Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2015

Measuring for What: Networked Citizen Science Movements after the Fukushima Nuclear Accident

Abe Yasuhito
Doshisha University (ICC Visiting Scholar)

July 24, 2015
18:30-20:00
Room 301, Bldg. 10
Sophia University, Yotsuya Campus

Abstract:
This talk is based on the first in-depth study of citizens' radiation data production practices following the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear accident of 2011. It is also the first in-depth fieldwork on citizen's radiation data production practices after social media and the Internet have become a part of everyday life in Japan and elsewhere. While various citizens have engaged in data generation on radiation in the air using a wide variety of dosimeters and circulated the resulting data via the Internet and social media, this study captures one particular moment in the evolution of citizens' data production practices.

Bio:
Yasuhito Abe is currently Assistant Professor in the department of media, journalism, and communications at the Faculty of Social Studies at Doshisha University, Kyoto JAPAN. He received a Ph.D in communications from the Annenberg School for Communications and Journalism at University of Southern California this year.

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David H. Slater, Ph.D.
Director of the Institute of Comparative Culture Professor of Cultural Anthropology Faculty of Liberal Arts, Graduate Program in Japanese Studies Sophia University, Tokyo