Media designing analogous with biotope

The concept of “media biotope” is discussed from the viewpoint of system informatics. Media biotope is a concept of communication mediums in which the structures are discussed as an analogy of a biotope. In this scheme, communities created with local media that are connected with and mutually influence each other. At first, the concept of media biotope is defined. Properties of media, i.e. scale, connectivity, generality, and designing of communication mediums are discussed. Then, a representation model of a process of creating communities with media is proposed. This model consists of three layers which reflect communities, phycological laws, and sociological laws. By using this model, simulations to investigate the relationships between mediums and communities can be conducted. This study is expected to be the basis of a media biotope study based on system engineering.