How was Criticism of Television Possible
Textual Analysis of Soichi Oya’s Criticism of TV in the Late 1950s Japan
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21583109 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Yuji Miyazaki (0000-0001-9093-8868, 東京大学大学院学際情報学府博士課程, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 2022 |
| Issue | 35 |
| Pages | 69-79 |
| Publication date | 2022-08-26 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Annual review of sociology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0919-4363 • E-ISSN: 1884-0086 |
| Publisher | Kantoh Sociological Society (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.5690/kantoh.2022.69 |
| OpenAlex | W4386261852 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 3 |
“Turning the Japanese people into a 100 million idiots (ichioku-sō-hakuchi-ka),” as insisted by Soichi Oya, is the most famous phrase critical of TV at the earliest stage of TV broadcasting in Japan. Thus far, little attention has been given to the logic of this theory. In this paper, we analyze Oya’s texts and try to reveal what kind of logic is used in the theory. As a result, we reveal that Oya’s texts are organized according to the following methods: (1) To place people, culture, and media technologies in a ranking order, (2) To assume a positive correlation between these ranks, and (3) To interpret a certain vulgar TV program as an actual appearance of the underlying pattern of problems facing Japanese society
Art · Criticism · Economics · Literature · Media studies · Phrase · Sociology · Computer Science · Digital Games and Media · History · Media Studies and Communication · Social Media and Politics · Artificial Intelligence
| Highly cited | No |
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