David Humphrey
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 939898 |
|---|---|
| NOME | David Humphrey |
| PRENOMES | David |
| SOBRENOME | Humphrey |
| ASSINATURA | HUMPHREY D |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Michigan State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7699-6903 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 14 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 23 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 14 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1979 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
The Fine Art of Persuasion
Review of: The Fine Art of Persuasion: Corporate Advertising Design, Nation + Empire in Modern Japan , Gennifer Weisenfeld (2025) Durham, NC: Duke University Press, xi, 490 pp., ISBN 978-1-47802-808-6, h/bk, GBP 160.00
Japan's Society 5.0 and the Organizational Vision of 'Human-Centric' AI
This article examines the Japanese government's Society 5.0 initiative and its intersection with surveillance based on artificial intelligence (AI). Announced in 2019, Society 5.0 seeks to leverage AI to address Japan's aging population and other social issues. I examine government documents on the initiative and an example of a smart city project that implements the Society 5.0 vision and, in doing so, highlight a tension between its architects'…
Suzuki Seijun and Postwar Japanese Cinema
Suzuki Seijun (1923–2017) represents not an inscrutable outlier within Japanese film but a key figure through which to understand and interpret its history. This is one of the central theses of William Carroll's Suzuki Seijun and Postwar Japanese Cinema, which provides a refreshing look at the legendary filmmaker and his oeuvre. Responding to interest in Suzuki's work in recent years, Carroll argues that much of this attention misunderstands the …
Laughter Suspended
I examine the shūru-na warai (“surreal comedy”) subgenre of late 20th and early 21st century Japanese media and frame its ambivalent laughter as an expression of time’s opacity at century’s turn. In my analysis, I examine the evolution of surreal comedy in Japan, from its roots in earlier decades to its culmination in the 1990s and 2000s as a full-blown subgenre. With its aesthetics of indeterminacy and irresolution, shūru-na warai offered an aes…
Can mom laugh?’
In this article, I examine the history of audience laughter on Japanese television and its role in producing and sustaining the image of an intimate, family-like public during the medium’s early decades. With a focus on the progressive gendering of audience laughter on Japanese television from the 1960s onwards, I demonstrate how the move to procure female laughter on the medium reflected broader ideological expectations that women and their laug…
Sensing the human
This article examines the Japanese biometrics industry and its discourse, with a focus on the language of biometric ‘sensing’ that has shaped its development over the past two decades. Rooted in the ubiquitous computing boom of the early 2000s, the language of sensing reimagines biometric technology as a mediator between the digital and the human, laying the foundation for biometric surveillance’s expansion into everyday settings such as retail o…
Payments
Payments, paper-based or electronic, are essential for efficient economic exchange. For retail payments, debit and credit cards have been replacing cash and checks for point of sale transactions. Cards and automated clearing house (US) and giro networks (Europe and elsewhere) have replaced cash and checks for bill payments and employee disbursements. Daily retail payments have relatively small average values but number in hundreds of millions of …
On Mediating Laughter
The tone of laughter and the strangely warm comedy of Hagimoto Kin'ichi
Featuring the comedian Hagimoto Kin'ichi as on-screen father, the hybrid drama-variety show Kinchan no doko made yaru no! (How far will Kinchan go! 1976–1986) won a loyal following of viewers and critics who praised the ‘warmth’ of its parodic television family, describing it as affectively more real and compelling than depictions of the family in traditional dramatic portrayals. Through close readings of scenes from the show and the critical dis…
Deregulation, Bank Competition and Regional Growth
C ARBó V ALVERDE S., H UMPHREY D. B. and R ODRíGUEZ F ERNáNDEZ F. (2003) Deregulation, bank competition and regional growth, Reg. Studies 37 , 227-237. Cross-country studies suggest that countries with greater financial sector competition have higher rates of economic growth. However, it is difficult to "hold constant' different legal and cultural environments in these analyses, leading some to suggest that this relationship is due less to compet…
Profile 1 - The Global Compact
(2001). Profile 1 - The Global Compact: Promoting Corporate Responsibility? Profile 2 - The Creation of the United Nations Forum on Forests Profile 3 - The rBST Ban - A Taste of What's to Come for GM Foods? Profile 4 - Managing Waste Organochlorine Chemicals in Australia. Environmental Politics: Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 155-177
The report of the intergovernmental panel on forests
The global politics of forest conservation since the unced1
The mistrust between North and South which was a feature of the forest negotiations of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) has since slowly given way to a new co‐operative spirit. Following the failure of the UNCED to produce a Global Forests Convention several new international initiatives on forest conservation have emerged. This study describes these processes and analyses their significance. It is argued that …
Labour's approach to planning
Since 1964 the Labour Party has been closely associated with the development in government of a conception of planning which gives pride of place to economic rather than representative opinion. Although ofneo‐liberal inspiration, its adoption by Labour is by no means circumstantial but is historically embedded in social democratic ideology concerning economic organisation. This convergence with neo‐liberalism is especially notable for its tendenc…
Deregulation, Bank Competition and Regional Growth
C ARBó V ALVERDE S., H UMPHREY D. B. and R ODRíGUEZ F ERNáNDEZ F. (2003) Deregulation, bank competition and regional growth, Reg. Studies 37 , 227-237. Cross-country studies suggest that countries with greater financial sector competition have higher rates of economic growth. However, it is difficult to "hold constant' different legal and cultural environments in these analyses, leading some to suggest that this relationship is due less to compet…
The global politics of forest conservation since the unced1
The mistrust between North and South which was a feature of the forest negotiations of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) has since slowly given way to a new co‐operative spirit. Following the failure of the UNCED to produce a Global Forests Convention several new international initiatives on forest conservation have emerged. This study describes these processes and analyses their significance. It is argued that …
Profile 1 - The Global Compact
(2001). Profile 1 - The Global Compact: Promoting Corporate Responsibility? Profile 2 - The Creation of the United Nations Forum on Forests Profile 3 - The rBST Ban - A Taste of What's to Come for GM Foods? Profile 4 - Managing Waste Organochlorine Chemicals in Australia. Environmental Politics: Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 155-177
Sensing the human
This article examines the Japanese biometrics industry and its discourse, with a focus on the language of biometric ‘sensing’ that has shaped its development over the past two decades. Rooted in the ubiquitous computing boom of the early 2000s, the language of sensing reimagines biometric technology as a mediator between the digital and the human, laying the foundation for biometric surveillance’s expansion into everyday settings such as retail o…
The tone of laughter and the strangely warm comedy of Hagimoto Kin'ichi
Featuring the comedian Hagimoto Kin'ichi as on-screen father, the hybrid drama-variety show Kinchan no doko made yaru no! (How far will Kinchan go! 1976–1986) won a loyal following of viewers and critics who praised the ‘warmth’ of its parodic television family, describing it as affectively more real and compelling than depictions of the family in traditional dramatic portrayals. Through close readings of scenes from the show and the critical dis…
Can mom laugh?’
In this article, I examine the history of audience laughter on Japanese television and its role in producing and sustaining the image of an intimate, family-like public during the medium’s early decades. With a focus on the progressive gendering of audience laughter on Japanese television from the 1960s onwards, I demonstrate how the move to procure female laughter on the medium reflected broader ideological expectations that women and their laug…
Labour's approach to planning
Since 1964 the Labour Party has been closely associated with the development in government of a conception of planning which gives pride of place to economic rather than representative opinion. Although ofneo‐liberal inspiration, its adoption by Labour is by no means circumstantial but is historically embedded in social democratic ideology concerning economic organisation. This convergence with neo‐liberalism is especially notable for its tendenc…
The global politics of forest conservation since the unced1
The mistrust between North and South which was a feature of the forest negotiations of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED) has since slowly given way to a new co‐operative spirit. Following the failure of the UNCED to produce a Global Forests Convention several new international initiatives on forest conservation have emerged. This study describes these processes and analyses their significance. It is argued that …
The report of the intergovernmental panel on forests
Profile 1 - The Global Compact
(2001). Profile 1 - The Global Compact: Promoting Corporate Responsibility? Profile 2 - The Creation of the United Nations Forum on Forests Profile 3 - The rBST Ban - A Taste of What's to Come for GM Foods? Profile 4 - Managing Waste Organochlorine Chemicals in Australia. Environmental Politics: Vol. 10, No. 1, pp. 155-177
Deregulation, Bank Competition and Regional Growth
C ARBó V ALVERDE S., H UMPHREY D. B. and R ODRíGUEZ F ERNáNDEZ F. (2003) Deregulation, bank competition and regional growth, Reg. Studies 37 , 227-237. Cross-country studies suggest that countries with greater financial sector competition have higher rates of economic growth. However, it is difficult to "hold constant' different legal and cultural environments in these analyses, leading some to suggest that this relationship is due less to compet…
The tone of laughter and the strangely warm comedy of Hagimoto Kin'ichi
Featuring the comedian Hagimoto Kin'ichi as on-screen father, the hybrid drama-variety show Kinchan no doko made yaru no! (How far will Kinchan go! 1976–1986) won a loyal following of viewers and critics who praised the ‘warmth’ of its parodic television family, describing it as affectively more real and compelling than depictions of the family in traditional dramatic portrayals. Through close readings of scenes from the show and the critical dis…
On Mediating Laughter
Payments
Payments, paper-based or electronic, are essential for efficient economic exchange. For retail payments, debit and credit cards have been replacing cash and checks for point of sale transactions. Cards and automated clearing house (US) and giro networks (Europe and elsewhere) have replaced cash and checks for bill payments and employee disbursements. Daily retail payments have relatively small average values but number in hundreds of millions of …
Laughter Suspended
I examine the shūru-na warai (“surreal comedy”) subgenre of late 20th and early 21st century Japanese media and frame its ambivalent laughter as an expression of time’s opacity at century’s turn. In my analysis, I examine the evolution of surreal comedy in Japan, from its roots in earlier decades to its culmination in the 1990s and 2000s as a full-blown subgenre. With its aesthetics of indeterminacy and irresolution, shūru-na warai offered an aes…
Can mom laugh?’
In this article, I examine the history of audience laughter on Japanese television and its role in producing and sustaining the image of an intimate, family-like public during the medium’s early decades. With a focus on the progressive gendering of audience laughter on Japanese television from the 1960s onwards, I demonstrate how the move to procure female laughter on the medium reflected broader ideological expectations that women and their laug…
Sensing the human
This article examines the Japanese biometrics industry and its discourse, with a focus on the language of biometric ‘sensing’ that has shaped its development over the past two decades. Rooted in the ubiquitous computing boom of the early 2000s, the language of sensing reimagines biometric technology as a mediator between the digital and the human, laying the foundation for biometric surveillance’s expansion into everyday settings such as retail o…
Suzuki Seijun and Postwar Japanese Cinema
Suzuki Seijun (1923–2017) represents not an inscrutable outlier within Japanese film but a key figure through which to understand and interpret its history. This is one of the central theses of William Carroll's Suzuki Seijun and Postwar Japanese Cinema, which provides a refreshing look at the legendary filmmaker and his oeuvre. Responding to interest in Suzuki's work in recent years, Carroll argues that much of this attention misunderstands the …
Japan's Society 5.0 and the Organizational Vision of 'Human-Centric' AI
This article examines the Japanese government's Society 5.0 initiative and its intersection with surveillance based on artificial intelligence (AI). Announced in 2019, Society 5.0 seeks to leverage AI to address Japan's aging population and other social issues. I examine government documents on the initiative and an example of a smart city project that implements the Society 5.0 vision and, in doing so, highlight a tension between its architects'…
The Fine Art of Persuasion
Review of: The Fine Art of Persuasion: Corporate Advertising Design, Nation + Empire in Modern Japan , Gennifer Weisenfeld (2025) Durham, NC: Duke University Press, xi, 490 pp., ISBN 978-1-47802-808-6, h/bk, GBP 160.00
Political science (8 obras) · Sociology (7 obras) · Business (5 obras) · Economics (5 obras) · Japanese History and Culture (5 obras) · Law (5 obras) · Asian Culture and Media Studies (4 obras) · Laughter (4 obras) · Politics (4 obras) · Psychology (4 obras)