メディア環境と子ども・若者たちの身体-背景・言説・感覚-  [in Japanese] Media Environment and Children's and Adolescents' Bodies : Background, Discourse and Senses  [in Japanese]

Children and adolescents who live in contemporary Japanese society are surrounded by media equipment. As a result, a large amount of information is available to them. The purpose of this article is to attempt to understand the interrelationship between a media environment, and the bodies of children and adolescents. I focus on three aspects of this interrelationship, as follows: First, I investigate the current state of media environment progress and the background of human relations. In particular, I examine the significance of the change from pseudo environment concept to media environment concept, and from sender-receiver diagram to editor-reader diagram, as well as the transition in the quality of social norms as a result of weakening connections among people due to the diffusion of media environment. Secondly, my research focuses on the relation of the discussions, on the topics of"media bashing"and"media advoxacy".After examining the situation in which both criticism and protection of the media become complicated in discusions of the cause of social events, I discuss the aspects overlooked by the discussions of"media bashing"and"media advocacy". Finally, I indicate the transformation of body sense by the form and content of media. I investigate this transformation through television and video game as "visual culture", through music and telephone as"earculture".The body is considered a sign and a sense organ in itself. Contemporary children and adolescents grow up immersed in a media environment rather than an environment of nature or human relations.In conclusion, I indicate the necessity of a third theory concerning the relationship of human-media, and not merely human-nature and human-human.