Culture transcending, culture flowing back: Investigation of simultaneity and history of light culture from an information theoretical approach

2015 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26590086
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Challenging Exploratory Research
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Sociology
• Research Institution: Saitama University
• Principal Investigator: YAMAZAKI Keiichi 埼玉大学, 人文社会科学研究科(系), 教授 (80191261)
• Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha): OKADA Kenichi 慶応義塾大学, 理工学部, 教授 (80118926) ; IKEDA Keiko 関西大学, 国際部, 教授 (90447847)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2016-03-31
• Keywords: エスノメソドロジー / 会話分析 / ポップカルチャー / 観衆論 / 実況映像メディア / 遠隔ロボット

Outline of Final Research Achievements

In this study, we have searched for various social causes why Japanese popular culture today transcends generations or cultures to be appreciated strongly. The analytic approaches we have applied are (i) narrative analysis from a conversational analytic and ethnomethodological perspective, (ii) information and mass media theory, and (iii) audience analysis. This study investigated how narratives which deliver one’s personal experience and history to another. We had also carried out an experiment in which a Japanese idol group attending a Japan Expo in France was virtually connected and communicated with the fans remained in Japan through a robot. In the last year of the research period, we had compared idol group performance on the stage with Takarazuka and Kabuki performance. Audience analysis was applied to such a comparison.

Free Research Field

社会学　エスノメソドロジー