Mimi Ito

Professor in Residence Informatics UC Irvine

  • Irvine CA

Mizuko Ito is a cultural anthropologist of technology use, focusing on children and youth's changing relationships to media.

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Biography

Mizuko Ito is a cultural anthropologist of technology use, focusing on children and youth's changing relationships to media and communications. She recently completed a research project supported by the MacArthur Foundation a three year ethnographic study of kid-initiated and peer-based forms of engagement with new media. In 2008, she was awarded the Jan Hawkins Award for Early Career Contributions to Humanistic Research and Scholarship in Learning Technologies from the American Educational Research Association.

Areas of Expertise

Media and Communications
Anthropology
Children/Video Games
Technology

Accomplishments

Jan Hawkins Award for Early Career Contributions to Humanistic Research

2008

Education

Stanford University

PhD

Anthropology

2003

Stanford University

PhD

Education

1998

Stanford University

MA

Anthropology

1991

Media Appearances

LABS: Denzel Curry and Dr. Mimi Ito on Anime Culture

Talkhouse (Sing for Science)  radio

2024-07-13

Recorded Live at the Anime Station store in Little Tokyo, Los Angeles on July 13, 2024, rapper Denzel Curry talks with UC Irvine cultural anthropologist Dr. Mimi Ito about his relationship to anime and anime culture in Japan and abroad. We discuss Mimi’s research that tracked how manga and anime grew from just a Japanese export to a global phenomenon.

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Can You Hide a Child’s Face From A.I.?

The New York Times  online

2023-10-14

Mimi Ito, [professor in residence], a cultural anthropologist and director of the Connected Learning Lab at the University of California, Irvine, said facial recognition technology makes the otherwise joyful sharing of children’s photos online more challenging. “There’s a growing awareness that with A.I., we don’t really have control of all the data that we’re spewing into the social media ecosystem,” she said.

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The underdiscussed upsides of screen time for kids

Desert News  online

2022-03-24

When they get involved in online communities or learn to run Youtube channels and blogs and make content, adolescents learn skills that will help them survive in the digital world later on, says Mimi Ito, a cultural anthropologist of technology use at the University of California, Irvine. These activities have a “real-worldness to it that they never get to experience through school safe assignments,” she says. “They’re getting real authentic feedback from communities.”

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Articles

Observational evidence of supercooling and frazil ice formation throughout the water column in a coastal polynya in the Sea of Okhotsk

Continental Shelf Research

2020

This paper examines underwater frazil ice formation in a coastal polynya. In a coastal polynya, the seawater near the ocean surface can become supercooled due to intense atmospheric cooling. Supercooled water sinks deeper under turbulent conditions, resulting in frazil ice formation in the water column.

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Environmentally Friendly Syntheses of Imines Applying the Pressure Reduction Technique: Reaction Cases of Less Reactive Amines and Studies by Computational Chemistry

Green and Sustainable Chemistry

2020

Recently, the development of environmentally friendly syntheses of imine derivatives, which were attracting great attention for their reactivity and structure in various fields, progressed rapidly because the concept of green chemistry had deeply penetrated into society. In our previous work, we had reported new synthetic methods of imine derivatives using some active amines under solvent- and catalyst-free reaction conditions.

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Heterocycles

2020

Nosyl annulation of a bithiophene derivative with nosylamide (NsNH 2) gives a 5-7-5 fused N, S-heterocyclic compound. The detailed molecular structure of the obtained nosylamide was analyzed by single-crystal X-ray crystallography.

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