Research/Book Talks
2026
| Date | Venue | Title | Speaker | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 16th Jan 2026 | Zoom
(Online) |
Book Talk- Interface Frictions | Prof Neta Alexander | |
| 6th Feb 2026 | AS6-03-38
(CNM Playroom) |
Book Talk - Fandom Nationalism | Prof Erika Ningxin Wang and Prof Qian Huang | |
2025
| Date | Venue | Title | Speaker | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19 Feb 2025 | AS7 01-16/17/18
(FASS Dean's Office Seminar Room B) |
Workshop on Publishing for Early Career Researchers | Prof Thomas Hanitzsch | |
| 20 Feb 2025 | AS8-04-04
(ARI Seminar Room) |
Inaugural Distinguished Lecture on Burning (Out) for Academia | Prof Thomas Hanitzsch | |
| 19 Mar 2025 | AS7-06-42
(FASS Research Division Seminar Room) |
Research Talk : What is Intelligence
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Prof Scott Lash | |
| 20 Mar 2025 | AS6-03-38 (CNM Play Room) | Research Talk : Alan Turing’s Media Theory | Prof Scott Lash | |
| 3 Apr 2025 | AS8-04-04 | Unsettling: Chinese International Graduate Women Navigating (Im)mobility and Chrononormativity | Prof Fran Martin | |
| 11 Apr 2025
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AS6-03-33 (CNM Meeting Room) | Research Talk : Human library: Research, Applications, And Implications For Marginalized Communities | Prof Gary Lam Yu Hin | |
| 11 Jul 2025 | AS6-03-38 (CNM Play Room) | Book Talk : Critically Capitalist: The Spirit of Asset Capitalism in South Korea | Assistant Prof Bohyeong Kim | |
| 27 Aug 2025 | AS6-03-38 (CNM Play Room) | Research Talk : Platform Labor, Sachet Economies, And The Reintermediation Of Everyday Transactions | Prof Cheryll Ruth Soriano | |
| 19 Sept
2025 |
AS6-03-38 (CNM Play Room) | Research Talk : Introduction to the Development of Digital Publishing in China | Prof Zhang Xinxin | |
| 23 Oct
2025 |
AS6-03-33 (CNM Meeting Room) | Research Talk: The Religious Roots of Technology: How 18th Century Philosophy and 21st Century Films Drive Popular Beliefs about the Supernatural Nature of AI | Prof Heidi Ann Campbell | |
| 17 Nov
2025 |
AS6-03-38 (CNM Play Room) | Research Talk: Surviving the US-China AI War | Prof Gerald Sim | |
2024
| Date | Venue | Title | Speaker | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 19 Jan 2024 | AS6 03-38 Playroom | Why everything you know about computers is wrong. Computers are invocational media | Dr. Chris Chesher | |
| 26 Jan 2024 | Zoom Webinar | The Radical Novelty of Platform Content Moderation | Dr. João C. Magalhães | |
| 16 Feb 2024 | Zoom Webinar | (Book talk) “Artificial Intelligence in Cultural Production: Critical Perspectives on Digital Platforms. | Dr. Dalyong Jin | |
| 22 Mar 2024 | Zoom Webinar | (Book talk) Videogame Formalism: On Form, Aesthetic Experience and Methodology | Dr. Alex Mitchell and Dr. Jasper Van Vught | |
| 3 Apr 2024
|
LT10
|
The American Life Expectancy Disadvantage and The Search for Social Connection
|
Mr Kenneth Stern
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| 5 Apr 2024 | Zoom Webinar |
Digital citizenship and acculturation amongst migrants in Singapore
|
Dr Natalie Pang
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| 12 Apr 2024 | AS6 03-38 Playroom |
Information Processing in Participatory Governance |
Dr Daniel Berliner | |
| 21 Aug 2024 | AS6 03-33 |
Hiding in plain sight: Algorithms’ (in)visibility and conspiratorial views of platform power |
Dr João C. Magalhães | |
| 21 Aug 2024 | Zoom Webinar |
(Workshop) Communicating research to the general public |
Dr Juliana Chan | |
| 22 Aug 2024 | AS7 06-42
(FASS Research Div Seminar Room) |
Problematizing platform content moderation |
Dr. João C. Magalhães | |
| 25 Oct 2024 | AS6 03-38
(CNM Play Room) |
Information, misinformation, and knowledge about health and science | Dr. Se-Hoon Jeong | |
| 8 Nov 2024 | AS6 03-38
(CNM Play Room) |
The Politics of Food | Chef Jenny Dorsey | |
2023
| Date | Venue | Title | Speaker | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 27 Jan 2023 | AS6 03-38 Playroom | "Its fun not to know" : Designing Tools to Support Text-based Online Collaborative Storytelling | Dr Alex Mitchell
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| 3 Feb 2023 | AS6 03-38 Playroom | "Dont Worry, Darling" : What do women want after #MeToo | Dr Rosemary Overell | |
| 10 Feb 2023 | AS6 03-33 CNM Meeting Room | Social Media and Body Image | Dr Weijing Pan | |
| 17 Feb 2023 | LT9 | On the value of formalism in games studies | Dr Jasper Van Vught | |
| 27 Feb 2023 | ARI Seminar Room AS8 04-04 | Disliked Minded: Media, Audiences, and the Dynamics of Taste | Professor Jonathan Gray | |
| 3 Mar 2023 | Zoom Webinar | News and Political Information In the Digital Society - The Role of Humans and Algorithmic Feedback Loops | Professor Damian Trilling | |
| 17 Mar 2023 | Zoom Webinar | Working with Algorithmic Management : Human Values, Algorithmic Unfitness and Labor Repair Behind the Wall | Dr Li Ke | |
| 24 Mar 2023 | AS6 03-38 Playroom | Buy now! How Amazon Branded Convenience and Normalized Monopoly | Dr Emily West | |
| 31 Mar 2023 | AS6 03-38 Playroom | The Labor of Reinvention: Entrepreneurship in the New Chinese Digital Economy | Dr Zhang Lin | |
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14 Apr 2023
|
AS6 03-38 Playroom | Metrics in Action: How Social Media Metrics Shape News Production on Facebook | Dr Subhayan Mukerjee | |
| 3 May 2023 | AS6 03-33 CNM Meeting Room | Science vs Stories : Strategies for Climate Change Communication | Dr Emma Bloomfield | |
| 7 Sep 2023 | ARI Seminar Room AS8 04-04 | A fake image is worth a thousand lies: Perception, mechanism, and intervention of visual misformation | Professor Cindy Shen | |
| 12 Oct 2023 | Zoom Webinar | Exploring China perspectives in science, health and environmental communications: What we can do and how | Professor Jia Hepeng | |
| 18 Oct 2023 | LT10 | (Book Talk) Not without Us: Perspectives on Disability and Inclusion in Singapore | Dr Kuansong Victor Zhuang | |
| 17 Nov 2023 | Zoom Webinar | Deepfakes for Good: Exploring Prosocial Applications in a Digital World | Dr Hang Lu | |
2022
| Date | Venue | Title | Speaker | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 21 Jan 2022 | Zoom Webinar | (Book Launch) Re-enacting the Wuhan Lockdown: Characters, Scenes, and other Narrative Strategies | Professor Guobin Yang | |
| 28 Jan 2022 | Zoom Webinar | Blockchain Imperialism | Dr Olivier Jutel | |
| 11 Feb 2022 | Zoom Webinar | The past and future of hand gesture emoji | Dr Lauren Gawne | |
| 16 Feb 2022 | Zoom Webinar | A new forecaster: predicting subterranean fires in Indonesia | Dr Cindy Kaiying Lin | |
| 18 Feb 2022 | Zoom Webinar | (Book talk) The Digital Frontier: Infrastructures of Control on the Global Web | A/P Sangeet Kumar | |
| 25 Feb 2022 | Zoom Webinar | Trolling in the name of Patriotism: Online Harassment of Chinese Journalists Working for Foreign Media Organizations | Dr Kecheng Fang | |
| 4 Mar 2022 | Zoom Webinar | Romancing AI? Gender and new digital intimacies in contemporary Japan | A/P Hiromi Tanaka | |
| 18 Mar 2022 | Zoom Webinar | Online Vaccine Information Seeking and Vaccination Intention in the Covid-19 pandemic: A comparative study in the United States and China | Dr Shaohai Jiang | |
| 25 Mar 2022 | Zoom Webinar | Collective identities in social media protests: a field theory perspective on protest rhetoric, reach, and reinforcement | Dr Kokil Jaidka | |
| 1 Apr 2022 | Hybrid (Zoom Webinar + In-person in LT8) | Representation and the problem of bibliographic imagination on Wikipedia | A/P Brendan Luyt | |
| 2 Sep 2022 | Zoom Webinar | (Book Talk) Dreams of Flight: The Lives of Chinese Women Students in the West | A/P Fran Martin | |
| 9 Sep 2022 | Zoom Webinar | (Book Talk) Passionate Work: Endurance after the Good Life | Dr Renyi Hong | |
| 30 Sep 2022 | Zoom Webinar | The Unequal Landscape of Civic Opportunity in America | Asst Prof Jae Yeon Kim
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| 7 Oct 2022 | Zoom Webinar | Traditional Media and Influence Operations: Learnings from Taiwan | Dr Gulizar Haciyakupoglu | |
| 4 Nov 2022 | Zoom Webinar | Far-right strategies and reactionary watchdogs | Asst Prof Sean Phelan | |
2021
| Date | Venue | Title | Speaker | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 22 Jan 2021 | Zoom Webinar | Humanising the Posthuman in Asia: Digital Labor, Food Delivery, and Openings for the New Human | Professor Jack Qiu | |
| 29 Jan 2021 | Zoom Webinar | Understanding the Uptake of Vaccine (Mis)information in Institutional and Social Media Platforms | Dr Ozan Kuru | |
| 19 Feb 2021 | Zoom Webinar | Telecommuting Pedagogies: White Plasticity and the Ecological Imaginaries of Working-From-Home | Dr Renyi Hong | |
| 5 Mar 2021 | Zoom Webinar | Building Opposition Alliances in Autocratic Controlled Information Environments | Dr Elvin Ong | |
| 26 Mar 2021 | Zoom Webinar | Data-driven sound and interaction design | A/P Lonce Wyse | |
| 16 Apr 2021 | Zoom Webinar | Barbed Wire of Social Control: Internet Shutdowns and the Limits of Digital Politics | Dr Taberez Neyazi | |
| 20 Aug 2021 | Zoom Webinar | Measuring Selective Exposure: Using Formal Models to Inform Analytical Choices in Computational Social Science Research | Dr Subhayan Mukerjee | |
| 27 Aug 2021 | Zoom Webinar | The Role of Religious Affiliations and Beliefs in Vaccine Hesitancy | Dr Ozan Kuru | |
| 3 Sep 2021 | Zoom Webinar | (Book Talk) The Evolution of the Chinese Internet: Creative Visibility in the Digital Public | A/P Guo Shaohua | |
| 10 Sep 2021 | Zoom Webinar | Radical praxis of computing in the PRC: forgotten stories from the maoist to post-Mao era | Professor Jack Qiu | |
| 24 Sep 2021 | Zoom Webinar | Social Media and Deepfakes: Understanding Public Perception, Engagement, and Skepticism in Singapore and USA | Dr Saifuddin Ahmed | |
| 29 Sep 2021 | Zoom Webinar | (Book Launch) Atlas of AI | Dr Kate Crawford | |
| 1 Oct 2021 | Zoom Webinar | Platformed bodies – Queer Intimacies | Dr Kristian Møller | |
| 8 Oct 2021 | Zoom Webinar | The Analysis Topic Model Network Approach in Communication Research: From Method to Practice | Dr Yotam Ophir | |
| 29 Oct 2021 | Zoom Webinar | Pairing Mobile Traces and Surveys to Situate Social Media Effects | Dr Joe Bayer | |
2020
| Date | Venue | Title | Speaker | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 10 Jan 2020 | AS7 Seminar Room | Digital Media and the Globalizing Spread of Populism | Prof Ralph Schroeder | |
| 17 Jan 2020 | CNM Playroom | Beginning the Legacy of GDR Figure Skating but Stopping Short: Gaby Seyfert's Performance of her own Eigensinn | Dr Wesley Lim | |
| 20 Jan 2020 | CNM Playroom | Digital Nationalism and Sino-Japanese Relations: Selling Sovereignty in Digital China | Dr Florian Schneider | |
| 21 Jan 2020 | Shaw Foundation Alumni House | What Society must Require from AI | Emeritus Prof Ron Baecker | |
| 7 Feb 2020 | CNM Playroom | Japanese Men’s Desires and Hopes to “Become” Fudanshi (“rotten boy”), Shota and Otoko no ko（男の娘）: Mediating Utopian/Dystopian Motherhood | Prof Kazumi Nagaike | |
| 22 Jun 2020 | Zoom Webinar | Social media in COVID-19: building resilience or sowing stress? | Dr Kokil Jaidka | |
| 21 Aug 2020 | Zoom Webinar | Estimating Geographic Subjective Well-being from Twitter: A Comparison of Dictionary and Data-Driven Language Methods | Dr Kokil Jaidka | |
| 28 Aug 2020 | Zoom Webinar | Everything Flows: Understanding repeat experience of dynamic computational media | Dr Alex Mitchell | |
| 2 Oct 2020 | Zoom Webinar | Moored Futures: How the Left-Behind Are Aspiring in a Mobile World | Dr Jay de los Reyes | |
| 30 Oct 2020 | Zoom Webinar | Social Media Advertising in the 2020 U.S. Presidential Campaign | Prof Jennifer Stromer-Galley | |
| 13 Nov 2020 | Zoom Webinar | Emergency remote teaching and beyond: A media studies approach towards understanding student affect and emotional presence in online learning | Dr Jinna Tay & Dr Shobha Avadhani | |
2019
| Date | Venue | Title | Speaker | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 4 Jan 2019 | CNM Playroom | Optimize Your Flow: Publish and Prosper as Early-Career Communication Researchers | Prof Jack Qiu | |
| 25 Jan 2019 | AS7 | Queer Cinema In Noeliberal Times: Strange Bedpartners | Prof Chris Berry | |
| 1 Feb 2019 | CNM Playroom | Social capital and health: Results from Australian panel studies | Dr Lee Jeong Kyu | |
| 15 Feb 2019 | CNM Playroom | Playable Cities Now | Dr Troy Innocent | |
| 15 Feb 2019 | CNM Playroom | Boosting Cognitive Capacities through Gaming Experiences | A/P Maria Kozhevnikov | |
| 22 Feb 2019 | CNM Playroom | Gender and the Media in Contemporary Japan: Continuity and Change | A/P Hiromi Tanaka | |
| 25 Feb 2019 | ARI Seminar Room | Precincts, Participation, and Placemaking: New Ways to Measure Cultural Imapct | Prof Andy Pratt | |
| 15 Mar 2019 | CNM Playroom | We are more you (than you)! Performing 'Multi-Culturalism' in Ethnic Minority Facebook pages in Hong Kong | A/P Lisa Leung | |
| 29 Mar 2019 | CNM Playroom | Laboring on the National(ism) Grid: Social Media in Myanmar as Collective Construction of Nationalist Propaganda Infrastructure | Dr Elliott Prasse-Freeman | |
| 9 Apr 2019 | CNM Playroom | Digital Transactions in Asia | A/P Adrian Athique | |
| 14 May 2019 | CNM Meeting Room | Journey to the South: Smartphone Business Ecosystems in Postcolonial Cape Town | Prof Jack Qiu | |
| 6 Jun 2019 | CNM Playroom | Knowledge Creation Processes in Space and Time: From Science to Arts and the Era of AI | Dr Johanna Hautala | |
| 17 Jun 2019 | CNM Playroom | Towards a Transnational Queer Sociology: The Case of Young Gay Male Identities in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Mainland China | A/P Travis Kong | |
| 26 Jul 2019 | CNM Playroom | Into the New World: Popular Music and Youth Protests in Asia | A/P Chow Yiu Fai | |
| 23 Aug 2019 | Central Library Theatrette | Im/material Entanglements: The Meshing of Culture, Communication and Technology | Prof Nikos Papastergiadis | |
| 30 Aug 2019 | CNM Playroom | A Researcher's Navigation through the Maze of Research on (Problematic) Media Use and Psychological Well-being | Dr Kim Jung-hyun | |
| 20 Sep 2019 | ARI Seminar Room | Alluring Monsters: Queer Pontianaks in Film and Television | Prof Rosalind Galt | |
| 1 Nov 2019 | CNM Playroom | Media and Univeralism | Dr Alex Lambert | |
| 8 Nov 2019 | CNM Playroom | Bandungism: Chen Yingzhen's Third World | Prof Chen Kuan-Hsing | |
| 29 Nov 2019 | CNM Playroom | Queer Homecoming in Sinophone Cultures: Translocal Remapping of Kinship | A/P E.K. Tan | |
| 10 Dec 2019 | CNM Playroom | Ethnography in the Fake News Factory: The Perils and Possibilities of Empathy for the Disinformation Producer | A/P Jonathan Corpus Ong | |
2018
| Date | Time | Venue | Title | Speaker | |
| 17 Aug 2018 | 3 PM | CNM Playroom Room | New Media in the Life Sciences | Dr Sorelle Henricus | |
| 24 Aug 2018 | 3 PM | CNM Playroom | User Experience Design for Interactional Investment | Asst Prof Lu Weiquan | |
| 14 Sept 2018 | 3 PM | CNM Playroom | Who Still Needs Cultural Research? | Prof John Erni | |
| 21 Sept 2018 | 3 PM | CNM Playroom | Rethinking Queer Capitalism: Male-to- Female Crossdressing in Contemporary Japan. | Dr Michelle H.S. Ho | |
| 12 Oct 2018 | 9.30 AM | AS8 ARI Seminar Room | Youth and Digital Citizenship in Asia Seminar | 1) Prof. Fran Martin (University of Melbourne) 2) Prof. John N. Erni 3) Dr. Annisa R. Beta 4) A/P Tracey Skelton 5) Dr. Elmie Nekmat 6) Mr. Cleve Arguelles |
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| 19 Oct 2018 | 3PM | CNM Playroom | Creative Hubs in Question | Prof Andy Pratt | |
| 9 Nov 2018 | 3 PM | CNM Playroom | Platform coops in Asia and the World: Towards a Political Economy basis for Sustainable Labour | Prof Jack Linchuan Qiu | |