2019年度 KGRI Working Papers

The cyberspace has provoked new questions concerning national identity. It has created a new sphere where people experience and express nationalism in various forms and degrees, but increasingly defensively and not in keeping with international norms. The Rohingya issue that has unfolded in Myanmar represents such case. The massive displacement of the Rohingya, a Muslim minority group in Myanmar, has thus far evolved into an uncompromising controversy between the government of Myanmar and the international community. I argue that the key to understanding this controversy lies in the way social media frames the issue.

It is through social media platforms such as Facebook that news and comments expressing hostility toward the Rohingya - thus far unrecognized by the state - gain broad viewership. Frame analysis affords us a way of to understand how fake news or disinformation works. This paper focuses on the less attended frame, that is, how the increasingly defensive nationalistic social media in Myanmar frames the Rohingya issue.

Using cases from Myanmar, my paper aims to sketch out how fake news feeds popular antagonism against the Rohingya minority and the international media reporting on them, how conflicting framing works, and how Burmese social media shapes nationalism in the country.

加速度的に増大する計算能力とデータ集積のパワーの中で人間の尊厳を守ため、我々はデータの統治についての新しい哲学と、技術的・制度的システム設計思想を採用しなければならない。このペーパーで我々は、近代的な「人間による知性の独占」の前提を超えて、市民が信頼してデータを預けことのできるアーキテクチャを持った、人間と機械が一体となったエージェントを構想する。我々は、人間と機械が共存する新しい「サイバー文明」の夜明けにさしかかっており、その新しい状況に合った統治構造を作っていかなければならない。実現に向けたいくつかの設計指針を提案する。