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（Last updated : 2023-04-02 11:37:04）

ROTH Martin Erwin

Department / Course Graduate School of Core Ethics and Frontier Sciences

Title / Position Associate 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.	2019/09/26 ～	Associate Professor, │ Graduate School of Core Ethics and Frontier Sciences │ Ritsumeikan University,
2.	2019/04/15	│ │ Stuttgart Media University
3.	2016/04/01 ～ 2017/03/31	│ Graduate School of Core Ethics and Frontier Sciences │ Ritsumeikan University,
4.	2015/01/25 ～ 2019/09/25	│ Faculty of History │ Leipzig University,
5.	2012/05/01 ～ 2014/10/31	│ │ Leiden University,Institute of Area Studies
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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.	2021/12	Japan's Contemporary Media Culture between Local and Global │ (Co-authored)
2.	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 (Co-authored)
3.	2017	Thought-Provoking Play: Political Philosophies in Science Fictional Videogame Spaces from Japan │ (Sole-authored)
4.	2016	100 Jahre Ostasiatisches Institut an der Universität Leipzig, 1914-2014 │ (Co-authored)
5.	2014	Das Zwischen denken: Marx, Freud und Nishida. Für Toshiaki (Binmei) Kobayashi │ (Co-authored)

Papers
1.	2022/11	Reclaiming Everydayness and Japanese Cultural Routines in Animal Crossing: New Horizons │ Journal of Intercultural Studies │ 43 (6),pp.722-739 (Sole-authored)
2.	2022/10	Harmonizing Open Licenses among Online Databases of Enthusiast Communities: Challenges for the Legal Integration of Databases in the Japanese Visual Media Graph Project │ Pop! Public. Open. Participatory │ 4 (Co-authored)
3.	2022/02	Creating a knowledge graph for the domain of Japanese Visual Media │ Journal of the Japan Society for Digital Archive │ 6 (1),pp.31-34 (Co-authored)
4.	2021/12	Playing out of bounds? Cross-platform community practice in and beyond Dark Souls │ (Co-authored)
5.	2021/06/25	The Game Rating System in Germany: A Study of Youth Protection Enforced by Entertainment Software Self-Regulation (USK) and the Federal Review Board for Media Harmful to Minors (BPjM) │ Simulation and Gaming Japan │ ,pp.63-75 (Co-authored)
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Others
1.	2021	FromSoftware Spatialization Analysis v1.0 (Dataset) │

Academic conference presentation
1.	2022/07/27	Developing the Japanese Visual Media Graph: An Open Knowledge Graph for Researchers Working on Japanese Anime, Manga and Otaku Culture (DH 2022)
2.	2022/05/20	Exploring the commonalities and differences in descriptive metadata databases compiled by online fan and enthusiast communities and public administration agencies using the Japanese Visual Media Graph (FanLIS 2022: Fan Futures – Beyond the Archive)
3.	2021/03/07	Exodus to digital game space? Rethinking the ecology of play
4.	2020/09/10	Digitale Medien und ihre Bedeutung für die Jugend in Japan: Mediennutzung, Digitalisierung in der Bildung, Medienkompetenz
5.	2020/08/11	FromSoftware games between local and global: A data-centered analysis of the historical change in videogame production and distribution (Replaying Japan 2020)
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Competitive grants, etc. (exc. KAKENHI)
1.	2022/04/01 ～ 2025/03/31	Exploratory Research on Play and Communities on Video Streaming Platforms │ Research by External Competitive Fund
2.	2019/04 ～ 2022/05	Japanese Visual Media Graph │ Research by External Competitive Fund │ DFG, German Research Foundation
3.	2017/01 ～ 2020/07	Data-based Infrastructure for Global Game Culture Research │ Research by External Competitive Fund │ DFG, German Research Foundation
4.	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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