The Japanese media system is in a state of flux as a result of shifts in the digital economy, new audience metrics and declining print and broadcast revenues. This volume examines issues of media consolidation, participatory culture and franchising in contemporary Japan, and explores how the Japanese media system is adapting to change in light of its tendency toward prioritizing domestic markets, restricting access and co-opting fan movements. The chapters consider conflict and negotiations within the Japanese media system, structural transformations, emerging modes of producer and audience relations and potential sites of innovation.
Author(s): Patrick W. Galbraith, Jason G. Karlin (eds.)
Publisher: Kinema Club
Year: 2016
Language: English
Commentary: Adobe InDesign CC 2015 (Macintosh)
Pages: 283
City: Ann Arbor, MI
Tags: Japan, Media, Communications
Introduction: At the Crossroads of Media Convergence in Japan (Patrick W. Galbraith and Jason G. Karlin)
Precarious Consumption After 3/11: Television Advertising in Risk Society (Jason G. Karlin)
Networking Citizens through Film Screenings: Cinema and Media in Post-3/11 Social Movements (Hideaki Fujiki)
Convergence and Globalization in the Japanese Videogame Industry (Mia Consalvo)
When the Media Do Not Quite Converge: The Case of Fuji TV and Livedoor (Shinji Oyama and Dario Lolli)
Obasan and Kanryū: Modalities of Convergence of Middle-Aged Japanese Women Around South Korean Popular Culture and Gender Divergence in Japan (John Lie)
On Two-Dimensional Cute Girls: Virtual Idols (Yoshida Masataka)
Ensoulment and Effacement in Japanese Voice Acting (Shunsuke Nozawa)
Producing Hatsune Miku: Concerts, Commercialization and the Politics of Peer Production (Alex Leavitt, Tara Knight, and Alex Yoshiba)
The Labor of Love: On the Convergence of Fan and Corporate Interests in Contemporary Idol Culture in Japan (Patrick W. Galbraith)
Anxious Proximity: Media Convergence, Celebrity and Internet Negativity (Daniel Johnson)
