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Society and Trend Research: A Five-Country Source Map

Cultural commentary is scattered across languages and platforms. A useful interview or archive page may answer one question while leaving it unclear who covers another era or category—and which limit must remain attached to the interpretation.

This bounded index brings together 60 directly inspected, source-linked records from Brazil, the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, and Japan. It compares the coverage of this collection, never the cultures or populations of those countries.

How to read each row

Each row keeps one direct source link, attributed voice or author, publisher, standardized era/category labels, a concise supported topic, an evidence classification, and one source-specific limit. A link is not an endorsement.

A record entered the map only when the original source was directly inspected, its creator and publisher were identified, an exact text or timestamp locator was retained, and country, era, and category were coded; each country contributes 12 records.

  • Evidence classification: supports directly backs the statement; qualifies adds a correction or limit; context supplies orientation without becoming a standalone conclusion.
  • Collection totals: 57 voices met the inclusion criteria across 60 unique URLs. Eighteen rows are YouTube sources; all 18 have timestamped transcripts, and 17 media downloads succeeded for analysis.
  • Transcription and translation: creator captions, platform captions, and automatic speech recognition (ASR) can contain errors; researcher translations retain uncertainty.
  • Date and quotation limits: some publishers provide only month or year precision; short quotations do not reproduce full works or transcripts.
  • Comparison limit: one source can carry several era or category labels, so counts overlap. They do not measure population prevalence, country rank, group consensus, or cross-national causality.
Five country cards labelled BR, US, UK, CA, and JP each show 12 records, for 60 total. Summary codes show V 57, YT 18, TX 18, and DL 17.
BR, US, UK, CA, and JP each contribute 12 rows. V means 57 qualified voices; YT, 18 YouTube sources; TX, 18 timestamped transcripts; and DL, 17 successful downloads. Equal row counts organize the map but do not make countries statistically comparable. On a narrow screen, scroll horizontally only if needed.

Brazil: 12 sources

Brazil contributes 12 records and seven qualified voices across cultural institutions, interviews, commentary, and public data.

SourceVoice / publisherEra / categoryTopic / source limit
Lilia Schwarcz (Masp) \ Diálogos Itaú CulturalVoice/author: Lilia Moritz Schwarcz
Publisher: Itaú Cultural
Era: 2020s, cross-era
Category: art-design, culture-identity, politics-economy
Topic: Schwarcz interprets art as an active producer of historical moments, not merely a passive reflection of them.
Limit: supports — Schwarcz’s historical and curatorial interpretation, with examples centered on Brazil and its cultural institutions.
Lilia Schwarcz | #ProvocaVoice/author: Lilia Moritz Schwarcz
Publisher: TV Cultura / Fundação Padre Anchieta
Era: 2020s, cross-era
Category: culture-identity, politics-economy, literature-magazines
Topic: Schwarcz frames Brazilian history through persistent inequality and relates Barreto’s asylum observation to her own prison visits.
Limit: supports — Schwarcz’s interview interpretation; examples include Lima Barreto and her own prison visits and are not a representative population study.
Evolução da internet: entrevista de Silvio Meira por Cláudio Lins de VasconcelosVoice/author: Silvio Romero de Lemos Meira
Publisher: Itaú Cultural / Revista Observatório Itaú Cultural
Era: 2020s, cross-era
Category: technology-internet, art-design, politics-economy
Topic: Meira describes his view of internet regulation as changing when recommendation algorithms became powerful behavioral mediators.
Limit: supports — Meira’s technology-policy and innovation analysis, with Brazil discussed as a strategic case rather than a sampled population.
História em evolução da Internet - Silvio Meira - Entrevista - Canal FuturaVoice/author: Silvio Romero de Lemos Meira
Publisher: Canal Futura
Era: 1990s, 2010s, cross-era
Category: technology-internet, politics-economy
Topic: Meira distinguishes the internet’s network protocols from the World Wide Web before tracing their social and infrastructural evolution.
Limit: supports — Expert explanatory interview about global internet history with several Brazil-specific infrastructure and usage examples.
Os algoritmos e as mídias sociais sob o viés das relações raciais | Entrevista com Tarcízio SilvaVoice/author: Tarcízio Silva
Publisher: Itaú Cultural
Era: 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s, cross-era
Category: technology-internet, culture-identity, politics-economy
Topic: Silva interprets web history as a shift from horizontal reappropriation toward concentrated platform power.
Limit: supports — Silva’s analysis spans Brazilian and international platform systems; only explicitly bounded claims may be used for Brazil.
Anos de chumboVoice/author: Heloisa Buarque de Hollanda
Publisher: Ocupação Itaú Cultural
Era: pre-1980
Category: art-design, movements-subcultures, culture-identity, literature-magazines, politics-economy
Topic: Hollanda interprets 1960s Brazilian culture through the tension between internationalizing experimentation and nationally engaged, pedagogical art.
Limit: supports — Focuses mainly on Brazilian cultural and political production of the 1960s, especially theater, literature, cinema, youth, and dictatorship-era resistance.
Entrevista com Heloisa Buarque de HollandaVoice/author: Heloisa Buarque de Hollanda
Publisher: Plano Estadual de Cultura do Rio de Janeiro
Era: 2010s
Category: culture-identity, movements-subcultures, politics-economy
Topic: Hollanda evaluates center-periphery cultural circulation as a central movement in Rio de Janeiro’s contemporary cultural life.
Limit: supports — Cultural-policy observations about Rio de Janeiro city and state, not a national sample.
A música paralelaVoice/author: Hermano Vianna
Publisher: Folha de S.Paulo — Mais!
Era: 1980s, 2000s, cross-era
Category: music, movements-subcultures, technology-internet, habits-everyday-life, politics-economy
Topic: Vianna reports that early-2000s tecnobrega circulation depended more on MP3, radio, sound-system parties, and informal CD production than on official discs.
Limit: supports — Specific to funk carioca comparisons and tecnobrega/aparelhagem circuits observed in Belém and Pará around 2002–2003.
Periferias - Hermano Vianna - Entrevista - Canal FuturaVoice/author: Hermano Vianna
Publisher: Canal Futura / Entrevista
Era: 2010s, cross-era
Category: music, movements-subcultures, culture-identity, technology-internet
Topic: Vianna recalls investigating how popular peripheral music circulated outside radio and television even before the internet.
Limit: supports — Vianna’s selected Brazilian fieldwork and media-production experiences, not all peripheral communities.
“Deserto Particular”: o brasileiro mais lindo do OscarVoice/author: Isabela Boscov
Publisher: Isabela Boscov
Era: 2020s
Category: television-film, art-design, culture-identity
Topic: Boscov reads Deserto Particular as an exploration of self-enforced cultural roles and the beliefs required to sustain them.
Limit: supports — One critic’s interpretation of one Brazilian feature film and its characters.
Acesso à Internet e à televisão e posse de telefone móvel celular para uso pessoal 2023Voice/author: IBGE, Diretoria de Pesquisas, Coordenação de Pesquisas por Amostra de Domicílios
Publisher: Instituto Brasileiro de Geografia e Estatística (IBGE)
Era: 2020s
Category: technology-internet, television-film, habits-everyday-life, politics-economy
Topic: IBGE measured that 31.1 million television households had paid video streaming in 2023 while the share declined from 43.4% to 42.1%.
Limit: supports — Permanent private households and people aged 10 or over in Brazil in PNAD Contínua 2023; streaming indicators use household-specific denominators and stated conventions.
Entrevista: políticas culturais e as tecnologias de informação e comunicaçãoVoice/author: Marco Antônio de Almeida
Publisher: Itaú Cultural / Observatório Itaú Cultural
Era: 2000s, 2010s, cross-era
Category: technology-internet, culture-identity, art-design, games, music, politics-economy
Topic: Almeida situates networked digital tools within a longer history of knowledge technologies that reconfigure memory and cultural mediation.
Limit: supports — Brazilian cultural-policy institutions and practices, with selected comparisons to Medellín and Madrid and discussion of globally distributed media fandoms.

United States: 12 sources

The United States contributes 12 records and 11 qualified voices. No admitted row carries the anime-animation, games, or fashion tag; that is a collection gap, not an absence claim about the country.

SourceVoice / publisherEra / categoryTopic / source limit
Henry Jenkins on Participatory Culture: Big ThinkersVoice/author: Henry Jenkins
Publisher: Edutopia
Era: 2010s, cross-era
Category: technology-internet, movements-subcultures, culture-identity
Topic: Jenkins defines participatory culture as ordinary participants taking media production and sharing into their own hands.
Limit: context — Interpretive account of participatory media history, with examples centered largely in the United States.
HTNM Lecture — Safiya Umoja Noble’s “Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism”Voice/author: Safiya Umoja Noble
Publisher: Berkeley Center for New Media, University of California, Berkeley
Era: 2010s
Category: technology-internet, culture-identity, politics-economy
Topic: Noble asks what is at stake when people rely on a commercial advertising engine for social sense-making.
Limit: supports — Claims concern U.S.-based commercial search systems and racialized representation; they do not measure all U.S. users or every search query.
Hank Green Unpacks YouTube’s Biggest ProblemsVoice/author: Hank Green
Publisher: Colin and Samir
Era: 2020s, cross-era
Category: technology-internet, movements-subcultures, politics-economy
Topic: Green separates a platform’s durable institutional power from the intentions of any current executive.
Limit: context — Experience reflects specific creator businesses and platforms, not all U.S. creators or platform users.
Main Report: IntroductionVoice/author: Amanda Lenhart
Publisher: Pew Research Center
Era: 2000s
Category: technology-internet, habits-everyday-life, culture-identity
Topic: At the start of the 2000s, the report characterized instant messaging as embedded in online teens’ ordinary and emotionally important conversations.
Limit: context — U.S. online youth ages 12–17 in late 2000, plus their parents; findings do not describe offline youth or all children under 18 equally.
Teens, Social Media and Technology 2023Voice/author: Monica Anderson
Publisher: Pew Research Center
Era: 2020s
Category: technology-internet, habits-everyday-life
Topic: In the 2023 probability-based survey, roughly nine in ten U.S. teens ages 13–17 reported using YouTube.
Limit: supports — 1,453 U.S. teens ages 13–17 living with parents, surveyed September 26–October 23, 2023.
Woodstock 1969Voice/author: National Archives Museum
Publisher: National Archives and Records Administration
Era: pre-1980
Category: music, movements-subcultures, culture-identity
Topic: The National Archives exhibit records an estimated audience of 400,000 at the 1969 Woodstock Music & Art Fair.
Limit: context — One U.S. festival, its archival record, and its subsequent symbolic framing; not a survey of 1960s Americans.
Arts Participation in 2022: A Technical Summary ReportVoice/author: National Endowment for the Arts and 2M Research
Publisher: National Endowment for the Arts
Era: 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s, 2020s, cross-era
Category: art-design, habits-everyday-life, literature-magazines, music
Topic: The 2022 SPPA measured media consumption as the most common mode of arts participation among U.S. adults, while reading and personal creation each involved more than half.
Limit: supports — U.S. civilian adults age 18 and older represented by the 2022 SPPA/CPS supplement; subgroup and geography claims require their stated denominators.
Fandom went mainstream in the 2010s — for better and worseVoice/author: Aja Romano
Publisher: Vox
Era: 2010s
Category: movements-subcultures, television-film, technology-internet, culture-identity
Topic: Romano interprets platform migration from LiveJournal to Tumblr as a driver of fandom’s increased visibility and creator access in the 2010s.
Limit: supports — U.S. mainstream popular-media discussion with transnational examples; it cannot stand for every fandom or for other countries.
Is Hollywood exploiting the push to diversify criticism for marketing wins?Voice/author: Wesley Morris
Publisher: NOW Magazine
Era: 2010s
Category: television-film, culture-identity
Topic: Morris interprets a major change in U.S. cultural criticism as the centering of identity in how films and representation are evaluated.
Limit: context — Morris comments on American criticism, Hollywood film, and U.S. identity discourse; the source does not measure national opinion and is not a proxy for Canada.
Forty Years After Woodstock, A Gentler Generation GapVoice/author: Paul Taylor
Publisher: Pew Research Center
Era: pre-1980, 2000s, cross-era
Category: music, culture-identity, habits-everyday-life
Topic: In Pew’s 2009 survey, 65% of respondents ages 16 and older reported listening to rock often or sometimes, more than the six other genres tested.
Limit: supports — 1,815 people ages 16 and older in the continental United States interviewed July 20–August 2, 2009; ±2.7 percentage points overall at 95% confidence.
U.S. has changed in key ways in the past decade, from tech use to demographicsVoice/author: Katherine Schaeffer
Publisher: Pew Research Center
Era: 2010s
Category: technology-internet, habits-everyday-life, politics-economy, culture-identity
Topic: Pew’s 2019 synthesis reports high U.S. adult internet, smartphone, and social-media adoption by the close of the 2010s.
Limit: supports — U.S. adults and other explicitly named U.S. populations during the 2010s; no single sample underlies the entire article.
Networked privacy: How teenagers negotiate context in social mediaVoice/author: Alice E. Marwick, danah boyd
Publisher: SAGE Publications / New Media & Society
Era: 2000s, 2010s, cross-era
Category: technology-internet, habits-everyday-life, culture-identity
Topic: The study’s networked-privacy model is grounded in 166 interviews and participant observation across 17 U.S. states.
Limit: supports — U.S. teenagers ages 13–19 recruited across 17 states; qualitative diversity is broad but not nationally representative.

United Kingdom: 12 sources

The United Kingdom contributes 12 records and 18 qualified voices. England has representative survey evidence, while Wales, Scotland, and Northern Ireland do not have comparable measures, so England-only results stay bounded to England.

SourceVoice / publisherEra / categoryTopic / source limit
Jon Savage at the British LibraryVoice/author: Jon Savage, Kate Mossman
Publisher: British Library
Era: pre-1980, cross-era
Category: music, movements-subcultures, culture-identity
Topic: Savage rejects treating punk as an exclusively English possession and describes it as international.
Limit: supports — Evidence is primarily London and England-focused; it must not be generalized to Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland, and Savage explicitly challenges English ownership.
Musical Truth: A Musical History of Modern Black BritainVoice/author: Jeffrey Boakye, Jenessa Williams, Jords
Publisher: British Library
Era: 2000s, 2020s, cross-era
Category: music, culture-identity, movements-subcultures
Topic: The speakers frame music as simultaneously celebratory, traumatic and resistant rather than as entertainment alone.
Limit: supports — The programme is framed as modern Black Britain but examples are heavily London- and England-centred; it does not establish prevalence across every UK nation.
Blokes, lads and geezers: Working class masculinity on screen | BFI video essayVoice/author: Lou Thomas, Maha Albadrawi
Publisher: BFI
Era: 1980s, 2010s, cross-era
Category: television-film, culture-identity, politics-economy
Topic: The essay links a post-war screen image of English working-class masculinity to industrial decline and disrupted inherited work identities.
Limit: supports — Many examples are English, especially London and the East End; “British” claims should not be treated as equal evidence for Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland.
BodyMap: shaping 1980s fashionVoice/author: Victoria and Albert Museum
Publisher: Victoria and Albert Museum
Era: 1980s
Category: fashion, art-design, movements-subcultures
Topic: The V&A identifies BodyMap as an influential British label whose distinction lay in a pioneering approach and DIY origins.
Limit: supports — The label and exhibition are London/England-centred, not evidence for every UK nation.
On the BBC's 100th year in WalesVoice/author: Jamie Medhurst
Publisher: Museum Wales
Era: pre-1980, 1980s, cross-era
Category: television-film, culture-identity, politics-economy
Topic: Welsh institutional pressure produced a distinct BBC Welsh Region in 1937 after Wales had been placed in a West Region.
Limit: supports — Wales only; use to distinguish Welsh broadcasting from UK-wide or England-only accounts.
Good Vibrations For Belfast Punks 1979Voice/author: Terri Hooley, Greg Cowan
Publisher: RTÉ Archives
Era: pre-1980
Category: music, movements-subcultures, culture-identity
Topic: A contemporary patron describes the Belfast punk venue as scarce social and musical infrastructure where participants fit in.
Limit: supports — Belfast and Northern Ireland only; not a uniform UK punk scene.
70 years of record collecting donated to the nationVoice/author: William Dean-Myatt
Publisher: National Library of Scotland
Era: pre-1980, cross-era
Category: music, culture-identity
Topic: The National Library of Scotland received a collection exceeding 10,000 sound recordings.
Limit: supports — Scotland-focused collection; it should not be used as evidence of UK-wide listening habits or of every Scottish community.
Main report for the Participation Survey (April 2024 to March 2025)Voice/author: Department for Culture, Media and Sport; Department for Science, Innovation and Technology
Publisher: GOV.UK
Era: 2020s
Category: habits-everyday-life, art-design, technology-internet
Topic: The survey population is adults aged 16 and over in England, not the whole United Kingdom.
Limit: supports — Adults aged 16+ in England only; excludes Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland and must not be reported as UK-wide.
The Evolution of GamingVoice/author: Mark Cutmore
Publisher: Science Museum Group
Era: pre-1980, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s, cross-era
Category: games, technology-internet
Topic: The Science Museum panel framed gaming history across arcades, the UK home-computing boom, VR and mobile eras.
Limit: supports — Framed as UK industry history but panel and museum evidence is predominantly England-based; regional industry differences are not analysed.
From Shakespeare to rock music: the history of the word ‘punk’Voice/author: Zoë Wilcox, Andy Linehan, Stephen Cleary
Publisher: British Library
Era: pre-1980, cross-era
Category: music, movements-subcultures, literature-magazines
Topic: The British Library dates a documented popular-music use of “punk” to Dave Marsh’s 1971 retrospective label.
Limit: supports — The UK music discussion centres London press and the Sex Pistols; it does not independently represent naming in Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland.
‘Does it threaten the status quo?’ Elite responses to British punk, 1976–1978Voice/author: John Street, Matthew Worley, David Wilkinson
Publisher: Popular Music (Cambridge University Press)
Era: pre-1980
Category: music, movements-subcultures, politics-economy
Topic: The authors find archival evidence of punk’s impact on media, local government and police but much less at central-government or monarchy level.
Limit: supports — Study says Britain/UK but many institutional cases are English; Glasgow and Belfast appear, while Wales is minimally visible.
Cultures of the Internet: The Internet in BritainVoice/author: William H. Dutton and Grant Blank
Publisher: Oxford Internet Institute
Era: 2010s
Category: technology-internet, habits-everyday-life, culture-identity
Topic: The report is based on a recurring survey of Britons about internet use and everyday-life effects.
Limit: supports — Publisher uses Britain/Britons; without verified Northern Ireland sampling, findings are not promoted as United Kingdom-wide.

Canada: 12 sources

Canada contributes 12 records, 15 qualified voices, and two French-language sources. The Inuit-art and Inuit-cinema rows are settler or institutional perspectives and cannot imply Inuit consensus.

SourceVoice / publisherEra / categoryTopic / source limit
Entrevue de 1964 sur l'art inuit avec Jacques Rousseau, ethnologueVoice/author: Jacques Rousseau, Pierre Paquette
Publisher: Radio-Canada Archives
Era: pre-1980
Category: art-design, culture-identity, habits-everyday-life
Topic: Rousseau attributes substantial local change in Puvirnituq to the cooperative movement.
Limit: context — Puvirnituq and the specific period discussed; not all Inuit communities, Quebec, or Canada.
La place des artistes noirs au QuébecVoice/author: Tanya Lapointe, Pierre Kwenders, Valérie Daure, Normand Brathwaite
Publisher: Radio-Canada Archives
Era: 2010s
Category: television-film, music, culture-identity
Topic: Valérie Daure recalls racism in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu and the absence of Black television role models during her childhood.
Limit: supports — Black artists interviewed in Quebec and Daure’s experience in Saint-Jean-sur-Richelieu; not all Black Quebecers or Canadians.
1971: MARSHALL MCLUHAN on ADVERTISING | 24 Hours | Writers and Wordsmiths | BBC ArchiveVoice/author: Marshall McLuhan
Publisher: BBC Archive
Era: pre-1980
Category: technology-internet, television-film
Topic: McLuhan interprets advertising as shaping the meaning people assign to what they already possess.
Limit: context — McLuhan’s general media theory and a UK broadcast context; Canadian relevance is the intellectual voice, not a national-behaviour claim.
Canadian Internet Use Survey, 2022Voice/author: Statistics Canada
Publisher: Statistics Canada
Era: 2020s
Category: technology-internet, habits-everyday-life
Topic: Internet use among Canadians aged 15+ reached 95% in 2022, while use among those 75+ rose from 62% in 2020 to 72% in 2022.
Limit: supports — People aged 15+ living in Canada’s 10 provinces; excludes territories, full-time institutional residents, and units on reserves identified by geography.
Canadian Multiculturalism ActVoice/author: Parliament of Canada
Publisher: Justice Laws Website, Legislative Services Branch
Era: 1980s
Category: culture-identity, politics-economy
Topic: Federal law declares recognition of cultural and racial diversity and freedom to preserve, enhance, and share cultural heritage as government policy.
Limit: supports — Federal policy and federal institutions; provincial implementation can differ and Indigenous rights are legally distinct.
Canuck Rock: A History of Canadian Popular MusicVoice/author: Carrie Schmidt
Publisher: Active History
Era: cross-era
Category: music, culture-identity
Topic: The reviewed history spans Canadian popular music from the 1950s through the early twenty-first century.
Limit: context — Popular music history as selected by Edwardson and Schmidt; omitted genres limit representativeness.
Who Killed the History of Canadian Multiculturalism?Voice/author: Daniel R. Meister
Publisher: Active History
Era: cross-era
Category: culture-identity, politics-economy
Topic: The concept of Canadian multiculturalism grew out of 1960s national-identity debates involving Quebec’s Quiet Revolution and the federal bilingualism-biculturalism commission.
Limit: qualifies — Federal multiculturalism policy and its national debate, with explicit cautions about Indigenous peoples and changing anti-racist programming.
Why Is Meta Blocking All News Links? Because Bill C-18 Covers All News OutletsVoice/author: Michael Geist
Publisher: MichaelGeist.ca
Era: 2020s
Category: technology-internet, politics-economy
Topic: Geist argues that a broader statutory scope, rather than a targeted eligible-outlet rule, explains the breadth of Meta’s Canadian news-link blocking.
Limit: qualifies — Bill C-18 and platform link availability in Canada during August 2023.
A Nation of Gamers: The History of Video Games in CanadaVoice/author: David Hussey
Publisher: University of Waterloo
Era: cross-era
Category: games, technology-internet, habits-everyday-life
Topic: The thesis scopes Canadian video-game history from the mid-1970s through the 2000s and connects media recognition with a major Ontario-Ubisoft deal.
Limit: context — Canadian game history as framed by one MA thesis, including federal/provincial policy and selected industry milestones.
Canadian Museum of History announces major bequest of Inuit art from the late Dr. Margaret HessVoice/author: Mark O’Neill
Publisher: Canadian Museum of History
Era: cross-era
Category: art-design, culture-identity
Topic: The Hess bequest added more than 895 specified works and historical objects drawn from about 30 northern communities to the Museum’s holdings.
Limit: supports — The Hess bequest and approximately 30 named/unnamed northern communities; not all Inuit art or Inuit Nunangat.
Inuit Cinema at the NFB | Curator’s PerspectiveVoice/author: Marc St-Pierre
Publisher: National Film Board of Canada
Era: cross-era
Category: television-film, anime-animation, culture-identity
Topic: The NFB’s 1972 Cape Dorset workshop trained about twelve young Inuit participants in animation production.
Limit: qualifies — NFB production history and specific Arctic workshops/films; not the entire history of Inuit cinema in Canada.
The Drake “Smoke Screen” Phenomenon: A Podcast Discussion with Dalton Higgins on Drake and Canadian Hip Hop HistoryVoice/author: Dalton Higgins, Francesca D’Amico
Publisher: Active History
Era: 2000s, 2010s
Category: music, movements-subcultures, culture-identity
Topic: The introduction argues that Toronto’s social and cultural conditions around Drake provide a lens on Canada’s culture industry, identity, multiculturalism, and belonging.
Limit: context — Drake, Toronto, and Canadian urban-music infrastructure as framed in a 2012 event; not all Canadian hip-hop scenes.

Japan: 12 sources

Japan contributes 12 records and six qualified voices. One creator’s civil identity and formal credentials are undisclosed, so that commentary is not presented as expert or nationally representative evidence.

SourceVoice / publisherEra / categoryTopic / source limit
【宮台真司が日本の病を全解剖】社会学者・キャスターの安藤優子と徹底的に対話/衰退国を生きるサバイバル術/日本人に逃げ場はない/ひろゆきと宮台真司の役割分担/宗教と日本の本当の課題/マスク警察の正体とはVoice/author: 宮台真司
Publisher: PIVOT 公式チャンネル
Era: 2020s, cross-era
Category: culture-identity, politics-economy
Topic: Miyadai frames autonomous community life as a precondition for individual autonomy and functioning democracy.
Limit: context — One expert’s interpretation in a 2022 studio conversation.
宮台真司×小林武史「世界の手触りを失うな」(2)Voice/author: 宮台真司
Publisher: エコレゾ ウェブ
Era: pre-1980, 1990s, cross-era
Category: music, television-film, movements-subcultures, culture-identity
Topic: Miyadai interprets digital archive consumption as detaching cultural items from historical and social context.
Limit: context — Miyadai’s account of postwar and 1990s Japanese media consumption.
岡田斗司夫の『遺言』第三章 #10(08/02/12)ガイナックス時代 1988~89Voice/author: 岡田斗司夫
Publisher: otakingexach00
Era: 1980s, cross-era
Category: movements-subcultures, anime-animation
Topic: Okada remembers the 1989 case as producing a personally unsettling recognition within otaku identity.
Limit: context — Okada’s own reaction, not the response of Japanese fandom generally.
2011/05/29 #1 「原子力とオタク&メイキングレポート」Voice/author: 岡田斗司夫
Publisher: note(岡田 斗司夫)
Era: 1990s, 2010s, cross-era
Category: anime-animation, technology-internet, movements-subcultures
Topic: Okada remembers Gainax as having a long period of unsettled project selection involving multiple creators.
Limit: context — Gainax’s internal planning as remembered by Okada.
【世界が引いた】日本の“サラリーマン”は異常だVoice/author: rの住人ピエロ【哲学】
Publisher: rの住人ピエロ【哲学】
Era: 2020s, cross-era
Category: habits-everyday-life, politics-economy, technology-internet
Topic: The speaker predicts a shift from company membership toward project-based work.
Limit: context — One online commentator’s forecast, not the Japanese workforce as a population.
“幽霊船”としてのヤマト論!〜日本オタクの初期OS「宇宙戦艦ヤマト」が始めたもの、終わらせたもの、持って帰ってきたもの【山田玲司-331】Voice/author: 山田玲司
Publisher: 山田玲司のヤングサンデー
Era: pre-1980, cross-era
Category: anime-animation, literature-magazines, television-film
Topic: Yamada identifies Yamato as the point from which anime magazines began in earnest.
Limit: context — Yamada’s history of anime/otaku culture, not an institutional chronology.
山田玲司 マンガ家 「『非属』という価値観」Voice/author: 山田玲司
Publisher: 京都大学新聞社
Era: 2000s
Category: culture-identity, habits-everyday-life
Topic: Yamada interprets social nonconformity as a talent that is often punished by conformity pressure.
Limit: context — Yamada’s view of conformity and creativity.
『思想地図』東浩紀×宇野常寛トークショーVoice/author: 東浩紀, 宇野常寛
Publisher: CINRA
Era: 1990s, 2000s, cross-era
Category: movements-subcultures, anime-animation, literature-magazines
Topic: Azuma characterizes his own work as postmodern criticism using subculture and bishōjo games as material.
Limit: context — Two critics’ account of 1990s–2000s cultural criticism.
「ゼロ年代の批評」のこれから──宇野常寛さんロングインタビューVoice/author: 宇野常寛
Publisher: 荻上式BLOG
Era: 1990s, 2000s, cross-era
Category: movements-subcultures, technology-internet, literature-magazines
Topic: Uno argues for cross-genre analysis of early-2000s drama, anime, fiction, and music rather than a narrow otaku canon.
Limit: context — Uno’s account of the 2000s criticism field and PLANETS project.
平成26年度メディア芸術デジタルアーカイブ事業 委託業務成果報告書Voice/author: 凸版印刷株式会社ほか(受託事業体)
Publisher: 文化庁
Era: pre-1980, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s, 2010s, cross-era
Category: anime-animation, games, literature-magazines, art-design
Topic: The commissioned project explicitly aimed to build preservation and access infrastructure for Japanese media arts.
Limit: supports — Works and metadata handled by the FY2014 Media Arts Digital Archive Project.
令和6年度「青少年のインターネット利用環境実態調査」報告書 第2部 第1章第1節Voice/author: こども家庭庁
Publisher: こども家庭庁
Era: 2020s
Category: technology-internet, habits-everyday-life, games
Topic: In the R06 youth survey sample (n=3,129), 98.2% reported using the internet.
Limit: supports — Responding Japanese youth in the R06 survey; total n=3,129 for the cited question.
テレビジョンVoice/author: 日映科学映画製作所(製作)、日本放送協会(協力)
Publisher: 国立国会図書館デジタルコレクション
Era: pre-1980
Category: television-film, technology-internet
Topic: The preserved 1952 film records television technology and studio conditions before the 1 February 1953 regular broadcast start.
Limit: supports — One 1952 science film held by NDL, not a survey of television audiences.

What the coverage shows—and what it does not

Each country contributes 12 rows, which keeps navigation balanced. Voice and tag totals differ because records may have several speakers or tags. Those differences describe the source map, not the countries.

The summary figure shows the four most frequent era and category codes. The complete evidence remains in the linked country rows: E1 = pre-1980, E5 = 2010s, E6 = 2020s, E7 = cross-era; C5 = movements-subcultures, C6 = culture-identity, C8 = technology-internet, and C12 = politics-economy.

Eight summary cells show the most frequent era and category codes: E7 34, E5 19, E1 16, E6 15, C6 35, C8 27, C12 21, and C5 20.
E7 = cross-era (34), E5 = 2010s (19), E1 = pre-1980 (16), E6 = 2020s (15); C6 = culture-identity (35), C8 = technology-internet (27), C12 = politics-economy (21), C5 = movements-subcultures (20). Counts overlap and do not measure prevalence. On a narrow screen, scroll horizontally only if needed.

Read a row from left to right: open the direct source, identify who is speaking and publishing, check the tags, then carry the evidence status and source-specific limit with any interpretation you reuse.

The five-step figure encodes that path as 01–05. The final symbols reject three invalid moves: turning row counts into percentages, country rankings, or causal chains.

Five large cards show 01 URL, 02 bounded record, 03 tags, 04 supports, qualifies, or context, and 05 public row. The footer rejects percentage, ranking, and causal interpretations.
01 is the direct URL; 02 the bounded record; 03 country, era, category, and voice tags; 04 the supports, qualifies, or context status; 05 the public row. Sixty URLs become 60 rows—not percentages, rankings, or causal claims. On a narrow screen, scroll horizontally only if needed.

Sources

The five linked country tables above are the complete source register, and every row links to the original source. Use “How to read each row” and “Keep the link and limit together” above for the selection method and limitations.

Next step

Use the index to trace one cultural influence back to its sources.

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