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（Last updated : 2023-11-16 12:43:15）

Koga-Browes Scott

Department / Course College of International Relations Department of International Relations

Title / Position Associate Professor

Other Affiliations
1.	Graduate School of International Relations

Academic background
1.	2009/10 Degree Acquisition	│ University of Sheffield │ PhD
2.	1991/07 Degree Acquisition	│ University of London │ BA(Hons)
3.	～2006/10	Master Course │ Media Studies │ Sheffield Hallam Univ. │ Completed
4.	～1991/07	School of Oriental and African Studies │ University of London │ Graduated
5.	～2009/10	Doctorial Course │ School of East Asian Studies │ University of Sheffield │ Completed

Business career
1.	2012/04 ～	Associate Professor, │ College of International Relations │ Ritsumeikan University,
2.	1993 ～ 2002	Technician (camera op. / video editor / vision-mixer etc), producer. Unit Manager. │ │ Reuters PLC
3.	1991 ～ 1993	Producer, trainee camera op. │ │ Tokyo Broadcasting Systems (TBS)

Research activities
1.	2014 ～	British Association of Japanese Studies

Qualification and license
1.	2005	Cert. TESOL

Subject of research
1.	Visual representation of social reality in television news.
2.	The ideology of news production includes claims of 'objectivity' and 'truthfulness'; does a visual semiotic analysis of the images presented by news broadcasters undermine or support these claims?
3.	Development of visual semiotic theories appropriate to the analysis and understanding of realistic, time-based media such as television news.
4.	Visual semiotic theory, developed in the social semiotics tradition, does not adequately deal with many aspects of meaning-making in time-based visuals, thus more work is needed to extend the ideas behind visual semiotic thinking and to test these ideas against a range of texts/data.
5.	Japan's mass media industry
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Research summary
Visual Semiotics of Television News My research is aimed at improving the theoretical basis of visual semiotic analyses of time-based visual media, particularly television. My major source of data is the images of television news programs in Japan and the UK though I also attempt to take into account the importance of regimes of production and the 'real-world' nature of producing television news. Thus my research has also extended to working with camera operators and video editors in order to investigate their conceptions of their work and to try to elucidate the unwritten rules which underpin the 'craft' of news camerawork.

Present specialized field
Other (Keyword：Mass media, visual communication, television production, video editing, camerawork, visual semiotics)

Books
1.	2023/11/06	Radio Towers (Japan) │ Wikipedia (E) │ (Sole-authored)
2.	2017	Diversity in Japanese Education (Diversity on a Global 30 ‘World Studies’ Program) │ ,pp.Chapter 5 (65-81) (Co-authored)
3.	2015	Camera angles in television news: Designed to communicate?" In, Values and Choices in Television Discourse: A View from Both Sides of the Screen │ ,pp.Chapter 4 (Co-authored)

Papers
1.	2023/06/09	Radio Towers: Interwar Japan’s Public Radio System │ Media History │ 29 (4),pp.513-536 (Sole-authored)
2.	2022/12/19	The ‘home delivery’ newspaper sales system as an impediment to digitalisation in Japan │ Ritsumeikan annual review of international studies │ 21,pp.29-56 (Sole-authored)
3.	2021/12	Left and right in TV news images in Japan and the UK │ Ritsumeikan Annual Review of International Studies │ 20,pp.33-55 (Sole-authored)
4.	2019/10/01	Kyoto City's Public 'Radio Towers' │ The Ritsumeikan Journal of International Studies │ 32 (1),pp.91-114 (Sole-authored)
5.	2013	Social distance portrayed: television news in Japan and the UK │ Visual Communication │ 12 (1),pp.71-96 (Sole-authored)
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Academic conference presentation
1.	2023/06/03	Building Beyond the Degree: Establishing Internationalised Student Support and Community Structures at a Japanese University (Ninth Annual Conference on Global Higher Education)
2.	2022/03/26	Managing Japan’s First Joint Undergraduate Degree Before and During the Covid-19 Pandemic (International Symposium: Global Japan and Academia-during Covid-19)
3.	2020/10/30	Who Decides?: Misinformation and Election Interference ("Global Insights" Webinar Series, Season 2)

Other research achievements
1.	2017/07 ～	pandoc-abbreviations

Home Page
Academia.edu page
Personal webpage (includes some informal research)

External Researcher ID
ORCID ID
0000-0002-9963-3830