抄録
This special issue is a collection of papers based on the symposium 2, Spring Study Program at Kansai University (Jul. 4. 2010), titled "A Study of Media Culture; Issues and Perspectives. At the symposium, members discussed about the condition of "the study", area issues, issues of the methods, direction of future perspectives, based on the keyword of "Media Culture, with 5 presenters and debaters. A study of journalism is the most important column for a study of mass communication, on the other hands, in these days, also a media acceptance as entertainment and culture among peoples' daily life from public culture and popular culture to youth culture. Also study areas are expanding from mass media to net culture and sub culture. Our main focus for the symposium was to discuss about these emerging changes form the interests of "how to study media culture". In this special issue, we asked to each discussant to bring again the issues which they could not discuss enough at the symposium. We can publish these discussions in "the shape" of this special issue, since each discussant has accepted our offers of scheme sincerely and I thank you to all of them. In this special issue, Kyoko Koizumi who was a symposium chair and worked at the beginning of the planning of this symposium, Masato Hasegawa and Koji Namba who presented the issues, and Yasuaki Narita, Hajime Hasegawa, Mamiko Hayashida who were debaters, and these 6 members have developed the discussion relatively freely to beyond to individual roll at symposium. It is hoped that this special issue will become a stimulus even a little, especially to many readers who are interested in the symposium and also to young researchers who are studying in the field of media culture.
