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OHASHI Kana

Department / Course

Tokyo Keizai University Communication Studies

Job Associate Professor

Home Page
http://visual-ethnography-lab.tokyo

Business career
2022/04/01 ～	Associate Professor Tokyo Keizai University Communication Studies
2020/04/01 ～ 2022/03/31	Full-Time Lecturer Tokyo Keizai University Communication Studies

Degree/Academic background
2014/04～2018/09	Doctoral Program (2nd Semester) Keio University Finished
2011/04～2011/06	Documentary Filmmaking Programme MET Film School
2000/04～2004/03	Keio University Graduated

Reseach Areas
Sociology

Book and thesis
2024/04	Papers	Creating “Safe Places” in Social Media: Japanese Youth’s Tactics of Self-Presentation During the COVID-19 Pandemic Social Media + Society 10 (2),pp.1-13 (Co-authored)
2021/12	Papers	Visualising Rapid Life Transitions: Ethnographic Documentary Filmmaking Through Smartphone-based Collaborative Research Visual Ethnography 10 (2),pp.49-65 (Co-authored)
2020/08/17	Books	"Digital Media Practices in Households: Kinship through Data" (Co-authored)
2018/09	Papers	Mobile Media Photography and Intergenerational Families “International Journal of Communication” (12 (2018)),pp.4106-4122 (Co-authored)
2017/04	Papers	Digital Genealogies: Understanding social mobile media LINE in the role of Japanese families’ “Social Media and Society” (April-June 2017),pp.1-12 (Co-authored)
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Academic conference presentation
2025/06/26	Textural Fragments of a Place Memory: A Collage Film Workshop (The 42nd International Visual Sociology Association Conference in 2025 (IVSA 2025))
2024/09/28	Ethnographic filmmaking and screening as an ethical and collaborative research method (Korean Association for Cultural Sociology Fall 2024 International Conference)
2022/09/15	Designing and implementing a method of screening a film produced by a visual ethnography research project (The International Visual Sociology Association (IVSA) 2022 Live Virtual Conference)
2021/11	Exploring the experiences of virtual travels under the COVID-19: A visual ethnographic study in Japan (T2M 19th Annual Conference –Mobilities in transition: circulation, appropriation, globalization)
2021/03/25	Understanding and expressing lived-experiences of people who go through life transitions using smartphones (RAI Film Festival conference 2021 Online Edition)
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Other Research Achievements
2022/04	"Transition" (Riga Pasaules Film Festival 2022 in Latvia)
2020/06	"Transition" (The 20th Nippon Connection Online Film Festival)
2019/11	“Transition” (The 32nd edition of International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2019)

Belonging society
2019/03	International Visual Sociology Association