social media in japan (panel in blogtalk2009)
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Hideaki Takeda -- Short bib.• Professor in Artificial Intelligence, National Institute of Informatics (NII)
– “Web Informatics”: – Semantic Web, Social Web, Social Network Analysis
• Director, R&D Center for Scientific Information Resources, National Institute of Informatics (NII)– Distribution of Academic Information like publishing papers in Japan
• Professor, The University of Tokyo (till March.2010)– Service Engineering, etc.
• My position here is …– Researcher of Web from the early stage of Web (1994-)– Observer of Web from Computer Scientist’s viewpoint
If you have interest on my research, please visithttp://www-kasm.nii.ac.jp/
Social Media in Japan• The State-of-the-art
– Blog: 17M Users (3M active)/July,2008• Many bloggers, Wide rage • Hosting
– Very Large BSS : 2-channel• Many topics, Many users• 10M users / Nov., 2005
– SNS• Mixi (15 M Users /July, 2008)
– Wikipedia• One of Top five languages in Wikipedia
– Video sharing • Youtube• NicoNicoDouga: 10M users / Nov., 2008
– Mircoblog (twitter)• Now Emerging
(Population of Japan: 120 M)
(Twitter: 45M users worldwide/ June, 2009)
Trend of Social Media in Japan
• Content:– Daily Life– Culture (Pop culture)– Communication– Politics– Journalism
Trend of Social Media in Japan
• Participants– Most: Anonymous– A few: Celebrity– Few: Famous alpha bloggers
Future Directions
• Integration with mobile phones– Lifelog– Agents
• Collaboration– Bottom-up culture
Social Network of Creators ofHatsune Miku related videos
Creators’ network nodes: 1,362 edges: 2,270
Red: SongwritingBlue: Song creationGreen: Illustration
Community in Social Network of Creators ofHatsune Miku related videos