{"id":169,"date":"2021-08-26T09:40:57","date_gmt":"2021-08-26T00:40:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.glocom.ac.jp\/en\/?post_type=researcher&#038;p=169"},"modified":"2024-08-08T16:36:30","modified_gmt":"2024-08-08T07:36:30","slug":"eiki-kikuchi","status":"publish","type":"researcher","link":"https:\/\/www.glocom.ac.jp\/en\/researcher\/169","title":{"rendered":"Eiki Kikuchi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"fellow_profile\">My research is focused on \u201cculture.\u201d With the progress in informatization of society, the states of politics and economy have changed. In my opinion, the culture surrounding people has also really changed. This is the starting point of my research.<br \/>\nI have tackled issues on the cultural phenomena of the information society, especially both in the urban and internet space. For example, how do Japanese subcultures such as anime and manga develop in both urban and internet spaces, and how do the contents uploaded to social media like YouTube and Instagram affect behaviors such as consumption and tourism of the people living in the actual space.<\/p>\n<h2>Brief History<\/h2>\n<p class=\"fellow_brief\">Born in Hokkaido, Japan in 1987. Ph.D. in Media and Governance. Kikuchi was a researcher at Institute for Liberal Arts, Tokyo Institute of Technology ,and a researcher at the International University of Japan before assuming his current position in 2023. He specializes in cultural sociology and theories of the information society. He is also a founder and managing director of Lab.808 Inc., a director at the The Academy of Contents Tourism, and a director of Foundation for Meta Tourism. He is currently conducting research about cultural phenomena in the information society across the urban and internet spaces.<\/p>\n<h2>Major Works<\/h2>\n<div class=\"fellow_achievement\">\n<ul>\n<li>Kikuchi, Eiki, 2019, \u201cA New Place that Crosses Social Media and Real Space,\u201d Hiroshi Matsui and Takeshi Okamoto eds., Social Media Studies, Tokyo: Hokujyu shuppan, 45-52.<\/li>\n<li>Kikuchi, Eiki, 2019, \u201cCosplay Tourism : Focus on Universality of landscapes,\u201d Takeshi Okamoto eds., Contents Tourism Studies revised and updated: Anime, manga, games, and tourism, culture, society, Tokyo: Fukumura shuppan, 186-187.<\/li>\n<li>Kikuchi, Eiki and Shizuka, Masanori, 2017, \u201cMachi-Cos\u201d as a Contents Tourism Phenomenon : From a Case Study of \u201cWe Love Cosplay in Miyashiro 2016,\u201d Contents tourism review 4: 24-34.<\/li>\n<li>Kikuchi, Eiki, 2015, \u201cOtakunisation in Odaiba : Focus on Accumulation of Cultural Devices,\u201d Bulletin of Society for Changing Customs in Contemporary Japan (16): 96-107.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2>Major Lectures<\/h2>\n<div class=\"fellow_lecture\">\n<ul>\n<li>Kikuchi, Eiki, \u201cTokyo the Subcultures City: Towards the New Cultural Policy,\u201d 6th Summer School of The Working Group for Next Generations, CIRIEC-Japan, 2018.09.01. (in Japanese)<\/li>\n<li>Kikuchi, Eiki, \u201cAkihabara as a Live Entertainment City,\u201d Tokyo Cultural Heritage Alliance 7th Public Symposium \u201cGreater Akiba: Crossroads of Information and Knowledge,\u201d 2018.09.06. (in Japanese, invited keynote speaker)<\/li>\n<li>Kikuchi, Eiki, \u201cCan Akihabara Develop e-Sports?,\u201d Mini Round Table Conference \u201cThe Potential of e-Sports in the Greater Akiba,\u201d 2019.05.05. (in Japanese)<\/li>\n<li>Kikuchi, Eiki, \u201cKanda Matsuri Festival and Contents Tourism,\u201dReiwa 1st. Myoujin Juku Private Seminar Series Vol. 22, Kanda Myoujin Shrine, 2019.10.16. (in Japanese)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<h2>Major Achievements<\/h2>\n<div class=\"fellow_committee\">\n<ul>\n<li>June 2017 &#8211; present Director, The Academy of Contents Tourism<\/li>\n<li>June 2018 &#8211; present Project Manager, Greater Akiba Lab, Tokyo Cultural Heritage Alliance<\/li>\n<li>December 2019 &#8211; present Director, CIRIEC-Japan<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<h2>Educational Background<\/h2>\n<p class=\"fellow_education\">September, 2013 &#8211; March, 2017: Graduate School of Media and Governance, Keio University<br \/>\nSeptember, 2011 &#8211; September, 2013: Graduate School of Media and Governance, Keio University<\/p>\n<h2>Career<\/h2>\n<p class=\"fellow_career\">\n2011-2016: RA, Center for Global Communications (GLOCOM), International University of Japan.<br \/>\n2013-2015: Research Assistant Professor, Keio University Global Security Research Institute(G-SEC), Keio University.<br \/>\n2015-2017: Researcher, Keio University Global Security Research Institute(G-SEC), Keio University.<br \/>\n2017-2019: Senior Researcher, Keio Research Institute at SFC, Keio University.<br \/>\n2017-2019: Visiting Research Fellow, Center for Global Communications (GLOCOM), International University of Japan.<br \/>\n2017-present: Visiting Researcher, Keio University Global Research Institute (KGRI), Keio University.<br \/>\n2018-present: Managing Director, Lab.808 Inc.<br \/>\n2018-2019: Researcher, Institute for Liberal Arts, Tokyo Institute of Technology.<br \/>\n2019-2023: Research Fellow \/ Assistant Professor, Center for Global Communications, International University of Japan, International University of Japan.<br \/>\n2023-2024: Senior Research Fellow \/ Assistant Professor, Center for Global Communications, International University of Japan, International University of Japan.<br \/>\n2020-present: Director, Foundation for Meta-Tourism.<br \/>\n2024-present: Senior Research Fellow, Center for Global Communications, International University of Japan, International University of Japan.<br \/>\n2024-present: Associate Professor, Faculty of Sociology, Musashi University.\n<\/p>\n<h2>Links<\/h2>\n<ul class=\"fellow_links\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/eikikuchi\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/researchmap.jp\/eikikuchi?lang=en\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Researchmap<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":516,"template":"","resercher_tax":[10],"class_list":["post-169","researcher","type-researcher","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","resercher_tax-peripatetic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glocom.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/researcher\/169"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glocom.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/researcher"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glocom.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/researcher"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glocom.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.glocom.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"resercher_tax","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.glocom.ac.jp\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/resercher_tax?post=169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}