Kaoru Endo is a professor of sociology at Gakushuin UniversitySatoshi Kurihara is a professor of artificial intelligence at The University of Electro-CommunicationsTakashi Kamihigashi is a professor of economics at Kobe UniversityFujio Toriumi is an associate professor of computational social science at The University of Tokyo

• Chapter 1 Public Sphere and Social Capital in the Age of Intermediality: Approach from Computational Social Science.- Part 1 Theory.- Chapter 2 What is Public Opinion?: In the Age of Comlexedly-Mediated Democracy and Scandal Politics.- Chapter 3 Does Agent-based Modeling Flourish in Sociology?: Mind the Gap between Social Theory and Agent-based Models.- Chapter 4 Does the Internet Make People Selfish?: Effects of the Internet on Citizens’ Political Attitudes.- Part 2 Empirical Investigation.- Chapter 5 Social Capital on Social Media.- Chapter 6 An Examination of a Novel Information Diffusion Model for Social Media.- Chapter 7 What Are Practical User Attributes in the Social Media Era?: Proposal For User Attribute Extraction From Their Social Capital.- Chapter 8 Measuring Social Change Using Text Data: A Simple Distributional Approach.- Chapter 9 Value co-creative manufacturing methodology with IoT-based smart factory for mass customisation.- Chapter 10 Has the 3.11 Disaster Brought about Conservatism in Japan?.

Kaoru Endo is a professor of sociology at Gakushuin UniversitySatoshi Kurihara is a professor of artificial intelligence at The University of Electro-CommunicationsTakashi Kamihigashi is a professor of economics at Kobe UniversityFujio Toriumi is an associate professor of computational social science at The University of Tokyo

• Chapter 1 Public Sphere and Social Capital in the Age of Intermediality: Approach from Computational Social Science.- Part 1 Theory.- Chapter 2 What is Public Opinion?: In the Age of Comlexedly-Mediated Democracy and Scandal Politics.- Chapter 3 Does Agent-based Modeling Flourish in Sociology?: Mind the Gap between Social Theory and Agent-based Models.- Chapter 4 Does the Internet Make People Selfish?: Effects of the Internet on Citizens’ Political Attitudes.- Part 2 Empirical Investigation.- Chapter 5 Social Capital on Social Media.- Chapter 6 An Examination of a Novel Information Diffusion Model for Social Media.- Chapter 7 What Are Practical User Attributes in the Social Media Era?: Proposal For User Attribute Extraction From Their Social Capital.- Chapter 8 Measuring Social Change Using Text Data: A Simple Distributional Approach.- Chapter 9 Value co-creative manufacturing methodology with IoT-based smart factory for mass customisation.- Chapter 10 Has the 3.11 Disaster Brought about Conservatism in Japan?.

Kaoru Endo is a professor of sociology at Gakushuin UniversitySatoshi Kurihara is a professor of artificial intelligence at The University of Electro-CommunicationsTakashi Kamihigashi is a professor of economics at Kobe UniversityFujio Toriumi is an associate professor of computational social science at The University of Tokyo

• Chapter 1 Public Sphere and Social Capital in the Age of Intermediality: Approach from Computational Social Science.- Part 1 Theory.- Chapter 2 What is Public Opinion?: In the Age of Comlexedly-Mediated Democracy and Scandal Politics.- Chapter 3 Does Agent-based Modeling Flourish in Sociology?: Mind the Gap between Social Theory and Agent-based Models.- Chapter 4 Does the Internet Make People Selfish?: Effects of the Internet on Citizens’ Political Attitudes.- Part 2 Empirical Investigation.- Chapter 5 Social Capital on Social Media.- Chapter 6 An Examination of a Novel Information Diffusion Model for Social Media.- Chapter 7 What Are Practical User Attributes in the Social Media Era?: Proposal For User Attribute Extraction From Their Social Capital.- Chapter 8 Measuring Social Change Using Text Data: A Simple Distributional Approach.- Chapter 9 Value co-creative manufacturing methodology with IoT-based smart factory for mass customisation.- Chapter 10 Has the 3.11 Disaster Brought about Conservatism in Japan?.