17 March 2015

手機記錄時代﹣小鏡頭拍出專業照要訣分享

資深攝影師宋曉剛將分享將手機運用於新聞攝影的全球化趨勢,點評優秀作品背後的拍攝技巧,並通過大量案例,介紹用手機拍攝出專業照片的心得、要訣。
27 February 2015

JMSC Research Seminar: The Freedom of Critical Thinking: News Literacy Education in Authoritarian States in Asia

In this talk Dr. Kajimoto examines how university educators in Vietnam, Malaysia and Myanmar adapted a news literacy curriculum initially designed for the students in democratic societies.
3 February 2015

JMSC Startup Seminar: Syed Karim, founder and CEO of Outernet

Syed Karim, founder and CEO of Outernet, a technology start-up that seeks to provide free basic web access broadcast via a mini-cube satellites.
2 February 2015

JMSC Research Seminar: Unreplicable Conclusions: Computational Social Science Studies Using Twitter Data

Replication is an essential requirement for scientific discovery. The current study aims to generalise and replicate 10 propositions made in previous Twitter studies using a representative dataset.
28 January 2015

JMSC Research Seminar: Cyberbalkanization of the Hong Kong Facebook pages during the #umbrellarevolution

Preliminary results of the social network analysis of the Hong Kong Facebook pages sharing network collected during the “Umbrella Movement” are used to discover the communities within the network and how these communities contributed to the public opinion formation. The findings suggest that large communities of Facebook pages seem to be grouped by political ideologies and their post-sharing activities were associated with real-life public opinion.
20 January 2015

JMSC Research Seminar: Nationalism, anti-Beijing criticism, and censorship on Weibo during the 2012 Diaoyudao (釣魚島) dispute

JMSC Research Seminar: Nationalism, anti-Beijing criticism, and censorship on Weibo during the 2012 Diaoyudao (釣魚島) dispute Date: January 23, 2015 Time: 13:00 – 14:00 Venue: Digital Media Lab, G/F, Eliot Hall, JMSC, HKU Abstract: Protests […]
20 November 2014

AAJA-Asia Uplink: Lessons from the field

AAJA-Asia will be hosting its first ever multi-city online journalism event on Nov. 29. Two panels with several top speakers and experienced journalists from across Asia will meet, in person and online, to talk shop. Find out where people are meeting in your city and come join the discussion!
4 November 2014

Data Journalism Handbook is released in Chinese / 數據新聞手冊中文版發佈

A Chinese-language version of The Data Journalism Handbook, an open-access, crowd-sourced, online reference guide to the emerging field of data journalism, is now available online. 數據新聞手冊是一本自由開源、以眾籌模式完成的網上參考指南,向讀者介紹數據新聞這一新興領域。數據新聞手冊的中文版現已可以在網上閱讀。