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Fujita Lab
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A lab that uses ethnography to explore media, people, and cultural production across borders.
AboutAbout the lab
Making sense of global social phenomena.
The Fujita Lab studies media and culture, race and gender, international migration, and the production of art and culture.
The lab is interested in global social phenomena and approaches its research from a sociological perspective.
The lab conducts ethnographic research that involves immersing itself in multiple field sites.
Students interested in team-based qualitative research, presenting their work in English-speaking countries, or industry-academia collaboration with companies will find plenty of opportunities.
Key terms
- Ethnography
- A research method in which the researcher enters the settings where people live and work, and describes their world through repeated observation and interviews.
- Platform economy
- An economic system in which work and services are exchanged through apps and web services that act as intermediaries.
- Intersectionality
- The view that multiple attributes, such as race and gender, overlap to produce distinct forms of disadvantage and experience.
ResearchResearch themes
The lab is interested in global social phenomena, and its research is grounded in sociological theory and methodology as well as cultural studies. It conducts ethnographic research at multiple field sites, covering topics such as media and migration, cultural production, and care work.
*Illustrative imageTransnational Media and Migration
The lab has been carrying out long-term research on how media that cross borders encourage people's international migration, and how national identity changes after people have migrated.
*Illustrative imageGlobal Cultural Production
The cultural industries of global cities such as New York, London, and Paris attract many professional migrants. Using the art, fashion, and food industries as examples, the lab studies cultural production across borders.
*Illustrative imageCare Work and Technology
The lab examines how the development of AI and media technologies is changing care work, such as childcare and elder care, which has traditionally been carried out by women, and how that work is valued. Focusing on the platform economy and the intersectionality of race and gender, it looks at cases from Japan.
*Illustrative imageSocial Media and Young People
Through collaborative research, the lab examines how the spread and use of social media affect the attitudes and behavior of younger generations, focusing on location information and political information.
MembersFaculty
- Associate ProfessorFujita YuikoPublications ↗
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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: “London Skyline from Waterloo Bridge, London, UK - Diliff” Diliff / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Transnational Media and Migration: “Rooftop Aerials and Satellite Dishes - Medina (Old City) - Fez - Morocco” Adam Jones, Ph.D. / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Global Cultural Production: “Manhattan from Weehawken, NJ” Dmitry Avdeev / CC BY-SA 3.0 (cropped)
- Care Work and Technology: “Wooden toy castle” Lars A / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Social Media and Young People: “Colored pen and smartphone on a table (Unsplash 36nRvt6EP2I)” Gabriel Santiago gabrielssantiago / CC0 (cropped)
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