YOKO DEMELIUS PhD

Yoko Demelius PhD

Adjunct Professor/ Docent

University Lecturer

Centre for East Asian Studies

University of Turku

yoko.demelius@utu.fi

Biography

Yoko Demelius is a researcher specializing in East Asian studies, focusing on media, gender, and digital society in Japan…

Yoko Demelius is a researcher specializing in East Asian studies, focusing on media, gender, and digital society in Japan…

Yoko Demelius is a researcher specializing in East Asian studies, focusing on media, gender, and digital society in Japan…

Selected Publications

• Demelius, Yoko and Yutaka Yoshida. 2025.
“Ririchan the ‘Grantee Gal’: Post-Feminism, Social Media, and the Celebrification of a Female Fraudster in Neoliberal Japan”,
Asia-Pacific Journal Japan Focus, vol 23.
https://doi.org/10.1017/apj.2025.10024

• Demelius, Yoko and Kamila Szczepanska. 2025.
“Inbōron: Minshushugi o Yurugasu Mekanizumu (Conspiracy Theories: The Mechanism That Shakes Democracy)”,
Social Science Japan Journal, 28(2), Summer 2025.
https://doi.org/10.1093/ssjj/jyaf018

• Demelius, Yoko and Yutaka Yoshida. 2025.
“Technologies of the YouTuber Self: Digital Vigilantism, Masculinities and Attention Economy in Neoliberal Japan”,
Global Crime, 26(2), 120–147.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17440572.2025.2451833