Last week on Friday, I was featured on In Media Res, an experimental academic publishing platform for short-form media-centric pieces from academics related to research questions and issues on which they’re currently working.

I’ve been doing some work on the Vocaloid franchise recently, and so I put up an article on Hatsune Miku and Japanese/global identity. You can check out the article here: The Global Cult(ure) of Hatsune Miku

This is the first bit of scholarship that I’ve written on the subject, with a bunch more opportunities coming in the next few months. I’ll be presenting a larger investigation of “open-source culture” and the Vocaloid franchise at Media in Transition 7 in a couple weeks as well as at a preconference for the International Communication Association conference later this month. Also, I’ll be presenting a similar paper at Anime Expo at the beginning of July: if you’re in LA, come by and say hello!