Ayaka Inaba

   Ayaka Inaba is a researcher in the field of media anthropology and archival studies.  Her research interest is in the change which increasing digitization and human mobilities brings to the collective identities of social minorities.  She is working on her Ph.D. thesis on the impact of emerging digital platforms and online events on the historical narratives of Japanese North American internment during World War II.      

   She has published articles concerning the influence of the global media and digital archives on ethnic minorities, including her recent articles focusing on online commemorations of Japanese American incarceration during the COVID-19 pandemic and Japanese Canadian family memory mediated by a digital archive.  The Japanese Canadian digital archive article (DOI: https://doi.org/10.24506/jsda.6.2_e11) received the Japan Society for Digital Archives Academic Award in 2022.

   She has also taught classes of Japanese American history and multiculturalism at several Japanese Universities, including the University of Tokyo.

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