Introduction to "The Philosophy of VTuber" – The Diversification of VTubers & Avatars as "Bodies" (Hiroki Yamano)

Born in Tokyo in 1994. Graduated from Sophia University Faculty of Humanities, Department of History in 2017. Completed the Master's program in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Tokyo, specializing in Comparative Literature and Culture, in 2019. Since then, he has been a special researcher for the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science DC1 (finished his term in March 2022). Currently, he is in the doctoral program at the same graduate school. His specialization is philosophy (particularly the thought of Paul Ricoeur). He began research on "The Philosophy of VTuber (VTuberの哲学)" in 2022. His main work is "独学の思考法" (KodanSha Gendai ShinSho, 2022). He received the Japan Philosophical Society Excellent Paper Award in 2019 and the Young Researcher Encouragement Award from the Japan-France Philosophical Society in 2021. Under the philosophy of connecting the knowledge of philosophy with real society, he is dedicated to widely disseminating the "significance" and "attractiveness" of philosophy.
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