GLOBAL STUDIES
COURSEグローバル・スタディーズコース

Digital Media and Society

A Data-driven Understanding of Cyberspace and Culture

Robert Thomson 先生

In the Digital Media and Society Lab (URL: www.cyberpsychology.jp), we love learning about digital media and Internet psychology. We design international web-surveys, collect survey data from around the world, and analyze that data in meaningful ways. We focus on online aggression, online dating, social network sites (SNS), online gaming, and much more. We’re interested in 1) identifying cultural differences in how people use digital media, and 2) explaining why differences exist, using cross-cultural theories.

VOICE学生の声

Discovering the Impact of
Social Media on Human Behavior

阿部 優貴さん / 札幌大谷高校出身
The Digital Media and Society Lab (DMSL) is a brand-new seminar that started in 2017. We learn how social media influences our behavior, and how behavior is different between online and offline settings, and between Japan and the US. At the beginning of each meeting, lab members give a lecture about the text, then, including Rob, we make a circle and share our own experiences and opinions. The distance between lab members and Rob is close, so we can speak freely during the meeting. That is one of the best things about this lab.