week 10 & 11 OTAKUOLOGY & SOCIAL MEDIA

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WEEK 10*JUNE 28TH    SCREENING: Train Man/電車男,Dir. Shosuke Murakami, 2005 1PM @ Room 306 in the Integrated Humanities Building/文系総合館--B4(4)






WEEK 11*JULY 5TH   DISCUSSION OTAKUOLOGY & SOCIAL MEDIA
 CHANGE OF BIBLIOGRAPHY

Required Readings:
Freedman, A. (2015). Train Man and the Gender Politics of Japanese ‘Otaku’ Culture: The Rise of New Media, Nerd Heroes and ConsumerCommunities1. Debating Otaku in Contemporary Japan: Historical Perspectives and New Horizons, pp.129-146.

 Reference Reading
Uno Tsunehiro, and Translated by Jeffrey C. Guarneri. "Imagination after the Earthquake: Japan's Otaku Culture in the 2010s." Verge: Studies in Global Asias 1, no. 1 (2015): 114-36. doi:10.5749/vergstudglobasia.1.1.0114.

 Azuma, Hiroki. 'Translator's Introduction' & 'The Otaku’s Pseudo - Japan'. Otaku: Japan’s Database Animals. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2009
Reference Viewing:
Would be helpful to always watch this Video:
[<Finding Love in Japan|101 East> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2XllGh3OExA


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