Ethos in Chaos? Reaction to Video Files Depicting Socially Harmful Images in the Channel 2 Japanese Internet Forum

被引：5

作者：

Kaigo, Muneo ^{[1
]}

Watanabe, Isao ^{[2
]}

机构：

[1] Univ Tsukuba, Grad Sch Humanities & Social Sci, 1-1-1 Tennoudai, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 3058571, Japan

[2] Int Christian Univ, Mitaka, Tokyo 1818585, Japan

来源：

JOURNAL OF COMPUTER-MEDIATED COMMUNICATION | 2007年 / 12卷 / 04期

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D O I：

10.1111/j.1083-6101.2007.00372.x

中图分类号：

G2 [信息与知识传播];

学科分类号：

05 ; 0503 ;

摘要：

Channel 2 (ni-channeru) is the single most widely known free access Japanese Internet bulletin board forum, with over five million people accessing it each month. With its many dysfunctional aspects, Channel 2 is a synonym for the chaos of the Internet in Japan. This study analyzes the dynamics among users of the Channel 2 forum, focusing specifically on the dissemination of alarming images and video files of the October 2004 Japanese hostage murder in Iraq. An examination was conducted of November 2004 Channel 2 threads and entries about the dissemination of images and video files of the hostage murder. Our analysis reveals how content that highly violated moral principles appeared and how a self-regulating mechanism by the user community functioned pro-socially in an uncontrolled, anonymous Internet forum. These findings contrast with previous studies that predicted asocial or antisocial behavior in anonymous online environments.

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页码：1248 / 1268

页数：21