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| Professor/ Doctor of Science in GITS (Waseda University) |
Research Area |
- Industrial Organization Analysis of Broadcasting and Media
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| Media Industrial Organization |
Personal Information |
Kiyoshi Nakamura, Professor of Media Economics, is a faculty member of GITS and School of International Liberal Studies (SILS) at Waseda University. His scholarly interest focuses on industrial organization studies on media industry in the digital convergence age such as media concentration, Google revolution and
copyright issues.
He has organized an international cooperative study group which produced two publications from UK.
He was an Adjunct Senior Research Scholar at Columbia Institute for Tele-Information (CITI), Columbia Business School, Columbia University from 2006-2007.
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Research Works |
Digital innovations, telecommunications and broadcasting markets are converging and creating new media businesses. In particular, the development of broadband networks and wide usage of the Internet have been creating new media as represented by Google. Their activities now go beyond a search engine and have had a strong impact on traditional media such as newspapers and TV broadcastings. His current research interest is in the influence of new Internet-based media on media concentration, copyright as well as public broadcasting in the Internet era.
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Major Publications in English |
[Books]
Going Global: Structural Reforms in Japan's Economic and Business Systems,
The Japan Times, 1996.
Convergence of Telecommunications and Broadcasting in Japan, United Kingdom
and Germany, Curzon Press, United Kingdom, 2001.
Digital Broadcasting: Policy and Practice in the Americas, Europe and Japan,
Edgar Elgar Publishing, UK, 2006.
[Articles]
"Digitalization of Japan's TV Broadcasting: Problems and Assessment," Waseda Business & Economic Studies, No.33, pp.31-52, 1998.
"Japan's TV Broadcasting in a Digital Environment," Telecommunications Policy, Vol.23, No.3-4, pp.307-316, 1999/4-5.
"Japan's Broadcasting and Telecommunications, Digital Convergence, Market Structure and Competition," in Yang-Ching Chao et all, International and Comparative Competition Law and Policies, Kluwer Law International, pp. 309-327, 2001.
[Presentations at the Oversea Conferences]
"Japan's TV Broadcasting: Digital Broadcasting Policy and Problems", The 12th Biennial Conference of International Telecommunications Society, Stockholm, Sweden, June21-24, 1998.
"Convergence and Competition: Policy Issues in Japan's Broadcasting and Telecommunications", at International Conference on Competition Policies/Laws for the New Millennium, Taiwan Fair Trade Commission, Taiwan, June 19-21, 2000.
"Policy Issues in Convergence and Telecommunications: The Case of Japan's Broadcasting and Telecommunications", Lausanne, Swaziland, International Telecommunications Society, September 10-11, 2000.
"Policy Issues in Convergence Japan's Broadcast & Telecommunications, Workshop of International Conference of Convergence of Telecommunications and Broadcasting", Bonn, Germany, December 18-20, 2000.
Recent Policy Shift in Japan's Broadcasting, Dublin, Ireland, International Telecommunications Society, September 2-5, 2001.
"Policy Issues of Japan's broadcasting in the Broadband Age", International Conference on Convergence in Communications Industries, Warwick University, UK, November 2-4, 2002.
"A Critical Analysis of Public Broadcasting in a Digital Environment" in collaboration with Dr. Alain B. de Fontenay, at 34th Telecommunications Policy Research Conference, September 30th , 2006 at George Mason University at Washington, D.C.
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