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19 March 2015

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Asia Chats: Analyzing security and privacy of mobile messaging apps

The growth of applications like WeChat, Line, and KakaoTalk have raised questions about the pressures they may face in specific jurisdictions to censor or monitor communications and provide governments with user data. Masashi Crete-Nishihata, from Citizen Lab, will present his research on these issues, as well as how these companies may respond to these demands.

17 March 2015

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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 […]

30 October 2014

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Asia Data Journalism Bootcamp 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.