Small Data: Identifying Phenomena of Inquiry 27/09/2018 (Thursday) 13:00-14:00 E21-G002 Following the bombing of Manchester City Centre in 1996, interview accounts provided by people affected by the bomb were collected; these accounts constitute a corpus of recorded and transcribed talk as data. These “small data” document people’s iterations of areas for future
LIVE Baccarat Calculations: Macau Machine Gaming and the Production of the Post-Socialist Subject 13/09/2018 (Thursday) 13:00-14:00 E21-G002 Following Portugal’s return of Macau to the PRC in 1999, the local government liberalized the city’s 150-year-old casino monopoly concession. Macau is now the world’s most lucrative site of casino gaming. The majority of Macau’s
Influence of host community acculturation orientations and traditional Chinese value orientations: A study of Chinese Hongkongers’ perceptions toward and ethnic minority communication with South/Southeast Asian minorities 15/03/2018 (Thursday) 13:00-14:00 E21-G002
State Capitalism in Singapore and China 26/02/2018 (Monday) 11:00-12:00 E21-G002
Researching Public Relations in China: An Initial Investigation 08/02/2018 (Thursday) 13:00-14:00 E21-G002
Is there a Second Life online? Subjectivity and Gender Identity in the Virtual World 25/01/2018 (Thursday) 13:00-14:00 E21-G002
Theoretical questions in comparing media systems 30/11/2017 (Thursday) 13:00-14:00 E21-2001 Scholarly discussion of comparative media systems has been dominated by the work of Daniel Hallin and Paolo Mancini for more than a decade now. Their ideas have been used in a very wide variety of circumstances, but at the same time some
Bourdieu in context: His work and theoretical development. 23/11/2017 (Thursday) 13:00-14:00 E21-G002 In An Invitation to Reflexive Sociology, Wacquant refers to Bourdieu "systemically developing ... a sociological method consisting essentially in a manner of posing problems, in a ... set of conceptual tools and procedures for constructing objects and for transferring knowledge
Kick the Dead Rabbit: Tuxedos, Movies, and Cosmopolitan Urban Imaginaries in Macao 09/11/2017 (Thursday) 13:00-14:00 E21-G002 This talk explores ways in which a cosmopolitan, urbane subject is on display in Macao’s gaming, tourism and leisure industries. Much like the fin-de-siècle flâneur studied by Walter Benjamin, the cosmopolitan tourist and gambler portrayed in
Discursive strategies of resistance in Weibo — A Case Study of the 2015 Tianjin Explosions in China 26/10/2017 (Thursday) 13:00-14:00 E21-G002 In 2015, the worst industrial accident since the founding of the P.R.C., took place in Tianjin (a major city close to Beijing) when a series of massive blasts occurred in chemical