The University of Tokyo and Yoshimoto Kogyo will jointly start a project to create new value by combining academics and entertainment, and on the 7th, comedian and writer Naoki Matayoshi participated in "the power of words". An online special lecture was held on the theme of.
This project was newly launched by the University of Tokyo and Yoshimoto Kogyo, and on the 7th, as the first step, Kenji Sato, a vice president specializing in historical sociology and media theory, and Naoki Matayoshi, a comedian and writer, said, "Words We had a talk at the Yasuda Auditorium of the University of Tokyo on the theme of "power", and the story was delivered online.
In this, Vice-President Sato pointed out that "it is important for the text to have the power to give the reader momentum to think," and Matayoshi said, "Recently, easy-to-understand is valued. I think we need the power of words to convey difficult things in a difficult way. "
Regarding the words of the SNS era, Matayoshi said, "If you can speak freely on SNS, you may not have a chance to think about your own words. First, think in one person's time and bring the souvenir. I want to talk. "
In this project, we plan to continue an online special lecture called "The University of Tokyo Yoshimoto Dialogue", and Vice President Sato said, "Universities have been asked for useful research in the last few years, but comedy. Entertainment also has intangible value. We need diversity to do things that are seemingly useless. "