Cosima Wagner

• Dr.
• Liaison Librarian for East Asian Studies at Freie Universität Berlin

Japan ist seit den 1980ern als Land bekannt, das eine bemerkenswerte Roboterkultur hervorgebracht hat. Während jedoch die Diskussion um den Einsatz sogenannter „sozialer“ Roboter in der Pflege noch vor kurzem im Westen den Mythos vom „Roboterland Japan“ bestärkt hat, brachte die Dreifachkatastrophe von Fukushima im März 2011 allgemeine Ernüchterung...

https://www.japanologie.uni-frankfurt.de/59102959/FukushimaChernobyl_Inhaltsverzeichnis.pdf

Since the 1980s the Japanese government has supported the idea of robots as home help for the elderly. Numerous governmental strategy papers and publi- cations from engineers, robot manufacturers and politicians published since the turn of the millennium in Japan suggest that robots will save Japan and its ageing society. These robots are expected...

The article addresses the multilingual landscape in Digital Humanities, focusing on understanding its practitioners. We adopt the concept of user profiles from UX design to help create visibility and empathy for the unique needs of multilingual scholars. In a DH2023 workshop, using a dataset of six user profiles, participants examined multilingual...

Multilingual expression is not exclusive to scholars in the (digital) humanities, but it is a lived reality of a great number of people around the world. The authors of this article argue that there is a specific role to be played by the digital humanist in describing and modelling the design of workflows that assume multilinguality (and multiscrip...

This article addresses the concept and practice of liaison librarianship newly introduced in 2019 at the University Library of Freie Universität Berlin. Chances and challenges of library-faculty collaboration of two liaison librarians assigned to work with the Department of Earth Sciences and the Seminar of East Asian Studies, respectively, are dis...

Zusammenfassung Wie haben die Veränderungen beim Zugang zu elektronischen Fachzeitschriften die Forschungserfahrung und Wahrnehmung der Forschenden bezüglich ihrer Universitätsbibliothek beeinflusst? Welche Strategien wenden Forschende an, um sich Zugang zu den betreffenden Inhalten zu verschaffen? Wie können Bibliotheken diese Prozesse analysieren...

Japan is often referred to as the “robot kingdom” as its robot culture is popular around the world. The general acceptance of robots as partners of human beings at their workplaces and at home is also a major argument of the Japanese government to promote the use of “social robots” in- and outside the factories to overcome the hardships of the agei...

Zusammenfassung Wie verschaffen sich Forschende Zugang zu Quellen, wenn der Zugriff auf etablierte Informationsangebote wegen Kündigung von Rahmenverträgen nicht mehr gewährleistet ist? Dieser Frage ging die qualitative Interview-Studie „Cancelling the Big Deal“ nach, die von der US-amerikanischen Not-For-Profit Forschungsagentur Ithaka S+R in Koop...

Studying Japan is the first comprehensive guide on qualitative methods, research designs and fieldwork in social science research on Japan. More than 70 Japan scholars from around the world provide an easy-to-read overview on qualitative methods used in research on Japan’s society, politics, culture and history. The book covers the entire research...

Studying Japan is the first comprehensive guide on qualitative methods, research designs and fieldwork in social science research on Japan. More than 70 Japan scholars from around the world provide an easy-to-read overview on qualitative methods used in research on Japan’s society, politics, culture and history. The book covers the entire research...

Japanese Robot Culture: Performance, Imagination, and Modernity. By Yuji Sone. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. Pp. xiii + 265. £55/$104 Hb; £43.99/$79.99 Ebook. - Volume 43 Issue 3 - Cosima Wagner

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Japan is often referred to as the ldquorobot kingdomrdquo, not only because it has the world's largest number of industrial robots but also because of its ldquorobot culturerdquo which includes robot influenced narratives (comics / manga and animation films / anime), robot toys, a general popularity of robotics research, exhibitions (e.g., EXPO 200...

Review: "Come see our Cool Japan" lautet die Botschaft des japanischen Popstar- Duos "Puffy AmiYumi", mit der die jungen Damen im Auftrag der japa- nischen Fremdenverkehrszentrale JNTO in modisch-bunten Kimonos von Plakaten in deutschen Reisebüros grüßen. Diese neue staatliche Werbe- kampagne visualisiert die Debatte um die Bedeutung der gegenwärti...