Kitada Masamoto
Kitada (written: 北田) is a Japanese surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Akihiro Kitada (born 1971), Japanese sociologist * Akiko Kitada (born 1982), Japanese former field hockey player * Kayo Kitada (born 1978), retired Japanese judoka * Rui Kitada (born 1981), Japanese professional golfer * Sumiko Kitada (born 1962), Japanese badminton player {{surname, Kitada Japanese-language surnames ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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Akihiro Kitada is a Japanese sociologist and an associate 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 analysis of advertising, early cinema, magazines, TV, internet and other forms of media in modern and contemporary Japan as well as for his theoretical writings on culture and media. He is known among the reading public in Japan for co-editing the journal ''Shiso chizu'' (思想地図) with the cultural critic Hiroki Azuma during its first years. Bibliography In English * 'Japan's cynical nationalism' in Mizuko Ito, Daisuke Okabe, Izumi Tsuji (eds.) ''Fandom Unbound: Otaku Culture in a Connected World'', Yale University ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   |