ABE Yasuhito
Faculty of Social Studies Department of Media, Journalism and Communications
Associate Professor
Last Updated :2025/07/16

Researcher Profile and Settings

    Profile

    Please note that I am not currently available to supervise graduate students at Doshisha University. 

    Research funding number

    70755660

Research Interests

  • Media communication
  • Citizen Science
  • Mass Media
  • Popular Culture
  • Journalism
  • Qualitative Research

Research Areas

  • Humanities & social sciences / Sociology
  • Humanities & social sciences / Sociology/history of science and technology

Research Experience

  • Doshisha University, Harris Science Research Institute, Affiliated Research Fellow (Division Research, 12th Term), 2025/04 - Today
  • Doshisha University, Faculty of Social Studies Department of Media, Journalism and Communication, Associate Professor, 2022/04 - Today
  • Doshisha University, Harris Science Research Institute, Affiliated Research Fellow (Division Research, 11th Term), 2023/04 - 2025/03
  • Komazawa University, Faculty of Global Media Studies Department of Global Media, Part-Time Lecturer, 2022/04 - 2024/03
  • Komazawa University Graduate School, グローバル・メディア研究科 グローバル・メディア専攻, Senior Assistant Professor, 2018/04 - 2022/03
  • Komazawa University, Faculty of Global Media Studies Department of Global Media, Senior Assistant Professor, 2018/04 - 2022/03
  • Doshisha University, Faculty of Social Studies Department of Media, Journalism and Communication, Part-Time Lecturer, 2018/04 - 2019/03
  • Doshisha University, Harris Science Research Institute, 兼任研究所員, 2016/04 - 2018/03
  • Doshisha University, Faculty of Social Studies Department of Media, Journalism and Communication, Assistant Professor (without tenure), 2015/04 - 2018/03
  • Sophia University, Institute of Comparative Culture, Visiting scholar, 2014/11 - 2015/03
  • Radiopress, Inc, 契約社員, 2009/12 - 2010/07

Education

  • University of Southern California Graduate School, USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, コミュニケーション学研究科, - 2015
  • Columbia University Graduate School, East Asian Languages and Cultures, - 2009
  • Doshisha University Graduate School, 文学研究科, 新聞学専攻 博士前期課程, - 2005
  • Doshisha University, Faculty of Letters, 社会学科 新聞学専攻, - 2003

Degree

  • Ph.D. in Communication, University of Southern California (USC), Aug. 2015
  • M.A. in Communication, University of Southern California (USC), Sep. 2013
  • M.A. in East Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University in the City of New York, Feb. 2009
  • M.A. in Journalism, Doshisha University, Mar. 2005
  • B.A. in Letters, Doshisha University, Mar. 2003

Association Memberships

Published Papers

  • Reevaluating broadcast television news and current affairs programs for communicating scientific knowledge in everyday natural settings in Japan
    Taichi Masu; Yasuhito Abe
    Journal of Science Communication, Sissa Medialab Srl, 24(03), 25 Jun. 2025, Scientific journal
  • Bridging research and practice: insights from collaborative science communication research on Japanese television
    Taichi Masu; Yasuhito Abe
    Journal of Science Communication, Sissa Medialab Srl, 23(02), 25 Mar. 2024, Scientific journal
  • Covering the 2020 Tokyo Olympics as the Recovery Olympics After Fukushima
    Yasuhito Abe
    Communication & Sport, SAGE Journals, 12(1) 130 - 148, Feb. 2024, Scientific journal
  • More than just the regional promotion in Japan: The case of Chita Musume
    Yasuhito Abe
    International Journal of Cultural Studies, SAGE Publications, 26(3) 326 - 342, Mar. 2023, Scientific journal
  • Remembering and forgetting Fukushima: Where citizen science meets populism after Fukushima
    Yasuhito Abe
    International Journal of Communication, 17 2224 - 2242, Mar. 2023, Scientific journal
  • Temporal Citizen Science after Fukushima
    Yasuhito Abe
    International Journal of Communication, 17 1573 - 1591, Feb. 2023, Scientific journal
  • Exploring radiation measurement after Fukushima: When media ecology meets citizen science
    Yasuhito Abe
    Mètode Science Studies Journal, Universitat de Valencia, (12) 41 - 45, Feb. 2022, Scientific journal
  • Beyond the Grassroots: Two Trajectories of “Citizen Sciencization” in Environmental Governance
    Michiel Van Oudheusden; Yasuhito Abe
    Citizen Science: Theory and Practice, 6(1) 1 - 15, 14 Apr. 2021, Scientific journal
  • Exploración de las mediciones de radiación después de Fukushima Cuando la ecología de los medios se une a la ciencia ciudadana
    Yasuhito Abe
    Mètode Science Studies Journal, 2021, Scientific journal
  • Exploring legitimization strategies for contested uses of citizen-generated data for policy
    Anna Berti Suman; Sven Schade; Yasuhito Abe
    Journal of Human Rights and the Environment, 11 74 - 102, 25 Dec. 2020, Scientific journal
  • Mina no Data Site (MDS) and the culture of measurement after Fukushima
    ABE Yasuhito
    Unmediated: Politics and Communication, 1 68 - 72, 2017, Scientific journal
  • Why manga matters after Fukushima
    ABE Yasuhito
    NMC Media-N: Journal of New Media Caucus, 2017, Scientific journal
  • Reimagining Riben Guizi: Japanese Tactical Media Performance After the 2010 Senkaku/Diaoyu Boat Collision Incident
    Yasuhito Abe
    International Journal of Communication, 11 344 - 362, 2017, Scientific journal
  • Redefining post-Fukushima Japanese society with data
    Yasuhito Abe
    Proceedings of the 5th Tokyo Conference on Argumentation: Argumentation and Debate, 9 - 15, 2016
  • Pixiv as a contested online artistic space in-between gift and commercial economies in an age of participatory culture
    Kohki Watabe; Yasuhito Abe
    Electronic Journal of Contemporary Japanese Studies, 15(3), 2016, Scientific journal
  • Safecast or the production of collective intelligence on radiation risks after 3.11.
    Yasuhito Abe
    The Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus, 2014
  • “Moe” and Japan’s energy policy: Cultural intervention after the Fukushima nuclear disaster of 2011
    Yasuhito Abe
    Immediacy, 2014
  • Risk assessment of nuclear power by Japanese newspapers following the Chernobyl nuclear disaster
    Yasuhito Abe
    International Journal of Communication, 7 1968 - 1989, 2013
  • Reinventing Japanese “national character” after the 2011 Tohoku earthquake, tsunami and nuclear crisis
    Yasuhito Abe
    Proceedings of the 4th Tokyo conference on argumentation: The role of argumentation in society, 8 - 16, 2012

MISC

  • Book Review: Push the Button: Interactive Television and Collaborative Journalism in Japan
    Yasuhito Abe
    International Journal of Communication, 19 2928 - 2931, Jul. 2025, Book review
  • Book Review: The Infodemic: Disinformation, Geopolitics and the COVID-19 Pandemic
    Yasuhito Abe
    International Journal of Communication, 18 3580 - 3583, Aug. 2024, Book review
  • Book Review: Citizens of Worlds: Open-Air Toolkits for Environmental Struggle
    Yasuhito Abe
    International Journal of Communication, 17 5056 - 5059, Jul. 2023, Book review
  • Remembering and forgetting Pearl Harbor after September 11 in the Japanese media
    Yasuhito Abe
    Journalism History, Dec. 2021, Introduction scientific journal
  • Book Review: Yuko Fujigaki (Ed.): Lessons from Fukushima: Japanese case studies on science, technology and society
    Yasuhito Abe
    East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal, 10 1 - 4, 2017
  • Book Review: Beautiful Data: A History of Vision and Reason since 1945
    Yasuhito Abe
    INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATION, 10 3301 - 3303, 2016, Book review
  • Measuring for What: Networked citizen science movements after the Fukushima nuclear accident
    Yasuhito Abe
    Dissertation (University of Southern California), Aug. 2015
  • 米西海岸での「フクシマ」報道 市民の声より「影響軽微」反復
    阿部 康人
    ジャーナリズム, 朝日新聞社ジャーナリスト学校 ; 2008-, 1(284) 84 - 90, 2014
  • Book Review: The Nuclear Age in Popular Media: A Transnational History, 1945-1965
    Yasuhito Abe
    INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF COMMUNICATION, 7 1507 - 1510, 2013, Book review
  • Pragmatic obedience: A transwar history of Japanese newspapers (1937-1952)
    Yasuhito Abe
    Master's thesis (Columbia University in the City of New York), 2009
  • On the coverage of the relationship between Japan and the republic of Korea in Japanese newspaper editorials and the media responsibility(1960-1965)
    阿部 康人
    Doshisha journal of media & communication research, 同志社大学メディア・コミュニケーション研究センター, 3(3) 326 - 394, 2006
  • 1960・70年代の『朝日新聞』『毎日新聞』『読売新聞』社説に見る韓国イメージの研究
    阿部 康人
    修士論文(同志社大学), 2005
  • 9・11事件以降の『朝日新聞』『毎日新聞』『読売新聞』の一考察--『朝日新聞』『毎日新聞』『読売新聞』社説を題材に
    阿部 康人
    新聞学: 文化とコミュニケーション, 同志社大学大学院新聞学研究会, 19(19) 18 - 76, 2004, Report research institution

Books etc

  • A Good LIfe: Newspapering and Other Adventures
    Tomohiko Nezu; Yasuhiot Abe; Sayaka Ishida; Atsuko Shigesawa; Takeya Mizuno
    Hosei University Press, 20 Feb. 2025, Joint translation, Foreword by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein (pp.vii-x), Chapter 18 (pp.419-449), and Chapter 19 (pp.450-461), General book
  • The Multiverse as Theory in Postmodern Speculative Fictional Narratives
    Angélica Cabrera Torrecilla; Francisco Sáez; de Adana
    Routledge, Nov. 2024, Joint work, Bridging Multiverse and Media/Video Game Studies: Nobunaga’s Ambition as a Multiverse, Scholarly book
  • The Sage Handbook of Global Sociology
    Gurminder K. Bhambra; Lucy Mayblin; Kathryn Medien; Mara Viveros-Vigoya
    Sage, 2024, Joint work, Revaluing the mundane: Citizen science after Fukushima, Scholarly book
  • Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collide by Henry Jenkins
    Watabe, Kohki; Kitamura, Sae; Abe, Yasuhito
    Shobunsha, Feb. 2021, Joint translation, Introduction (pp.21-59)、Chapter 6 (pp.377-430)、Conclusion(pp.431-464)
  • Legal, Social and Ethical Perspectives on Health & Technology
    Anna Berti Suman; Motahareh Fathisalout Bollon
    Sovoie Mont Blanc University Press, 2020, Joint work, Citizen before science: R-DAN and its monitorial ethic after Chernobyl, Scholarly book
  • The data storytelling workbook
    Anna Feigenbaum; Aria Alamalhodaei
    Routledge, 2020, Joint work, Argumentative mapmaking, Scholarly book
  • Keywords in media studies (2nd edition)
    Takesato Watanabe; Tsutomu Kanayama; Hitoshi Nohara
    Sekaishisosha, May 2019, Joint work, Inluencer (p.81), Audience (p.84), Stereotype (p.109), Communication education in the Untied States (pp. 135-136) 、Media Mix (p.149)、Risk society (pp.153-154), Covering a nuclaer disaster (pp.296-297), Dictionary or encycropedia
  • Making Our World: The Hacker and Maker Movements in Context
    Jeremy Hunsinger; Andrew Schrock
    Peter Lang, 2019, Joint work, Making civic media in the post-Fukushima Japanese media ecology, Scholarly book
  • 100 Greatest video game characters
    Jaime Banks; Robert Mejia; Aubrie Adams
    Rowman & Littlefield, 2017, Joint work, Phoenix Wright
  • Social Media in Asia
    Litang Cui; Michael H Prosser
    World Dignity Press, 2014, Joint work, Pray for Japan: Reinventing “Japanese national character” after the Tohoku earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear crisis, Scholarly book
  • Legal theory of mass media and their social responsibility
    Watanabe Takesato; Matsui Shigenori
    Minerva Shobo, Jun. 2004, Contributor, Translation: Cynicism in the News by Joseph N. Cappella

Presentations

  • Making science "useful": Blue carbon communication in Japanese commercial television
    Taichi Masu; Yasuhito Abe
    International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR), 14 Jul. 2025, Oral presentation, International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR), Nanyang Technological University
  • Rethinking the role of television in science communication: The case of the Japanese television program "ZIP!"
    Taichi Masu; Yasuhito Abe
    Critical Studies in Television Conference 2025, 10 Jul. 2025, Oral presentation
  • Saving History: The role of save files in multiverse theory and Nobunaga’s ambition
    Yasuhito Abe
    New Opportunities for Cultural Research on Japan through Martial Arts and Media, 13 Nov. 2024, Invited oral presentation, Center for the Study of Global Cultures and Societies at Kanazawa University, Kanazawa University
  • Research Videography: Bridging research & practice: insights from collaborative #scicomm research on Japanese television
    Taichi Masu; Yasuhito Abe
    CivicSciTV Journal Video Abstract, 28 Oct. 2024, Media report, Civic Science Media Lab, CivicSciTV Network
  • Adoring North Korea: The case of Japanese media fandom in Chōsen Shumi Gahō
    Yasuhito Abe; Tomoomi Mori
    Fan Studies Network North America (FSNNA) 2024 Conference, 18 Oct. 2024, 17 Oct. 2024, 20 Oct. 2024, Oral presentation, Fan Studies Network North America (FSNNA), Online
  • Audiencing grassroots data after Fukushima
    Yasuhito Abe
    13th ACS International Crossroods in Cultural Studies Conference, 18 Nov. 2022, 17 Nov. 2022, 19 Nov. 2022, Oral presentation, The Association for Cultural Studies and the University of Lisbon Centre for English Studies (CEAUL/ULICES), Online
  • Comments for three presenters
    Yasuhito Abe
    日本メディア学会第38期第6回研究会「韓国ドラマの想像力を読み解く」(メディア文化部会), 25 Mar. 2022, Nominated symposium, Japan Association for Media, Journalism and Communication Studies, Online
  • Citizen Science as Method
    Yasuhito Abe; Michiel Van Oudheusden; Jennifer Gabrys
    2021 Social Studies of Science (4S) Conference, 06 Oct. 2021, Public symposium, Social Studies of Science (4S), Toronto
  • Developing good methods after Fukushima
    Yasuhito Abe
    2021 Social Studies of Science (4S) Conference, 06 Oct. 2021, Oral presentation, Social Studies of Science (4S), Toronto
  • The Tokyo 2020 Olympics, Fukushima, and Citizen Science in the Japanese media landscape
    Yasuhito Abe
    Internationalisation Interrupted, 01 Jul. 2021, 01 Jul. 2021, 02 Jul. 2021, The Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Culture (SISJAC)
  • Some personal notes on R-DAN and its monitorial ethic after Chernobyl
    Yasuhito Abe
    Book Launch: Legal, social and ethical perspectives on Health & Technology, 15 Jan. 2021, Public discourse
  • Bottom-up meets top-down: Mapping grassroots citizen science trajectories in environmental pollution monitoring
    Michiel Van Oudheusden; Yasuhito Abe
    EASST/4S 2020 Conference, 20 Aug. 2020, 18 Aug. 2020, 21 Aug. 2020, Oral presentation
  • The uses and abuses of citizen science after Fukushima
    Yasuhito Abe
    6th Tokyo Conference on Argumentation: Argumentation and Education, 10 Aug. 2020, 10 Aug. 2020, 12 Aug. 2020, Oral presentation
  • A historical journey to (nuclear) citizen sensing
    Yasuhito Abe
    Citizen Sensing: towards a right to contribute to environmental information, 08 May 2020, Invited oral presentation, Tilburg Public Library LocHal, Tilburg University
  • More than a Moe-okoshi
    ABE Yasuhito
    The 3rd EAJS Conference in Japan, Sep. 2019, Public symposium, European Association for Japanese Studies, University of Tsukuba
  • Historicizing networked monitoring in Japan after Chernobyl
    ABE Yasuhito
    International Communication Association, May 2018, Oral presentation, International Communication Association, Prague
  • Citizen science as communication in Japan
    ABE Yasuhito
    International Workshop: (Un)taming Citizen Science, Dec. 2017, Nominated symposium, KU Leuven
  • Rhetorical and practical: Making measurement work after Fukushima
    ABE Yasuhito
    Workshop on Citizen Science and Technology in Japan and Belgium, Aug. 2017, Nominated symposium
  • Monitoring radiation: The birth of networked publics after Chernobyl
    Yasuhito Abe
    4S/EASST Conference, Sep. 2016, Oral presentation, 4S/EASST, Barcelona
  • Networked measuring citizenship after Fukushima
    Yasuhito Abe
    International Communication Association Preconference on New Media and Citizenship in Asia, Jun. 2016, Oral presentation, International Communication Association, Fukuoka
  • Redefining post-Fukushima Japanese soceity with data
    Yasuhito Abe
    5th Tokyo Conference on Argumentation, 2016, Oral presentation, Japan Debate Association, Rikkyo University
  • Shaping nuclear power with rhetoric: An rhetorical analysis of Nakasone Yasuhiro’s speech in 1955
    ABE Yasuhito
    Japan Studies Association Twenty-Second Annual Conference, Jan. 2016, Oral presentation
  • Measuring for what: Networked citizen science movements after the Fukushima nuclear accident
    ABE Yasuhito
    Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture, Jul. 2015, Public discourse, Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture, Sophia University
  • Mom’s revolution: Citizen science after the Fukushima Nuclear Accident
    Association for the Rhetoric of Science and Technology (ARST), Nov. 2014, Oral presentation
  • A narrative, ecological approach to political communication research
    Mazumdar, B.T; Abe, Y; Myers, S; Wenzel, A
    International Communication Association Preconference on Qualitative Political Communication Research, 2014, Oral presentation, International Communication Association, Seattle
  • Climate narratives in public relations and strategic communication
    Riley, P; Abe, Y; Evans, S; Guth, K; Noyes, A; Wang, R; Wang, X; Yan, B
    International Communication Association, 2014, Oral presentation, International Communication Association, Seattle
  • Japan’s energy and environmental policy at a crossroads after the Fukushima nuclear accident
    Yasuhito Abe; Masaaki Kishi
    The School of Pacific and Asian Studies (SPAS) Graduate Conference, 2013, Oral presentation, University of Hawaii at Manoa
  • Mapping nuclear radiation: Networked science communication after the Fukushima nuclear accident.
    USC Annenberg Graduate Fellowship Research and Creative Project Symposium, 2013
  • Climate change narratives in China, Japan, U.S. and Denmark
    the International Communication Association, 2013
  • "Save our kids!": Citizen science after the Fukushima nuclear accident
    Yasuhito Abe
    International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) Annual Conference, 2013, Oral presentation, International Association for Media and Communication Research, Dublin
  • Mapping nuclear radiation: Networked science communication after the Fukushima nuclear accident.
    USC Annenberg Graduate Fellowship Research and Creative Project Symposium, 2013
  • Why Safecast matters: A case study of collective risk assessment
    Yasuhito Abe
    STS forum on the 2011 Fukushima, 2013, Oral presentation, STS forum on the 2011 Fukushima, Berkeley, CA
  • Climate change narratives in China, Japan, U.S. and Denmark
    the International Communication Association, 2013
  • Collective nuclear risk knowledge production practices after the Fukushima nuclear accident
    Yasuhito Abe
    Society for Social Studies of Science (4S), 2013, Oral presentation
  • Historicizing the Fukushima nuclear crisis in Japan
    Yasuhito Abe
    International Communication Association, 2012, Oral presentation, International Communication Association, Phoenix, AZ
  • Analyzing the Fukushima nuclear crisis through uses of social media: A short essay on a work in progress
    Yasuhito Abe
    3.11 Virtual Conference, 2012, Invited oral presentation
  • Do-it-yourself (DIY) movements after the Fukushima nuclear crisis
    Yasuhito Abe
    Society for the History of Technology (SHOT) Annual Meeting, 2012, Oral presentation, Society for the History of Technology (SHOT), Copenhagen
  • “A place where drawing becomes more enjoyable”: Pixiv as a contested online community in an age of participatory culture
    Kohki Watabe; Yasuhito Abe
    National Communication Association 98th Annual Convention, 2012, Oral presentation
  • Reinventing Japanese “national character” after the 2011 Tohoku earthquake, tsunami and nuclear crisis
    Yasuhito Abe
    4th Tokyo Conference on Argumentation, 2011, Oral presentation, Japan Debate Association, Sophia Junior College
  • Parody diplomacy: A civic participatory diplomacy.
    2011 USC Annenberg Graduate Fellowship Research and Creative Project Symposium, 2011
  • Parody diplomacy: A civic participatory diplomacy
    Yasuhito Abe
    National Communication Association 97th Annual Convention, 2011, Oral presentation, National Communication Association, New Orleans
  • Edwin O. Reischauer in the scale of post war journalism of Japan
    Columbia University Graduate Student Conference in US-Japan Relations, 2008
  • The representations of Korea within Japanese newspapers in the process of the normalization of diplomacy between Japan and Republic of Korea (1961-1965)
    Yasuhito Abe
    Princeton University Second Annual Graduate Student Conference in East Asian Studies, 2008, Oral presentation, Princeton University

Works

  • Guide to Media Studies ver.1.0
    Hirofumi Katsuno; Yasuhito Abe; Koki Mizuide
    同志社大学学習支援・教育開発センターの教育方法・教材開発費制度を利用して開発された教材, Educational materials, 2024/03
  • Teach311
    Yasuhito Abe
    Educational materials, 2012 -2014, Teach311+Covid-19

Research Projects

  • An Empirical Study of Science Communication through Television and Its Reach to Uninterested Audiences
    Taichi Masu; Yasuhito Abe
    日本学術振興会, 科学研究費助成事業 基盤研究(C), 2025/04 -2028/03, Coinvestigator, Competitive research funding
  • The relationship between one-way and two-way approaches in science communication of marine biosciences: A case study on blue carbon
    Taichi Masu; Yasuhito Abe; Yuko Ikkatai
    Doshisha University, Department Research Grant, 2025/04 -2027/03, Coinvestigator, Competitive research funding, Doshisha University Harris Science Research Institute
  • Understanding the role of citizen science practices during the "recovery” period following the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Disaster
    Yasuhito Abe
    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (KAKENHI), 2024/04 -2027/03, Principal investigator, Competitive research funding, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research(C), Doshisha University
  • Exploring the role of mass media in promoting a new terminology on nature and environment: An analysis of the “Blue Carbon” Project by a television agency in Japan
    Taichi Masu; Yasuhito Abe; Masataka Watanabe; Yukiko Motomura
    Doshisha University, Department Research Grant, 2023/04 -2025/03, Coinvestigator, Competitive research funding, Doshisha University Harris Science Research Institute
  • A Content analysis of Japanese Television programs about new SDGs keyword "Blue Carbon", from the perspective of SDGs-Communication
    Taichi Masu; Yasuhito Abe
    Doshisha University, The SDGs Research Grant by the All Doshisha Research Model, 2023/04 -2024/03, Coinvestigator, Competitive research funding, Doshisha University
  • 市民による放射線データの利用に基づくメディアとしての可能性の検討
    Yasuhito Abe
    Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists, 2021/04 -2024/03, Principal investigator, Grant-in-Aid for Early-Career Scientists, Komazawa University
  • 英語圏ファン研究の批判的受容と日本・東アジアからの応答
    2022/08 -2023/07, Coinvestigator, サントリー文化財団 2022年度研究助成「学問の未来を拓く」
  • Thinking seriously about grassroots data after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster
    Abe Yasuhito
    This study investigates the role of Minna no data site (Combined Database of Independent Radioactivity Measurement Labs) in shaping data on soil contamination after the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster. While many studies have focused exclusively on how people engaged with data production practices after the disaster, this study shows the role of grassroots data or civic data in the post-Fukushima Japanese society by taking a look at how the data were actually used in everyday life., Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B), 2016/04 -2019/03, Principal investigator, Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B), 同志社大学・駒澤大学
  • Measuring for what: Networked citizen science movements after the Fukushima nuclear disaster
    Yasuhito Abe
    $35000, University of Southern California, The Research Enhancement Fellowship, 2014/05 -2015/03, Principal investigator, Competitive research funding, University of Southern California
  • Citizen-Driven Data: Legitimizing Civic Contributions to Scientific Knowledge After Fukushima
    $1000, University of Southern California Dornsife East Asian Studies Center, The ACE-Nikaido Fellowship, 2014/03 -2014/08, Principal investigator, Competitive research funding, University of Southern California
  • Exploring Post-Fukushima DIY Movements in Radiation Monitoring
    Yasuhito Abe
    $2500, University of Southern California Dornsife East Asian Studies Center, The ACE-Nikaido Fellowship, 2013/03 -2013/08, Principal investigator, Competitive research funding, University of Southern California
  • "Save our kids!": Citizen science after the Fukushima nuclear accident
    Yasuhito Abe
    $2000, University of Southern California Dornsife 2020 Research Cluster in Science, Technology and Society, Research Cluster in Science, Technology, and Society Summer Research Fellowship, 2012/04 -2012/08, Principal investigator, Competitive research funding, University of Southern California

Social Contribution

  • Fukushima and the Ocean: 10 Years of Study and Insight Virtual Poster Session "Science and Society" Co-chair, Atmosphere Ocean Research Institute The University of Tokyo & The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Fukushima Dai-ichi and the Ocean: 10 Years of Study and Insight, 2020/11-2021/03, Seminar
  • Exective Director at Kyoto Council on Media Studies, 2015-2018, Meeting
  • Exposure to Low-dose Radiation and Media after Fukushima, Kyoto Counsil on Media Studies, 2015/06/25-2015/06/25, Meeting
  • Mediated radiation risks, Tokyo Shinagawa Chuo Rotary Club, 2014/10/22-2014/10/22, Lecture
  • Annotator of literatures on the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake and Tsunami and Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Disaster on Teach 311 Project, Teach 311, Teach 311, 2012-2014, Internet

Media Coverage

  • Special Roundtable Discussion: We All Struggled... and Became Adults! Surrounding the son of Misae, the author of "Everyone Struggles to Become a Mom", Pr, Other than myself, Wife No. 404 (2023, Summer), Aug. 2023, pp.44-47
  • The Dark Side of Anime Marketing – Are We Crossing Ethical Boundaries? (Reprinted article), Internet, Other than myself, 26 May 2023, Professor Kay: Daily Science News
  • The Dark Side of Anime Marketing – Are We Crossing Ethical Boundaries? (Reprinted article), Internet, 26 May 2023, Today Headline
  • The Dark Side of Anime Marketing – Are We Crossing Ethical Boundaries? (Reprinted article), Internet, Other than myself, 26 May 2023, NewsBeezer.com
  • Le côté obscur du marketing d’anime – franchissons-nous des frontières éthiques ?(転載記事), Internet, Other than myself, 26 May 2023, Tech Tribune France: Dernières Nouvelles Technologiques
  • The Dark Side of Anime Marketing – Are We Crossing Ethical Boundaries?(転載記事), Internet, 26 May 2023, SciTechDaily
  • “Moe” than just advertisement: Reflections on the use of anime characters for tourism promotion (Reprinted article), Internet, Other than myself, 21 May 2023, Scientific Inquirer
  • “Moe” than just advertisement: Reflections on the use of anime characters for tourism promotion (Reprinted article), Internet, Other than myself, 17 May 2023, Science Magazine
  • 'Moe' than just advertisement: Reflections on the use of anime characters for tourism promotion (Reprinted), Internet, Other than myself, 17 May 2023, Phys.org
  • “Moe” than just advertisement: Reflections on the use of anime characters for tourism promotion, Pr, Other than myself, 17 May 2023, EurekAlert!
  • Can you explain the meaning of the word "convergence culture"? Interviewing a co-translator Yasuhito Abe, Internet, Apr. 2023, OCEANS WEB
  • F.I.N.的新語辞典 第87回 コンヴァージェンス・カルチャー, Internet, ⼤丸松坂屋百貨店 オウンドメディア F.I.N., Sep. 2022
  • Convergence Culture; on fans, creators, and the possibilities of fandoms, Internet, Other than myself, Mar. 2021, TOKION
  • 一億総「推し」社会を読み解くためのヒント『コンヴァージェンス・カルチャー』訳者座談会, Internet, Other than myself, Mar. 2021, wezzy ウェジー
  • 一般の人たちはどうすれば「ナメクジ」を探したいと思うのか - ユーザー参加型研究の可能性と課題, Internet, Other than myself, マイナビニュース, Mar. 2017

Teaching Experience

  • Research Seminar for Media and Communications (II)
    Doshisha University Graduate School
  • Theories and Concepts in Media and Communications (II)
    Doshisha University Grauate School
  • Research Seminar for Media and Communications (I)
    Doshisha University Graduate School
  • Theories and Concepts in Media and Communications (I)
    Doshisha University Graduate School
  • Seminar X B (Symbol and Media)
    Doshisha University Graduate School
  • Symbol and Media
    Doshisha University Graduate School
  • Seminar XIIA
    Doshisha University Graduate School
  • Theory of Information
    Doshisha University Graduate School
  • Contemporary Culture
    Doshisha University
  • Comunication Theory (in English)
    Doshisha University
  • Seminar IIIb
    Komazawa University
  • Seminar IIIa
    Komazawa University
  • Graduation thesis
    Komazawa University
  • Research Guidance on Global Media from the Perspective of Cultural Theory MA students
    Komazawa University Graduate School
  • Theories of media and communication for MA students
    Komazawa University Graduate School
  • Advanced Studies in Global Media Culture for MA students
    Komazawa University Graduate School
  • Theories of Global Media for MA students
    Komazawa University Graduate School
  • 日本事情XII(英語使用)
    駒澤大学
  • メディア学基礎演習II
    同志社大学
  • コミュニケーションと産業(英語使用)
    駒澤大学
  • コミュニケーションと文化
    駒澤大学
  • コミュニケーションとテクノロジー(英語使用)
    駒澤大学
  • コミュニケーションとマスメディア(英語使用)
    駒澤大学
  • コミュニケーションと社会
    駒澤大学
  • 映像コミュニケーション実習
    駒澤大学
  • オルタナティブメディア論
    駒澤大学
  • メディア社会史
    駒澤大学
  • グローバルメディアスタディーズ概論
    駒澤大学
  • 演習IIb
    駒澤大学
  • 演習IIa
    駒澤大学
  • 演習I
    駒澤大学
  • 新入生セミナー
    駒澤大学
  • コミュニケーション論
    同志社大学
  • メディア社会論
    同志社大学
  • 教育実践演習(中・高)
    同志社大学
  • 教育実習の研究
    同志社大学
  • 外国書購読II
    同志社大学
  • 外国書購読I
    同志社大学
  • メディア学演習IV
    同志社大学
  • メディア学演習III
    同志社大学
  • メディア学演習II
    同志社大学
  • メディア学演習I
    同志社大学
  • メディア学基礎演習I
    同志社大学
  • メディア学実習
    同志社大学
  • ファーストイヤーセミナー
    同志社大学

Others

  • A book blurb for The Policy Uptake of Citizen Sensing by Anna Berti Suman (Edward Elgar Publishing)
    2021/08
  • Syllabus mention: CMS.631/CMS.831 Data Storytelling Studio, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Spring 2015
    2015 -2015
  • Syllabus mention: Science and Citizenship: Environment, Technology & Democracy (ENVI 335/POLI 335) , Macalester College, Spring 2015
    2015