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The development and spread of numerous global and local media in contemporary times led to the information phenomena being experienced in a manner that outstrips the narrow confines of the concept's history as a specialized military term. The concept of information must be understood as a field of struggle in which different definitions confront each other leading to the creation of new practices and alternative concepts.

A television series traced the semiconductor industry in Japan, and dealt with the criticism that the Japanese merely copied American technology. The Japanese thought they lost the Second World War due to inferior economy and technology, so they set out to develop their technological and economic capabilities. The popular image of electric appliances is an important symbol confirming Japanese technological capabilities and economic success.

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Analyzes the ideological relationship between gender, technology and nationalism in television (TV) images through the postwar period in contemporary Japan. Historical development of TV as a symbolic object in everyday life; Role of TV in providing a flow of information and discursive structures for the horizons of the social imagination; Development of the Internet and independent video journalism in Japan.