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Tag Archives: media studies
Book Announcement: Electrified Voices: How the Telephone, Phonograph, and Radio Shaped Modern Japan, 1868–1945
Electrified Voices How the Telephone, Phonograph, and Radio Shaped Modern Japan, 1868–1945 Kerim Yasar Long before karaoke’s ubiquity and the rise of global brands such as Sony, Japan was a place where new audio technologies found eager users and contributed … Continue reading
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Tagged Japan, Japanese culture, Japanese history, media, media studies, modern Japan, technology, technology studies
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Job Opening: Postdoctoral/Post-MFA position in Asian Digital Film Production, Hamilton College
For details, see https://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=57038 The Asian Studies Program at Hamilton College invites applications for a two-year postdoctoral/post-MFA position in Digital Film Production, effective July 1, 2019. As part of the College-wide curricular emphasis on digital and experiential learning, the Program seeks a … Continue reading
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Tagged asian film, digital, digital film, film, film studies, Hamilton College, media, media studies, postdoc, postdoctoral fellow
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Book Announcement: The Monstrous-Feminine in Contemporary Japanese Popular Culture
The Monstrous-Feminine in Contemporary Japanese Popular Culture Dumas, Raechel This book explores the monstrous-feminine in Japanese popular culture produced from the late years of the 1980s through to the new millennium. Raechel Dumas examines the role of female monsters in … Continue reading
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Tagged book, book announcement, books, fiction, gender, gender studies, horror, Japanese culture, media, media studies
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Resource: Re-envisioning Japan
How do we connect to objects, and how did people connect to them when they were made? Today’s resource is ReEnvisioning Japan, a collaborative digital humanities project produced through the University of Rochester’s River Campus Libraries Digital Scholarship Lab. Rooted … Continue reading
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Tagged 20th century, culture, film, Japan, Japanese culture, Japanese society, materiality, media, media studies, modern, modern Japan, resource, society
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Call for Papers: Manga, Comics and Japan: Area Studies as Media Studies
In 2018 Sweden and Japan celebrate 150 years of diplomatic relations. This occasion provides an excellent opportunity to reconceptualize the study of Japanese culture in a way which meets the requirements of an increasingly networked and digitalized world. Our conference … Continue reading
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Tagged call for papers, comics, manga, media, media studies, society, Stockholm University
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Symposium: Cinema and Social Change in Japan
International Symposium October 20-22, 2017 Kyoto University, Japan This international symposium explores the impacts of cinema on social change, and vice versa. Taking Japan’s cinema-going culture as case study, we can trace how social change has been imagined, negotiated, or … Continue reading
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Tagged cinema, film, film studies, Kyoto University, media, media studies, society
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Call for Papers: Media Culture and Race Matters in Asia: Convergences and Divergences
Call for Papers Media Culture and Race Matters in Asia: Convergences and Divergences Deadline for Abstract Submission: September 15th, 2017 The media—digital platforms, webisodes, multilingual media, mobile media, vlogs and other social media, film, radio, and TV—are essential to our … Continue reading
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Tagged asia, Asian Studies, call for papers, Japan, media, media studies, race
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Call for Papers: Mechademia: Second Arc, Vol. 1 “Childhood”
“Childhood” As the inaugural issue of this “second arc” of the narratives initiated by the Mechademia book series, the topic of “childhood” seems appropriate and timely, for several reasons. Primarily, this new book series expands the vista of the Mechademia series to encompass not … Continue reading
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Tagged animation, anime, call for papers, childhood, manga, Mechademia, media, media studies
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Research Opportunity: NHK Archives
Location: NHK Archives, Tokyo or Osaka Application Deadline: 30 June (4pm Japan Time) (Description below paraphrased/summarized by Travis, from NHK Japanese-language website. I apologize for any mis-translations or mis-representations. Please consult the NHK page for official description and terms) Program … Continue reading
Call for Papers: East Asian Media Studies Conference at Harvard University
Call for Papers The East Asian Media Studies Conference May 6-7, 2017 Harvard University Keynote Speakers: Rey Chow (Duke University) Thomas Lamarre (McGill University) We invite proposals to the East Asian Media Studies conference at Harvard University. The conference aims to provide … Continue reading
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