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Mayuko Watanabe

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Name
  
Mayuko Watanabe


Born
  
1975
Aichi Prefecture

Occupation
  
Journalist Media Scholar

Education
  
Keio University, Simon Fraser University

Mayuko Watanabe (渡辺 真由子, Watanabe Mayuko, born 1975) is an award-winning Japanese journalist and media scholar specialized in media literacy, gender and sexuality. She has been a Senior Researcher at Keio University Research Institute. Her research interest through nearly 20 years of career including as a TV news reporter has been the way of regulatory policy of obscene expressions. She has published research and provided media commentary on the topics of media communication and literacy of Japanese obscene content.

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Works

Watanabe works on the Japanese Government to apply a concept of "Dignity in Obscene Expression" to its regulatory policy. She has served as a lecturer of Internet moral education for Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, and also as a lecturer of human rights for Ministry of Justice.

Selected articles

  • 2015 International trend and human rights over child pornography:the future agenda of Japan

    • Information and Communications Policy Review No.10 March 2015

  • 2012 A Review of Research which Discusses the Effects of Obscene Harmful Information from Old Media to the Internet The Japan Society of Information and Communication Research No.30 (2), 2012
  • 2012 Regulations and Media Literacy Education on Online Obscene Harmful Information: A Japanese Perspective Keio Communication Review No.34, 2012

    • Books

  • 2013 Media Literacy of Obscene Information among Youth in Japan (Amazon Services International, Inc.)
  • 2010 When Children Expose Their Secrets Online: addicted to SNS (Shufunotomo Co., Ltd., Tokyo)
  • 2008 The Truth of Cyber bullying (Minerva Publishing, Inc., Kyoto)
  • 2007 Media Literacy for Adults (Liberta Publishing Co., Ltd., Tokyo)

    • Awards

    Mayuko Watanabe has received prestigious awards as a director of Radio documentary Suicide of 16 years old boy- What did the bereaved family fight against?

  • 2000 Highest award from the Japan Commercial Broadcasters Association
  • 2000 Award for excellence from the Hoso Bunka Foundation

    • References

    Mayuko Watanabe Wikipedia
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