About the Author

Anne Cooper-Chen received her Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and is a professor of journalism at Ohio University. She has more than ten years’ full-time media experience and is author of Games in the Global Village (1994) and Mass Communication in Japan (1997), and editor of Global Entertainment Media (2005). From 1992 to 1993 she was a Fulbright Senior Research Scholar in Japan, and in 2009 was a visiting professor in Tokyo.