MITANI Fumie

Department of JournalismAssociate Professor

Degree

  • BA in Journalism, Sophia University, Mar. 2007
  • Master of Law, Keio University, Mar. 2009
  • Doctor of the Science of Law, Keio University, Oct. 2017

Research Keyword

  • Political Communication
  • Mass Communication
  • Journalism
  • Foreign Policy
  • East Asia

Field Of Study

  • Humanities & social sciences, Sociology, Sociology
  • Humanities & social sciences, Politics, Politics
  • Humanities & social sciences, International relations, International relations

Career

  • Oct. 2020 - Present
    Nihon University, College of Law, Associate Professor
  • Oct. 2019 - Sep. 2020
    Nihon University, College of Law, Assistant Professor
  • Apr. 2018 - Sep. 2019
    Nihon University, College of Law, Assistant Professor
  • Apr. 2014 - Mar. 2018
    Keio University, Institute for Journalism, Media & Communication Studies, Research Associate

Member History

  • Jul. 2021 - Jun. 2023
    Plans board, Japanese Society for Studies in Journalism and Mass Communication
  • Jul. 2019 - Jun. 2021
    Editorial board, Japanese Society for Studies in Journalism and Mass Communication
  • 2018 - 2018
  • 2018 - 2018
    英文ジャーナル(Asian Journal of Journalism and Media Studies) 編集委員, 日本マス・コミュニケーション学会

Award

  • The Telecommunication Advancement Foundation, テレコム人文学・社会科学賞 奨励賞
    『歴史認識問題とメディアの政治学:戦後日韓関係をめぐるニュースの言説分析 』

Paper

  • 「復興」をめぐるメディアと政治:メディア・イベント論の観点から
    三谷文栄
    ジャーナリズム&メディア, Mar. 2023
  • Journalism and "Politics of Emotionality"
    Mitani; F.
    HOGAKU KENKYUーJournal of Law, Politics and Sociology, Mar. 2021, Not refereed, Invited
    Lead
  • Populism and News Sources in Election Coverage: Cases of Elections for Lower House in 2012 and Upper House in 2013
    Mitani; F.
    Keio Communication Review, Mar. 2020, Refereed, Not invited
    Lead
  • Media Event and News Coverage of Protest Movement
    Mitani; F.
    Journalism & Media, Sep. 2019, Refereed, Not invited
    Lead
  • A Reexamination of the Media Populism: its Conceptual Development and Analytical Framework
    Mitani; F.
    Seikei Kenkyu (Studies in Political Science and Economics), Jul. 2019, Refereed, Not invited
    Lead
  • Whose voices are reflected in the news?—An analysis of newspaper articles on the comfort women issue in 2013
    Mitani; F.
    Keio Communication Review, Mar. 2019, Refereed, Not invited
    Lead
  • A Consideration on the Disruptive Function in the Media Event Theory
    Mitani; F.
    Journalism & Media, Feb. 2019, Not refereed, Not invited
    Lead
  • Foreign Policy and Political Communication: The Case of Historical Disputes between Japan and South Korea
    Mitani; F.
    Oct. 2017, Refereed, Not invited
    Lead
  • Transformation of media discourses triggered by the Fukushima nuclear power plants disaster : Cases of the Mainichi Newspaper editorials (2011-2013)
    Oga, T; Yamakoshi, S; Mitani, F; Ishida, E; Tomiura, Y
    Media Communication, Mar. 2017, Refereed, Not invited
  • NHK Coverage on the Designated Secrets Law in Japan: “Indexing” Political Debate in the Diet
    Mitani; F.
    Keio Communication Review, Mar. 2015, Refereed, Not invited
    Lead
  • A Consideration on Foreign Policy-Media-Public Opinion Nexus: From W. Lippmann's Public Opinion
    Mitani; F.
    Media Communication, Mar. 2014, Refereed, Not invited
    Lead
  • Media Discourse on the Japanese History Textbook Controversy of 1982: From the Perspective of Foreign Policy and Media Frame
    Mitani; F.
    GSTF Journal on Media & Communications, Mar. 2013, Refereed, Not invited
  • Theoretical Development of the CNN Effect: Examining the Concept of Frame
    Mitani; F.
    Media Communication, Mar. 2013, Refereed, Not invited
    Lead
  • Media Frame Analysis on Japanese History Textbook Controversy in 1982: From a Perspective of Foreign Policy and Media
    Mitani; F.
    Proceedings of the Annual International Conference on Journalism & Mass Communications, Dec. 2012, Refereed, Not invited
  • Foreign Policy and Media: From a Perspective of Justification
    Mitani; F.
    Media Communication, Mar. 2012, Refereed, Not invited
    Lead
  • Transition of Media Discourse over the Normalization Talks of Japan-Korea Relations: Political Legitimization and Frame Analysis
    Mitani; F.
    Keio University Journal of Law and Politics, Dec. 2011, Refereed, Not invited
    Lead
  • Media’s Role in Japan’s Foreign Policy Process: A Case Study of the Comfort Women Issue in 2007
    Mitani; F.
    Journal of Mass Communication Studies, Aug. 2010, Refereed, Not invited
    Lead

MISC

  • (海外研究動向/英語圏)社会科学の学術誌における脱西欧化の一般化
    三谷 文栄
    ジャーナリズム&メディア, Mar. 2024, Not refereed
    Lead
  • (海外研究動向/英語圏)誤情報とメディア不信:COVID-19とウクライナ危機
    三谷文栄
    ジャーナリズム&メディア, Mar. 2023, Not refereed
    Lead
  • Author's Reply to Book Review
    Mitani; F.
    Mita Journal of Sociology, Jul. 2022, Not refereed
  • (Research Trend) For Analysis of Media Discourse on Covid-19
    Mitani; F.
    Journalism & Media, Mar. 2022
  • Book Review: Emotions, Media and Politics, Karin Wahl-Jorgensen, Polity Press, Cambridge, 2019, 220 pages
    Fumie MITANI and Shuzo YAMAKOSHI
    Keio Communication Review, Mar. 2022
  • Researcher's Eye 現実と研究のはざまで
    三田評論, May 2021, Not refereed, Invited
  • (Research Trend) Political Communication Study and Datafication: 2020 Presidential Election and Disinformation
    Mitani; F.
    Journalism & Media, Mar. 2021, Not refereed, Not invited
    Lead
  • (Research Trend) Challenges Facing Journalism Studies
    Mitani; F.
    Journalism & Media, Mar. 2020, Not refereed, Not invited
    Lead
  • (Book Review)P.W.Singer and Emerson T. Brooking (trans. Yukari Kobayashi) Like War: The Weaponization of Social Media
    Fumie Mitani
    Journal of International Security, Dec. 2019, Not refereed, Invited
    Lead
  • (Research Trend) Challenge of Political Communication in USA
    Mitani; F.
    Journalism & Media, Feb. 2019, Not refereed, Invited
    Lead
  • International News and Television Journalism during the 1980s
    Mitani; F.
    Sep. 2015, Not refereed, Not invited
    Lead

Books and other publications

  • ★ソーシャルメディア時代の「大衆社会」論――「マス」概念の再検討
    津田正太郎; 烏谷正幸; 山口仁; 山腰修三編著, Contributor, 第4章 現代社会におけるマス・コミュニケーションと感情
    ミネルヴァ書房, 2024
  • ★Media and Politics on History Issue in Japan
    Single work, Mitani; F.
    勁草書房, Jun. 2021
  • ★(Translation) Emotions, Media and Politics
    Mitani; F. and Yamakoshi; S., Joint translation, 序章、第2章、第4章、第5章、終章, Karin Wahl-Jorgensen
    Keiso Shobo, Nov. 2020
  • ★Routledge International Handbook on Electoral Debates
    Julio Juárez-Gámiz; Christina Holtz-Bacha; Alan Schroeder, Joint work, Chapter 21 "Transformation of the Electoral Debate in Japan: Its Content and Context ", Julio Juárez-Gámiz; Christina Holtz-Bacha; Alan Schroeder
    Routledge, May 2020
  • The COVID-19 Pandemic and Risks in East Asia: Media, Social Reactions, and Theories
    Shuzo Yamakoshi and Fumie Mitani, Contributor, Chapter 8 Mediated Experience of the COVID-19 Pandemic and the Politics of Emotion in Japan, Nobuto Yamamoto (ed.)
    Routledge, Nov. 2022
  • 入門メディア社会学
    Contributor, 第8章 メディア・イベント論の新たな拡がり――デジタルメディア環境における社会的「統合」と「分断」――, 井川充雄・木村忠正編
    ミネルヴァ書房, Sep. 2022
  • Media Politics in the Age of Antagonisms
    Contributor, 第1章 「統合」と「分断」のメディア・イベントーー川崎ヘイトスピーチデモの報道を事例として, Yamakoshi; S. ed.
    慶應義塾大学出版会, Apr. 2022
  • 共生社会の再構築Ⅲ 国際規範の競合と調和
    大賀哲; 中野涼子; 松本佐保編, Contributor, 第10章 1990年代の慰安婦問題をめぐるメディア・フレームの競合, 大賀哲・中野涼子・松本佐保編
    法律文化社, Feb. 2020
  • (Translation) Media, Society, World: Social Theory and Digital Practice
    Nick Couldry, Single translation, Chapter 3 Media as Ritual and Social Form, Nick Couldry
    Keio University Press, Nov. 2018, Not refereed
  • Media and Nuclear Energy in the Post-War Japan: Political Soiology of Nuclear Energy Coverage
    Yamakoshi, S, Contributor, Chapter 4 Discourse Formation on Nuclear Exports Policy in Japan: Foreign Policy, Media, Public Opinion, Yamakoshi; S. (Ed)
    Minerva, Mar. 2017, Not refereed
  • Media's Role in Disaster: Examination of News Coverages
    Kawai, T; Yamakoshi, S; Oi, S, Contributor, Chapter 4 Nuclear Energy for Global Warming Privention: Analysis of News Coverage on the Kyoto Protocol, Kawai; T.; Yamakoshi; S.; and Oi; S. (eds.)
    Japan Press Research Institute, Jan. 2013, Not refereed
  • (Translation) McQuail's Mass Communication Theory: 5th Edition
    McQuail, D, Single translation, Chapter 13 Media Content: Issues, Concepts and Methods of Analysis (Translation), McQuail; D.
    Keio University Press, Apr. 2010, Not refereed

Lectures, oral presentations, etc.

  • 「復興」をめぐるメディアと政治――メディア・イベント論の観点から――
    三谷文栄
    シンポジウム「復興を問い続ける~終わりなき震災報道~」, Feb. 2023, 日本大学新聞学研究所
  • 責任論の位相:朝日新聞ー民主主義的コミュニケーションをめぐる危機とその批判
    山腰修三・三谷文栄
    政治社会学会研究セミナー, Sep. 2021, 政治社会学会
  • デジタルメディア時代におけるメディアと民主主義:ヘイトスピーチデモをめぐるマスメディア報道とソーシャルメディアの反応
    三谷文栄
    デジタル時代における民主主義を考える有識者会議スピンオフ研究会, Aug. 2021, Invited
  • Mediated Experience of the COVID-19 Pandemic and Politics of Emotion
    Shuzo YAMAKOSHI and Fumie MITANI
    KGRI International online conference, Risk Society and the Media in an Uncertain Age, Feb. 2021, Keio Global Research Institute, Invited
  • The Crisis and its Responsibility in the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster: Media Discourse Analysis of Asahi Shimbun Editorials
    Yamakoshi; S. and Mitani; F.
    The Association for the Study of Political Society, Nov. 2019, Not invited
  • Who Gets in the News?: A Case Study of Populist Party’s Campaigns in Japan
    Annual Meeting of American Political Science Association 2019, Aug. 2019, American Political Science Association, Not invited
  • Protest Movements as Media Event: the Disruptive Function and Hate Speech Movement in Japan
    Annual Conference on International Association for Media and Communications Research, Jul. 2019, International Association for Media and Communications Research, Not invited
  • Populism as Risk and Journalist's Sources in Japan: "Ordinary People" in Election Campaign Coverage
    Mitani; Fumie
    International Symposium "How to Approach Risk Society: Theories and Case Studies", Mar. 2019, Keio University Global Research Institute, Invited
  • Populism and Voices in the Mass Media: How the Mass Media Reported People’s Voices on the Issue of Comfort Women in 2013
    International Conference of Asian Congress for Media and Communication, Oct. 2018, Not invited
  • Media Discourse On Human Rights Issue: A Case Of Comfort Women Issue During The 1990s
    International Conference on Multicultural Democracy, May 2018, Not invited
  • Crisis Reporting Today: What Is “Risk” for Us?
    Fumie Mitani
    Symposium, Keio Global Research Institute, Dec. 2016, Not invited
  • Transformation of Discourse on the Comfort Women Issue: Focusing on the First and Second Abe Administrations
    Fumie Mitani
    Annual Conference on International Association for Media and Communications Research, Jul. 2016, Not invited
  • NHK Coverage on the Designated Secrets Law in Japan: From Perspective of the Public Interest of NHK
    Fumie Mitani
    RIPE (Re-Visionary Interpretations of the Public Enterprise) Conference, Aug. 2014, Not invited
  • Transformation of Media Discourse on Comfort Women Issue in 1990s Japan: A Media Frame Analysis
    Fumie Mitani
    International Symposium on Designing Governance for Civil Society, Feb. 2013, Not invited
  • Media Frame Analysis on Japanese History Textbook Controversy in 1982: From a Perspective of Foreign Policy and Media
    Fumie Mitani
    Annual International Conference on Journalism & Mass Communications, Dec. 2012, Not invited
  • Media Frame Analysis on History Textbook Controversy: Foreign Policy and Media
    Fumie Mitani
    Japan Society for Studies in Journalism and Mass Communication, Jun. 2012, Not invited
  • Examining Entman's Cascading Activation Model: A Case of Comfort Women Issue in 2007
    Mitani Fumie
    Japan Society for Studies in Journalism and Mass Communication, Oct. 2009, Not invited
  • Media's Role in Foreign Policy Making: A Case of the Comfort Women Issue in 2007
    Fumie Mitani
    Mita Association for Sociology, Jul. 2009, Not invited

Affiliated academic society

  • Japan Association for Media, Journalism and Communication Studies (Japan Society for Studies in Journalism and Mass Communication)
  • Japan Society for Studies in Journalism and Mass Communication
  • Mita Association for Sociology
  • International Association for Media and Communication Research
  • 慶應法学会
  • American Political Science Association

Research Themes

  • Media Representation of "Public Opinion" in Democracy
    Apr. 2018 - Mar. 2020