Blog- Just published: the final UN report on “A Future with AI – Voices of Global Youth”
- Panelist at the AI Governance Series: “Toward Human-Centric AI: The Japanese Model”
- Talk on “Making Human First AI & Robots: Theory and Practice” @ Future Robotics Organization
- Launching the UN “A Future with AI” project
- Panelist at the UNICEF’s Global Forum on AI for Children
- Keynote speech at the Kick-off event of the Center for Mathematical Science and Artificial Intelligence, Chubu University.
- Panelist at the Information Communication Forum
- UNESCO and Boston Consulting Group’s AI Conference
- Keynote Speech at the AI Expo Africa
- invited talk on “Trust and the Smart City: a view from Project GenZAI (Moonshot R&D project)” @ RO-MAN 2021
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Category Archives: Culture and Communication
Invitation to EU-JAPAN Conference on Smart Society and beyond for the Super-Aging Era @Belgian Royal Academy
On October 8th, 2018, I gave a talk on “Social Impact of AI/robots” @ EU-JAPAN CONFERENCE ON SMART SOCIETY AND BEYOND FOR THE SUPER-AGING ERA at Belgian Royal Academy, Brussels. I enjoyed talking and discussing about the future of Robotics … Continue reading
Posted in AGI, AI, biased data, Culture and Communication, deep learning, future society, Human-robot interaction, opportunities, risks, Robot, super-aging society
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Organized the Global AI Narrative workshop with University of Cambridge @Waseda University
On September 12th, 2018. I organized the Global AI Narrative workshop with CFI, Univ. of Cambridge at Waseda University in Tokyo. Thank you all for your great contributions!
Posted in AI, AI Narratives, Culture and Communication
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Invitation to Ars Electronica 2017
On September 7th to 11th, Linz in Austria. I was invited to Ats Electronica Festival 2017. I gave a talk about “Self-Organizing city: Tokyo” at Ars Electronica Tokyo Initiative. I was talking about how to create a better future AI society by … Continue reading
Posted in AGI, AI, Art, Culture and Communication, future society, Human-robot interaction, risks, Robot, Tokyo Olympic 2020
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“It’s Now Cool to Share: Japanese youths and their changing relations to video sharing sites”@ICA 2016
Abstracts The practice of uploading one’s videos on video sharing sites may seem commonplace, especially among youths. Based on fieldwork done in Japan between 2010 and 2011, however, it appears that this was the exception rather than the rule among … Continue reading
Posted in Culture and Communication, Facebook, impression management, Instagram, Line, Mobile Media, Social Media, Twitter, Uchi, Youth and Media
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Always on and Connected: young people and their mobile social media use in Japan, the US, and the UK @Japan Foundation London
Speaker: Professor Toshie Takahashi Discussant: Dr. Chris Davies abstract How similar are young people in different parts of the world in the way they use digital media? What do they share cross-culturally – and what not? Do cultural differences really … Continue reading
Digital Natives: Always Connected, Always at Risk?@The Japan News by The Yomiuri Shimbun
The Digital Native Generation and Constant Connection Born into a digital world, the young of today inhabit a world that is markedly different from the previous generation. These “digital natives” or “the constant contact generation”, as they have been called, … Continue reading
Posted in Culture and Communication, Facebook, Line, Mobile Media, Social Media, Twitter, Uchi, Uncategorized, Youth and Media
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“Social Media and Global Uchi”@ Social Media, The Fourth Annual Transforming Audiences Conference
I talked about Japanese youth and social media in terms of ‘audience engagement’ in the context of globalisation at University of Westminster, September 03, 20131. I demonstrated how Japanese youths strategically manage their use of social media to help them … Continue reading
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“Japanese Youth & Social Media”@ IAMCR 2013
I discussed youths’ social media engagement within the Japanese context at IAMCR in Dublin, 20131. In my presentation, by using the concepts of high and low context cultures, I demonstrated the reason why Japanese young people are using both American … Continue reading
Posted in Culture and Communication, High and Low Context Cultures, Line, Mobile Media, Social Media, Twitter, Uchi, Youth and Media
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“Japanese Youths Engaging with Mobile ICTs: Looking ahead from the Past Ten Years” @ ICA Mobile Preconference 2013
I discussed the engagement of young people with mobile communications At the ICA Mobile Preconference in London on June 16, 20131. In my presentation, I focused on ‘constant connectivity’ via mobile ICTs within the Japanese context. Drawing on my ethnographic … Continue reading
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