Yuko Fujigaki
Biographic Data
| ID | 872110 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Yuko Fujigaki |
| GIVEN NAMES | Yuko |
| FAMILY NAME | Fujigaki |
| SIGNATURE | FUJIGAKI Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Tokyo |
| ORCID | 0009-0008-4003-4703 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Histories of Scientific Responsibility in Japan and the United Kingdom
We historicize talk of social responsibility in relation to science and technology. By charting the multiple and contested notions of responsibility that scientists have espoused from the early twentieth century to the present, we show how scientists have used the word strategically, at different times and in different contexts, to project their preferred views of how science should relate to wider society. Comparing Japan and the UK enables us t…
The 2010 4S/JSSTS Joint Conference in Tokyo
Constitutive and Material
Microplastics, an increasingly widespread environmental problem, have built a high profile on different communication platforms in Japan. Inspired by Davies and Horst's understanding that science communication is constitutive and material, this article empirically analyzed the general situation of microplastics communication in the Japanese context. We examined the development in the meaning of microplastics as the exemplification of the constitu…
Introducing an “invisible enemy”
Microplastics, a novel global environmental problem, has become a fast-developing research field with worldwide investments. With scientific development, social science studies are expected to contribute to developing more effective communication on microplastics. Among various media, this article focused on Wikipedia and discussed one particular situation—when the language of Wikipedia differs from the language of mainstream information sources.…
Risk implications of long-term global climate goals
We have assessed the risks associated with setting 1.5, 2.0, or 2.5 °C temperature goals and ways to manage them in a systematic manner and discussed their implications. The results suggest that, given the uncertainties in climate sensitivity, "net zero emissions of anthropogenic greenhouse gases in the second half of this century" is a more actionable goal for society than the 2 or 1.5 °C temperature goals themselves. If the climate sensitivity …
Interactions between scientific and social rationality
Lessons From Fukushima
STS Implications of Japan's 3/11 Crisis
On 11 March 2011, a mega-earthquake (magnitude 9.0) hit the northeastern coast of Japan, followed by tsunamis of historic scale and a series of nuclear power plant accidents. More than fourteen tho
How far can child surveillance go
There have recently been increasing numbers of studies on ubiquitous computing to build pervasive communication infrastructures. In Japan, a national strategy to become a ubiquitous network society in which anyone can easily access and use a network any time, anywhere and from any appliance, has been promoted for the sake of social security. A child monitoring system using radio frequency identification (RFID) is one example of a security system …
STS in Japan and East Asia
Quality control and validation boundaries in a triple helix of university-industry-government
How is quality control organized in the new "Mode-2" production of scientific knowledge? When institutional boundaries are increasingly blurred in a triple helix of university-industry-government relations, criteria for quality control in the production of scientific knowledge can be expected to change at the interfaces. The categorization in terms of two modes of knowledge production was introduced by Gibbons et al. (1994) to describe changes in…
Filling the gap between discussions on science and scientists' everyday activities
This study examines how the micro-conditions of scientists in the accretion of their daily activities - publishing - create a macro-essence that philosophers and scientific historians call “the essence of science”. By applying the autopoiesis system theory to the aggregation of publications in scientific journals - the process by which the continuation of micro-activity (a system's operation) creates a macro-construction (the system's structure) …
Quality control and validation boundaries in a triple helix of university-industry-government
How is quality control organized in the new "Mode-2" production of scientific knowledge? When institutional boundaries are increasingly blurred in a triple helix of university-industry-government relations, criteria for quality control in the production of scientific knowledge can be expected to change at the interfaces. The categorization in terms of two modes of knowledge production was introduced by Gibbons et al. (1994) to describe changes in…
How far can child surveillance go
There have recently been increasing numbers of studies on ubiquitous computing to build pervasive communication infrastructures. In Japan, a national strategy to become a ubiquitous network society in which anyone can easily access and use a network any time, anywhere and from any appliance, has been promoted for the sake of social security. A child monitoring system using radio frequency identification (RFID) is one example of a security system …
Interactions between scientific and social rationality
Filling the gap between discussions on science and scientists' everyday activities
This study examines how the micro-conditions of scientists in the accretion of their daily activities - publishing - create a macro-essence that philosophers and scientific historians call “the essence of science”. By applying the autopoiesis system theory to the aggregation of publications in scientific journals - the process by which the continuation of micro-activity (a system's operation) creates a macro-construction (the system's structure) …
Quality control and validation boundaries in a triple helix of university-industry-government
How is quality control organized in the new "Mode-2" production of scientific knowledge? When institutional boundaries are increasingly blurred in a triple helix of university-industry-government relations, criteria for quality control in the production of scientific knowledge can be expected to change at the interfaces. The categorization in terms of two modes of knowledge production was introduced by Gibbons et al. (1994) to describe changes in…
STS in Japan and East Asia
STS Implications of Japan's 3/11 Crisis
On 11 March 2011, a mega-earthquake (magnitude 9.0) hit the northeastern coast of Japan, followed by tsunamis of historic scale and a series of nuclear power plant accidents. More than fourteen tho
How far can child surveillance go
There have recently been increasing numbers of studies on ubiquitous computing to build pervasive communication infrastructures. In Japan, a national strategy to become a ubiquitous network society in which anyone can easily access and use a network any time, anywhere and from any appliance, has been promoted for the sake of social security. A child monitoring system using radio frequency identification (RFID) is one example of a security system …
Lessons From Fukushima
Risk implications of long-term global climate goals
We have assessed the risks associated with setting 1.5, 2.0, or 2.5 °C temperature goals and ways to manage them in a systematic manner and discussed their implications. The results suggest that, given the uncertainties in climate sensitivity, "net zero emissions of anthropogenic greenhouse gases in the second half of this century" is a more actionable goal for society than the 2 or 1.5 °C temperature goals themselves. If the climate sensitivity …
Interactions between scientific and social rationality
The 2010 4S/JSSTS Joint Conference in Tokyo
Constitutive and Material
Microplastics, an increasingly widespread environmental problem, have built a high profile on different communication platforms in Japan. Inspired by Davies and Horst's understanding that science communication is constitutive and material, this article empirically analyzed the general situation of microplastics communication in the Japanese context. We examined the development in the meaning of microplastics as the exemplification of the constitu…
Introducing an “invisible enemy”
Microplastics, a novel global environmental problem, has become a fast-developing research field with worldwide investments. With scientific development, social science studies are expected to contribute to developing more effective communication on microplastics. Among various media, this article focused on Wikipedia and discussed one particular situation—when the language of Wikipedia differs from the language of mainstream information sources.…
Histories of Scientific Responsibility in Japan and the United Kingdom
We historicize talk of social responsibility in relation to science and technology. By charting the multiple and contested notions of responsibility that scientists have espoused from the early twentieth century to the present, we show how scientists have used the word strategically, at different times and in different contexts, to project their preferred views of how science should relate to wider society. Comparing Japan and the UK enables us t…
Political science (8 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Business (4 works) · Climate Change Communication and Perception (4 works) · Engineering (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Ecology (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · History (3 works)