15/01/2025 (Wednesday) 11:00-12:30 E21B-G002 Political Theory from a Global Perspective Abstract: Underlying many of the dominant theories in the social sciences and humanities has been an implicit (and often explicit) teleology in which Euro-American concepts that arose in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries are assumed to be normative.The goal of this talk

10/12/2024 (Tuesday) 13:00-14:00 E21B-G002 After visibility: data as a factor of production in Douyin e-commerce Abstract: This study analyzes how audience attention and platform traffic are manufactured and integrated with retail in context of China’s recent government policy that positions data as a factor of production equal to labor, land, technology, and

28/11/2024 (Thursday) 13:00-14:00 E21B-G002 Exposure to non-partisan news from partisan media: Its effects on attitudes toward oppositional media Abstract: “Partisan distrust in oppositional media is a significant concern. Partisans commonly believe that out-party news outlets are always biased and one-sided and gravitate toward news outlets they associate with their side. However, this

21/11/2024 (Thursday) 13:00-14:00 E21B-G002 Place-weaving and community-texturising through neighbourhood group-shopping in post-Covid Wuhan Abstract: The Covid-19 pandemic has been said as a “digital pandemic”. Different societies have experienced the unprecedented permeation of digital technologies and platform applications in people’s daily life both during and after Covid. How has this “digital pandemic” reshaped

14/11/2024 (Thursday) 13:00-14:00 E21B-G002 The Reshaping of Communication by Artificial Intelligence: Perspectives from Tencent Abstract: With the advent of the Web 3.0 era, Al's influence has gradually expanded from technological Innovation and productivity enhancement to reshaping information dissemination, human thinking paradigms, and social organization. Al is rapidly advancing beyond the integration of

31/10/2024 (Thursday) 13:00-14:00 E21B-G002 “Belonging is Stronger than Facts”: Combating Vaccine Hesitancy with a Culturally Sensitive Approach Abstract: Vaccine hesitancy remains a critical global health challenge, raising essential questions: Why do people believe in vaccine misinformation? What makes it so difficult to address vaccine hesitancy? Most importantly, how can we bridge the

12/09/2024 (Thursday) 13:00-14:00 E21B-G002 Digital Investigation Fundamentals by AFP Fact Check Abstract: What are some common types of mis- and disinformation circulating in Asia? What key skills do fact-checkers, journalists and researchers need to combat misinformation and access high-quality information on the internet? In this mini-workshop, I will introduce how we operate

25/04/2024 (Thursday) 13:00-14:00 E21B-G002 Thinking "Sissiness" through Trans/national Masculinities in Contemporary China Abstract: Based on a recent paper co-authored with Prof. Tingting Liu (Jinan University), this talk discusses China’s recent “sissy ban” by situating discourses of sissiness and sissyphobia in a field of complex and competing discourses amidst rising nationalist sentiments and

18/04/2024 (Thursday) 13:00-14:00 E21B-G002 International Migration to China: An Interdisciplinary Perspective Abstract: With the influx of international migrants, China has been transformed from a traditional sending country of outbound migrants into an emerging destination in the landscape of international migration in the past forty years. Why do migrating individuals decide to come

11/04/2024 (Thursday) 13:00-14:00 E21B-G002 Affective Engagement in Women's Empowerment Online: Potentials, Limitations and Backlash Abstract: The relationship between the internet and women’s empowerment has been the subject of extensive inquiry – from Donna Haraway’s A Cyborg Manifesto to the proliferation of women’s blogs, e-zines, online clips and social media accounts. As digital