I am a doctoral student in the study of religions focusing on Shinto in a global and digital context.
My doctoral project “Shaping Shinto: A Multimethod Study in the Digital Aesthetics of Religion” explores the production, reproduction, remediation, and dissemination of Shinto on YouTube in the context of global digitalization. The study is designed around a three-step methodological study, using methods from digital humanities, multimodality, and intermediality studies and aesthetics of religion as a theoretical framework to map Shinto representation on YouTube, study aesthetic trends, and finally examine the media-specific impact on Shinto representation online.
Besides Shinto, aesthetics of religion, and digital religion, I am also interested in religion and ecology, critical theory, media theory, the relationship between religion and popular culture, folklore, and the semiotics of religion.
I am part of the doctoral research training program in Global Humanities at Linnaeus University and I am a member of the Linnæus University Center for Intermedial and Multimodal Studies (IMS), the clusters Mediations of Climate and Ecological Emergency (MEDEM; IMS Green) and Cluster for Ecology, Culture and Coloniality (ECCo).
