Promoting Healthy Lifestyle and Mobile Communication in Risk Society? : Risk Discourse and Adaptive Social Interactions in the Mobile Age

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Risk is an integral part of super-modern society! This paper examines: What risks are associated with mobile communication and how are they mediated across mass media? And in what way(s) are health risks for using high-radio-frequency mobile communicative device (mobile phone) exposed, discussed and mitigated in Japanese society? In other words and above all, our core questions are: how people respond and adapt to the (missing of) risk discourse in risk society in the information age. Section 1 of this paper provides a conceptual specification on risk society, mobile communicative risks and the health impact. It will be followed by an outline on high-tech mobile communication development in Japanese society. With reference to societal responses to the risks of mobile communication, Section 3 discusses risk communications on mobile phone in Japan, highlighting the social adaptation to high-tech mobile communication system with a risk-avoidance regime. The paper ends with critical remarks on the mobile communicative engagements with the embedded risks.
関西学院大学の論文
2006-01-30