Research keywords (4)：
gender
, intimacy
, digital technology
, media
Research theme for competitive and other funds (9)：
2021 - 2024 The Construction of Gender Norms in National and Transnational Digital Media Spaces
2019 - 2024 The rise of social media and the construction of Gender and Sexuality Norms
2020 - 2023 Emotional AI in Cities: Cross Cultural Lessons from UK and Japan on Designing for An Ethical Life
2017 - 2019 Gender representation in a Japanese women's magazine, an an
2012 - 2014 Women's political participation and policy change
2010 - 2011 Empirical research on family factors that promote women's political participation
2010 - 2010 International German-Japanese Symposium: Life Course in Flux
2001 - 2004 Japanese women's networks in a global era
2002 - 2002 Fieldwork on transnational women's networks
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Papers (16)：
Ho, M. H. S., & Tanaka, H. Following Naomi Osaka and Rui Hachimura on Social Media: Silent Activism and Sport Commodification of Multiracial Japanese Athletes. Social Media + Society. 2023
H, M. H. S & Tanaka, H. How Nissin Represented Naomi Osaka: Race, Gender, and Sport in Japanese Advertising. Communication & Sport. 2022. 10. 4. 594-615
The youth's social media use and gender. Information and Communication Studies. 2021. 20. 95-110
H. Tanaka, K. Koma. Gender representation in contemporary media: Changing images of women in a women's magazine, an an. Memoirs of Institute of Cultural Sciences, Meiji University. 2020. 87
Hiromi Tanaka. Gender issues in communication: Old and new challenges. Journal of Japan Association of Physical Education for Women. 2019. 62. 2019.12-1. 12-15
Azuma Hikari, My Healing Bride: Tracing Gender and Human-Machine Intimacies in Contemporary Japan
(73rd Annual International Communication Association Conference 2023)
Digital intimacy in human-machine relationships: Gendered representations in fiction and beyond
(EMTECH Conference 2022: Narrating Emotional Closeness between Humans and Machines in Japanese (Popular) Culture and Literature 2022)
Romancing AI: New Digital Intimacies in Contemporary Japan
(Invited talk, Department of Media and Communication Research, University of Zurich 2022)
Affective politics of digital feminism: Complexities of feminism in Japan’s social media space
(IAMCR Beijing 2022 2022)
Connectivity and Division, and what?: Social Media, Social Change and New possibilities
(Japanese Association of Media, Journalism and Communication Studies, Symposium: Everyday Lives of Social Media 2022)
2014/04 - 現在 Meiji University School of Information and Communication Associate Professor
2022 - 2023 University of Amsterdam Visiting Researcher
2011/04 - 2014/03 Meiji University School of Information and Communication Assistant Professor
Awards (3)：
2014/11 - Srinakharinwirot University Best Paper Award, International Interdisciplinary Symposium, Knowledge Construction through the Lens of Social and Cultural Diversity
2011/12 - Encouragement Award, Encouragement Program for Promoting Gender and Low Fertility Research, Hodogaya Foundation
2001/04 - Heinrich Boell Foundation Doctoral Research Fellowship/Scholarship (3 years)
Association Membership(s) (5)：
International Communication Association
, Japan Society for Sport and Gender Studies
, International Society for Gender Studies
, The Japan Sociological Society
, International Sociological Association
