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Masahiro Morioka
Book reviews and commentaries Toru Nishigaki - "We can feel the author's eternal yearning for a shaman in an electronic age." (Sankei Simbun Newspaper, Jun.3, 1993) >> Read more Editorial staff of Kyoto Shimbun Newspaper - "This is a stimulating book that provides a new sight on communications theory." (Kyoto Shimbun Newspaper, Jul.13, 1993) >> Read more Pipi - "A science fiction world, just like Solaris. An astonishing communications theory floating in the world of Matrix." (bk1 book review, Sep.30, 2003) >> Read more Niki Lambropoulos - "Morioka cited in Aoki describes this kind of use as "ishiki tsushin" (conscious communication). According to Morioka, it is the communication for the purpose of social interaction itself, which is distinguished from "joho tsushin" (information communication)." (Intelligent Dynamic Enquiry Methodology for Innovation Technology, 2004 ) >> Read more (pdf) Kumiko Aoki - " (....) In addition to the above mentioned communities, another kind of communities exist in computer networks, which can be called "communities of anonymity [tokumeisei no komyuniti]" (Morioka, 1993). These communities of anonymity are the communities whose members are anonymous and share virtual spaces for their self-expression which may not be possible in the situation that they have to identify themselves. In such virtual spaces, people play whatever role they want to play, knowing other people are also presenting created images of themselves." (Pacific Telecommincations Council 1994 Conference) >> Read more Book reviews also appeared in Asahi Shimbun newspaper, Nikkei Shimbun Newspaper, Mainichi Shimbun Newspaper, Yomiuri Shimbun Newspaper, etc.. Summary This book was written in 1991-1992, and published in 1993. There was no commercial Internet seivices, or no mobile phones at that time. However, this book secceeded in predicting many aspects of today's cyber-society. In this book, I analyzed computer-mediated-communications from the viewpoint of deep psychology and sociology. I distinguished two concepts, "infomation communication" and "consciousness communication," and insisted that the latter would be greatly activated in the network society. As Niki Lambropoulos explains above, "consciousness communication" means "the communication for the purpose of social interaction itself," which is now prevalent in email communication through mobile phones and chatting on the net. This kind of communication was once called "consummatory communication" (Festinger, 1950), or "intrinsic use" (Keller, 1977). In this book, I added new meaning to these concepts, and proposed a new term "conscioussness communication." In consciousness communication, my consciousness flows out through the feeler of my personality, and gets mixed with other consciousness in the consciousness interaction field. I proposed this "consciousness interaction model" instead of Shannon and Weaver's communication model. I introduced the concept of "community of anonymity" where anonymous persons join and interact with each other. I insisted that this kind of community would expand and prevail in cyber-space. In 1993, I was not able to find the concept "community of anonymity" in English books or papers, hence Consciousness Communication may probably have been the first to propose the concept. It is intersting to compare "community of anonymity" with Webber's "non-place community" (1967). In the last two chapters, I proposed the new concept of "dream navigator," and depicted possible future interactions among the subconsciousnesses of participants in cyber-space. People's consciousnesses and subconsciousnesses are guided by a dream navigator, and their collective imaginations create an unimaginable world of our collective dreams. This is the most provocative part of this book. Some people criticized it as a total nonsense, but the other people highly appreciated the description of a dream navigator. After the publication of this book, the words "conscioussness communication" and "dream navigator" have been repeatedly used by commentators and researchers in this field in Japan. Conscioussness Communication won the 1994 Telecom Social Science Award. Table of Contents and Translation Preface Part 1 Thoughts on Media Chapter 1 Consciousness Communication Chapter 2 Community of Anonymity Chapter 3 Consciousness Interaction Field Part 2 Dream Navigator Chapter 4 Dream Dreamt by Society Chapter 5 To the Deep Layer of Consciousness Interaction Postscript * Samples of the contents will be uploaded. Translation to other languages
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