“Keitai Trail!” is a collaborative media practice, designed to collect, connect and visualize people’s stories through a game-like activity. We used “keitai(mobile phone in Japanese” as a main activity tool, not only in order to invite people in their most familiar setting, but also to explore a new way of using mobile phones for media […]
mediabiotope
A sphere of polyphonic chats, loosely knitted by members of Shin’s seminar. 「民放連プロジェクト」、「ろっぽんプロジェクト」をはじめ、各地の放送局などで展開されている、マスメディアと市民の回路づくりを目指すメディア・リテラシー実践のための広場
A-I-U-E-O Gabun
” A-I-U-E-O Gabun -weave the memories of community-” (“Gabun”, litteraly “pictures and sentences,” hereafter called ‘gabun’) is a photo and wordplay activity inspired by the tradition of Japanese word game forms. It is moreover a simple storytelling project consisting of photographs and sentences aimed to encouraging sustainable local communication and community building. Gabun has been […]
Radio Community Quest!
Radique! (Radio Community Quest) is a ‘quest workshop’, where participants explore local towns with map and IC recorder in hand, recording their experiences, cutting and editing and finally sharing these local stories on community radio stations. Radique! workshops were held so far in local shopping districts of Kyoto and Kobe, joined by students from Yuko […]
Media Conte
Media Conte is a digital storytelling project, focusing on the people who are marginalized and tell their untold stories. With the storytelling movement found in the West, it is often said that “everyone has a story to tell,” and so in workshops conducted on the theme, participants appear to feel like they are expected to […]
Toyama Photo Senryu
“Toyama Photo Senryu” is a media literacy project conducted in collaboration with Tulip Television, a commercial broadcasting station in Toyama prefecture. It was moreover a cross media activity using the TV program and an official website for both PC and mobile phone. Alongside this, several workshops were held in Toyama prefecture and Tokyo. In this […]
d’CATCH Project
This project has been designed to implement and learn about “Media Literacy” and “Cross- cultural Communication and Understanding” through exchange and joint creation of video pictures cross- culturally. In the globalized media society of Asia, diversity of media and coexistence of cultures is studies based on the cross-border media created by students.
Japan Media Literacy Research Institute (FCT)
Many resources in Japanese—– The FCT Japan Media Literacy Research Institute(FCT) was founded in 1977 (originally as the Forum for Children’s Television). FCT carries out various activities such as sponsoring forums and workshops, conducting research analyses on media content, public access, and building global networks. Now FCT focuses on the following 5 main themes: “Children, […]
FCT Japan Media Literacy Research Institute
The FCT Japan Media Literacy Research Institute(FCT) was founded in 1977 (originally as the Forum for Children’s Television). FCT carries out various activities such as sponsoring forums and workshops, conducting research analyses on media content, public access, and building global networks. Now FCT focuses on the following 5 main themes: “Children, Young people and media”, […]
Media Education Centre (MEC) for children and youth
The Media Education Centre (MEC) for children and youth is founded as no-political, no-profit NGO, gathering civilest willing to work for aims of scientific and professional researches about influence and application of media in no-formal education of children through media literacy, and in accordance with human and children rights on access to information, rights to […]