Fumitoshi Kato
Biographic Data
| ID | 4267254 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Fumitoshi Kato |
| GIVEN NAMES | Fumitoshi |
| FAMILY NAME | Kato |
| SIGNATURE | KATO F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Keio University |
| ORCID | 0009-0008-6266-1433 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Digital Gifts and Rituals
In Chapter 4 we revisit historical discussions around mobile media as gift and the important anthropological meanings of the gift as a practice into power relations and rituals, to think about how we might expand upon this practice in terms of location. Here location, co-location and co-presence are revisited
Digital Genealogies: Understanding Social Mobile Media Line in the Role of Japanese Families
This article explores the emergence of the dominant mobile social media platform in Japan, LINE. In particular, the article focuses upon its usage to maintain familial ties, especially between matriarchal connections. Drawing upon ethnographic work with 12 families over 3 years, this article seeks to provide a detailed and nuanced sense of how social mobile media is deployed intergenerationally
Learning with Mobile Phones
Lines for connectedness: A study of social media practices in Japanese families
Uses of mobile media technologies have been changing various aspects of our day-to-day activities. Especially, with the advent of smartphones, the feel of connectedness may have changed through social media services (e.g., LINE, Facebook, and Twitter). How do social media contribute to shape and reshape our conventional communication behavior? What are the characteristics of our communication via social media? The present study aims to understand…
Digital kinships: Intergenerational locative media in Tokyo, Shanghai and Melbourne
New media location-based services like Google Maps and practices like geo-tagging have become an integral part of everyday life, entangling movements across relationships, lifestyles, places and spaces. Existing research has shown that the growth of locative media is impacting upon how people experience place, time and mobility, in ways that are uneven across cultural, generational and temporal scales ( Gazzard 2011 ; Farman 2011 ; de Souza e Sil…
Gaming, Simulations, and Society: Research Scope and Perspective
The Japan Association of Simulation & Gaming (JASAG) and the Science Council of Japan (SCJ) hosted ISAGA 2003, the 34th annual conference of the International Simulation and Gaming Association (ISAGA), at Kazusa Akademia Park in Kisarazu, Japan,August 25–29, 2003. About 450 participants and guests attended,with 330 from Japan and 101 from 34 other countries. The number of submitted papers and reports exceeded 210, and in addition, many poster pre…
Digital Genealogies: Understanding Social Mobile Media Line in the Role of Japanese Families
This article explores the emergence of the dominant mobile social media platform in Japan, LINE. In particular, the article focuses upon its usage to maintain familial ties, especially between matriarchal connections. Drawing upon ethnographic work with 12 families over 3 years, this article seeks to provide a detailed and nuanced sense of how social mobile media is deployed intergenerationally
Gaming, Simulations, and Society: Research Scope and Perspective
The Japan Association of Simulation & Gaming (JASAG) and the Science Council of Japan (SCJ) hosted ISAGA 2003, the 34th annual conference of the International Simulation and Gaming Association (ISAGA), at Kazusa Akademia Park in Kisarazu, Japan,August 25–29, 2003. About 450 participants and guests attended,with 330 from Japan and 101 from 34 other countries. The number of submitted papers and reports exceeded 210, and in addition, many poster pre…
Learning with Mobile Phones
Lines for connectedness: A study of social media practices in Japanese families
Uses of mobile media technologies have been changing various aspects of our day-to-day activities. Especially, with the advent of smartphones, the feel of connectedness may have changed through social media services (e.g., LINE, Facebook, and Twitter). How do social media contribute to shape and reshape our conventional communication behavior? What are the characteristics of our communication via social media? The present study aims to understand…
Digital kinships: Intergenerational locative media in Tokyo, Shanghai and Melbourne
New media location-based services like Google Maps and practices like geo-tagging have become an integral part of everyday life, entangling movements across relationships, lifestyles, places and spaces. Existing research has shown that the growth of locative media is impacting upon how people experience place, time and mobility, in ways that are uneven across cultural, generational and temporal scales ( Gazzard 2011 ; Farman 2011 ; de Souza e Sil…
Digital Genealogies: Understanding Social Mobile Media Line in the Role of Japanese Families
This article explores the emergence of the dominant mobile social media platform in Japan, LINE. In particular, the article focuses upon its usage to maintain familial ties, especially between matriarchal connections. Drawing upon ethnographic work with 12 families over 3 years, this article seeks to provide a detailed and nuanced sense of how social mobile media is deployed intergenerationally
Digital Gifts and Rituals
In Chapter 4 we revisit historical discussions around mobile media as gift and the important anthropological meanings of the gift as a practice into power relations and rituals, to think about how we might expand upon this practice in terms of location. Here location, co-location and co-presence are revisited
Sociology (5 works) · Political science (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Digital Games and Media (2 works) · Media studies (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (1 works) · Anthropology (1 works) · Art (1 works)