Here’s my research proposal for the Graduate School Application for International Research Students at the University of Tokyo Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies. It’s translated into Japanese by my friend Satoko. After spending more than 3 months writing and revising my proposal in English, I had to look for a translator to put it into Japanese. Since I was in Hong Kong at the time, I thought I’d find a local translator to help me. Unfortunately, the only thing I could find was a company that doesn’t have anyone who has a good command of English. I spent HKD $1300 but after receiving the end product, I had to schedule a meeting with the owner of the company and sat down with her for an entire afternoon to redo the whole thing. Still, that wasn’t good enough and my friend Satoko took time out of her busy school schedule to help me polish the paper to this final version. So, here it is!
研究計画書（表紙）
研究テーマについて、過去の研究業績の詳しい説明、問題意識、今後の研究の具体的計画などを論文形式にまとめること。
本紙を表紙として、4000字程度（A4版任意用紙３枚程度）にまとめた研究計画書を添付して提出すること。
研究テーマ
ニュースメディアに関するクラウドソーシング
研究要旨（日本語で200字程度）
この研究の目的はクラウドソーシング及びインターネット上でユーザーが配信する情報の
歴史を詳しく研究報告することです。
ウィキペディアに代表されるクラウドソーシング・ウェブサイトが人気を獲得し、成功した
要因を追求し、クラウドソーシングを活用したジャーナリズムニュースサイトのスピード性、
精密性、正確性、ディテール性、信頼性、スコープ性を伝統的メディアニュースと
比較検討します。また、将来のモバイルインターネット使用に伴いクラウドソーシングによるニュー
スメディアがどのように成長するかを予測します。
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I’ve meant to come back and post about all the things that I’ve been doing, but I’m not too good with multi-tasking… Whenever I’m too concentrated on one thing, I don’t want to spread myself out to do other things.
Anyway, after my last post and my last day at Yahoo!, I flew back to Seattle and stayed for a couple of months. Our family house was still there with no one living in it, so my mom and I went back to pack everything up and put it on the market. I don’t know if you’ve ever tried to move from a home of more than 15 years, but I can tell you it’s no fun at all! How I wished DragonBall’s Capsule Corp. was real… LOL.
While I was in Seattle, I continued to communicate with my friends at cuusoo.com and refine my research plan. (I’ll post it on here later.) I also emailed the Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies at the University of Tokyo to clarify about the research plan and the “Supervising Faculty of Choice”. You have to fill out that field on your research plan, but it seems that you don’t have to contact the professor beforehand. I sent 3 emails to 3 different faculty members, only the 1st one returned my email, the rests simply ignored me. (I sent the email in Japanese too! I’ll also post that here later.)
Another requirement was the “Japanese Language Proficiency Level” form, which I needed to find a teacher to administer some sort of test to me. This turned out to be a lot harder than I originally thought! No one at the University of Washington’s Japanese department could do that for me. In the end, I went back and contacted Yamada Keiko in New York, whom I had gotten a last minute crash course from back then for the interview of the position at Yahoo Japan. She gave me the sample JLPT Level 2 test, which was pretty tough! Continue reading ‘Sold our house in Seattle, bought a new condo in New York’
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