Research Seminar Series

Wednesday, 18 December 2024, 11:o0am (HKT), 10:00pm (EDT) at CVA 1022 and on Zoom Since the late 1990s, smart city… Read More »Smart Cities: Transnational Capital and Local Sovereignty

Thursday, 14 November 2024, 3:30pm HKT at CVA 1022 and on Zoom Infodemic refers to the rapid and widespread spread… Read More »Infodemic and Responsible Communication

Friday, 4th October 2024, 11:00am HKT at CVA 932 and on Zoom International news media have the power to transcend… Read More »The World According to International News Media

Friday, 13 September 2024, 12:00pm HKT at CVA 1022 We live in modern times – but the past is always… Read More »Political Transformation and Culture: Global Mediated Modernities – Multiple or Regressive?

Saturday, 16 March 2024, 10:00am HKT (Fri 10pm EDT) on Zoom The term “AI” originated in the 1950s to describe… Read More »Critical AI: Generative AI through an Interdisciplinary Lens

Saturday, 2 March 2024, 10:00am HKT (Fri 9pm EST) on Zoom Rising powers such as China and Russia, with their… Read More »When Authoritarian Regimes Talk Back to the West: The Case of Turkey

Friday, 1 March 2024, 11:00am (HKT) at CVA 1022 and on Zoom This talk will describe how the affordance of… Read More »Responsible AI: Using Interactive Interfaces to Promote Accurate Calibration of Trust in AI Systems

Polarisation — the division of society into antagonistic us-them groups — is a pernicious global phenomenon. It is associated with… Read More »Exploring approaches to depolarisation

Friday, 1 December 2023, 12:30pm (HKT) at CVA 1022 and on Zoom One of the most significant and least understood… Read More »The Organizational and Communication Structures of Anti-Authoritarian Movements: Dissidents in Russia and Belarus Prior to the Ukraine War

Friday, 6 October 2023, 12:30pm (HKT) at CVA 1022 and on Zoom Michael Ng presents highlights from his book, Political… Read More »Journalism vs Imperialism: The Chinese Press and Censorship in British Hong Kong