Researcher Profile and Settings

Name

• Name

  TANAKA Akira

Education, Etc.

• The University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies, Socio-infomation Studies
• The University of Tokyo, Integrated Human Sciences Program for Cultural Diversity
• The University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies, Socio-Information and Communication Studies Course
• Keio University, Institute for Journalism and Media Studies
• Keio University, Faculty of Economics

Degree

• Ph.D. of Socio-information Studies
• M.A. of Socio-information Studies
• B.A. of Economics

Researcher Profile and Settings

Published Papers

• Visualizing and Analyzing the Historical Transition of Discriminatory Language, 31 Mar. 2024, Meng Ying; Akira Tanaka; Yoshito Ogata, Bulletin of Japanese Society for the Science of Design, 70, 4, 45 - 54
• Politics of Authenticity, and Journalism：Considering the Possibility and Contradiction of Popular Legitimization, 22 Mar. 2023, Japan Journal of Media, Journalism and Communication Studies, 102, 183 - 199
• Towards Co-creation of Authenticity via the Interactions with Online Spaces, 31 Oct. 2022, Akira TANAKA, Studies of Broadcasting and Media, 15, 213 - 226
• Journalism as Politics of Authenticity: How Can Hybridization of Media Activate “Silent Voices”?, Mar. 2022, Akira TANAKA, Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies, the University of Tokyo
• Taking a Break from News: A Five-nation Study of News Avoidance in the Digital Era, 17 Feb. 2022, Mikko Villi; Tali Aharoni; Keren Tenenboim-Weinblatt; Pablo J. Boczkowski; Kaori Hayashi; Eugenia Mitchelstein; Akira Tanaka; Neta Kligler-Vilenchik, Digital Journalism, Routledge, 10, 1, 148 - 164
• Rebuild Trust with Audience to Claim its own "Fairness", Apr. 2021, Gekkan Journalism, 朝日新聞社, 371, 62 - 67
• The Contradiction of Social Inclusion of "Silent Voices" on Public Broadcasting: Example of Social Media Use in NHK's Welfare program Heartnet TV, Jul. 2019, Akira Tanaka, Journal of Mass Communication Studies, 95, 125 - 142
• Organization and Representation of Counter Public Sphere on Public Broadcasters: from case study of NHK's welfare program, Mar. 2018, Akira Tanaka, Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies, the University of Tokyo

Published Book

• 10 May 2024
• How the Tokyo Olympics was Viewed: Mass Media Coverage and Social Media Voices, 30 Jan. 2024, Mamoru Ito; Shingo Dobashi; Akira Tanaka; Takeshi Arimoto; Honoka Kato; Satoshi Shimizu; Atsuhisa Yamamoto; Tsuyoshi Horiguchi; Taichi Takahara; Satoshi Koshikawa, Minerva Shobo
• Understanding AI in Society: How Technology Exerts Power, 31 Mar. 2023, B'AI Global Forum at UTokyo; Yuko Itatsu; Ai Hisano; Kaori Hayashi; Takane Ito; Yuji Hatada; Yukie Nagai; Misook Lee; Saki Kodaira; Miwa Yokoyama; Akira Tanaka; Yohei Oseki; Ana Beduschi; Matthew Sueda; Atsuko Sano; Yujin Yaguchi; Anita Gurumurthy; Nandini Chami; Nozomi Ohtsuki; Toko Tanaka; Shin Mizukoshi; Hiromi Yokoyama; Yuko Ikkatai; Osamu Sakura; Kayoung Kim, University of Tokyo Press
• Japan in the Heisei Era (1989–2019), 22 Feb. 2022, Noriko Murai; Jeff Kingston; Tina Burrett; Kenneth J. Ruoff; Maki Kaneko; Koichi Nakano; Alexis Dudden; Lawrence Repeta; Simon Avenell; David McNeill; Akira Tanaka; Richard Katz; Machiko Osawa; Gracia Liu-Farrer; Mari Miura; Tin Tin Htun; Jennifer Robertson; Helen Hardacre; Mark R. Mullins; Alice Y. Tseng; Patrick W. Galbraith; Matthew C. Strecher; Kyoko Hirano; Sven Saaler; Ayelet Zohar; David Leheny, Routledge
• Has Japan "Moved to the Right"?, 15 Oct. 2020, Eiji Oguma; Naoto Higuchi; Mitsuru Matsutani; Taku Sugawara; Kaori Hayashi; Akira Tanaka; Daisuke Tsuda; Susumu Shimazono; Koji Nakakita; Yuta Owada; Yosuke Sunahara; Masaki Hata; Tsubasa Nishimura; Alexander Bukh, Keio University Press
• Dignity and Society (Vol. 2), 26 Mar. 2020, Yasushi Kato; Tsuyoshi Kojima; Reiko Goto; Hitonari Ishii; Naoko Miyaji; Satoshi Kanai; Kizo Ogura; Saku Hara; Mototsugu Nishino; Takuya Saito; Kosei Usami; Takeshi Nakazawa; Heather Keith; Michitaro Kobayashi; Haruka Higasa; Shinji Hamauzu; Dorothea Mladenova; Motoki Saito; Akira Tanaka; Jun Matsuda; Albert Löhr; Yoshinori Katsunishi; Gerd Rainer Wagner; Rüdiger Hahn; Nobuaki Iwasa; Kazuhiko Yoshida; Shiori Tsuda, Hosei University Press

Conference Activities & Talks

• 02 Mar. 2024
• 06 Feb. 2024
• Can Japanese Newspaper Envision Post-Capitalistic Future?: From a Discourse Analysis of Technological Unemployment with AI, 21 Jan. 2024, Akira Tanaka, InSTeM Online Conference "Post-Media Studies in Asia 2024"
• 28 Jul. 2023
• 14 May 2023
• 07 Dec. 2022
• Possibility of Design of Dialogue via Media Interactions, 29 Oct. 2022, Akira TANAKA; Yoshito OGATA; Shinichi FUKUMA; Takayuki ISEKI, JSSD5th 2022
• 19 Apr. 2022
• 06 Nov. 2021
• Can Reality TV Constitute Politics of Solidarity?: a case of Netflix makeover show "Queer Eye", 15 Dec. 2019, Akira Tanaka, SVOD in East Asia
• 26 Oct. 2019
• Difficulty of Reflexive Journalism on Contemporary Media and Audience, 17 Apr. 2019, Akira Tanaka, Prof. Nick Couldry Graduate Students Workshop, Keio University Global Research Institute
• Activation of ‘Silent Voices’ on the Public Broadcasting: from case study of NHK’s welfare program “Heart-Net TV”, 20 Oct. 2018, Akira Tanaka, Japan Society for Studies in Journalism and Mass Communication
• Fate of Multiple Minority Voices in the Interactions between Broadcasting and Social Media in Japan: by case study of NHK Educational TV and its welfare program, 24 Jun. 2018, Akira Tanaka, IACMR 2018
• Discourse Analysis on the News of Overwork Suicide by Female Employees of Dentsu, 04 Mar. 2017, Akira Tanaka

Awards & Honors

• Taking a Break from News: A Five-nation Study of News Avoidance in the Digital Era, Mikko Villi;Tali Aharoni;Keren Tenenboim-Weinbla;Pablo J. Boczkowski;Kaori Hayashi;Eugenia Mitchelstein;Akira Tanaka;Neta Kligler-Vilenchik, International Communication Association (ICA), The Wolfgang Donsbach Outstanding Journal Article of the Year Award
• Taking a Break from News: A Five-nation Study of News Avoidance in the Digital Era, Mikko Villi;Tali Aharoni;Keren Tenenboim-Weinbla;Pablo J. Boczkowski;Kaori Hayashi;Eugenia Mitchelstein;Akira Tanaka;Neta Kligler-Vilenchik, Top Paper in Digital Journalism 2022-2023, The Bob Franklin Journal Article Award
• Akira Tanaka, Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies, the University of Tokyo, the Director Award (Excellence Master Thesis)
• Akira Tanaka, Japan Association for Planing and Public Management and The Society of Socio-Informatics, the Award of Excellence at Young Research Workshop
• Akira Tanaka, Faculty of Economics, Keio University, Excellent Graduation Thesis

Competitive funds

• Akira Tanaka, JSPS, Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Research Fellow

Researcher Profile and Settings

Academic association activities

• Japan Association for Media, Journalism and Communication

Outside campus committee activities

• Diversity Working Group Member, Japan Association for Media, Journalism and Communication Studies

Social Contribution Activities

• 07 Jun. 2021
• 31 Mar. 2021
• 31 Mar. 2021

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