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Kakuko Miyata
Researcher at Meiji Gakuin University
Publications - 6
Citations - 984
Kakuko Miyata is an academic researcher from Meiji Gakuin University. The author has contributed to research in topics: The Internet & Mobile phone. The author has an hindex of 6, co-authored 6 publications receiving 913 citations. Previous affiliations of Kakuko Miyata include University of Tokyo.
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The Social Affordances of the Internet for Networked Individualism
Barry Wellman,Anabel Quan-Haase,Jeffrey Boase,Wenhong Chen,Keith N. Hampton,Isabel Isla de Diaz,Kakuko Miyata,Kakuko Miyata +7 more
TL;DR: The studies show that the Internet is used for connectivity locally as well as globally, although the nature of its use varies in different countries, and Internet use is adding on to other forms of communication, rather than replacing them.
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Social capital online: Collective use of the Internet and reciprocity as lubricants of democracy
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors put the democratic potential of using the Internet into perspective through an analysis of how collective uses of the Internet promote social capital, and concluded that collective use of the internet can be a lubricant for democracy.
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Causal relationship between Internet use and social capital in Japan
Kakuko Miyata,Tetsuro Kobayashi +1 more
TL;DR: This paper found that the more social ties people have, the more likely they are to use personal computer (PC) email, and the use of PC email increases social ties, while mobile phone email is useful in maintaining existing strong ties which provide social support.
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The Social Effects of Keitai and Personal Computer E-mail in Japan
TL;DR: This chapter answers questions about the adoption of keitai and how its use is associated with changes in relationships through longitudinal data collected in Japan's Yamanashi prefecture, among the first studies to collect information about social networks and e-mail use over time.