Jason G. Karlin

Jason G. KARLIN is a professor of media and cultural studies in the Interfaculty Initiative for Information Studies at the University of Tokyo. He is the author of Gender and Nation in Meiji Japan: Modernity, Loss, and the Doing of History (U of Hawaii P, 2014), co-author of AKB48 (Bloomsbury, 2019) and co-editor of Media Convergence in Japan (Kinema Club, 2016) and Idols and Celebrity in Japanese Media Culture (Palgrave, 2012). His research and teaching focus on Japanese social media, advertising, and gender.