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Dr. Kimiko Akita, earned second prize for her co-authored research paper in the plenary interactive poster session at the International Communication Association convention in May in Phoenix, Arizona. The paper, \u201cState and\u00a0Shinto<\/em>: Spanning the history of the secularized scripture,\u201d was among 108 posters accepted to the competition and ranked first in ICA\u2019s Communication History Division.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n

Dr. Akita also presented two refereed research papers at last month\u2019s National Communication annual convention in Kissimmee: \u201cThe rise and fall of a Japanese\u00a0manga<\/em>robot superhero in America\u201d and \u201c \u2018We are Siamese if you don\u2019t please\u2019: Disney\u2019s Orientalist villainous cats.\u201d She served as respondent to the NCA research session \u201cFilms and messages about Confucianism, Oriental stereotypes, discrimination, and beauty: Application and impact.\u201d<\/p>\n

She presented research on the panel \u201cCelebrating the COMMunity of Japan-U.S. Communication Scholarship: Past, present, and future of theory and practice\u201d and, as the co-founder of NCA\u2019s Japanese U.S. Communication Association, hosted a 10th<\/sup>anniversary reception at Disney\u2019s Boardwalk Inn for members who came from as far away as Tokyo. In addition, her co-authored lesson plan, \u201cWhat do you see? Teaching awareness of cultural stereotyping through nonverbal or visual cues,\u201d was accepted at NCA as a Great Ideas for Teaching Students entry.<\/p>\n

This year, Dr. Akita has also published a chapter, \u201cTales from the\u00a0ooku:<\/em>\u00a0The Shogun\u2019s inner palace and the outer (mediated) world,\u201d in a scholarly book and co-authored \u201cThe epistemology of retweeting and the ethics of trust\u201d in the\u00a0Journal of Mass Media Ethics.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dr. Kimiko Akita, earned second prize for her co-authored research paper in the plenary interactive poster session at the International Communication Association convention in May in Phoenix, Arizona. 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