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1st Musashi University Gender Diversity Study Group
Moe Yamauchi: Sexual Selfies Enable the "Subject of Visibility": A Visual Cultural Study of Secret Account Girls

Summary: We invited Moe Yamauchi to talk about "The subject of showing that sexual selfies make possible" ——Yamauchi will be speaking about her "Visual Cultural Study of Ura-aka Girls." This presentation will be based on the findings of her doctoral dissertation, which were obtained through interviews and participant observation of so-called "ura-aka girls," who post sexually charged selfies on social media. From a media history perspective, she will examine how these girls proactively present their "body as image" through selfies, and will also analyze the relevance of this to contemporary oshikatsu (supporting idols).

Date and Time:2025May29Sunday (Thursday)15:30minutes
Location: Musashi University Ekoda Campus (Professor Research Building 01-Bclassroom)

Participation is welcome.

 

Moe Yamauchi's profile

Graduated from the Faculty of Letters, Keio University.He completed his doctoral studies at the Graduate School of Media and Governance at the same university. He is a PhD (academic). He is also a researcher at the Center for Global Communications at the International University of Japan. He is the author of "Teen Magazines as Sex Education"1980"An Analysis of Sexuality Features in Popteen in the 1990s," Media Studies104issue(2024), "Women as 'presenting subjects' in sexual selfies," Modern Studies in Manners and Customs20issue(2020). Co-author of Media and Youth Culture (Shinsensha).

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