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- E-Mail:
- shin@iii.u-tokyo.ac.jp
- Website:
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- Interests:
- Internet, Public broadcasting, Journalism, Telephony, Digital Media
- Discipline(s)
- Anthropology, Education, Media, Multi/interdisciplinary, Psychology, Sociology
- Role(s):
- Researcher
- Location(s) of Work:
- Japan
Current Institutional Affiliation(s)
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Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies
Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information StudiesUniversity of TokyoTokyo, Japan
Biography
Since 2000, Shin Mizukoshi has been an associate professor of the Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies at the University of Tokyo.
Mizukoshi is a 1986 graduate of the College of Comparative Culture at Tsukuba University in Tsukuba, Japan. While still a student, Mizukoshi engaged in use experience research with anthropological way for product planning at the design office COATO. His M.A. in media studies is from the University of Tokyo, where he wrote his dissertation on the historical formation process of American broadcasting in the early 20th century. He served as a research associate of ISICS (Institute of Socio-Information and Communication Studies) from 1989 to 1993, as an associate professor of ISICS from 1993 to 2000.
He was a visiting scholar of the Center for New Media at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in the City of New York from 1996 to 1997, where he was concentrating on practical researches into the possibilities and the limitations of journalism in the cyberspace, and on the historical examination of the electric media and the genealogy of media studies. He has been also an adjunct professor of the University of the Air in Japan from 1996 to 2005, where prof. Shunya Yoshimi and he had taught Media Studies, a serial program on the air from April 1997.
Mizukoshi advocates socio-media studies based on historical and social perspectives, rather than focused on information technology. One of his primary research activities, undertaken with his colleagues, was the Media Expression, Learning and Literacy (MELL) Project, practical studies on citizen's media expression and media literacy.
Publications and Resources
Books
- Shin Mizukoshi. Digital Media Society. Iwanami, 1999