Information about online suicide pacts
I'm wondering if anyone knows of any studies or ongoing research concerning online suicide pacts in Japan. The suicide rate in Japan is almost 20 times higher than their murder rate (one of the highest in the world)--and there appears to be "a frightening increase in the number of group suicides arranged over the Internet through chat rooms dedicated to discussing suicide." Any help researching this topic would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance, Chris Helland Christopher Helland, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Sociology of Religion Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology Dalhousie University 6135 University Avenue, Rm. 1128 Halifax, Nova Scotia Canada B3H 4P9 Tel: (902) 494-6757 Fax:(902) 494-2897 http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~chelland/index.html ____________________________________________________________________________________ Want to start your own business? Learn how on Yahoo! Small Business. http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/r-index
Not precisely what you asked for, but this chapter does have a section on suicide forums: Kral, G. (2006). Online communities for mutual help: Fears, fiction, and facts. In Murero, M. & Rice, R.E. (Eds.), The Internet and health care: Theory, research and practice. (Chapter 11, pp. 215-232). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. ======================================================= Ronald E. Rice Arthur N. Rupe Chair in the Social Effects of Mass Communication Co-Director, Carsey-Wolf Center for Film, Television and New Media President of the International Communication Association Fulbright Professor, Finland 2006 Dept. of Communication, 4840 Ellison Hall University of California Santa Barbara, CA 93106-4020 Ph: 805-893-8696; Fax: 805-893-7102 rrice@comm.ucsb.edu http://www.comm.ucsb.edu/rice_flash.htm http://www.cftnm.ucsb.edu/ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Christopher Helland" <c_hella@yahoo.com> To: <air-l@listserv.aoir.org> Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2007 3:31 PM Subject: [Air-l] Information about online suicide pacts
I'm wondering if anyone knows of any studies or ongoing research concerning online suicide pacts in Japan. The suicide rate in Japan is almost 20 times higher than their murder rate (one of the highest in the world)--and there appears to be "a frightening increase in the number of group suicides arranged over the Internet through chat rooms dedicated to discussing suicide."
Any help researching this topic would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
Chris Helland
Christopher Helland, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Sociology of Religion Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology Dalhousie University 6135 University Avenue, Rm. 1128 Halifax, Nova Scotia Canada B3H 4P9 Tel: (902) 494-6757 Fax:(902) 494-2897 http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~chelland/index.html
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Our department has two grad students on exchange in Hong Kong this spring, and they're looking for conferences in the fields of new media, digital culture, games, e-learning to attend. They asked me for suggestions and I think it's a great idea to encourage them to experience a conference while they're in Asia - but I don't know of any! I'm sure someone on this list knows of relevant conferences this spring in Asia that these grad students could attend? Jill ---- Jill Walker Associate Professor, Dept of Humanistic Informatics, University of Bergen, Norway http://jilltxt.net
Searching IEEE would throw up any in the region in the next year http://www.ieee.org/web/conferences/home/index.html and look at the various branches and student branches http://www.ewh.ieee.org/ecc/r10/ Various listed at http://geneva.isoc.org/events/ http://www.apia.org/ --- Jill Walker <jill.walker@uib.no> wrote:
Our department has two grad students on exchange in Hong Kong this spring, and they're looking for conferences in the fields of new media, digital culture, games, e-learning to attend. They asked me for suggestions and I think it's a great idea to encourage them to experience a conference while they're in Asia - but I don't know of any!
I'm sure someone on this list knows of relevant conferences this spring in Asia that these grad students could attend?
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Jill, Here's one: "The first international conference on "Living the Information Society: The Impact of Information and Communication Technologies on People, Work and Communities in Asia" will be held on April 23-24, 2007 at the Renaissance Hotel, Makati City, Philippines" More info at http://www.lirneasia.net/2007/01/infoagemanila/ Best, Beth Jill Walker <jill.walker@uib.no> wrote: Our department has two grad students on exchange in Hong Kong this spring, and they're looking for conferences in the fields of new media, digital culture, games, e-learning to attend. They asked me for suggestions and I think it's a great idea to encourage them to experience a conference while they're in Asia - but I don't know of any! I'm sure someone on this list knows of relevant conferences this spring in Asia that these grad students could attend? Jill ---- Jill Walker Associate Professor, Dept of Humanistic Informatics, University of Bergen, Norway http://jilltxt.net _______________________________________________ The air-l@listserv.aoir.org mailing list is provided by the Association of Internet Researchers http://aoir.org Subscribe, change options or unsubscribe at: http://listserv.aoir.org/listinfo.cgi/air-l-aoir.org Join the Association of Internet Researchers: http://www.aoir.org/
Hi Jill, This is more summer than spring, but if they are still around: Ubiquitous Media: Asian Transformations IIIS Tokyo University / Theory, Culture & Society 25th Anniversary Conference Tokyo University Hongo Campus 13-16 July 2007. http://www.u-mat.org/index.html Best, Søren Mørk
Jill,
Here's one: "The first international conference on "Living the Information Society: The Impact of Information and Communication Technologies on People, Work and Communities in Asia" will be held on April 23-24, 2007 at the Renaissance Hotel, Makati City, Philippines"
More info at http://www.lirneasia.net/2007/01/infoagemanila/
Best, Beth
Jill Walker <jill.walker@uib.no> wrote: Our department has two grad students on exchange in Hong Kong this spring, and they're looking for conferences in the fields of new media, digital culture, games, e-learning to attend. They asked me for suggestions and I think it's a great idea to encourage them to experience a conference while they're in Asia - but I don't know of any!
I'm sure someone on this list knows of relevant conferences this spring in Asia that these grad students could attend?
Jill
---- Jill Walker Associate Professor, Dept of Humanistic Informatics, University of Bergen, Norway http://jilltxt.net
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Hi, There has been some research done in Japanese (and a lot of press attention has been paid to this topic in the past few years). A short piece by Sean Curtin of GLOCOM: http://www.glocom.org/special_topics/social_trends/20041104_trends_s91/index... Assuming you read Japanese, check out the PDFs at the National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry, Japan at http://www.ncnp.go.jp/ikiru-hp/report/ueda16t.html Government policy concerning measures to combat the phenomenon (a research group was set up through the Prime Minister's office last year): http://www.soumu.go.jp/s-news/2006/pdf/060126_1_bt1.pdf http://www.kantei.go.jp/jp/singi/it2/others/kettei.pdf A search through Japan's national database of journals (GeNii) put out by universities and academic organizations in Japan yields a few more, also in Japanese. Hope that this helps. Leslie Tkach-Kawasaki, Ph.D. Machida, Tokyo Christopher Helland wrote
I'm wondering if anyone knows of any studies or ongoing research concerning online suicide pacts in Japan. The suicide rate in Japan is almost 20 times higher than their murder rate (one of the highest in the world)--and there appears to be "a frightening increase in the number of group suicides arranged over the Internet through chat rooms dedicated to discussing suicide."
Any help researching this topic would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
Chris Helland
Christopher Helland, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Sociology of Religion Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology Dalhousie University 6135 University Avenue, Rm. 1128 Halifax, Nova Scotia Canada B3H 4P9 Tel: (902) 494-6757 Fax:(902) 494-2897 http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~chelland/index.html
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