... This chapter analyzes Azuma Hiroki’s writings on media theory from 1997 to 2003. In this phase, in which Azuma had developed himself from a young scholar of critical theory into a prominent intellectual with a main focus on otaku culture in Japan, he wrote extensively on media theory with a plan...

... This chapter extracts a theory of media out of the unique body of critical work of the popular media figure, TV critic, and eraser-stamp artist Nancy Seki. An enormously prolific author writing about TV at exactly the moment its primacy in the media ecology of Japan began to wane, Nancy Seki...

... This chapter reviews media theory from the 1980s to the 2010s, suggesting a return to a consideration of theories of mediation—this time in the contemporary moment, and in relation to questions of social change. Focusing on the “lost decades” and the sense of crisis that began in the 1990s...

...Mainstream Media and the Sexual Revolution ...

...Media at the Margins ...