is a Japanese sociologist and an associate professor at the Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies,
University of Tokyo
, abbreviated as or UTokyo, is a public research university located in Bunkyō, Tokyo, Japan. Established in 1877, the university was the first Imperial University and is currently a Top Type university of the Top Global University Project by ...
.
He received his PhD from the University of Tokyo in 2004. Before he took his current position in 2003, he was teaching at the University of Tsukuba. He was a visiting professor at
Leipzig University
Leipzig University (german: Universität Leipzig), in Leipzig in Saxony, Germany, is one of the world's oldest universities and the second-oldest university (by consecutive years of existence) in Germany. The university was founded on 2 December ...
in 2011.
His research topics include theoretical sociology, cultural sociology and history of media. He has acquired a reputation for his analysis of advertising, early cinema, magazines, TV, internet and other forms of media in modern and contemporary Japan as well as for his theoretical writings on culture and media. He is known among the reading public in Japan for co-editing the journal ''Shiso chizu'' (思想地図) with the cultural critic
Hiroki Azuma
(born May 9, 1971) is a Japanese cultural critic, novelist, and philosopher. He is the co-founder and former director of Genron, an independent institute in Tokyo, Japan.
Biography
Azuma was born in Mitaka, Tokyo. Azuma received his PhD in ...
during its first years.
Bibliography
In English
* 'Japan's cynical nationalism' in Mizuko Ito, Daisuke Okabe, Izumi Tsuji (eds.) ''Fandom Unbound: Otaku Culture in a Connected World'', Yale University Press, 2012. (An excerpted translation from his book ''Warau Nihon no "Nationalism"'' 『嗤う日本の「ナショナリズム」』 )
*Kitada Akihiro, “An Assault on ‘Meaning’: On Nakai Masakazu's Concept of ‘Mediation,’" trans. Alexander Zahlten, in ''Review of Japanese Culture and Society'' (December 2010), pp. 88–103.
See also
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Hiroki Azuma
(born May 9, 1971) is a Japanese cultural critic, novelist, and philosopher. He is the co-founder and former director of Genron, an independent institute in Tokyo, Japan.
Biography
Azuma was born in Mitaka, Tokyo. Azuma received his PhD in ...
*
Shunya Yoshimi is a Japanese sociologist.
He is a professor at the Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies, the University of Tokyo. He is one of the most influential cultural sociologists in Japan and best known for helping introduce cultural studies to ...
References
External links
Associate Professor KITADA Akihiro (Japanese page)Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies, the University of Tokyo
Japanese sociologists
University of Tokyo alumni
1971 births
Living people
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