Kiyoshi Abe

Kyoshi Abe graduated from the School of Sociology at Kwansei Gakuin University in 1987. He finished doctoral courses in Sociology at the University of Tokyo in 1992. After receiving his Ph.D. from the University of Tokyo in 1995, he worked at the School of Informatics at Kansai University for five years. Since April 2000, he has been at the School of Sociology at Kwansei Gakuin University. His research themes are critical theories of information society, relationships between public spheres, media and communication, and cultural studies of media and nationalism. Some of his publications are, Public Sphere and Communication (1998), Communication in everyday life (2000), Wondering Nationalism (2001), and Sociology in Dialogue (2002).