Keiko

:::Her reality is constructed through these things: family, friends, digital media; books, theories, philosophers; photography, films, fictions and fantasy, illusion, dreams, delusions and such. Lives in Tokyo & Durham.

Communication Studies, Cultural Anthropology, Japan Studies, Fandom, Digital Media, Online Sociality

Publications:

• 2011/07 "On Exhaustion, Self-Censorship and Affective Community" in Cultural Anthropology
• 2012/04 "Social Media in Disaster Japan" in Natural Disaster and Nuclear Crisis in Japan: Response and Recovery After Japan's 3/11 (Coauthored with David Slater and Love Kindstrand)
• 2012/06 "Social Media, Information and Political Activism in Japan’s 3.11 Crisis" The Asia-Pacific Journal, Vol 10, Issue 24, No 1, June 11, 2012. (Coauthored with David Slater and Love Kindstrand)"
• 2013/03 "Where program and fantasy meet: Female Fans Conversing with 'Character Bots' in Japan." Transformative Works and Cultures. Vol 12.