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- Welcome to my homepage. I am Professor at Department of Communication and
Media Studies, College of Sociology, Rikkyo University (a.k.a. St. Paul
University in Japan). Thank U for your visit!
- My former position was Professor at Graduate School of Arts and Sciences,
University of Tokyo and Head of Dept. of Cultural Anthropology there.
- Main research areas of my work are as follows:
- Formation, structure and societal effects of online public opinion (Net Yoron, in Japanese).
- Empirical and critical examination of Digital Natives.
- Empirical and critical examination of Digital Divide.
- Log data analysis of smartphone use and social data.
- Ethnographic study of CMC (computer-mediated communication) and its sociocultural effects, esp. based on hybrid methods approach and communicative ecological approach.
- Theoretical investigation of the meaning of deindustrialization and the
role of ICT in its process.
- Short Biography is here.
- Currently, these articles in English are available online.
- Kimura, Tadamasa 'Keitai, Blog,
and Kuuki-wo-yomu (Read the atmosphere): Communicative Ecology in Japanese Society.'
"Ethnographic Praxis in Industry
Conference Proceedings” Volume 2010, Issue 1, pages 199–215, American Anthropological Association, August-September 2010.
A preliminary draft of the article is also available. Click here to get the file of the draft version.
- Kimura, Tadamasa 'Cyberspace as Socio-psychological Space: Cross-Cultural Comparison among the Japanese, Koreans and Finns.' Journal of Socio-Informatics. Vol. 1, No.1, pp.57-70.
- Saito, Yoshitaka, and Kimura, Tadamasa'Socio-Cultural Differences in the Use of Personal Web Homepage and Electronic Communities among Japanese, Finnish, and Korean Youth.' Journal of Socio-Informatics. Vol. 1, No.1, pp.137-146.
- You can get an electronic version of both articles at the site of NII,
National Institute of Informatics. Please click here to get the files.
- The dissertation I submitted to Dept. of Anthropology, State Univ. of N.Y. at Buffalo, in March 2010, is available online. Please
take a look at its abstract on the online repository of University at Buffalo.
- My curriculum vitae is also available in English. Please click here to look through my CV (abrv). Its comprehensive version is
here.
- I put certain amount of contents in Japanese. So, if your computer
is able to read Japanse characters and if you are interested in what I
am and what I am doing, try to drop in at my homepage in
Japanse.
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