Research/Book Talks

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2026

Date	Venue	Title	Speaker
16 Jan 2026	Zoom (Online)	Book Talk- Interface Frictions	Prof Neta Alexander
6 Feb 2026	AS6-03-38 (CNM Playroom)	Book Talk - Fandom Nationalism	Prof Erika Ningxin Wang and Prof Qian Huang
20 March 2026	Online \| Zoom	Book Talk - Public Data Cultures	Dr Jonathan W.Y. Gray
26 Aug 2026	AS6-03-38 (CNM Play Room)	Combating Multimodal Disinformation in the Age of AI: A Media Literacy Approach	Assoc Prof Guanxiong 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	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	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
5 Apr 2024	Zoom Webinar	Digital citizenship and acculturation amongst migrants in Singapore	Dr Natalie Pang
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
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
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
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 (Hong Kong Baptist University) 3) Dr. Annisa R. Beta (National University of Singapore) 4) A/P Tracey Skelton (National University of Singapore) 5) Dr. Elmie Nekmat (National University of Singapore) 6) Mr. Cleve Arguelles (University of the Philippines Manila)
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

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