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Singapore Research Nexus Event: Smart Citizenship in and Beyond Singapore
The Singapore Research Nexus (SRN) at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Research Division, NUS invites you to a Virtual Event featuring recent research on Smart Citizenship in and beyond Singapore. Academics from NUS and beyond will present their studies on the themes of 1) ‘Smart’ Technologies: Risks, Participation, and Responsibility; 2) Data Privacy, Security, and Collaboration; …
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Read MoreRoundtable for Transgender Voices and Perspectives
On Friday, 26 March 2021, the Department of Communications and New Media (CNM) held a roundtable discussion on Trans and Gender Non-conforming Lives, organized together with the Gender and Sexuality Research Cluster. In her opening remarks, Professor Audrey Yue, Head of CNM announced the launch of the Equally Inclusive plan. “The Equally Inclusive plan is …
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#DiscoverFASS@CHS 2021 | Sign Up for Masterclasses, Learn All About Our Majors
As part of the #DiscoverFASS@CHS campaign leading up to our Open House in May this year, we are holding ‘live’ Masterclasses presented by three of our award-winning Faculty members, and our Departments are hosting ‘live’ Q&A sessions for prospective students.
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Congratulations to Dr Elmie Nekmat for achieving tenure!
Congratulations to Dr Elmie Nekmat for achieving tenure and promotion to Associate Professor! Dr Elmie Nekmat has enjoyed a long relationship with CNM; he completed both his Bachelor’s and Master’s Degrees in this Department, and has been serving as Assistant Professor at the Department over the past six years following his PhD and Postdoctoral Fellowship …
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Budding young researcher in the field of AI: Dr Kokil Jaidka
Assistant Professor Dr Kokil Jaidka was invited as one of only eighteen speakers for the New Faculty Highlights programme at the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Conference 2021. This speakers’ programme is targetted at new faculty or researchers with notable impact on the Artificial Intelligence community. Dr Jaidka is one of only …
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CNM in 2020: Year in Review
While we yearn for brighter days to come in 2021, CNM looks back on the year past, and the differences we have made.
Read MoreCommentary: WhatsApp’s new T&Cs could spark changes to how data and privacy are managed
What do the latest changes to Whatsapp’s data policy mean to us? CNM Senior Lecturer Dr Natalie Pang sees this episode as an opportunity to rethink privacy in an increasingly digital world.
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Beyond the classroom: Innovations that change the world
Sometimes, a bright idea is all it takes to spark a global transformation. Here are six outstanding proposals from recent graduates to the NUS Resilience and Growth Innovation Challenge.
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Dr Alex Mitchell: Emphasis on Experiential Learning is Essential
When Assistant Professor Alex Mitchell first began teaching at the then-newly minted NUS Department of Communications and New Media (CNM) in 2005, he had to overcome traditional barriers to introduce a practice-based teaching approach within a “largely theory-based faculty.”
“In the early days of CNM there was hesitation towards, for example, two-hour design-based tutorials and 100% Continuous Assessment (CA) modules. But over time this has changed, and alternative approaches are now very much welcome,” explained Dr Mitchell, now an Assistant Professor specialising in Interactive Media Design education.
For him, it is essential to incorporate experiential learning by allowing students to apply theory through hands-on practice, as students only truly understand concepts such as interactivity when they see how and why something works or does not work.
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