ISAGA 2015: Hybrid Simulation & Gaming
Presentation and Game Session at ISAGA/JASAG 2015 in Kyoto, July 17-20 2015.
Media Studies
Research on media and their use.
Manga as a Medium
Presentation on the figuration manga and its development since the 1970s during the exhibition Manga-dô — The Way of Manga (Feb. 1, 2014) in Munich.
Teaching Japanese Pop-Culture
Presentation on project-oriented teaching at the first Teaching Japanese Popular Culture Conference at National University of Singapore, 2012/11/11-12.
Ethics of Internet-based Research on Japanese Subcultures
Presentation at the 5th Next-Generation Global Workshop at Kyoto University, 2012/11/6-7.
A presentation on ethical questions pertaining cyber-ethnography and the study of Japanese subcultures.
Uses & Gratifications of Boys‘ Love Manga
Publication: An empirical study on the phenomenon including interviews in Japan and Germany. The research method was based on the uses & gratifications approach (symbolic interactionism).