Translating J-RPGs
Presentation: Brokers of “Japaneseness:” Bringing table-top J-RPGs to the “West.” Mutual Images Workshop, Kobe, June 12-13, 2015.
Popular Culture
Research on pop-cultural practices.
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.
Space and Life-Action Roleplay in Japan
Presentation at the 13th EAJS conference at Tallinn University, Estonia, 2011/08/27.
A presentation of research on the relationship of space and the modes of roleplaying games in a transcultural context.
Uses & Gratifications of Boys‘ Love Manga – Fujoshi in Japan and Germany
Presentation at the workshop “Glocal Polemics of ‘Boys Love’ [BL]: Production, Circulation, Censorship” at Oita University, 2011/01/22-23.
A presentation of my research on the use of boys’ love (BL) manga. Based on an interactionist perspective that builds on theories of media gratification, entertainment and emotions, my research focuses on the “how” of the usage and understands media preferences (including BL) as arising from historical, biographical and situational contexts.
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).