// Disciplines
Media Theory
6 topics
- ASMR Culture
Is Intimacy Through Sound Genuine Intimacy?
Intimacy through sound refers to the sense of closeness created solely by voice, breathing, or whispers without visual or tactile cues. Genu…
- Digital Solitude and Virtual Community
The Contradiction of Listening Alone to a Screen with Flowing Comments
When playing a Vocaloid song on Nico Nico Douga or similar platforms, countless comments scroll across the entire screen. The feeling that '…
- Internet Slang
What Does a Word Become When It Loses Its Meaning?
When internet words, especially slang and memes, lose their original meaning or emotion through repeated use, what do they become? Empty sig…
- Internet Slang
Is Slang That Has Left Its Community Still the Same Word?
When internet slang spreads beyond its originating community, does it remain 'the same word'? Or does its meaning and nuance transform depen…
- Vocaloid Character Ontology
The True Nature of the Feeling That Vocaloid Characters Are Raised by Everyone
The feeling that 'everyone raised the character' refers to the phenomenon where Vocaloid characters such as Hatsune Miku transcend their ori…
- Internet Slang
Is Learning Slang the Same as Entering That Community?
Is learning slang equivalent to becoming a member of that community? Can you enter 'inside' by learning the words, or are the words merely a…