Report on the Trauma Reporting Study Group for 2022
2023.Apr.17
The Trauma Reporting Study Group held ten sessions from the 9th to the 18th in FY2022. Two of the sessions featured guest speakers who shared their experiences as interviewees and interviewers. For the other eight sessions, the group continued reading a British book Trauma Reporting: A Journalist's Guide to Covering Sensitive Stories (2019) by Jo Healey.
Report on the 18th B’AI Book Club
B’AI Global Forum, Yuko Itatsu, Ai Hisano (ed.) “Understanding AI in Society: How Technology Exerts Power” (2023)
2023.Apr.13
On March 22, 2023, the 18th meeting of the B'AI Book Club, a book review session by project members of the B'AI Global Forum, was held online. Associate Professor Ai Hisano reviewed our first book titled “Understanding AI in Society: How Technology Exerts Power,” which was published in March 2023.
Report on the First Event for the Publication of “Iine! botan o osu mae ni: jendā kara miru netto kūkan to media (Before Clicking the Like Button: Internet Space and Media from the Gender Perspective)” entitled “Who are ‘Influencers’?”
2023.Apr.12
On March 1, 2023, "Media and Diversity Forum (MeDi)” held its first event to celebrate the publication of its second book titled “Iine! botan o osu mae ni: jendā kara miru netto kūkan to media (Before Clicking the Like Button: Internet Space and Media from the Gender Perspective).” The event focused on the topic of “Who are ‘Influencers’?”
The 10th BAIRAL Research Meeting for 2022 Report on “Talking about SF Prototyping or not”
2023.Mar.20
On March 3, 2023, the 10th BAIRAL Research Meeting for 2022, organized by the research assistants of the B'AI Global Forum, was held online. SF Writer Kyosuke Higuchi was invited to speak on the topic “Talking about SF prototyping or not.”
Report on the 17th B’AI Book Club
James A. Banks, Cultural Diversity and Education: Foundations, Curriculum, and Teaching, 6th Edition (2016)
2023.Mar.13
On February 28, 2023, B’AI Book Club, a book review session by the members of the B’AI Global Forum, held its seventeenth meeting online. Research Assistant Masao Oi introduced Cultural Diversity and Education: Foundations, Curriculum, and Teaching (6th Edition) by James A. Banks (Routledge, 2016).
Report on Lecture by Dr. Aynne Kokas “Trafficking Data: How China is Winning the Battle for Digital Sovereignty”
2023.Feb.20
On August 8, 2022, B‘AI Global Forum invited Dr. Aynne Kokas, who is the C.K. Yen Professor at the Miller Center and an associate professor of media studies at the University of Virginia. She gave a lecture based on her book “Trafficking Data: How China is Winning the Battle for Digital Sovereignty” (Oxford University Press, October 2022).
The 8th BAIRAL Research Meeting for 2022 Report on “Digital Humanities and AI: Particularity, Commonality and Bias”
2023.Jan.17
On December 16, 2022, the 8th BAIRAL research meeting for 2022, organized by the research assistants of the B'AI Global Forum, was held online. Associate Professor Ikki Ohmukai of the Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology at the University of Tokyo was invited to speak on the topic “Digital Humanities and AI: Particularity, Commonality and Bias.”
Report on the Lecture by Dr. Justin Gest “Majority Minority: How Do Societies Respond to Demographic Change?”
2023.Jan.17
On September 28, 2022, the B’AI Global Forum held a lecture by Dr. Justin Gest entitled “Majority Minority: How Do Societies Respond to Demographic Change?” in collaboration with ITASIA Program at the Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies, the University of Tokyo.
Report on the 13th B’AI Book Club
Paul Roquet, The Immersive Enclosure: Virtual Reality in Japan (2022)
2023.Jan.17
On July 26, 2022, B’AI Book Club, a book review session by the members of the B’AI Global Forum, held its thirteenth meeting online. Research Assistant Hiroki Kato introduced The Immersive Enclosure: Virtual Reality in Japan (Columbia University Press, 2022).