Past Theses – Department of Communications and New Media

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2023

Name	Thesis Title
ZHANG Xing	Remembering in crisis communication: Crisis memory making of SARS on Chinese social media during COVID-19
MA Xiaofen	Information security protection intention in Chinese IT organisations: An integrated research model using psychological ownership and protection motivation theory
Samra IRFAN	Diffracting Violence: Exploring the Entanglement of Art, Politics and Violence in Kashmir
WONG Hei Ting	Sound of the edge: Cantonese popular music in post-1997 Hong Kong
ZHU Zicheng	Understanding the Effects of Interventions in Games on Behavior Change and Game Experience
BAEY Shi Chen	Smart fashion: Sustainability, equity, and the making of just fashion systems
Stanley Arvan WIJAYA NUS '19	Visual Novel through Fandom
WANG Yifei Cornell '21	Towards the Moral Mechanism of Political Communication: Examining the Role of Morality in Motivating Political Participation and Online Political Dialogue
LUO Xinyuan Michigan '20	Exploring design and user experiences in beauty apps: An investigation of gender, identity construction, and design justice
Nadia TAY Jiaqi NUS '18	Zooming into the network society: Paradoxes of connect and disconnect

2022

Name	Thesis Title
CHEN Zhuo	Between global and personal concerns: Participating and organising mechanisms of consumer activism from a politicised angle
XI Yipeng	Satire as political culture in China
QIN Yuren	Dynamic emotional expressions in social media profiles and impression formation in a continuous process
Thanapali SUWAKOOL	Effects of M-Commerce store designs on M-Consumers: Extroversion and introversion as moderators
Adhvaidha KALIDASAN	Understanding contemporary craft businesses as a neoliberal growth: A study from Tamil Nadu and Pondicherry, India
HAN Minli	Of dreams and illusions: A case study of the Singapore film industry and the unravelling of Singapore's film hub ambitions
Susan CHANG Shih	Politics of imagining: National museums and the display of Southeast Asia in Taiwan
CHO Soo Kyung Korea '15	Media Framing Effect on Facebook Engagement: Nationalism and Political Polarization in Korea-Japan Trade Dispute 2019
HUANG Yimin Shanghai Jiaotong '19	Feminist Bloggers and Online Feminist Activism on Social Media in China
Roe Curie NUS '19	"I Think They Did It On Purpose": Making Sense of Antimimetic Unreliability in Games

2021

Name	Thesis Title
Chua Tiong Seng	Translating (or not) in Multilingual Singapore: A Historical Approach
Farah binti Gulam Hussain Bawany	Pedagogies of Good Step-Mothering: Step-Mommy Influencers, Instagram, and the Visual Commodification of White Affluence
Joseph Aloysius Raja Sekar	The Making of Surveillance Culture: Narratives and Ideologies of Digital India Initiatives
Neo Yu Han	Entering the Panelled Universe: Impact of Interactivity on Storytelling Devices and Techniques in Comics
Ng Yi Kai Aaron	Beyond Fear Appeal: How Individuals Respond to and Process Emotional Appeal in Vaccine Misinformation Messages
Shreya Bimal Raj	Globalisation of Korean Media: The Consumption of Korean Dramas by Post-Millennial Women in India
Xu Xinyue	"New Return" and Cultivation of Taste: Millennial Work Ethic in China's Coffee Industry
Zhang Lianshan	The Effects of WeChat Affordances on Social Capital and Well-Being Across the Life Span: A Two-Wave Panel Study

2020

Name	Thesis Title
ANG Yee Hong, Dennis	Difficulty in Games: Understanding the Effects of Dynamic Difficulty Adjustment in Video Games on Player Experience
Chryssa Shana Bernardino CELESTINO	In the Company of Women? Postfeminist Femininities in Female Friendship Apps
CHIA Wen Jie, Christopher	Examining the Role of Media Exposure and Health Literacy in the Expression of Stigma Towards Eczema Patients: A Survey Study in Singapore
GOH Zhang Hao	Temporal Construal of Causes and Effects in Technology Threat Avoidance
GUAN Yuxin	Factors Influencing Health Misinformation Sharing among Middle-Aged and Elderly Adults on WeChat in China: An Ecological Perspective
KWAY Li Ting	It's Not the End, but Everything in between: An Exploration of Perceived Agency and the Intertwined Fates of the Player, Playable Character and NPCs in Storygames
LAM Shih Kian, Chervin	The Organisational Pathways Model: Linking Communication in Health Care to Health Improvement
Augustus Ceasar Destura LATOSA	'To be Poor is to be Killed': A Culture-Centred View of Crisis Communication from Below
LI Pengxiang	Examining the Incongruent Impression and Perceived Authenticity on Social Media
Bernadette LOW Yan Fen	The Effects of Using Humourous or Threatening Internet Memes in Public Service Announcements Regarding Diabetes
Prashanth Thattai RAVIKUMAR	Looking beyond Creative Support: Augmenting the Perceived Agency of Music Co-Creation Systems
SIM Yuin Theng	Role of Agency in Games with Wordless Narratives
TRAN Phuong Linh	Facing Depression: Neoliberal Standards of Recovery in Singapore
Smrithi VIJAYAKUMAR	Telemedicine in the Global South: Exploring the Spectrum of Understandings of Technology-Based Health Communication in Tamil Nadu, India
WANG Jiabao	The State and Intellectual Appropriation of 'Folk' in Twenty-First Century China

2019

Name	Thesis Title
Ashwini Arvind FALNIKAR	Voices of the Farmers in Agrarian Distress: Grounded Theorising for Communication for Social Change
Somrita GANCHOUDHURI	Communication Negotiations among Civil Societies for HIV and AIDS in India - A Culture-Centred Approach
Fang-Tze HSU	Cold War Acousmetre: Artists' Films and the First Island Chain
Satveer KAUR	Reducing Heart Health Disparities: A Culture-Centred Approach to Understanding Heart Health Meanings among Low-Income Malay Community Members in Singapore
LIU Ximing	To Threaten or to Blame: Persuasion through Discrete Emotions in Populist Communication
Benjamin LOH Yew Hoong	Everybody Does It: Examining the Integration of Piracy into Contemporary Television Media Practices
Marie Angela Mendiola ORDONEZ	When Minority Opinion Holders React in Online Uncivil Discussions: The Role of Minority-Congruent Comments and Perceived Hostility
PHAN Quang Anh	Online Gaming: The Transnationalisation nexus seen in the case of Vietnam
Bipin SEBASTIAN	Hindutva 2.0 and the Constitution of Neoliberal Hindu Nationalism: A Close Reading of 'Swarajya'
TAY Shu Rui Janice	Content Analysis of Social Media Health Promotion in Singapore
WANG Yang	ICT Domestication by Chinese 'Study Mothers' in Singapore: Digital Asymmetry, Transnational Positionality and Emotional Labours

2018

Name	Thesis Title
Marketa DOLEJSOVA	Edible Speculations: Designing for Human-Food Interaction
Sanju MENON	Reflective Nudges: Scaffolding for a Cognitive Approach to Deliberative Argumentation

2014

Name	Thesis Title
Cao Yuanying	Mediations negotiation: Chinese parent’s and children’s internet use at home.
JIOW Hee Jhee	Parental Mediation of Video Gaming in Singapore
Florian KUND	Nation branding in the imagination age: How to build image, past and future in Singapore and Sharjah
LOH Weiye	Beyond De (Linking) Views: New Media and the (De) polarization of Group (ed) Individual
NG Guan Lin Derrick	New Media Technologies
Christopher ONG Eng Hwa	Adaptability vs Consistency of artificial team-mates in collaborative games
Tatjana TODORORIC	The discourse of efficient spatialaity: Ambiguities of active participation in space with personalised location-based analytics
Wendy WONG Hwei Chern	Exploring the influence of social emotional needs on the online behaviour of older adults in Singapore

2013

Name	Thesis Title
CHEONG Kakit	More than the sum of its parts
HOOI Chet Yeu Rosalie	Avatar-driven deception, self-disclosure of continuance intention: What has self-awareness to do with these?
Rachel LEE Kar Yee	"Hallyu Melayu": An exploratory study of Malay SIngaporean K-pop fans
WU Xuan	Internet Usage: An examination of motivation & quality of life for low-income groups in Urban China
ZHAO Xiaoman	Influence of social networking sites on Youth at risks

2012

Name	Thesis Title
Evelyn CHEW Ai Ling	Social implications of recreational ICT on body image of young Singaporean females
CHIANG Jing Ying	Understanding interactivity in new media art
GUI Kai Chong	Framing of the nation in Singapore’s Newspapers
Prasanth RAVIKUMAR	Artificial Intelligence: Cognitive Empowerment
Pauline LUK	Health Communication
Sanju MENON	Human computer interaction, flow, normative decision making, multi-media design
ZHANG Lize	The impact of social media on the development of the civil society organisations (CSOs), especially the effect of micro-blogging on the non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and grassroots organisations in China

2011

Name	Thesis Title
CAO Xiyue	Evolutionary net-volution: An insight into the popularity of micro blog in mainland China
Anna FILIPPOVA	Identifying sustainability and potential for improvement in comkons-based peer production by examining external threats;
Joen GN Hong Zhan	Desire of the digital doll: Virtual idols, simulations and the emotion machine
Gulizar HACIYAKUPOGLU	Social Media’s role in democratization and operation of democracy
Kintu JOSEPH	Web 2.0 and creation of social capital in India
JIOW Hee Jhee	Investigating “problematic” internet gaming in the Singapore context.
Christopher ONG Eng Hwa	Adaptability vs consistency of artificial team-mates in collaborative games
Derrick NG	Negotiating the “I” in a technological-manifested facebook identity
Daniel TEO Hee Boon	Media Framing of HIV in Singapore
Shobha VADREVU	Teacher-student relationships in the age of facebook
Wendy WONG Hwei Chern	To understand and determine the reach and impact of the use of social networking sites by mature adults

2010

2009

Name	Thesis Title
Rachel AMTZIS	The effectiveness of social impact games as awareness raining tools for non-profit organisations
CHAN Yan Ling	The impact of Mobile phone use on the identity of young migrant workers in China
Mallika DESAI	A comparison of communication management in India and Singapore with a focus on cultural difference and the respective rates of New Media Development
Andrew DUFFY	Building bridges or digging ditches? Intercultural issues in computer-supported collaborative learning among journalism students
GOH Tong Jee	The Games Singapore plays: A discursive analysis of Singapore’s nationalism through the Youth Olympic Games and Asian Youth Games
JIANG Laiming	Media Flow & Cross- cultural communication
Mary LEE	Telling & interpreting the “Singapore Story” in National Education: A public Relations Approach
LI Nai	An evaluation of the effectiveness of online advertisements
LOH Weiye	Beyond De(Linking) Views: New Media and the (de)polarisation of Group(ed) individuals
Alvin SAW	Interactive digital media in Education
Rosel S S PASCUAL	From Text to Cash: Examining Singapore-based Filipino Workers’ Acceptance and Use of mobile remittance technology
Joshua WONG	Using non-verbal communication channels to enhance the emotional impact of NPC interaction in Games
Dazzelyn ZAPATA	Imagining the periphery
ZHOU Xuanming	Game elements : Forming the periodic table of design

2008

Name	Thesis Title
Rachel AMTZIS	The effectiveness of social impact games as awareness raining tools for non-profit organisations
CHAN Yan Ling	The impact of Mobile phone use on the identity of young migrant workers in China
Mallika DESAI	A comparison of communication management in India and Singapore with a focus on cultural difference and the respective rates of New Media Development
Andrew DUFFY	Building bridges or digging ditches? Intercultural issues in computer-supported collaborative learning among journalism students
GOH Tong Jee	The Games Singapore plays: A discursive analysis of Singapore’s nationalism through the Youth Olympic Games and Asian Youth Games
JIANG Laiming	Media Flow & Cross- cultural communication
Mary LEE	Telling & interpreting the “Singapore Story” in National Education: A public Relations Approach
LI Nai	An evaluation of the effectiveness of online advertisements
LOH Weiye	Beyond De(Linking) Views: New Media and the (de)polarisation of Group(ed) individuals
Alvin SAW	Interactive digital media in Education
Rosel S S PASCUAL	From Text to Cash: Examining Singapore-based Filipino Workers’ Acceptance and Use of mobile remittance technology
Joshua WONG	Using non-verbal communication channels to enhance the emotional impact of NPC interaction in Games
Dazzelyn ZAPATA	Imagining the periphery
ZHOU Xuanming	Game elements : Forming the periodic table of design

2007

Name	Thesis Title
Shabnam AKHTER	Impact of new media in the changing socio-economic structure of Bangladesh: Case study of urban Dhaka
HUANG He	Digital production and distribution: The feasibility of the integration of Film and television
Arudhra KRISHNASWAMY	Changing attitude of the Indian Media towards homosexuality and its impact on Society
MOHAMED Elmie bin Nekmat	Research study on online gambling and its implications on Singapore and its society
Aaron NG Yi Kai	The relevance of agenda setting theory in the online environment
Cheryl Ruth SORIANO	Internet, mobile technologies and sustainable rural livelihoods in the Philippines
Srikumar SUBRAMANIAM	Modeling gamakas of Carnatic music as a synthesizer for sparse prescriptive notation
Tatjana TODOROVIC	On alternative space

2006

Name	Thesis Title
Aleena CHIA Leng An	The network and the Void: Myth and spectacle of the mediatized self in personal blogs.
Justine ESPINA-LETARGO.	Riding the cyber-campaign wave: Highs and lows of promoting Philippine candidates on the web
HUANG Jing	A Study of Internet Use and Generalized Trust in China
Pratichi JOSHI	Analysis of ICT4D project as socio technological models of development: The case of Rajasthan carpet industry.
KIM Gyeongmin	A study on how Singaporean audience embraces Korean TV drama
Siti Nurharnani binte NAHAR	Sexuality Information Online and the Singapore Youth
OU Meimin	Public relations in the Singapore context
PAN Biyun	Understanding sub-group identification, team identifications and integrated relations in Global Virtual Teams
Ganga SASIDHARAN	The role of individual attributes in influencing learning outcomes of Internet based training programs.
SOH Seok Keim Shirley	A study of Episteromological Assumption behind New Media policy in Singapore
SOON Wan Ting Carol	A comparative study of online Political Communities in Southeast Asia
Minu THOMAS	Everyday communication of migrant domestic workers in Singapore
YUAN Jiangping	Dynamics of online game industry in China: An application of Porter’s Model

2005

Name	Thesis Title
HE Yu	Exploring the Chinese blogsphere: The motivations of blog authors and readers
HUANG Shansi	Executional cues. Interactivity and level of involvement in banner advertisement: An experimental approach to understanding online advertising effectiveness
Manjari KISHORE	ICTs projects and social development in Asia: 2 case studies exploring options, opportunities and constraints
Amelia Christy MULIANA	Online Journalism, second reality, virtual reality, effects
Nandini PRASHAD	The internet as a platform for civic engagement in Singapore

2004

Name	Thesis Title
Shib Shankar DASGUPTA	ICT Adoption and Social Change in Rural South Asia: A case study on Grameen Telecom in Bangladesh
Candice GOH Huat Choon	An Exploratory Study of Business to Consumer E-commerce Adoption by Businesses in Singapore
Jayarani SELVARAJU	The interactive television: Developing a favourable regulatory environment in Singapore
SHEN Cuihua	Anonymity, Motivations and Participation in Virtual Learning Communities: A Case Study in the Integrated Virtual Learning Environment (IVLE)
SOON Hsueh Yirng Louisa	Entrepreneurial Universities in a Knowledge-based Economy: The case of National University of Singapore
Victor TAN Teck Loon	The use of ICTs in Long-Distance Family Communication: A Singaporean Perspective
WANG Yi	Newspaper Commercialization and it’s political implications in China: A case study of the Yangtze Evening Post

2003