce new approaches in investigating multimodal and highly personalized mobile media, this paper will present case analysis of performance ethnography workshops conducted in MoDe project. Finally it will suggest an emic framework, that is to say, "insider's view" as a possible new perspective in media studies, thus, to clarify potential contribution of performance ethnographic methods to the study of digital media.
(reported by Yonnie Kim)
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10/23 「What is Keitai?」WS実施報告
- October 31, 2010 9:27 PM
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2010年10月23日(土)、文京シビックセンター21階 会議室にて、「ケータイってなんだろう」ワークショップを実施しました。このワークショップは、文京区と東京大学の連携プロジェクト「文の京大なる学び」のシリーズの一環であり、KDDI研究所と情報学環の共同研究チームによって進められたものです。
On Oct 23rd, 「What is Keitai?」 workshop was held at the 21st floor's meeting room of civic center of Bunkyo district office. As a part of a co-project of Bunkyo district and the University of Tokyo, MoDe research team in cooperation with KDDI R&D Labs designed and conducted the workshop.

ワークショップのプログラムは、これまでのケータイものがたりWSをさらに展開させて、ケータイものがたりの前後にミニ講演をはさんで、日々の日常経験からケータイを振り返るだけではなく、その文化と技術の現状をしっかりとらえなそうとしたものでした。ワークショップには文京区の住民の十数名が参加しましたが、情報機器をテーマにしたものの、企画側の予想をはるかに超えて高齢の方々がほとんでしてびっくりでした。
The basic program of the workshop was following Mode's "Keitai storytelling WS", however, we introduced a set of mini lectures before and after the storytelling activity so that participants will be able to reflect mobile phones in both dimension of culture and technology. Dozens of Bunkyo district residents participated in the workshop. To our surprise, the majority of participants was senior citizens in their 70's which was beyond our imagination.
最初に水越伸先生がワークショップの趣旨や問題意識について簡単に説明したうえ、「海外のケータイ事情」(金ヨニ)についてミニ講演1を行いました。その後、参加者は5〜6人でグループとなり、各自のケータイ経験について語りあいました。そして自らの物語りをよくあらわせるケータイのパーツや様子を撮影し、そのことについてみんなで発表を行いました。最後に「ケータイ技術の現状」(新井田統氏)についてミニ講演2を行い、一日のプログラムをまとめました。
Prof. Mizukoshi opened with introduction and explanation of workshop program, then Yonnie Kim made a short lecture on mobile phones in foreign countries. Then participants divided to groups of 5~6 persons, illustrated their own experiences surrounding keitai. Then, they moved to a photo booth and had a single part of their keitai taken a picture, which describes their own story well. Overall presentation was followed. After this activity, Mr. Niida Sumaru made a final lecture on technological issue of mobile phones.

今回のワークショップは、参加者に高齢者が多かったため、ケータイの使いにくさや不便についての物語りが多かったのが特徴的でした。これまでは若者のケータイ使用に焦点を置く場合が多くて、むしろ高齢者のケータイ利用にまつわる経験に聞ける機会は少なかったのではないでしょうか。これからの情報通信社会のあり方についてあらためて考えさせられました。
Because of the demographic of participants, the storytelling remarkably tends to relate to inconvenience of terminal or misunderstanding of its function, etc. Since many activities regarding keitai have focused on youths' usages, media usage of senior people have been rarely addressed so far. In this sense, the workshop was very meaningful in consideration of the future of information society.
(報告:金ヨニ/ reported by Yonnie Kim)
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9/24 "Performance ethnography of mobile phones in Shanghai" WS
- October 10, 2010 6:40 PM
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Yonnie Kim, a member of Mode, conducted "Performance ethnography of mobile phones in Shanghai" workshop on Sep 24 in Shanghai. Eight Chinese youngsters in their twenties participated in the workshop held in urban area of the city.
The workshop was consist of two parts. The first part of activities was a storytelling about experiences surrounding their own mobile phones, whose detailed program is originally from "My keitai storytelling WS" of Mode. Accordingly, participants in Shanghai asked to choose a single part of their own mobile phones and then had a presentation about their choice.
The second part was "Acting a typical mobile landscape of Shanghai", the cross-cultural revision of "Acting a typical mobile landscape of Seoul" WS in 2009. Participants finally made two short skits about a mobile landscape of Shanghai, where an enthusiasm to savor mobile entertainment was well described.
(Reported by Yonnie Kim)
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10/23 「ケータイってなんだろう」 ワークショップ開催
- September 27, 2010 10:46 PM
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MoDeプロジェクトは「文の京・大なる学び」の一環としてケータイ・ワークショップを開催します。誰もが持つようになった携帯電話(ケータイ)。しかし、その中身や使い方について、私たちはきちんと考えたことがありません。「身近だけどよくわからない」、そんなケータイとどのようにつきあえばよいのでしょうか? 今回は自身のケータイ経験をふり返り、ケータイの文化と技術の現状、世界のケータイ事情などさまざまな側面を学びます。
●日時:平成22年10月23日(土)14時00分〜17時00分(13時30分開場)
●場所:文京シビックセンター21階 会議室
□当日スケジュール
●14時00分〜 ミニ講演「ケータイ文化とケータイ技術の現在」
●14時30分〜 ワークショップ 「ケータイものがたり」
・参加者自身の携帯電話にまつわる思い出やエピソードを語り合います。
●16時30分〜 ミニ講演「世界のケータイ事情」とまとめ
□登壇者
●水越 伸(東京大学大学院情報学環教授)
●新井田 統(KDDI 研究所研究員)
●金 ヨニ(東京大学大学院学際情報学府博士課程)
□申込方法
●往復ハガキ:「大いなる学び6」・住所・氏名・電話番号と返信用にも宛先を明記し、下記担当までお申し込みください。
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□申込締切 ・定員
●往復ハガキ:10月8日(金)まで
●Eメール:10月12日(火)まで
●定員:30名(超えた場合は抽選)
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About MoDe Project
- March 9, 2008 4:45 PM
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The Mobiling & Designing Project (MoDe Project for short) is known as the socio-media studies on designing mobile media culture and literacy. This venture is based in the Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies (iii), the University of Tokyo, Japan.
The MoDe Project, is an experiment in a new type of media research linking analytical humanities and social scientific research to creative experimental research in fields such as media literacy, information design, and media art. This coordinated project also includes efforts to nurture public media literacy on mobile media, as well as the development and implementation of practical programs (educational materials, curricula, workshop, etc.) in order to reinvigorate public communication.
In 2008-2010, in cooperation with KDDI R&D Labs, the MoDe project has participated in a collaborative research scheme titled "Qualitative and design approach to telecommunication culture and literacy".
In 2006-2007, this project was supported by the research grant from the Okawa Foundation for Information and Telecommunications. The title is "Critical Media Practice on Nordic Mobile Culture: from the Standpoint of Comparative Culture Study between Nordic Countries and Japan".
In 2004-2005 academic year, this project was supported by the research grant from the NTT DoCoMo Mobile Society Research Institute (Moba-Ken), which was established in 2004 to conduct social-science research into the "light" and "shadow" of mobile society. Shin Mizukoshi, the project leader, serves on the board member of this institute.
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