22/04/2021 (Thursday) 13:00-14:00 E21B-G002 Digital mental health intervention for migrant workers: A story from Macau during the COVID-19 pandemic Compared with other international migrants (ie, international students), migrant workers (MWs) encounter more barriers in

16/04/2021 (Friday) 13:00-14:00 E21B-G002 Communicating and Seeking Health Information in the Age of Digital Media Over the past few decades, the development of Internet has shaped the health communication landscape in many ways. It

08/04/2021 (Thursday) 13:00-14:00 E21B-G002 Desire for Sale: Live-streaming and Sexual Self-representation among Chinese Gay Micro-celebrities This paper examines a nascent network of commercialized sexual self-representation by micro-celebrities in China against the background of platformization,

25/03/2021    (Thursday) 17:00-18:00 E34-3007 What is Data for? Contemporary Lessons from the 1970’s.  In this paper I discuss the nature of data and in particular the role of data in the questions that the

25/03/2021    (Thursday) 13:00-14:00 E21B-G002 Global Digital Culture Industry: The Case of TikTok/Douyin This talk unpacks the integrated ways in which Douyin makes trending items (爆款) for monetization. Differing from the umbrella term “viral video,”

18/03/2021    (Thursday) 13:00-14:00 E21B-G002 Monetised Digital Platforms: The discursive, multi-modal techniques of China’s female and male wanghong (internet celebrities) The development and spread of the internet and social media technologies across China have provided