JSIMS: The Japanese Society for Information and Media Studies

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Established in June 10, 2000, JSIMS has been actively engaged in research in the areas of analog and digital information in a variety of information media including text and multimedia. JSIMS encourages interdisciplinary research, overcoming the limitations of traditional library and information science as well as informatics. Our mission is to establish a new discipline, which deals with information media from a holistic and organized perspective. Toward this, we have been focusing our research on social infrastructures, management techniques, system-scientific researches, and researches on human factors and cognitive mechanisms in content development. We have also focused on physical materials used to develop the various information media. Our unique position is to not only support academic research, but also to promote excellent information artifacts such as contents, databases, programs, etc. enabling their great value to be recognized in the society at large.

Following activities are conducted to fulfill our mission:

• Publish the Journal of Information and Media Studies (JIMS) in online and in print form.
• Hold annual conferences every spring with invited lecturers, symposia, and poster sessions.
• Hold research meetings every fall with invited lecturers and presentations of submitted and reviewed papers.
• Give out Research Paper Awards to the best papers published in the Journal of Information and Media Studies (JIMS)
• Give out the Best Poster Award to the best poster presented at the annual conference.

Membership (as of March, 2017)

• 230 Individual Members (2 Honorary Members; 206 Full Members; 22 Student Members)
• 3 Institutional Members

The Board of Directors

• Yashio UEMURA (President)
• Takashi NAGATSUKA (Vice President)
• Yoshihide MIWA (Vice President)
• Takashi ISHIKAWA
• Kou AMANO
• Yukiyo HASEGAWA
• Kazuhiko HATANO
• Yukiko NAKABAYASHI
• Hideo JOHO (Editor in Chief of JIMS)
• Hidemasa HATADA
• Manari NAKAYAMA
• Miyuki YAMADA
• Daisuke HARASHIMA
• Sho SATO
• Yukinori OKABE (Head of Public Relation Committee)
• Fumi KATAYAMA
• Akihiro MOTOKI
• Tetsuya MAESHIRO (Secretary General)

Auditor:

• Natsuo ONODERA
• Hiroyuki TSUNODA