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Media and Culture Lab
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The lab examines how media relate to culture and society.
AboutAbout the lab
Toward a society where everyone can speak
The Media and Culture Lab studies the relationship between media, culture, and society from the perspectives of media studies and cultural studies.
Through fieldwork, practice-based research, and empirical research in particular, the lab considers what participatory media and communities should look like in order to bring to light the voices of socially and discursively marginalized people and minorities.
Graduate students with diverse backgrounds who are interested in media, culture, and society gather in the lab to conduct research.
On the lab's website, it is introduced under the name "Sakata Lab."
Key terms
- Subaltern
- People placed in subordinate positions whose voices have difficulty reaching society. Also referred to as the discursively marginalized.
- Cultural studies
- A research approach that uses cultural expressions such as media as clues to examine people's positions and power relations in society.
- Risk communication
- An effort in which governments, residents, and media exchange information about dangers such as disasters in order to deepen mutual understanding.
NewsLab news
Contributed to the July issue of Gendai Shiso (Contemporary Thought), in the special feature "Who Is the Bystander?"
A doctoral student received the Outstanding Paper Award from the Japan Society for Media Studies
A book written by a doctoral student has been published
ResearchResearch themes
While conducting fieldwork and practice-based research, the lab examines how media represent people in subordinate positions and how their voices can be brought to light. Its themes also include information dissemination during disasters and the design of media as a space that anyone can take part in.
*Illustrative imageMedia and the subaltern
The lab examines how media represent, and in doing so end up creating, the subaltern (people in subordinate positions, or the discursively marginalized). Through fieldwork and practice-based research, it also explores whether the voices of the subaltern can be brought to light through media.
*Illustrative imageDisasters and media
The lab examines how media have disseminated information and operated during disasters since the Great East Japan Earthquake, using questionnaire surveys and interviews with media organizations. It is currently conducting practical research toward realizing media-centered risk communication.
*Illustrative imageCommunities and participatory media
The lab views media as a forum for communities that anyone can take part in, in other words, as a shared space. It considers the design of media and the design of communication for this purpose.
MembersFaculty
The members of the Media and Culture Lab are faculty members and doctoral and master's students.
- Associate ProfessorKuniko Sakata
- Associate ProfessorSachiko Handa
VoicesStudent voices
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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: “Television studio, Singapore Media Academy - 20150730” Smuconlaw / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Media and the subaltern: “The Successor (2015 documentary film) - film still 05” Mattia Epifani / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Disasters and media: “Disaster-Relief Efforts in Venezuela (9779842)” U.S. Air Force 621CRW by Tech. Sgt. Devin Rumbaugh / Public domain (cropped)
- Communities and participatory media: “Huntington town meeting” The original uploader was TimothyDexter at English Wikipedia. / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Sociology of Communication Lab): “Photo of people selling and shopping at the flea market Waterlooplein in Amsterdam city - free image, 2024” Fons Heijnsbroek / CC0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Information Literacy Lab): “Students using a computer laptop” Kwameghana(Bright Kwame Ayisi) / CC0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Political Communication Lab): “Historical documents in the Swedish National archives” OlesiaLukaniuk (WMUA) / CC BY-SA 4.0 (cropped)
- Related lab (Cognitive Psychology and Informatics Lab): “Optical Illusion (67183712)” Dennis Sylvester Hurd / CC BY 2.0 (cropped)
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