Gary Fong and Elgar Teo, HKU Journalism & Media researchers for the ANTIELAB Research Data Archive, will be giving a webinar on 9 April (PDT) / 10 April (HKT) to present "Social Media in Social Movements: A Computational Approach to Collective Actions" hksi.ubc.ca/events/event/w…

Academic/professional self-censorship in Hong Kong

We are hiring Post-doctoral Fellow / Senior Research Assistant! jobs.hku.hk/cw/en/job/5037…

While HKU intends to "rectify the protracted ambivalence in the delineation of legal responsibilities" between HKUSU_official and The University of Hong Kong, two mentions of "Students' Union" are documented in the University Statutes. I wonder if HKU would request for amendment.

V grateful to be part of connecting the dots together w/ other HK artists. The new #netart #elit work "Unerasable Characters III" is released, continuously exploring the poetics, temporality and politics of #erasure + #silence via censored data Weiboscope microwavefest.net/connectingthed…

Censored data via Weiboscope - first of Jun. #erasure

Two years ago, we released over thousand #weiboscope censored pictures related to the Tiananmen Square crackdown weiboscope.jmsc.hku.hk/64censoredpics/ The academic paper will be published in journal of contemporary china soon. Stay tuned.

also, I wrote about how to use crowd-faxing to counter China's media censorship in 1989 in a #quartz story qz.com/1688553/how-a-…

A new thing I learn from this The Washington Post piece is not only retired US Marine writing for the Global Times, but also the Chinese state tabloid is willing to offer 1,000 yuan (roughly US$150) for an op-ed. Not bad. washingtonpost.com/world/2021/06/…

My great honor to be a recipient of this year's China-US Scholars Program (link below) to support my stay at Boston University Center for the Study of Asia between Sep 1, 2021 and May 2022. Looking forward to meeting friends in Boston iie.org/en/Programs/Ch…

I will give a talk at the Communication Data and Network Analytics Symposium 2021, organized by Academia Sinica, Taiwan. Free registration. sites.google.com/d/1C6_bkGNGBDm…

My honor to be invited by DAColloquium to give a Zoom session on "Researching Chinese Social Media: A Decade Review" on Oct 28 9pm [Central time] when I will briefly introduce my new Zhihu project. Learn more and register here dacolloquium.com/10282021/

I will speak at Scottish Centre for China Research 苏格兰中国研究中心 Seminar program on 17 November 2021, 4-5:30pm GMT. Title: ‘Covid-19 communication on Weibo: China state media's strategy’ Registration: gla.ac.uk/schools/social…

Very delighted to give this talk organized by BUCSA (both in-person and virtual) next Thursday (March 17) 12-1:30pm ET with discussant Bao Choy. RSVP for Webinar link: bostonu.zoom.us/webinar/regist… To my friends in Boston, I was told light lunch will be served.

#WuhanDiary and #WuhanLockdown: gendered posting patterns and behaviours on #Weibo during the #COVID-19 pandemic gh.bmj.com/content/7/4/e0… by stellar team Connie CR Gan 顏采如 King-wa Fu Dr. Karen Grépin Julia Smith, PhD Clare Wenham Rosemary Morgan, PhD et al

May Fourth. My last talk during my visit. No Zoom. Hope to see you in person

My latest publication in Political Communication: Propagandization of Relative Gratification: How Chinese State Media Portray the International Pandemic, coming with open data and replication code releases as well as badges for Open Data & Open Materials. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

New International Journal of Communication publication 'The Role of “State Endorsers” in Extending Chinese Propaganda: Evaluating the Reach of Pro-Regime YouTubers' Marie Bröckling ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc… Supporting data: datahub.hku.hk/articles/datas…

We are hiring two TT positions in Strategic Communication or Data, Digital and AI @jmschku to start in Fall 2024 #job #academia jobs.hku.hk/en/job/523356/…

OUTSTANDING ARTICLE AWARD: Announcing the 8 contenders for our 2024 Outstanding Article of the Year Award! Congrats to all the authors for your excellent work (David Cheruiyot, Maxwell Foxman, Claudia Mellado, Lynge Asbjørn Møller, Jane Yeahin Pyo 표예인, @nadjaschaetz, Felix M. Simon, & Yuner Zhu)!