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Here's where you can find out more about my work. My research and writing focus on:
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Religious intolerance and free speech: How hate propaganda threatens freedom and equality around the world. |
Media independence: How journalism struggles to serve the public interest in the face of external and internal threats. |
Singapore media and politics: Authoritarian resilience and the regime's management of political expression. |
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I am currently on sabbatical at the University of Pennsylvania's Annenberg School, as a visiting scholar of its new Center for Media at Risk. My activities there include teaching a PhD course, "Censorship: A Global Survey", and convening a symposium on cartoon censorship (Friday 7 December) in conjunction with my book project with Sonny Liew. I'll be back in Hong Kong by mid-December.
Maya Mirchandani interviewed me about Hate Spin on her programme, "Wide Angle", at Delhi-based The Wire. View the video here.
"FAKE NEWS": The so-called "fake news" issue has gone to the top of the research agenda in communication and media studies. I submitted a paper, Meeting the Challenge of Hate Propaganda, to Singapore's Parliamentary Select Committee on Deliberate Online Falsehoods. Visit my hatespin.net site for news reports and videos of my oral testimony at the Select Committee's public hearings. I also spoke on the topic at a Manila conference on Disinformation and Democracy, and at the East-West Center's International Media Conference in Singapore: watch the video of the hour-long panel or read news reports in the Straits Times, Channel News Asia and Mumbrella. I've written an evolving Primer on Disinformation to keep track of the best thinking on the topic.
"FAKE NEWS": The so-called "fake news" issue has gone to the top of the research agenda in communication and media studies. I submitted a paper, Meeting the Challenge of Hate Propaganda, to Singapore's Parliamentary Select Committee on Deliberate Online Falsehoods. Visit my hatespin.net site for news reports and videos of my oral testimony at the Select Committee's public hearings. I also spoke on the topic at a Manila conference on Disinformation and Democracy, and at the East-West Center's International Media Conference in Singapore: watch the video of the hour-long panel or read news reports in the Straits Times, Channel News Asia and Mumbrella. I've written an evolving Primer on Disinformation to keep track of the best thinking on the topic.
