Researchers

OKAMOTO Takeshi

OKAMOTO Takeshi
Professor
Faculty Major in Social Sciences and Media Studies, Department of Applied Sociology / Cyber Informatics Research Institute / Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Human Studies
Researchmap https://researchmap.jp/t-okamoto

Education and Career

Academic & Professional Experience

  • Apr. 2025 - Today , Kansai University Graduate School of Letters General Humanities Major Department of Japanese Language and Literature 非常勤講師
  • Apr. 2025 - Today , Kyoto University Graduate School of Letters / Faculty of Letters 非常勤講師

Research Activities

Research Areas

  • Humanities & social sciences, Tourism studies

Research Interests

VTuber, anime, Hospitality, Zombie, Media Industry, Media Contents, Communication, Hospitality Management, Tourist Behaviour, Anime Pilgrimage, Contents Tourism, 観光メディア論, 観光社会学, Tourism Studies

Published Papers

  1. Characteristics of Media Communication in VTuber ContentsTourism: An Example of a Collaboration Event between Suo Sango and Shima Spain Village
    OKAMOTO Takeshi
    Kindai Applied Sociology Review  12  (2)  , 17-32, 31, Mar. 2024  , Refereed
  2. Constructing the History of Contents Tourism
    OKAMOTO Takeshi
    journal of Contents History Studies  (14)  , 76-115, Mar. 2023  , Refereed
  3. Fieldwork by VTuber “Zombie Sensei” During The COVID-19 Emergency: Research Method for Complex Modern Japanese Cultures in Information Society
    OKAMOTO Takeshi
    Kindai Applied Sociology Review : Social  11  (2)  , 15-30, Mar. 2023  , Refereed

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Books etc

  1. 図書館にゲームを！ ―図書館の新しい可能性 , 日向良和; 高倉暁大; 福田一史 , ゲーム・ツーリズム , ゲーム・ツーリズム , 日外アソシエーツ , 25, May. 2025
  2. 脱観光化の人類学 : かわりゆく観光と社会のゆくえ , 東, 賢太朗; 福井, 栄二郎; 奈良, 雅史 , 第1章 身体的な移動と精神的な移動が出合う「空間」 ―VTuberとコンテンツツーリズムの現場から , 第1章 身体的な移動と精神的な移動が出合う「空間」 ―VTuberとコンテンツツーリズムの現場から , ミネルヴァ書房 , 31, Mar. 2025
  3. ZOMBIE3.0 , Tomotakehi ISHIKAWA; Takeshi OKAMOTO , 『ゾンビ3.0』解説 , 『ゾンビ3.0』解説 , 講談社 , 13, Dec. 2024

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Conference Activities & Talks

  1. Vtuber, Contents Tourism, Zombie, Game and Archive , OKAMOTO Takeshi , Japan Society for Digital Archive , 10, Nov. 2023
  2. 空間と存在とゾンビ ―幽霊との比較から , 岡本健 , 幽霊の歴史文化学 , 10, Feb. 2018
  3. メイキング・オブ・『ゾンビ学』 ―恐怖の『新世紀ゾンビ論』 , OKAMOTO Takeshi , 非人間的な現代のコミュニケーションについての調査研究 第2回研究会 『新世紀ゾンビ論』と『ゾンビ学』を読む ―藤田直哉氏、岡本健氏との対話 , 17, Jun. 2017

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MISC

  1. アニメコンテンツとツーリズム、両者の発展の鍵を握るものは？ , OKAMOTO Takeshi , Synapse , 20191112 , 1 , 2 , Nov. 2019
  2. 新たなコミュニティを創造する「聖地巡礼」の面白さ , OKAMOTO Takeshi , Culture, Energy and Life , 123 , 32 , 37 , Nov. 2019
  3. 新世紀ゾンビ論 ゾンビとは、あなたであり、わたしである , OKAMOTO Takeshi , 『キネマ旬報』2017年7月上旬号 , 1750 , 144 , 145 , Jun. 2017

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Awards & Honors

  1. Jan. 2024, Kindai University, Kindai Media Award 2023
  2. Jan. 2022, Kindai University, Kindai Media Award
  3. Jan. 2020, Kindai University, Kindai Media Award 2019

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Research Grants & Projects

  1. Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Development and Evaluation of an Evolutionary Copyright Education Environment -Human Resource Development Using Author's Commons- , Hokkaido University
  2. Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, International Comparative Research on the Spreading and Reception of Culture through Contents Tourism
  3. Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Theory construction of Tourism Studies on Fostering of Human Resources Contributing to community Design and Regional Development by Tourism , Kyoto Bunkyo University