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EX-SPHERE.NETへようこそ。ここはtymrisが管理する個人的なウェブサイトです。日常の出来事を書きつづったブログをメインにしようと思っていますが，音楽や書評などクリエイティブ関係のコンテンツもいずれアップできればと考えています。期待せずお待ちください。また，このサイトはWordPressで構築しています。なるべく正しい HTML/XHTML/CSS で書いているつもりですが，エラーや表示の崩れ等ありましたら，ご指摘いただけると幸いです。– 18th Apr. 2008

Basics

  • Screen Name: tymris My status
  • DOB: 20th March
  • Nationality: Japan
  • Language: Japanese (native), English (business)
  • Research and Business Field: Risk Management, Corporate Communications, Socio-economics, Social Ethics, Social Theory, Sociology

Favorites

  • Music: Progressive Metal, Jazz Fusion, Smooth Jazz, Ambient
  • Player: Sting, John Petrucci, Steve Vai, EVH, ルーク篁, 鳥山雄司, 石川俊介
  • Video Game: Final Fantasy IV-IX, Dragon Quest I-III, Sim City Series
  • F1: Gerhard Berger, Kimi Räikkönen, Ayrton Senna
  • Thinker: Niklas Luhmann, Max Weber, Michel Foucault, Walter Benjamin, Ludwig Wittgenstein

CV (for Non-Japanese Speakers)

Tymris has been a research officer at a risk consulting firm in Japan since 2008.

He was born in Fukuoka-city, Fukuoka prefecture in Japan, 19XX, and grew up in Amagi-city and Kurume-city. Tymris is a 2004 graduate of the Social Science Major, School of Education at Waseda University in Tokyo, Japan. Tymris’s master’s degree in sociology and media studies (Master of Arts and Sciences (Information Studies)) is from the University of Tokyo, where he wrote his dissertation on the discursive formation process of Japanese information society in the 20th century. While still a student, Tymris served as a technical assistant of Interfaculty Initiative in Information Studies at the University of Tokyo from 2004 to 2006, where he engaged in digital archive research and development of propaganda posters in an era of World War I.

He was a public relations representative at an electric-appliance conglomerate, from 2006 to 2007, where he had business experience in corporate communications including media relations and investor relations. He also has written a co-authored book on social survey of so-called “sound demo” in 2007.

His perspective on society is based on social systems theory, which German sociologist Niklas Luhmann advocated. From the perspective, Tymris think and analyze society and social aspect of media. At the same time, he considers his business activity as a kind of practical studies of sociology.

His writings include “The Genealogy of Information Society Studies: Discourse Analysis of ‘Social Informatization’ in 1960s-1990s Japan” (master’s thesis), “Spatial Theory in the Age of Globalization and Informatization” (bachelor’s thesis), “The City and the Mediation of Sounds” in Ethnography on the Streets.

Tymris’s professional service includes serving as a member for the Japan Society for Corporate Communication Studies.