Yuya Takeda

Canada (residence)
research interests: media Literacy, philosophy of education, discourse studies, conspiracy theories
affiliation: University of British Columbia
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Yuya Takeda is a PhD Candidate at the Department of Language and Literacy Education at University of British Columbia.

In his dissertation, Yuya studies conspiracy theories through philosophical and discourse analytic approaches and speculates on how critical media literacy education can respond to them. He posits that rationalistic debunking is not an effective way to teach conspiracy theories. Instead, he takes existentialist and critical pragmatist stances and locates conspiracy theories in relation to cults and counter-culture movements.

His work appears on journals such as Critical Education, Learning, Technology and Media, and others. Yuya is also an experimental street photographer. Please visit yuyapecotakeda.com for more information about his work.

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  • Sounding the futures imaginary: A collaborative intra-modal storying methodology (2023) author(s): Rachel Horst, Kedrick James, Yuya Takeda, Esteban Morales, Effiam Yung published in: Research Catalogue
    The pandemic is not one coherent narrative but an unbounded multiplicity of narrative ravellings. One theme that can be traced through the course of the past two years is the undoings and redoings of normalcy, including normalcy in qualitative research. Our digital literacy research group took up the pandemic as a canvas upon which to story new futurities and possibilities for qualitative research in physical separation within the context of slow-moving upheaval. At the outset of the first physical lockdown in March of 2020, we began a collaborative and multimodal futures fictioning practice, storying new communicative possibilities and potentialities. Over the course of fourteen months, we reached into each other’s imagination, isolation, temporality, and physical environment via story and sound. This exposition charts our diffractive fictioning methodology, in which we collectively map communicative practices and collaborative meaning in virtual spaces in a time when coherence and consensus have become radically fractured. A cyborg skunk moves through this assemblage of poetry, sonification, narrative, performance, theory, and silence, flicking its many imagined tales and nudging its noses at the wreckage of the normal in search of difference.
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