All are invited to zoom in for this public lecture through my Anthropology of Japan class at CU Boulder. Please register in advance! 

Best,

Kate

 

Public lecture: Wed, Mar 15 

11:15am-12:05pm MT, on Zoom 

Register in advance: https://cuboulder.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJUkc-6tqjkvEtEArBiOrC2Bj06qYzRjNyO1

  

"It's Not Enough to be Cool: Why Interactive TV Didn't Take Over Japan" 

Dr. Elizabeth Rodwell  

Assistant Professor, University of Houston Department of Information & Logistics Technology   

 

Following the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster, some within the Japanese TV and journalism industries used the crisis as an opportunity for self-critique; others side-stepped questions of self-censorship and advertiser coercion by focusing on restoring audience engagement through the development of pioneering interactive (social) television. Outside the major broadcast conglomerates, journalists began experimenting with interactivity to try to circumvent the institutions they perceived as working against public interest and safety. Interactive technologies make big promises to Japanese audiences, but do they deliver? 

 

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Kathryn E. Goldfarb
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
University of Colorado at Boulder
1350 Pleasant St.
Boulder, CO 80309
Hale Science 350 | Campus Box 233 UCB
Office: Hale Science 466
Office phone: 303.492.1589
kathryn.goldfarb@colorado.edu