We reached a point to look back at a history after war by passing more

than 60 years after the end of the war. Nostalgia for Showa period recently can

be the one of the example. However, while the image of nostalgic Showa period

is still alive and people comfortably recollect the past, some memory was

pushed away and some memory is meaningly selected. And then, this phenomenon

has not seen only recently.

　　Before the war, during the war, after the war, also Showa period, what

kind of memory has been selected and pushed away. Focusing this kind of phenomenon,

the theme of this special edition gives us some thought of the politics

of the story of Showa period.

　　In addition, these points are focused for the discussion among our academy.

In the spring academic meeting 2009, the title of the first symposium was“ The

memory of Showa period and public opinion or popular sentiments”. Also the

workshops such as“ War and journalism”（ media history academic project） and

“Visual image of ‘the memory of war’ and archive” have held under similar

theme.

　　This special edition has been projected including the study trends above.

6 papers in this journal have been written independently, however, we can find

out some similarity of examining of‘ Showa’ and‘ the booms of Showa’ in the

view point of media study and mass communication study.

　　I wish to activate the discussion in this field after the publication of this

special edition.

　This paper aims at examining Roger Silverstone’s works on the museum,

and articulating their possibility in Media Studies. In the 1990’s, Silverstone indicated

that the characteristic of the museum as a medium is the multi-layered

disposition of media installed in/through the museum. By expanding his idea,

the museum can be conceptualized as a media complex, which is a theoretical

framework to consider both the consumption of the museum as a whole, and

that of each medium spatially embedded in the museum. This viewpoint would

also contribute to the current arguments over media consumption in public

spaces from the 1990’s.

　Previous studies of Japanese media history focused on the practices of

radio amateurs in prewar Japan. However, in postwar Japan, they played a

more active role. They crafted radio receivers and audio sets themselves, and

contributed to the development of media technology.

　　This paper attempts to describe their practices in prewar and postwar

Japan. Radio craft was a material practice which meant that crafting equipment

became a hobby, and the popularization and decline of radio craft in postwar

Japan was a process in which a diversity of other radio experiences converged

with receiving programs.

　The purpose of this article is to examine the emergence of fashion magazine

(Hukushoku-Zasshi), especially the change from clothing magazin

(Hukuso-Zasshi) to fashion magazine. I focus magazine So-en to consider how

readers read the clothing magazine and fashion magazine. And I explore how

and when the design of magazine changed. When reading clothing magazine,

readers read to make western clothes, and when reading fashion magazine

readers read to develop a sense of style. The change of the way to read

emerged around 1960, and the design of the magazine changed as well.

In the current Internet environment, newspaper companies manage their

own websites to provide not only news but various kinds of information. This

study examined the trend of Japanese newspaper websites, especially focusing

on what information they disseminate, and what technologies they use.

　　In this study, contents and technologies of one hundred and twenty-three

newspaper websites were analyzed. The sample was divided into three groups

based on circulation size. The results show that news and daily life information

make up the most part of the contents of the websites in general. And while

the websites of the large-sized papers offer as much contents as general portal

sites, those of the medium-sized papers put emphasis on local news and information.

In addition, the small sized-papers’ websites lagged behind the large

and medium in both contents and technologies in this study.

The purpose of this study is to consider about journalism from Antonio

Gramsci’s Prison Notebooks. There were some issues that Gramsci’s writings

were applied in sociology of the mass media, however, a part of which were argued

within fragmentary viewpoints. Therefore, I have not only examined how

journalism was directly depicted, but discussed it with the other main themes

in Prison Notebooks ― “intellectuals”, “party”, “Americanism and Fordism”

and “philosophy of praxis”. In conclusion, I give three criticisms ― parties as

press; everyone be a journalist; war of information ― on the further studies.

　The purpose of this paper is to historically examine the opinion poll – a

system which was introduced to Japan – and to provide a multi-layered illustration

of its viewpoint structure.

　　We will first look at the role which opinion polls played in GHQ, and identify

the positions of multiple polling organizations within the structure. Next, we

will examine the viewpoints established by sociologists employed by PO&SR,

and highlight the fact that they relied on applied sociology and acknowledged

the opinion polls as a social technology. This paper will re-examine the opinion

poll under the confused ideology of GHQ.

　The purpose of this study is to examine the influences of‘ broadcast spillover

from Japan’ in Pusan, Korea in the 1950-70s and understand the cultural

meaning of the historical process. Japanese broadcast by spill-over not only has

influenced on Korean broadcast system deeply, but also has been enjoyed by

people as a kind of popular culture in everyday life in the situation that it had

been banned to import Japanese popular culture. What this study showed was

that a number of attitudes, gazes, and strategies on political, economical, social

and cultural levels have been involved complicatedly in this issue.

　This paper aims to clarify class-consciousness and its changing process

appeared in popular newspapers in early modern Japan. The research is based

on a study of the /Yomiuri Shimbun/, /Tokyo Eiri Shimbun/, /Kanayomi Shimbun/

and some other newspapers in 1870s.

　　Until 1877, in the trend of civilization, writers and contributors of popular

newspapers had admonished urban people who were mainly comprised of artisans

and rickshaw drivers. But from mid-1877, as the trend became weaker, the

media began to consider it unnecessary to admonish them anymore, and started

to call them“ inferior class”