ABE Kiyoshi (Professor)

He graduated from the school of sociology at Kwansei Gakuin University in 1987. He finished the doctoral course of sociology at the University of Tokyo in 1992. After getting the Ph.D. from the University of Tokyo in 1995, he worked at the School of Informatics at Kansai University for five years. From the April of 2000, he has been on staff of the school of sociology at Kwansei Gakuin University. His research themes are, critical theory of the information society, relationship between public sphere, media and communication, and cultural studies of media and nationalism.
His publications are, Public Sphere and Communication (1998), Communication in everyday life (2000), Wondering Nationalism (2001), Sociology in Dialogue (2002).