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... 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...

... 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 to publish a book that would offer “a comprehensive theory...

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... shuttering, the Next Level arcade in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, as well as the NYC-based Twitch channel “Team Spooky.” The chapter ultimately argues that a specific brand of the Blerd as an identity was formed by the combination of New York City’s local hip-hop culture and the Japanese otaku as a consumer...