Jason G. KARLIN is a professor of media studies in the Interfaculty Initiative for Information Studies at the University of Tokyo. He is the author of Gender and Nation in Meiji Japan: Modernity, Loss, and the Doing of History (2014), co-author of AKB48 (2019), and co-editor of Idols and Celebrity in Japanese Media Culture (2011) and Media Convergence in Japan (2016). He teaches classes on social media and gender theory in the Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies "Information