Faculty Database - TANAKA Hiromi

■ Books and Papers

1.		Article	Artificial intelligence's sexual politics: Three modes and the case of Japan Technology, Power & Society: Global Perspectives on the Digital Transformation, edited by D. Nguyen, J. Zeng & B. Mutsvairo (in press) (Collaboration)
2.	2023/11	Article	Following Naomi Osaka and Rui Hachimura on Social Media: Silent Activism and Sport Commodification of Multiracial Japanese Athletes Social Media + Society (Collaboration)
3.	2023/02	Book	Diversity and Creativity in Digital Society: Gender, Media, Art, and Fashion (Collaboration)
4.	2022/08	Article	"How Nissin Represented Naomi Osaka: Race, Gender, and Sport in Japanese Advertising." Communication and Sport 10(4),pp.594-615 (Collaboration)
5.	2022/01	Book	Gendered Cityscapes (Collaboration)
6.	2021/04	Book	Media Studies of Looking/Being-looked-at-ness (Collaboration)
7.	2021/02	Book	Critical Words: Media Theory (Collaboration)
8.	2021/03	Article	"The youth's use of social media and gender." Information and Communication Studies (20),pp.95-110 (Collaboration)
9.	2020/07	Book	International Encyclopedia of Gender, Media and Communication (Collaboration)
10.	2020/03	Article	"Gender Representation in Contemporary Japanese Media: Changing Images of Women in a Women’s Magazine, an an." Memoirs of the Institute of Cultural Sciences, Meiji University 87 (Collaboration)
11.	2019/12	Article	"Gender issues in communication: Old and new challenges." Women's Physical Education 62(Dec/Jan 2019),pp.12-15 (Single)
12.	2018/12	Article	"Towards a reconstruction of gender and media studies." Japanese Journal of the International Society for Gender Studies 16,pp.34-46 (Single)
13.	2018/05	Book	Global Leisure and the Struggles for a Better World (Collaboration)
14.	2017/05	Book	Body Studies
15.	2016/09	Book	Equating Gender: Explorations in the Asia-Pacific pp.106-119 (Collaboration)
16.	2015/01	Article	"Enjoying manga as fujoshi: Exploring its innovation and potential for social change from a gender perspective." International Journal of Behavioral Science 10(1),pp.77-85 (Collaboration)
17.	2014/01	Book	Encyclopedia of Quality of Life and Well-Being Research (Collaboration)
18.	2013/06	Article	"Parental well-being and the sexual division of household labor: A new look at gendered families in Japan." Asiatische Studien/Etudes Asiatiques LXVII(2),pp.401-428 (Collaboration)
19.	2013/03	Article	"Youth's Manga Reading and the Reception of Gender Images: The Case of Readers of "SLAM DUNK." Journal of Information and Communication Studies pp.1-15 (Single)
20.	2013/02	Book	Beyond a Standardized Life Course: Biographical Choices about Work, Family and Housing (Collaboration)
21.	2013/02	Other	"Social inequalities and Single-Parent Families: Why Japan-Korea Comparison and Gender Analysis Matter." Mathesis Universalis pp.90-92 (Single)
22.	2012/03	Article	"Individualization of marriage and work life choices: A study of never-married employed women in Hong Kong and Tokyo." Asian Women 28(1),pp.85-119 (Collaboration)
23.	2010/12	Article	"Identifying and Explaining Ambiguities and Ambivalences in Middle Adulthood: The Life Story of Ms K." BIOGRAPHY AND SOCIETY: Newsletter of the RESEARCH COMMITTEE 38 OF THE ISA (December 2010),pp.17-32 (Single)
24.	2010/11	Article	"International Migration and the State: Nurse Migration from Korea to Germany." Mathesis Universalis pp.87-119 (Collaboration)
25.	2009/12	Article	"A Japanese Way of Life in Change: Marriage and Work in Women's and Men's Lives." Japanstudien 21,pp.351-359 (Single)
26.	2009/12	Article	"Stated Desire versus Actual Practice: Reviewing the Literature on Low Fertility." Japanese Studies 29(3),pp.415-430 (Single)
27.	2009/04	Book	Japanische Geschlechterpolitik und Frauennetzwerke im Zeitalter der Globalisierung (Single)
28.	2008/12	Article	"State Feminism and Female Bureaucrats." Japanese Journal of International Society for Gender Studies pp.149-162 (Single)
29.	2007/12	Book	Gender Dynamics and Globalization: Perspectives on Japan within Asia (Collaboration)
30.	2004/06	Article	"Conceiving and Researching Women's Networks in Globalisation." Journal of Interdisciplinary Gender Studies 8(1/2),pp.18-37 (Single)
31.	2004/01	Article	"Equal employment in contemporary Japan: A structural approach." PS: Political Science & Politics 37(1),pp.66-66 (Single)
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■ Conference Presentations

1.	2024/06/22	Negotiating visibility through voice: Japanese digital feminism using podcasts (74th Annual ICA Conference Gold Coast, Australia)
2.	2024/06/16	Platformization and gender (Spring Annual Meeting of Japan Association for Media, Journalism and Communication Research, Symposium 2: Platform Capitalism)
3.	2024/02	Comparing romantic AI companions in Japan and China: Anime fantasy, gendered embodiment, and Asian posthumans (Research Conference and Workshop on Gender, Youth, and Media in Asia)
4.	2023/05	Azuma Hikari, My Healing Bride: Tracing Gender and Human-Machine Intimacies in Contemporary Japan (73rd Annual International Communication Association Conference)
5.	2022/10/15	Digital intimacy in human–machine relationships: Gendered representations in fiction and beyond (EMTECH Conference: Narrating Emotional Closeness between Humans and Machines in Japanese (Popular) Culture and Literature)
6.	2022/05/13	Romancing AI: Gender and new digital intimacies in contemporary Japan (Conference: Artificial Intelligence and the Human?: Cross-cultural Perspectives on Science and Fiction)
7.	2020/09/13	Digital technology and gender: Social media's new opportunities and risks (Annual Meeting of the International Society for Gender Studies 2020)
8.	2019/06/29	Construction and representation of the body: Towards an analysis of the body, sport and diversity
9.	2018/09/01	Towards a reconstruction of gender and media studies (Annual Meeting of the International Society for Gender Studies 2018, Roundtable 2: Gender and media in an era of social media)
10.	2018/07/05	The sexualization of Japanese women in a global postfeminist era (The 22nd Biennial Conference of ASAA 2018)
11.	2017/08/31	Redefinition of femininities and rigidity of gender norms: Discussant's comment (The 15th International Conference of EAJS)
12.	2016/09/11	Gender and Media Reconsidered (Annual Conerence of the International Society for Gender Studies)
13.	2016/07/11	The meaning and purpose of leisure activities of manga/anime fans called fujoshi: Contradictions and ambivalences in a Japanese women's fan community (The Third ISA Forum of Sociology)
14.	2014/11/04	Enjoying manga as fujoshi: Exploring its innovation and potential for social change from a gender perspective (International Interdisciplinary Symposium: Knowledge Construction through the Lens of Social and Cultural Diversity)
15.	2014/11/04	Sexual stratification in a digital age (International Interdisciplinary Symposium: Knowledge Construction through the Lens of Social and Cultural Diversity)
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■ Academic Qualifications

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Ruhr-Universität Bochum, PhD in Sociology

■ Academic Associations Membership

1.		International Communication Association
2.		International Society for Gender Studies
3.		The Japan Society for Sport and Gender Studies
4.		The Japan Sociological Society

■ Social Activities

1.	2022/08	Lecturer, Online Seminar: Social Media Literacy, Gender Equality Bureau, Itabashi Ward, Tokyo
2.	2019/03	Writer of a column as an advisor on diversity and inclusion, a Mitaka City's magazine "Shall We?"
3.	2018/11	Commentator, a morning show, Asa-ichi on NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation) General TV

■ Research Topics, Consignment Studies & KAKENHI Researches

1.	2021/04～2025/03	Construction of gender norms in national and transnational digital media spaces (Key Word : digital technology, artificial intelligence, emotion, ethics)
2.	2020/01～2023/09	Emotional AI in Cities: Cross Cultural Lessons from UK and Japan on Designing for An Ethical Life (Key Word : digital technology, artificial intelligence, emotion, ethics)
3.	2019/04～2023/03	Social media and the construction of gender norms (Key Word : gender, intersectionality, social media)
4.	2016/04～2019/03	Gender representation in women's magazines (Key Word : gender, media, sexualization, popular culture, Japan)

■ Committees and Associations

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2020/06～

Gender Equality Council, Meguro Ward, Tokyo Council Member

■ Web Sites

https://researchmap.jp/hiromitanaka

https://www.hiromitanaka.net/

■ Award History

1.	2014/11	Best Paper Award, International Symposium: Knowledge Construction through the Lens of Social and Cultural Diversity, Srinakharinwirot University
2.	2011/12	Encouragement Award, Encouragement Program for Promoting Gender and Low Fertility Research, Hodogaya Foundation

■ Current Specialized Field

Sociology, Gender studies (Key Word：gender, sexuality, media, popular culture, digital technology, artificial intelligence)

■ KAKENHI Researcher Number

70611739