*anese sociologist

Akihiro Kitada (北田 暁大, Kitada Akihiro, born December 28, 1971) is a *anese sociologist and an *ociate professor at the Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies, University of Tokyo.

He received his PhD from the University of Tokyo in 2004. Before he took his current position in 2003, he was teaching at the University of Tsukuba. He was a visiting professor at Leipzig University in 2011.

His research topics include theoretical sociology, cultural sociology and history of media. He has acquired a reputation for his *ysis of advertising, early cinema, magazines, TV, internet and other forms of media in modern and contemporary *an as well as for his theoretical writings on culture and media. He is known among the reading public in *an for co-editing the journal Shiso chizu (思想地図) with the cultural critic Hiroki Azuma during its first years.

Contents

• 1 Bibliography
  • 1.1 In English
• 2 See also
• 3 References
• 4 External links

Bibliography

In English

• '*an's cynical nationalism' in Mizuko Ito, Daisuke Okabe, Izumi Tsuji (eds.) Fandom Unbound: Otaku Culture in a Connected World, Yale University Press, 2012. (An excerpted translation from his book Warau Nihon no "Nationalism" 『嗤う日本の「ナショナリズム」』 )
• Kitada Akihiro, “An *ault on ‘Meaning’: On Nakai Masakazu's Concept of ‘Mediation,’" trans. Alexander Zahlten, in Review of *anese Culture and Society (December 2010), pp.:88–103.

See also

• Hiroki Azuma
• Shunya Yoshimi

References

External links

• *ociate Professor KITADA Akihiro (*anese page)
• Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies, the University of Tokyo