Rajiv G. Aricat, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Rajiv G. Aricat is a PhD candidate at Wee Kim Wee School of Communication & Information, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. After doing his masters in Communication & Journalism and Master of Philosophy in Cultural Studies, Rajiv worked in the editorial departments of various media organizations and web portals in New Delhi for half a decade (2005-09). Supervised by Dr. Arul Chib, Rajiv’s PhD research investigates the impact of the mobile phone on the acculturation of South Asian migrant workers in Singapore. Rajiv is a recipient of Strengthening ICTD Research Capacity in Asia graduate award (research) sponsored by the Singapore Internet Research Centre (SiRC). His papers on ethical media practices in India (2010) and the role of the mobile phone in migrant acculturation (2011) won the top-three paper award in consecutive years in the ‘Symposium for PhD students in Asian Communication Research,’ jointly organized by four leading communication schools in Singapore, Hong Kong and South Korea.
Jeffrey Boase, Ryerson University, Canada
Dr. Jeffrey Boase is an assistant professor in the School of Professional Communication at Ryerson University in Toronto, Canada. His recent work examines the social utility of smartphones, with a focus on how this technology is used to bridge and bond with social ties. He has more than 20 published works appearing in venues such as the JCMC, Human Communication Research, the American Behavioral Scientist, Communication Research, and Information, Communication and Society. Dr. Boase received his Ph.D. from the Department of Sociology at the University of Toronto, and while completing his studies he spent a year at the Harvard Kennedy School on a predoctoral fellowship at the National Center for Digital Government. After receiving his Ph.D. he spent two years working as a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Social Psychology at the University of Tokyo.
Scott Campbell, University of Michigan, USA
Scott Campbell's research examines the social implications of new media, with an emphasis on mobile telephony. Current projects investigate how mobile communication patterns are linked to both the private and public spheres of social life, such as social networking and civic engagement. Several of these projects use a comparative approach to situate the role of mobile communication technology in the larger media landscape and across different societies.
Brenda Chan, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Brenda Chan is Assistant Professor at the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Her research interests are media and memories, and the constructions of cultural identities in cyberspace.
Sujin Choi, University of Texas at Austin, USA
Sujin Choi is a doctoral student in the Department of Radio-Television-Film at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research interests include political communication (public sphere), social network analysis, and relevant policy issues such as e-government and the digital divide. Her work has appeared in journals such as Telecommunications Policy and Scientometrics.
Debbie Goh, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Debbie Pei Chin Goh is an assistant professor in the Division of Journalism and Publishing at Nanyang Technological University’s Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information. She received her Ph.D. in Mass Communication from Indiana University’s School of Journalism. Her research focuses on the digital divide, ICTs and social inequalities, and media framing.
Jinhee Kim, Pohang University of Science and Technology, South Korea
Jinhee Kim (PhD, Pennsylvania State University) is an assistant professor in the Division of Humanities and Social Sciences and the Department of Creative IT Excellence Engineering at Pohang University of Science and Technology, Korea. Her research areas include social and psychological processing of media, media and emotion and cultural differences in mediated communication.
Dam Hee Kim, University of Michigan, USA
Tetsuro Kobayashi, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
Tetsuro Kobayashi is an associate professor at the National Institute of Informatics, Japan. He received his Ph. D. from the University of Tokyo for his study of social consequences of Internet use in Japan. His research area covers social network theory, social capital theory, and computer-mediated communication. He published his papers in journals such as Human Communication Research, Information, Communication & Society, and Journal of AI & Society. He is currently a visiting scholar at the Political Communication Lab of Stanford University.
Nojin Kwak, University of Michigan, USA
Nojin Kwak is an associate professor at the University of Michigan Dept. of Communication Studies and the director of the Nam Center for Korean Studies. His research centers on the role of communication media in civic and political engagement. His latest article on the role of the mobile phone in public affairs participation in Korea was published in the 2011 October issue of Asian Journal of Communication. Dr. Kwak recently received a top paper award in the Korean American Communication division at the annual meeting of the International Communication Association in May, 2011. He is the lead organizer of the 2012 ICA Preconference New Media and Citizenship in Asia.
Kai Khium Liew, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Dr. Liew Kai Khiun obtained his undergraduate qualifications as well as his M.A. at the National University of Singapore and was awarded his doctorate at University College London. Before joining his current position as Assistant Professor at the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information at the Nanyang Technological University, Kai Khiun spent two years at the Asia Research Institute of the National University of Singapore as a postdoctoral fellow. His research interests include, medical humanities, popular music and culture as well as civil society in Singapore. Kai Khiun has been involved in advocacy work for heritage conservation in Singapore for the past decade.
Jun Liu, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Jun Liu is a PhD fellow in the Department of Media, Cognition and Communication at the University of Copenhagen. His main research interest focuses on the interrelationship among media, social movement and democratization processes in China with particular attention to the importance of new media and communications technologies includingthe internet and telecommunications.
Yunjuan Luo, Texas Tech University, USA
Yunjuan Luo is an assistant professor in the College of Mass Communications at Texas Tech University. Her research interests include political communication, international communication, new media, and communication theory, particularly agenda-setting theory. Her current research focuses on the social and political impact of new media in China and the U.S. She earned her master’s degree in mass communication from Nanyang Technological University in 2004 and her Ph.D. in mass communication from Indiana University in 2011. Her work has appeared in refereed journals such as International Communication Gazette, Feminist Media Studies, and the Chinese Journal of Communication.
Desideria Cempaka Wijaya Murti, University of Atma Jaya Yogyakata, Indonesia
Desideria Murti is a lecturer at the University of Atma Jaya Yogyakarta, Indonesia and a graduate student in the Communication Department at Colorado State University. She received her bachelors in communication with a focus in Public Relations/Marketing Communication at the University of Atma Jaya Yogyakarta and then continued her master program specifically in rhetoric and civic engagement through the Fulbright Scholarship and Ministry of Education Scholarship of the Republic of Indonesia. Her research interests are in the areas of citizenship, political communication, women, digital media, and social activism. As a novice in academia, she is eager to produce high quality scholarship. In less than two years following the start of her career, she has productively written six articles in book chapters, one journal article, seven newspaper articles in Indonesia and six qualified papers for international conferences. Her research examines digital media within the blogosphere, YouTube, Facebook activism, and visual posters.
Natalie Pang, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Natalie Pang is an Assistant Professor with the Division of Information Studies, Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. Her research interests are: information processing and collective action in new media, heritage informatics, pragmatist information system sciences and sustainable HCI. She teaches in social informatics, advanced qualitative methods, organizational records management and information behaviour.
Han Woo Park, Yeungnam University, South Korea
Dr. Han Woo Park is Associate Professor in the Department of Media & Communication at Yeungnam University, South Korea. He is also the director of the World Class University (WCU) Webometrics Institute and CyberEmotions Research Center at Yeungnam University.
Mihye Seo, University at Albany, State University of New York, USA
Mihye Seo (PhD, Ohio State University) is an assistant professor in the Department of Communication at the University at Albany, State University of New York (SUNY) in the US. Her areas of research are media effects and political communication.
Patrick Sharbaugh, RMIT International University, Vietnam
Patrick Sharbaugh has a B.S. in Biological Sciences and an M.A. in Journalism and Mass Communications from his home state of South Carolina in the U.S. His professional career has been diverse, including newspaper and magazine publishing, marketing and public relations, large-scale special event production, and a dalliance with a print-to-web bridge technology firm in the first dot com boom. Patrick is currently on the teaching faculty at RMIT International University Vietnam, the major Asian centre of operations for Melbourne-based RMIT University and one of the largest offshore university campuses in the Asian-Pacific. Patrick spent a year in Kyoto, Japan, before joining RMIT in 2007, where his teaching focus was in Asian cybercultures, cross-cultural communications, and the intersection of media and society.
Fei Shen, City University of Hong Kong, China
Fei Shen (PhD, Ohio State University) is an assistant professor in the Department of Media and Communication at the City University of Hong Kong. His research interests include public opinion, digital activism, and political communication. He published articles in the Journal of Communication, the International Journal of Public Opinion Research, Communication Research, Press/Politics, and the Asian Journal of Communication.
Marko M. Skoric, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Marko M. Skoric is an assistant professor at the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He holds a PhD in Communication from the University of Michigan, and a BSc in Psychology from the University College London, UK. Marko’s teaching and research interests are focused on new media and social change, with particular emphasis on civic and political implications of new communication technologies.
Cheryll Ruth Soriano, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Cheryll Ruth Soriano is a Doctoral Candidate at the Communications and New Media
Department of the National University of Singapore. Her research interest lies in the
social, economic, and political impact of information and communication
technologies and has published along this area of research. Her doctoral research
investigates the intersections of cultural activism and social media across different
contexts of minoritization.
Shaojing Sun, Fudan University, China
Shaojing Sun (PhD, Kent State University; PhD, University of Virginia) is an associate professor in the School of Journalism at Fudan University, China. His research focuses on mediated communication and research methodology.
Takahisa Suzuki, The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Japan
Takahisa Suzuki is a student in the PhD Program of the Department of Informatics, School of Multidisciplinary Sciences, at the Graduate University for Advanced Studies (SOKENDAI), Japan. He received his MS degree in computer Science in 2008 from the Graduate School of Information Science and Engineering at the Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan. He was a research student at the Graduate University for Advanced Studies (SOKENDAI) from 2009 to 2010. His areas of research interest are social psychology, mathematical sociology and information technology. He is a member of the Japanese Society of Social Psychology (JSSP) and Japanese Association for Mathematical Sociology (JAMS).
Joanne Lim Bee Yin, University of Nottingham, Malaysia
Joanne Lim is Assistant Professor at the School of Modern Languages and Cultures, University of Nottingham Malaysia Campus, teaching media, communications, and cultural studies. Joanne has presented research papers and been invited to conduct workshops in China, UK, Singapore, Korea, and Malaysia on the topics of social media and youth, cultural politics and implications of the media. She has written a book chapter in a book published by Routledge, entitled “Media Consumption and Everyday Life in Asia,” and is currently writing a manuscript on videoblogging, flashmobs and the culture of connectivity. She recently completed a study on Youth, ICTs and political engagement in Malaysia, which was part of a six nation study funded by the International Development Research Centre in Canada. She currently leads a research project funded by the Ministry of Higher Education’s Fundamental Research Grant Scheme to examine social media and youth agency in the country. Joanne was a broadcast journalist at a news station in Canada, co-produced a radio talk show in Seattle, USA and is a former journalist with a leading newspaper in Malaysia.
Weiyu Zhang, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Weiyu Zhang (PhD, University of Pennsylvania) is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Communications and New Media, National University of Singapore. Her research focuses on three areas: civic engagement and ICTs, China and the Internet, as well as media multitasking. She has published works on eDeliberation, Chinese online communities, and multitasking with both mass and new media. Her current project is a cross-national study on youth, new media and civic engagement in six Asian countries.
Jonathan Zhu, City University of Hong Kong, China
Organizers
Nojin Kwak (University of Michigan, USA)
Nojin Kwak is an associate professor at the University of Michigan Dept. of Communication Studies and the director of the Nam Center for Korean Studies. His research centers on the role of communication media in civic and political engagement. His latest article on the role of the mobile phone in public affairs participation in Korea was published in the 2011 October issue of Asian Journal of Communication. Dr. Kwak recently received a top paper award in the Korean American Communication division at the annual meeting of the International Communication Association in May, 2011. He is the lead organizer of the 2012 ICA Preconference New Media and Citizenship in Asia.
Marko Skoric (Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)
Marko M. Skoric is an assistant professor at the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. He holds a PhD in Communication from the University of Michigan, and a BSc in Psychology from the University College London, UK. Marko’s teaching and research interests are focused on new media and social change, with particular emphasis on civic and political implications of new communication technologies.
Scott Campbell (University of Michigan, USA)
Scott Campbell's research examines the social implications of new media, with an emphasis on mobile telephony. Current projects investigate how mobile communication patterns are linked to both the private and public spheres of social life, such as social networking and civic engagement. Several of these projects use a comparative approach to situate the role of mobile communication technology in the larger media landscape and across different societies.
Junho Choi (Yonsei University, South Korea)
