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English-Language Twitter Feed of Posts Censored from Sina Weibo Created by...
WeiboTrendsPro, a Twitter feed of English translations of posts that have been deleted from the Chinese social networking website Sina Weibo, has been created by three JMSC graduate students. Chinese...
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JMSC to Play Major Role at IB World Student Conference
JMSC faculty members, alums and students will be playing major roles in the upcoming IB World Student Conference, which is to be held at The University of Hong Kong next month. The conference, which...
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JMSC Professor Completes Project on Censorship in China
“It’s a beautiful thing, the destruction of words,” wrote George Orwell in his classic political satire, Nineteen-Eighty Four. Some 60 years later censors in China would be drawing lessons from his...
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Weiboscope
Weiboscope is a Chinese social media data collection and visualization project. One project objective, among many, is to make censored Sina Weibo posts of a selected group of Chinese microbloggers...
View ArticleNew grants fund JMSC social media and censorship research
JMSC Assistant Professor Fu King-Wa has been awarded two new grants to continue his work investigating the behaviour of social media users in China and Hong Kong and assessing the extent of Chinese...
View ArticleJMSC Research Seminar: Nationalism, anti-Beijing criticism, and censorship on...
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,...
View ArticleJMSC Research Seminar: Cyberbalkanization of the Hong Kong Facebook pages...
Date: January 30, 2015 Time: 13:00 – 14:00 Venue: Digital Media Lab, G/F, Eliot Hall, JMSC, HKU Abstract: Social media was depicted as a platform of open discussion between people with different views....
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Innovative social media ‘crowd translation’ project helps tell China’s story...
(Feature image credit: 上海明室) An innovative project at the JMSC has experimented with translating censored Chinese social media posts into English in an effort to tell China’s story to the wider world....
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First Ever Interactive Infographic of Hong Kong Budget Produced by JMSC Data...
The first interactive infographic ever made of a Hong Kong government budget was produced by the JMSC Data Journalism Lab (DJL) on Wednesday, February 27, minutes after Financial Secretary John Tsang...
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VIDEO ONLINE (15 Apr) Tiananmen 30 years on
Co-organized by the Journalism and Media Studies Centre and Pen Hong Kong Date: Monday, 15 April 2019 Time: 6:30 – 8:00pm Venue: Rayson Huang Theatre, Main Campus, The University of Hong Kong...
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