<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Dear Markus,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks for this explanation. I may only speak for myself, but currently I am editing a volume which will come out in a well-established academic (non-university) press, and probably cost around 210 dollars. And it hasn’t escaped my notice that I and all the contributors are basically providing free labor for the corporation. Of course, those who are employed at universities have an alternate source of income, but that just means that the university system is providing both sides of the revenue stream for such academic presses. First, by paying for the intellectual labor that goes into creating the content and then by turning around and buying that same intellectual labor in the form of purchasing the book for the library. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">So I applaud you (all) for your foray, and I hope that other post-tenure scholars can make use such a resource.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Best,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Bruce</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jun 21, 2016, at 8:50 AM, Japanese Cinema Discussion Forum via KineJapan <<a href="mailto:kinejapan@lists.osu.edu" class="">kinejapan@lists.osu.edu</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">Dear Bruce, <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Thanks for the message. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Convergence is the third book published under the Kinema Club imprimatur (that's Kinema Club, which you could think of as the home of KineJapan). The first book was a festschrift for Makino Mamoru that Aaron and I self-published called <i class="">In Praise of Film Studies</i>. I guess you can't really use the word "imprimatur" for that book, because we didn't ask anybody's permission; we just did it.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The second book was quite different. For various reasons, I chose to self-publish <i class="">The Pink Book.</i> An editorial collective had just been formed to revive the long-neglected Kinema Club website and make it a more serious thing. The collective includes:</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><div class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:inherit;color:rgb(88,88,88)"><font size="1" class=""><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit;line-height:1.5em"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit;line-height:inherit"><a href="http://kinemaclub.org/aaron-gerow" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:none;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit;line-height:inherit;color:rgb(143,123,101);text-decoration:none" class="">Aaron Gerow </a></span></span><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit;line-height:1.5em"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit;line-height:inherit">(Kinema Club editor; Professor, Yale University)</span></span></font></div><div class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:inherit;color:rgb(88,88,88)"><font size="1" class=""><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit;line-height:1.5em"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit;line-height:inherit"><a href="http://kinemaclub.org/ab-mark-nornes" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:none;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit;line-height:inherit;color:rgb(143,123,101);text-decoration:none" class="">Abé Mark Nornes</a></span>  </span><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit;line-height:1.5em"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit;line-height:inherit">(Kinema Club editor; Professor, University of Michigan)</span></span></font></div><div class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:inherit;color:rgb(88,88,88)"><font size="1" class=""><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit;line-height:1.5em"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit;line-height:inherit"><a href="http://kinemaclub.org/alexander-zahlten" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:none;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit;line-height:inherit;color:rgb(143,123,101);text-decoration:none" class="">Alexander Zahlten</a></span>  </span><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit;line-height:1.5em"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit;line-height:inherit">(Assistant Professor, Harvard University)</span></span></font></div><div class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:inherit;color:rgb(88,88,88)"><font size="1" class=""><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit;line-height:1.5em"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit;line-height:inherit"><a href="http://kinemaclub.org/chika-kinoshita" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:none;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit;line-height:inherit;color:rgb(143,123,101);text-decoration:none" class="">Chika Kinoshita</a></span>  </span><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit;line-height:1.5em"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit;line-height:inherit">(Associate Professor, Tokyo Metropolitan University)</span></span></font></div><div class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:inherit;color:rgb(88,88,88)"><font size="1" class=""><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit;line-height:1.5em"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit;line-height:inherit"><a href="http://kinemaclub.org/diane-lewis" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:none;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit;line-height:inherit;color:rgb(143,123,101);text-decoration:none" class="">Diane Lewis</a></span>  </span><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit;line-height:1.5em"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit;line-height:inherit">(Assistant Professor, Washington University in St. Louis)</span></span></font></div><div class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:inherit;color:rgb(88,88,88)"><font size="1" class=""><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit;line-height:1.5em"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit;line-height:inherit"><a href="http://kinemaclub.org/eija-niskanen" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:none;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit;line-height:inherit;color:rgb(143,123,101);text-decoration:none" class="">Eija Niskanen</a></span>  </span><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit;line-height:1.5em"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit;line-height:inherit">(Programming director, Helsinki Cine Aasia)</span></span></font></div><div class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:inherit;color:rgb(88,88,88)"><font size="1" class=""><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit;line-height:1.5em"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit;line-height:inher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nd Domenig</a></span>  </span><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit;line-height:1.5em"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit;line-height:inherit">(Associate Professor, Meiji Gakuin University)</span></span></font></div><div class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:inherit;color:rgb(88,88,88)"><font size="1" class=""><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit;line-height:1.5em"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit;line-height:inherit"><a href="http://kinemaclub.org/ryan-cook" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:none;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit;line-height:inherit;color:rgb(143,123,101);text-decoration:none" class="">Ryan Cook</a></span>  </span><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit;line-height:1.5em"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit;line-height:inherit">(Postdoctoral Fellow, Reischauer Institute for Japanese Studies, Harvard)</span></span></font></div><div class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:Verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:inherit;color:rgb(88,88,88)"></div></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I approached the collective with <i class="">The Pink Book, </i>and they put it through a rigorous, blind peer review. About the time it came out, I learned of Jason and Patrick's project. They were thinking of self-publishing the book, and I told them to consider submitting it to the KC Editorial Collective. They did, and it also was subjected to an impressively rigorous peer review. It definitely made it a better book. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">So the answer to your question is, yes, we are definitely interested in more projects. But there are at least two things anyone should consider.  First, anyone needing the publication for tenure and promotion should go elsewhere. Our fields are still skeptical about untying other than university presses. Second, while KC has the resources to perform serious peer review, and the collective votes on publishing or not, we do not have the resources to produce the book. Serving/archiving it is no problem. But page design and markup and copyediting are the job of the authors. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Kinema Club is carefully testing the waters of the academic publishing scene. It's clear that this kind of venue is going to be increasingly important in the future. So far, I think we've done a good job. Actually, by the numbers we're doing spectacularly. <i class="">The Pink Book </i>was uploaded exactly two years ago, and it has had 6028 downloads. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Markus</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br class=""><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Jun 21, 2016 at 4:13 AM, Japanese Cinema Discussion Forum via KineJapan <span dir="ltr" class=""><<a href="mailto:kinejapan@lists.osu.edu" target="_blank" class="">kinejapan@lists.osu.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word" class="">Dear Markus and Aaron,<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">It was a real delight to read the introduction to this book and see what you have done with KineJapan and peer review outside the normal publishing system. I wonder if you are planning for that to be a regular function of KineJapan for like-minded projects?</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">All best,</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Bruce</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""><div class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><hr style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;display:inline-block;width:711.46875px" class=""><span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;float:none;display:inline!important" class=""></span><div dir="ltr" style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px" class=""><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" style="font-size:11pt" class=""><b class="">From:</b><span class=""> </span>KineJapan <div class=""><div class="h5"><br class=""><b class="">Sent:</b><span class=""> </span>Friday, June 17, 2016 4:43:10 AM<br class=""><b class="">To:</b><span class=""> </span>Japanese Cinema Discussion Forum<br class=""><b class="">Subject:</b><span class=""> </span>[KineJapan] New Book: Media Convergence in Japan</div></div></font><div class=""> </div></div><div class=""><div class="h5"><div style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px" class=""><div class=""><span style="font-size:14px" class="">Dear Kinema Japan members:</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size:14px" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size:14px" class="">I’m pleased to announce the publication of my new book<span class=""> </span></span><i style="font-size:14px" class="">Media Convergence in Japan</i><span style="font-size:14px" class="">, co-edited with Patrick W. Galbraith. This collection of essays explores the convergences and divergences arising from the digital transition in Japanese media culture. The ebook version has been published for<span class=""> </span><u class="">free</u><span class=""> </span>and<span class=""> </span><u class="">open access</u><span class=""> </span>in </span><a href="https://archive.org/download/MediaConvergenceInJapan/Media%20Convergence%20in%20Japan.pdf" style="font-size:14px" target="_blank" class="">PDF</a><span style="font-size:14px" class="">,  </span><a href="https://archive.org/download/MediaConvergenceInJapan/Media%20Convergence%20in%20Japan.epub" style="font-size:14px" target="_blank" class="">ePub</a><span style="font-size:14px" class="">, and </span><a href="https://archive.org/download/MediaConvergenceInJapan/MediaConvergenceInJapan.mobi" style="font-size:14px" target="_blank" class="">Mobi</a><span style="font-size:14px" class=""> formats for download from the </span><a href="https://archive.org/details/MediaConvergenceInJapan" style="font-size:14px" target="_blank" class="">Internet Archive</a><span style="font-size:14px" class="">  For those seeking a print copy of the book, it is available for order from Amazon’s global network at a reasonable price. This book was an experiment in academic publishing that was made possible through the cooperation of Kinema Club. Patrick and I appreciate the support of Markus and Aaron as well as the other members of the Kinema Club Editorial Collective.</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size:14px" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><i class=""><b style="font-size:14px" class="">Media Convergence in Japan</b></i></div><div class=""><i class=""><b style="font-size:14px" class=""><br class=""></b></i></div><div class=""><span style="font-size:14px" class="">Table of Contents</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size:14px" class=""><br class=""></span></div><blockquote style="margin:0px 0px 0px 40px;border:none;padding:0px" class=""><div class=""><span style="font-size:14px" class="">Introduction: At the Crossroads of Media Convergence in Japan</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size:14px" class="">Patrick W. Galbraith and Jason G. Karlin</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size:14px" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size:14px" class="">1. Precarious Consumption After 3/11: Television Advertising in Risk Society</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size:14px" class="">Jason G. Karlin</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size:14px" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size:14px" class="">2. Networking Citizens through Film Screenings: Cinema and Media in Post-3/11 Social Movements</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size:14px" class="">Hideaki Fujiki</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size:14px" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size:14px" class="">3. Convergence and Globalization in the Japanese Videogame Industry</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size:14px" class="">Mia Consalvo</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size:14px" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size:14px" class="">4. When the Media Do Not Quite Converge: The Case of Fuji TV and Livedoor</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size:14px" class="">Shinji Oyama and Dario Lolli</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size:14px" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size:14px" class="">5. Obasan and Kanryū: Modalities of Convergence of Middle-Aged Japanese Women Around South Korean Popular Culture and Gender Divergence in Japan</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size:14px" class="">John Lie</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size:14px" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size:14px" class="">6. On Two-Dimensional Cute Girls: Virtual Idols</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size:14px" class="">Yoshida Masataka</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size:14px" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size:14px" class="">7. Ensoulment and Effacement in Japanese Voice Acting</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size:14px" class="">Shunsuke Nozawa</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size:14px" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size:14px" class="">8. Producing Hatsune Miku: Concerts, Commercialization and the Politics of Peer Production</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size:14px" class="">Alex Leavitt, Tara Knight, and Alex Yoshiba</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size:14px" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size:14px" class="">9. The Labor of Love: On the Convergence of Fan and Corporate Interests in Contemporary Idol Culture in Japan</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size:14px" class="">Patrick W. Galbraith</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size:14px" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size:14px" class="">10. Anxious Proximity: Media Convergence, Celebrity and Internet Negativity</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size:14px" class="">Daniel Johnson</span></div></blockquote><div class=""><span style="font-size:14px" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size:14px" class="">Best regards,</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size:14px" class=""><br class=""></span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size:14px" class="">Jason G. Karlin, Ph.D.</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size:14px" class="">Associate Professor</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size:14px" class="">The University of Tokyo</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size:14px" class="">Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size:14px" class="">7-3-1 Hongo, Bunkyo-ku</span></div><div class=""><span style="font-size:14px" class="">Tokyo 113-0033 JAPAN</span></div></div></div></div><span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;float:none;display:inline!important" class="">_______________________________________________</span><br style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px" class=""><span style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;float:none;display:inline!important" class="">KineJapan mailing list</span><br style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px" class=""><a href="mailto:KineJapan@lists.osu.edu" style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px" target="_blank" class="">KineJapan@lists.osu.edu</a><br style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px" class=""><a href="https://lists.osu.edu/mailman/listinfo/kinejapan" style="font-family:Helvetica;font-size:14px;font-style:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px" target="_blank" class="">https://lists.osu.edu/mailman/listinfo/kinejapan</a></div></blockquote></div><br class=""><div class="">
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