This whitepaper report gives an overview of a variety of “superapps,” apps designed to bring together a vast number of services within a single interface. The purpose of this report is to provide a general understanding of the super app form as it becomes a dominant global framework, and to consider platform capitalism’s transformational shape.

This Lab Report tackles streaming platforms from the angle of anime, one of the prime contents used to gather viewers and subscribers, and their dollars and data. Focused on the circulation of anime on transnational platforms, this Report addresses the rush, over the past decade, for streaming platforms to invest in anime and its audience, up to…[Read more]

Introduction to journal issue on queer representation in animation.

Este artículo analiza los estudios del ani-me contemporáneo y cómo se cruzan con el pensamiento político del filósofo y crítico Walter Benjamin (1892-1940). A través de un examen de los escritos de Benjamin sobre arte y política, junto con la teoría crítica de la producción y el consumo de anime, este ensayo destaca los potencia-les políticos…[Read more]

Winner of the Maureen Furniss Essay Award.

Jacqueline Ristola – Realist Film Theory and Flowers of Evil: Exploring the Philosophical Possibilities of Rotoscoped Animation (winner)

This paper examines Ari Folman’s Waltz With Bashir (2008) and Marjane Satrapi’s Persepolis (2007) to elucidate how artists, distributors, and audiences shape and define the porous boundaries of the documentary genre, and how such perceptions are shaped within a digital context. By analyzing how each film represents reality; that is, how doc…[Read more]

What are the labour conditions of working animators today in Japan? How are they extensions of the industry’s origins and neoliberal practices? Foregrounded by a historical inquiry into the origins of anime labour practices and the rise of Japanese neoliberalism, this paper explores attempts to answer these questions. Through case studies, i…[Read more]