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Tanaka Lab
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The lab re-examines media culture and gender from a feminist perspective.
AboutAbout the lab
Imagining and creating a poetic and just information space.
Tanaka Lab studies media culture and gender, as well as issues of new technologies and feminism.
Its areas of expertise are media culture studies, gender studies, and cultural studies.
Drawing on feminism since the third wave and on popular feminism, the lab examines women's practices within media culture.
Key terms
- Cultural Studies
- A field of research that interprets familiar forms of culture, such as television, music, and fashion, in relation to society and power
- Postfeminism
- The view or cultural trend that regards gender equality as already achieved. In feminist studies, it is itself an object of analysis
- Governmentality
- A concept referring to a mode of exercising power that leads people to govern their own conduct themselves
ResearchResearch themes
From the perspectives of gender and feminism, the lab investigates and analyzes how media technology relates to society and culture. The main research topics currently being pursued are as follows.
*Illustrative imageRe-examining Media and Gender
Drawing on feminist theory since the third wave and on postfeminist theory, the lab re-examines the issue of "media and gender" from three perspectives: representation, structure, and technology.
*Illustrative imageOnline Spaces and Women's Bodies
The lab re-examines issues of technologies of the self and governmentality that arise around women's bodies in online spaces, focusing in particular on the domains of entertainment and social movements.
*Illustrative imageInternational Comparison of Fan Culture and Women's Practices
In the domains of subculture and fan culture, the lab compares how women use media technology and what cultural practices they engage in, based on fieldwork in Japan, Thailand, and Shanghai.
*Illustrative imageThe Possibilities of Feminist AI
As a new challenge arising from its membership in the B'AI Global Forum, the lab is exploring the possibilities of feminist AI.
MembersFaculty
The members of Tanaka Lab consist of faculty, project researchers, and doctoral and master's students.As of 2026
- ProfessorToko TanakaPublications ↗
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Four old tube television sets in Chagoda, Vologda Oblast (93)” Svetlov Artem / CC BY 3.0 (cropped)
- Re-examining Media and Gender: “35mm Polyester Film Strip Stock” mannyisdead on Deviantart / CC BY 3.0 (cropped)
- Online Spaces and Women's Bodies: “Internet map 1024 - transparent, inverted” The Opte Project / CC BY 2.5 (cropped)
- International Comparison of Fan Culture and Women's Practices: “Various glowsticks on black background” domdomegg / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- The Possibilities of Feminist AI: “BalticServers data center” BalticServers.com / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
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