Yukari Seko
Biographic Data
| ID | 82602 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Yukari Seko |
| GIVEN NAMES | Yukari |
| FAMILY NAME | Seko |
| SIGNATURE | SEKO Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | Toronto Metropolitan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3380-5190 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 15 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Food Diversity and Aging Well in a Multicultural City
This case study documents the characteristics of a Community Congregate Dining (CCD) for Japanese Canadian ( Nikkei ) seniors aged 65+ in the Greater Toronto Area and explores participants’ and providers’ experiences. Data were collected through (a) observations of six CCD sites; (b) qualitative interviews with 45 CCD program participants, 1 family member, 15 program providers and volunteers; and (c) analysis of policy and administrative document…
Feeding children while Asian
In feeding children in a new country, immigrant parents engage in continuous and ongoing adaptation. Children’s exposure to new food practices outside the home can sometimes conflict with parents’ efforts to maintain traditional foodways. This qualitative study explores the factors that influence Asian immigrant parents’ everyday decisions about packing cultural food in their children’s school lunches in Toronto, Canada. Through arts-informed int…
Lunchbox shaming
Children’s home-packed lunches to school reflect family’s culinary cultures, social locations, and unique food norms. At Canadian elementary schools, children of Asian heritage sometimes experience “lunchbox shaming” – feeling embarrassed for bringing foods that are seen deviant from dominant food norms. This study explored the recollections of school lunchtime by 25 young adults (aged 17–25 years) from three largest Asian ethnocultural groups (C…
Mentally Ill and Cute as Hell
Over the last few decades, self-injury has gained wide visibility in Japanese popular culture from manga (graphic novel), anime (animation), to digital games and fashion. Among the most conspicuous is the emergence of menhera (a portmanteau of “mental health-er”) girls, female characters who exhibit unstable emotionality, obsessive love, and stereotypical self-injurious behaviors such as wrist cutting. Tracing the expansion of this popular cultur…
Solution-focused approach in higher education
As students populating higher education (HE) are becoming increasingly diverse, there is a growing need to equip educators with learner-centred communication skills. A solution-focused (SF) approach represents one attractive option to equip HE instructors and supervisors with strengths-based, goal-oriented communication techniques. This scoping review maps the current use of SF approaches in HE, explores key SF tenets and techniques compatible to…
Transitions Theatre
Transition to adult life can be a challenging time for disabled youth and their families. This article describes the collaborative creation of Transitions Theatre, a research-based reader’s theatre activity based on narrative interviews with eight disabled youth (aged 17–22) and seven parents. Analysis of these interviews generated two opposing yet interrelated themes. On one hand, youth and families felt lost in transition facing multiple gaps i…
Unboxing the bento box
Bento, a Japanese style boxed lunch, has a distinct cultural meaning for Japanese people as a medium of affective communication between children and parents. However, in Canadian schools governed by the Anglo-Western food norms, their culinary practices may stand out. This study employed an arts-informed participatory design to explore how school-aged children (6-12 years old) of Japanese origin and their parents describe their experience bringin…
Self-Injury in Japanese Manga
Annals of Communication and Disabilities
[Introduction]: "Throughout the 47-year history of the Canadian Journal of Communication (CJC), the topic of disability has been a faint note played in the background. Only occasionally, it comes to the fore to sing in the chorus with other socially constructed categories, such as gender, sexuality, race/ethnicity, social class, and health. Although there is a growing call for “cripping” communication to address the longstanding ableism in the fi…
The Ethics of Care
Alan Blum and Stuart J. Murray’s 2017 volume, The Ethics of Care , may seem an odd title to review in the Canadian Journal of Communication . More than a contribution to research on caregiving for those who work in the field or a text for those who view health communication through a narrow lens that only considers interpersonal communication around death, The Ethics of Care challenges readers from a variety of backgrounds to consider what is at …
The self—harmed, visualized, and reblogged
Images featuring self-injury (SI) have been proliferating on social media. This article reports the findings of a visual narrative analysis of 294 photo-based posts on Tumblr, exploring how SI is narrated through the interplay between image content, photographic composition, associated texts and tags, and reblogging. Findings reveal a shift in the iconography of SI from direct depictions of self-injured bodies to re-appropriations of popular medi…
On the Creative Edge
The last decade has witnessed an exponential growth in user-generated online content featuring Non-Suicidal Self-Injury (NSSI), including photography, digital video, poems, blogging, and drawings. Although the increasing visibility of NSSI content has evoked public concern over potential health risks, little research has investigated why people are drawn to create and publish such content. This article reports the findings from a qualitative anal…
Exploring Health Communication
Recent years have witnessed a burgeoning interest in analyzing discursive practices of contemporary medicine. As health increasingly becomes a contested sociopolitical issue, a discourse-based approach offers a promising means of revealing practical realities of health care, as well as taken-for-granted beliefs and practices embedded in health institutions. Exploring Health Communication is among these efforts to employ a discursive lens to analy…
Prescription TV
Since its birth, television has often been seen as a menace for public health. Critics repeatedly allege the detrimental impact of television viewing on couch potatoes, while parents yelling at their kids “Stop watching TV, go and play outside!” became a well-known cliché. But does television bring nothing but harm? In Prescription TV , Joy V. Fuqua pushes readers to rethink these clichés by offering a rich and nuanced analysis of television’s ro…
GimpGirl grows up
In this article, we undertake a reflective narrative inquiry into the GimpGirl Community (GGC), an online group of women with disabilities. We explore 12 years of GGC activity through community archives and auto-biographic narratives of GGC organizers, to understand how these women actively created a safe and open space for like-minded individuals, how community members used diverse online technologies for community building and social interactio…
The self—harmed, visualized, and reblogged
Images featuring self-injury (SI) have been proliferating on social media. This article reports the findings of a visual narrative analysis of 294 photo-based posts on Tumblr, exploring how SI is narrated through the interplay between image content, photographic composition, associated texts and tags, and reblogging. Findings reveal a shift in the iconography of SI from direct depictions of self-injured bodies to re-appropriations of popular medi…
GimpGirl grows up
In this article, we undertake a reflective narrative inquiry into the GimpGirl Community (GGC), an online group of women with disabilities. We explore 12 years of GGC activity through community archives and auto-biographic narratives of GGC organizers, to understand how these women actively created a safe and open space for like-minded individuals, how community members used diverse online technologies for community building and social interactio…
Lunchbox shaming
Children’s home-packed lunches to school reflect family’s culinary cultures, social locations, and unique food norms. At Canadian elementary schools, children of Asian heritage sometimes experience “lunchbox shaming” – feeling embarrassed for bringing foods that are seen deviant from dominant food norms. This study explored the recollections of school lunchtime by 25 young adults (aged 17–25 years) from three largest Asian ethnocultural groups (C…
On the Creative Edge
The last decade has witnessed an exponential growth in user-generated online content featuring Non-Suicidal Self-Injury (NSSI), including photography, digital video, poems, blogging, and drawings. Although the increasing visibility of NSSI content has evoked public concern over potential health risks, little research has investigated why people are drawn to create and publish such content. This article reports the findings from a qualitative anal…
GimpGirl grows up
In this article, we undertake a reflective narrative inquiry into the GimpGirl Community (GGC), an online group of women with disabilities. We explore 12 years of GGC activity through community archives and auto-biographic narratives of GGC organizers, to understand how these women actively created a safe and open space for like-minded individuals, how community members used diverse online technologies for community building and social interactio…
Prescription TV
Since its birth, television has often been seen as a menace for public health. Critics repeatedly allege the detrimental impact of television viewing on couch potatoes, while parents yelling at their kids “Stop watching TV, go and play outside!” became a well-known cliché. But does television bring nothing but harm? In Prescription TV , Joy V. Fuqua pushes readers to rethink these clichés by offering a rich and nuanced analysis of television’s ro…
Exploring Health Communication
Recent years have witnessed a burgeoning interest in analyzing discursive practices of contemporary medicine. As health increasingly becomes a contested sociopolitical issue, a discourse-based approach offers a promising means of revealing practical realities of health care, as well as taken-for-granted beliefs and practices embedded in health institutions. Exploring Health Communication is among these efforts to employ a discursive lens to analy…
On the Creative Edge
The last decade has witnessed an exponential growth in user-generated online content featuring Non-Suicidal Self-Injury (NSSI), including photography, digital video, poems, blogging, and drawings. Although the increasing visibility of NSSI content has evoked public concern over potential health risks, little research has investigated why people are drawn to create and publish such content. This article reports the findings from a qualitative anal…
The self—harmed, visualized, and reblogged
Images featuring self-injury (SI) have been proliferating on social media. This article reports the findings of a visual narrative analysis of 294 photo-based posts on Tumblr, exploring how SI is narrated through the interplay between image content, photographic composition, associated texts and tags, and reblogging. Findings reveal a shift in the iconography of SI from direct depictions of self-injured bodies to re-appropriations of popular medi…
The Ethics of Care
Alan Blum and Stuart J. Murray’s 2017 volume, The Ethics of Care , may seem an odd title to review in the Canadian Journal of Communication . More than a contribution to research on caregiving for those who work in the field or a text for those who view health communication through a narrow lens that only considers interpersonal communication around death, The Ethics of Care challenges readers from a variety of backgrounds to consider what is at …
Unboxing the bento box
Bento, a Japanese style boxed lunch, has a distinct cultural meaning for Japanese people as a medium of affective communication between children and parents. However, in Canadian schools governed by the Anglo-Western food norms, their culinary practices may stand out. This study employed an arts-informed participatory design to explore how school-aged children (6-12 years old) of Japanese origin and their parents describe their experience bringin…
Self-Injury in Japanese Manga
Annals of Communication and Disabilities
[Introduction]: "Throughout the 47-year history of the Canadian Journal of Communication (CJC), the topic of disability has been a faint note played in the background. Only occasionally, it comes to the fore to sing in the chorus with other socially constructed categories, such as gender, sexuality, race/ethnicity, social class, and health. Although there is a growing call for “cripping” communication to address the longstanding ableism in the fi…
Mentally Ill and Cute as Hell
Over the last few decades, self-injury has gained wide visibility in Japanese popular culture from manga (graphic novel), anime (animation), to digital games and fashion. Among the most conspicuous is the emergence of menhera (a portmanteau of “mental health-er”) girls, female characters who exhibit unstable emotionality, obsessive love, and stereotypical self-injurious behaviors such as wrist cutting. Tracing the expansion of this popular cultur…
Solution-focused approach in higher education
As students populating higher education (HE) are becoming increasingly diverse, there is a growing need to equip educators with learner-centred communication skills. A solution-focused (SF) approach represents one attractive option to equip HE instructors and supervisors with strengths-based, goal-oriented communication techniques. This scoping review maps the current use of SF approaches in HE, explores key SF tenets and techniques compatible to…
Transitions Theatre
Transition to adult life can be a challenging time for disabled youth and their families. This article describes the collaborative creation of Transitions Theatre, a research-based reader’s theatre activity based on narrative interviews with eight disabled youth (aged 17–22) and seven parents. Analysis of these interviews generated two opposing yet interrelated themes. On one hand, youth and families felt lost in transition facing multiple gaps i…
Lunchbox shaming
Children’s home-packed lunches to school reflect family’s culinary cultures, social locations, and unique food norms. At Canadian elementary schools, children of Asian heritage sometimes experience “lunchbox shaming” – feeling embarrassed for bringing foods that are seen deviant from dominant food norms. This study explored the recollections of school lunchtime by 25 young adults (aged 17–25 years) from three largest Asian ethnocultural groups (C…
Feeding children while Asian
In feeding children in a new country, immigrant parents engage in continuous and ongoing adaptation. Children’s exposure to new food practices outside the home can sometimes conflict with parents’ efforts to maintain traditional foodways. This qualitative study explores the factors that influence Asian immigrant parents’ everyday decisions about packing cultural food in their children’s school lunches in Toronto, Canada. Through arts-informed int…
Food Diversity and Aging Well in a Multicultural City
This case study documents the characteristics of a Community Congregate Dining (CCD) for Japanese Canadian ( Nikkei ) seniors aged 65+ in the Greater Toronto Area and explores participants’ and providers’ experiences. Data were collected through (a) observations of six CCD sites; (b) qualitative interviews with 45 CCD program participants, 1 family member, 15 program providers and volunteers; and (c) analysis of policy and administrative document…
Psychology (11 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Art (5 works) · Narrative (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Culinary Culture and Tourism (4 works) · Gender Studies (4 works) · Suicide and Self-Harm Studies (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works)