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ROTH Martin Erwin

Department / Course Graduate School of Core Ethics and Frontier Sciences

Title / Position Professor

Other Affiliations
1.	Kinugasa Research Organization Creative Media Research Center
2.	Kinugasa Research Organization Ritsumeikan Center for Game Studies

Academic background
1.	2014/08 Degree Acquisition	│ Leiden University Faculty of Humanities PhD
2.	2009/07 Degree Acquisition	│ Leipzig University Faculty of History, Arts and Oriental Studies Magister Artium
3.	～2014/08	Doctorial Course │ Leiden University, Faculty of Humanities, Institute for Area Studies │ Completed
4.	～2009/07	Master Course │ Japanese Studies / Communication and Media Studies │ Leipzig University │ Completed

Business career
1.	2025/04/01 ～	Professor │ Graduate School of Core Ethics and Frontier Sciences │ Ritsumeikan University
2.	2019/09/26 ～ 2025/03/31	Associate Professor, │ Graduate School of Core Ethics and Frontier Sciences │ Ritsumeikan University,
3.	2019/04/15	│ │ Stuttgart Media University
4.	2016/04/01 ～ 2017/03/31	│ Graduate School of Core Ethics and Frontier Sciences │ Ritsumeikan University,
5.	2015/01/25 ～ 2019/09/25	│ Faculty of History │ Leipzig University,
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Research activities
1.		Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations, including Japanese Association for Digital Humanities
2.		Cultural Studies Association
3.		Gesellschaft fuer Medienforschung

Subject of research
1.	Gamic Expressivity, Gamic Experience, Games and the Political
2.	Digital Spatiality, Possibilities and Practices of Community in digital culture
3.	Data-driven media culture research
4.	Open Science, New Forms of Knowledge Production

Research summary
Potentials and Limitations of digital games and digital space I am to advance the critical analysis of media expressivity and research of digital space and digital games based on theory and praxis.

Books
1.	2025/02/25	Unboxing Japanese Videogames: A Metadata-Based Approach to the Production and Distribution of Spatial Instability │ ,pp.1-192
2.	2021/12	Japan's Contemporary Media Culture between Local and Global
3.	2019	'Post 3.11' in a global context: a dialogue between Japan and Europe │ ,pp.General and Chapter: 交換様式からみたデジタル空間の支配構造. pp. 301-324
4.	2017	Thought-Provoking Play: Political Philosophies in Science Fictional Videogame Spaces from Japan
5.	2016	100 Jahre Ostasiatisches Institut an der Universität Leipzig, 1914-2014
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Papers
1.	2024/07/01	Special Issue: Music in Non-Digital Games │ Journal of Sound and Music in Games │ 5 (3),pp.1-18
2.	2023/06	What are you playing? Genre-related differences in the videogame landscapes in Germany and Japan │ Play Signs IV: Genres │ ,pp.207-230
3.	2022/12	Playful Interweavings: A subjective Japan-related analysis of the videogame "Death Stranding" │ The challenge of Japan Studies │
4.	2022/12	The "Last Japanese Soldier": Putting the Nation into Play │ Capture Japan: Visual Culture and the Global Imagination from 1952 to the Present │ ,pp.87-106
5.	2022/11	Reclaiming Everydayness and Japanese Cultural Routines in Animal Crossing: New Horizons │ Journal of Intercultural Studies │ 43 (6),pp.722-739
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Academic conference presentation
1.	2024/06/18	Playing with Streams: The Politics of Play on YouTube
2.	2024/03/08	Sureillance as Play in Death Stranding
3.	2023/11/25	A data-based perspective on media contents and media culture: Playing with Death Stranding
4.	2023/11/11	digital culture & practice zooming collaboration & sustainability
5.	2023/11/09	Platform-mediated play in Death Stranding
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Competitive grants, etc. (exc. KAKENHI)
1.	2023/01/01 ～ 2024/12/31	Game Music Cultures in Japan and Germany │ Research by External Competitive Fund │ Academic Exchange Program
2.	2022/04/01 ～ 2025/03/31	Exploratory Research on Play and Communities on Video Streaming Platforms │ Research by External Competitive Fund
3.	2019/04 ～	Japanese Visual Media Graph │ Research by External Competitive Fund │ DFG, German Research Foundation
4.	2017/01 ～ 2024/12	Data-based Infrastructure for Global Game Culture Research │ Research by External Competitive Fund │ DFG, German Research Foundation
5.	2017/01 ～ 2020/12	Japan’s videogames between the local and the global │ Research by External Competitive Fund │ German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)

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