Past events

• 8 Oct. 2024, 12:00-13:00

  Repression and Resistance: Social Media Technologies and Social Movements

  Talk by Assistant Professor Priyank Chandra from the Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto and the Director of the STREET Lab, in the Tech in Movement (TiM) serial talks.

• 30 Aug. 2024, 13:00-14:30

  Digital Platforms are Not Media Companies/Broadcasters: Telecoms Regulation and Antitrust as Guides to Platform Regulation

  Public lecture by Dwayne Winseck (Carleton University).

• 29 Aug. 2024, 9:00-12:00

  Masterclass on media industries

  Masterclass on media industries with Dwayne Winseck.

• 28 Aug. 2024, 9:00-13:00

  The Backbone of Digital Life

  Seminar.

• 15 Aug. - 16 Aug. 2024

  Translating critical data and algorithm studies into impact

  Workshop: Datafication, the process of quantifying every aspect of life so it can be tabulated, analyzed, and recirculated into practice, presents a profound paradigm shift in society and a challenging object of inquiry…

• 20 June 2024

  ICA 2024 Preconference: Reimagining Digital Activism: Navigating Complexities and Forging New Perspectives

  Conference.

• 30 May 2024, 10:00-11:30

  The Fictionalization of People in Cyberspace: A Character Study

  HUM:Global Talk! by Guobin Yang, the Grace Lee Boggs Professor of Communication and Sociology, the University of Pennsylvania.

• 28 May 2024, 9:30-11:00

  Miscommunicating the COVID-19 Pandemic: An Asian Perspective

  Keynote speech by Ran Wei, Chair Professor in Communication, School of Communication, Hong Kong Baptist University.

• 28 May 2024, 9:30-11:00

  Research and Political Implications of the Dis-/misinformation Concept

  Keynote speech by Jayson Harsin, Professor and Director of the Center for Media, Communication, and Global Change, The American University of Paris.

• 27 May 2024, 9:30-11:00

  The Performativity of Faking (and Fakes) on Social Media

  Keynote speech by Guobin Yang, Grace Lee Boggs Professor of Communication and Sociology, Annenberg School for Communication & Department of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania.

• 6 Dec. 2023, 10:00-11:30

  Acting like a bot as a defiance of platform power

  Public talk by Ariadna Matamoros-Fernández, Senior Lecturer in Digital Media at the Queensland University of Technology.

• 5 Dec. 2023, 10:30-15:00

  Digital Methods in Social Media Research: A Workshop on Potentials and Limitations

  Workshop with Ariadna Matamoros-Fernández and Johan Farkas.

• 14 Nov. 2023

  Workshop: Technology for Political Opposition? Bridging the gap between research and practice/policy

  The event is only for invited.

• 8 May - 10 May 2023

  Technology in Movement, Movement in Technology

  International conference & PhD course

• 21 Feb. 2023, 11:00-13:00

  Mobilizing during COVID 19: Insights for Democracy and Social Movements

  Talk by Professor Cristina Flesher Fominaya, Aarhus University, in the Tech in Movement (TiM) serial talks. TiM serial talks organize talks and seminars on issues on the frontlines of technology and politics.

• 22 Nov. 2022, 10:00-11:30

  The Web of Meaning

  Zoom Webinar Talk by Dr. Elaine Yuan, the University of Illinois at Chicago, in the Tech in Movement (TiM) serial talks.

• 4 Oct. 2022, 10:00-11:30

  From Algorithmic Capitalism to Collaborative Authoritarianism: Regulating Price Discrimination on Chinese Digital Platforms

  Dr Haiqing Yu, Professor, Australian Research Council (ARC) Future Fellow, and Vice-Chancellor’s Principal Research Fellow, RMIT University.

• 24 May 2022, TBA

  Beyond the Peak of Mobilization: Understanding Movement Continuity in Hong Kong, 2014 to 2022

  Lecture by Professor Francis L.F. Lee, the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

• 24 May 2022, 10:00-13:00

  Social Movement in Comparative Perspective

  This seminar draws international leading scholars to discuss some of these emerging and pressing issues in researching social movements and political contention from a comparative perspective for theoretical discovery…

• 23 May 2022, TBA

  The Role of Digital Media in Large-Scale Protests in Hong Kong

  Keynote talk by Professor Francis L.F. Lee, the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

• 26 Apr. 2022, 9:30-11:00

  Unravelling the Interplay Between Communication Technology and Society: Comparative Analyses of Mobile Phones and Social Media

  TiM serial talk by Ran Wei , Ph.D.

• 23 Mar. 2022, 15:30-17:00

  Social Media and Civic Engagement during the Wuhan Lockdown

  Talk by Professor Guobin Yang, the University of Pennsylvania, in the Tech in Movement serial talks