The Society 5.0 Landscape and Research Agenda

16 pages•Published: June 20, 2022

Hanlie Smuts, Aurona Gerber and Alta van der Merwe

Abstract

Different approaches are adopted in this paper to develop a conceptual Society 5.0 landscape overview as well as a roadmap and a preliminary research agenda. In the first place, we employed Social Network Analysis (SNA) on Twitter to identify the communities and communication around Society 5.0, followed by content analysis of two collected document repositories, one a set of academic publications and one a set of popular press articles on Society 5.0. We used the results of these investigations to develop a conceptual landscape overview of Society 5.0 using the themes that were identified during the analysis. The landscape model was subsequently used as a baseline to develop an initial research agenda for Society 5.0 studies. Anyone interested in doing research or adopting the Society 5.0 vision should benefit from our contributions.

Keyphrases: content analysis, research agenda, social network analysis, society 5.0

In: Knut Hinkelmann and Aurona Gerber (editors). Proceedings of the Society 5.0 Conference 2022 - Integrating Digital World and Real World to Resolve Challenges in Business and Society, vol 84, pages 153-168.

Links:	https://easychair.org/publications/paper/rMQl
	https://doi.org/10.29007/qz1m

BibTeX entry

@inproceedings{Society5.0-2022:Society_5.0_Landscape_Research,
  author    = {Hanlie Smuts and Aurona Gerber and Alta van der Merwe},
  title     = {The Society 5.0 Landscape and Research Agenda},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the Society 5.0 Conference 2022 - Integrating Digital World and Real World to Resolve Challenges in Business and Society},
  editor    = {Knut Hinkelmann and Aurona Gerber},
  series    = {EPiC Series in Computing},
  volume    = {84},
  publisher = {EasyChair},
  bibsource = {EasyChair, https://easychair.org},
  issn      = {2398-7340},
  url       = {/publications/paper/rMQl},
  doi       = {10.29007/qz1m},
  pages     = {153-168},
  year      = {2022}}

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