3 February 2015
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
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
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 Date: January 23, 2015 Time: 13:00 – 14:00 Venue: Digital Media Lab, G/F, Eliot Hall, JMSC, HKU Abstract: Protests […]
30 October 2014
In this weeklong workshop, taught by NICAR and hosted by the JMSC, you will learn to acquire electronic information, to ask and negotiate for data from official sources, use spreadsheets and databases to analyze information and translate that information into compelling stories.
27 October 2014
Joel Gurin will talk on Thursday, 30 October from 1-2pm how businesses are putting open government data to work. He will describe different revenue models, the kinds of data found most useful, and what both startups and established businesses can learn from these case studies. He will share insights from the Governance Lab's Open Data 500 project, which is the first comprehensive study of U.S.-based companies that use open government data as a key business resource.
15 October 2014
Organised by: Journalism and Media Studies Centre, The University of Hong Kong Course Instructor: Everold N. Hosein, Ph.D. WHO/UNICEF Senior Communication Advisor/Consultant; Adjunct Professor, New York University (NYU); Coordinator of the Joint WHO/NYU Annual Summer […]
29 September 2014
China Watching is a documentary screening and discussion by Mike Chinoy, the producer of Assignment: China and former CNN Senior Asia Correspondent and Beijing Bureau Chief. The screening is 25 November 2014, from 6:30 to 8:30pm.