Setsuko KAMIYA is a project assistant professor at the Interfaculty Initiative of Information Studies, the University of Tokyo. Her research interests include media and civic participation, audio storytelling and journalism. She was previously a reporter/editor for The Japan Times and a 2009 Fulbright Journalist Fellow.
Sota CHU is a lecturer in the Department of Media and Communication, Faculty of Humanities, at Fukuoka Jo Gakuin University. He is currently conducting historical research on live music in the cold war era.
Shinya MIZOJIRI is an associate professor in the Department of Media Studies, Faculty of Media Studies, at Mejiro University. His research interests include history of sound media and audiophiles culture.
Shin MIZUKOSHI is a professor of media studies at the Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies, the University of Tokyo. He has been working on critical and practical media studies to defamiliarize and recombine the relationship between media and people with a design-oriented mind. Mizukoshi’s recent publications include Media Studies (Open University Japan, 2018), “Media Landscape without Apple: A Workshop for Critical Awareness of Alternative Media Infrastructure” The Journal of Education, 3(2), 2020. https://shinmizukoshi.net