Scandal, Ritual and Media in Postwar Japan (Doctoral Thesis, The University of Tokyo 2017)←興味深いですね！

 

TOP PAPERS FROM YOUR NEWSFEED     Takeshi Morisato Université Libre de Bruxelles, East Asian Studies Centre (EASt), Post-Doc European Journal of Japanese Philosophy 2 (2017) TOC and Intro The European Journal of Japanese Philosophy, the official academic organ of the European Network of Japanese Philosophy, is a peer-reviewed journal published annually in the fall. Its aim is to provide a forum for critical articles and translations related to Japanese philosophy. Contributions are welcome in English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Romanian, Spanish, and Japanese. ISSN: 2367-3095 DOWNLOAD BOOKMARK     Igor Prusa Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Oriental Institute, Post-Doc Scandal, Ritual and Media in Postwar Japan (Doctoral Thesis, The University of Tokyo 2017) While drawing on theoretical arguments from media studies and cultural sociology, this thesis addresses the role of scandal in postwar Japan. I present an outline of what can be labeled as scandalogy, and introduce the historical background of scandal in Japan and the West. Furthermore, I locate the social phenomena of transgression and scandal in a wider field of social practice, and provide a theoretical package for critical analysis of media scandal as framed narrative and spectacular (pseudo)event. While utilizing the scope of contemporary neofunctionalist thought, I approach the... DOWNLOAD BOOKMARK     Igor Prusa Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Oriental Institute, Post-Doc Media and Society in Japan (Doctoral Thesis, Charles University Prague 2010, in Czech language) The general aim of this thesis is to contribute to a deeper understanding of the Japanese media and communication in contemporary society. It also hopes to widen the integrated and internationalized framework for understanding the universal dynamism and complexity of media and their audiences in context of global technological and cultural transformation. Our research is mostly a cross-disciplinary integration of media & communication studies and Japanese philology. The starting point of this thesis is focused on the summary of theoretical knowledge about the dewesternization of media... DOWNLOAD BOOKMARK     Rotem KOWNER University of Haifa, Asian Studies, Faculty Member Race and Racism (in Modern Japanese History) This chapter examines the question of race in modern Japan and traces the development of indigenous strains of racism. It argues that race and racism have been powerful factors in the history of modern Japan, even if their impact varied considerably at different times. Although Japan entered the modern era without a well-defined outlook on the question of race, in the late nineteenth century it was forcibly exposed to this question, and soon began to adopt certain aspects of it. As a concept, race held powerful appeal in Japan because it was associated with the West, modernization, and the... DOWNLOAD BOOKMARK