Shinichi YamaguchiThe Center for Global Communications (GLOCOM) Associate Professor | ![]() |
Shinichi Yamaguchi is an associate professor at Center for Global Communications, International University of Japan. He obtained his PhD in Economics at Keio University (Japan) in 2015. He is majoring in econometrics. His research interests include social media and the digital economy. He was awarded the Takamiya Award of Academic Association for Organizational Science, the Paper Award of The Japan Society of Information and Communication Research (twice), and the Telecommunications Incentive Award in Social Studies. He published some books; Who are The Extreme People? (Kobunsha Co., Ltd.), Why It's Profitable (Soshisha Publishing), The Economics of Flaming and Word-of-Mouth (Asahi Shimbun Publications Inc.), etc. In addition, he is an affiliate researcher of The University of Tokyo, a director of Risk Communication Institute, an advisor of SIEMPLE Inc., an advisor of Japan Agency for Marine-Earth Science, an advisory board member of GREE, Inc.