Mariko Murata

Mariko Murata is a Professor in the Department of Sociology, Kansai University. She received her PhD from the Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies, the University of Tokyo. She specializes in Media and Cultural Studies and Museum Studies. Her research mainly focuses on ‘museums as media’, and her major publications include Museums as Ideology: Media Studies on Objects and Spaces (2014) and Popular Culture Museums: Collecting, Sharing and Consuming Culture (2013). Her recent papers include ‘A Report on the Auckland War Memorial Museum and New Zealand’s Multiculturalism’ (2019) and 'Art/Museums and Accessibility: Creating an Audio Guide for Visually Impaired Persons’ (2020). She is currently a Research Fellow at the International Institute of Asian Studies in Leiden.