With Convergence Culture Consortium faculty advisors Ian Condry and Robert Kozinets, associate professor of marketing at the Schulich School of Business, York University, Toronto.
Ian Condry on the prevalence of giant robots in anime and Cynthia Breazeal on how science fiction has influenced the development of real robotic systems.
Featuring social scientists, media theorists, writers, artists, activists, this unconference asks: "How can we dissolve the structures of power that produce today’s inequalities?"
Professor Ian Condry explores contemporary Japanese music, with a comparison of diverse examples, such as female Japanese rappers, underground techno festivals, the virtual idol Hatsune Miku, and the pop idol group AKB48.
