Daisuke Okabe is a cognitive and learning scientist and a professor in Sociology and Media Studies and Informatics at Tokyo City University. He enjoys scuba diving and barracuda tornadoes.
He has been a leading researcher in the expanding situated learning approaches such as connected learning in Japan and has conducted extensive ethnographic studies on youth technology adoption and participatory fandom and otaku culture. He has also been instrumental in bringing Japanese scholarship in technology and fan studies to the US, collaborating with Mimi in translating and editing two influential essay collections, Personal Portable Pedestrian: Mobile Phones in Japanese Life and Fandom Unbound: Otaku Culture in a Connected World.
