In this issue of In Medias Res, we look at media and technology in the farm worker movement…and much more.
“The Soul of Anime”, new book by Prof. Ian Condry
Duke University Press will soon publish Associate Professor Ian Condry‘s new book The Soul of Anime: Collaborative Creativity and Japan’s Media Success Story.
Ian Condry on “How Virtual Pop Star Hatsune Miku Blew Up in Japan”
Associate Professor Ian Condry — a specialist on anthropology in Japan — spoke with Wired Magazine about one of his favorite topics, the virtual pop star Hatsune Miku.
Faculty Profile: Ian Condry
Ian Condry’s research has taken him from underground genba hip-hop nightclubs to Tokyo anime studios, but his interest in Japan was sparked here, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
In Medias Res, Spring 2012
“The pas de deux between these top-down and bottom-up developments has put media ever more at the center of contemporary cultural practice.”
Video: Participatory Culture: International Media Flows: Global Media and Culture, moderated by Ian Condry
The fourth panel from the Comparative Media Studies 10th anniversary symposium.
Podcast: “Robots and Media: Science Fiction, Anime, Transmedia, and Technology”
How has science fiction has influenced the development of real robotic systems, both in research laboratories and corporations?
