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Chapter 3
Digital Pop Kids
Ichiya Nakamura
Abstract
This chapter aims at describing what is going on in the digital society and
what I am doing in order to create the future of the digital society as my project from
the point of view of a producer and an activist, to entertain the whole world.
Keywords
Digital
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Pop culture
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Children
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Creativity
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Learning
3.1
Changing Digital Society
The Workshop Collection is an annual festival that fosters kids' digital creativity and
is held at Keio University, Japan. There are about one hundred workshops that allow
kids to create animation, music, digital newspaper, game, etc.
Recently, more than 100,000 children came to participate in the workshops. I believe
that this is the world's biggest event concerned with kids' creativity. My mission is
to provide opportunities to design and to use technology to all related people, such
as artists, performers, teachers, IT industry, entertainment industry, parents, and
children. I am the representative of this event, and this is one of my public activities.
