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11 May 2012
Location and Time: WKWSCI Level 2 TR+7, 1000 - 1130
Speaker: Mr Sunanda Kisor Datta-Ray, Author of award winning "Looking East to Look West: Lee Kuan Yew's Mission India" and Columnist. Former Editorial Consultant, The Straits Times.
Talk title: ENOCH POWELL TO NARENDRA MODI: Media, Tolerance and the Politics of Identity

Unquestionably, the media is the most powerful tool for disseminating ideas, and the most public means of conducting debate. These traditional roles, rooted in tolerance, are increasingly threatened by a visceral politics of identity seeking to erase all that is different.
This applies not only to Singapore – by definition multicultural – but also countries that though not multicultural, encourage debate, such as France.

The threat to tolerance isn’t new. In 1968 British MP Enoch Powell’s “rivers of blood” speech warned against continuing immigration. He was speaking of a country somewhere between France and Singapore in its diversity. Powell’s threat didn’t materialize. But 34 years later blood did flow in multicultural India, where 2,000 people perished in anti-Muslim riots in Narendra Modi’s Gujarat.
As Modi sets his cap at the Prime Minister’s job, Marianne Le Pen, leader of France’s far right continues to set the national agenda though her presidential aspirations have suffered a setback. Last July’s murders in Norway were a reminder that the rest of Europe is also experiencing an upsurge of militant identity politics.

Political stability and economic prosperity hang on how the media responds to this global danger. The former demands tolerance. The latter calls for an intermixing of people and ideas.
The media cannot shirk this challenge to its traditional roles.

About the speaker:
Educated at Manchester University in the UK, Sunanda K. Datta-Ray worked on British newspapers before returning to India where he was editor of the prestigious daily, The Statesman, published from Calcutta and Delhi. He has been South Asia correspondent for The Observer, London; editor-in-residence at the East-West Center, Honolulu; essayist in Time magazine; and editorial consultant with The Straits Times apart from teaching at NTU. He was also a visiting senior research fellow at ISEAS.
His books include Waiting for America: India and the US in the New Millennium and Looking East to Look West: Lee Kuan Yew's Mission India.


4 May 2012
Location and Time: WKWSCI Level 4 Conference Room, 1400 - 1530
Speaker: Ms Chanansara Oranop, Ph.D. Candidate from Chulalongkorn University, Thailand
Talk title: Regulation of harmful content on TV under media convergence

The session mainly present about what challenges of media convergence to content regulation especially harmful content such as sexuality, violence, hateful content, etc. By looking from overseas’ approaches including UK, the Netherlands, Germany, Australia, the session also discusses on self- and co- regulatory regime which those countries employ to regulate harmful content on cross-platform television and television-like content on multi-screen and IP-based television in a converged and digital media and communication environment. Moreover,  by learning from overseas’ experience, the proposed models for Thailand regulatory regime and mechanism for harmful content regulation under the changing media environment  are discussed, as well as the background of Thai media and legislative framework and regulation regarding harmful content regulation in Thailand.

About the speaker:
Chanansara Oranop na ayutthaya, M. A., studied English Literature at the Thammasat University, Thailand, and made her Master at the Faculty of Communication Arts at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok. There, she is a PhD candidate since 2010 and her interest is about content regulation in broadcasting under media convergence. Currently, she works as researcher at the Thai Media Policy Center of Chulalongkorn University.

During 2010-2011 she was a Specialist Operation Officer in the office of National Telecommunication Commission (NTC) Commissioner Assoc. Prof. Pana Thongmeearkom. She was a lecturer at Faculty of Communication Arts, Hua-Cheaw University in 2009-2010. Also, she was a member of the working group "Frequency-unallocated Broadcasting Service" at NTC between 2009-2010. Moreover, 2008-2010, she belonged to the working staff of Senator Prof. Sukanya Sudbanthad, The Secretariat of Senator.
Since end of September 2011, Chanansara Oranop worked as a guest researcher at the Hans Bredow Institute for three months. She investigated the youth protection system in Germany and EU member states.

3 May 2012
Location and Time: WKWSCI Level 4 Conference Room, 1000 - 1130
Speaker: Professor Abu Bakar Munir, Faculty of Law, University of Malaya, Malaysia
Talk title: Data Protection Law: Singapore Follows Suit

Thirty two years after the adoption of the first international instrument on personal data protection, the wave is now coming to Asia.  In April 2010, the Taiwanese Parliament passed a comprehensive law called the Personal Data Protection Act. Korea followed suit and enacted a new Personal Information Protection Act in March 2011. 

Among the countries in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations ('ASEAN'), Malaysia is the first to do so. Its Personal Data Protection Act ('PDPA') which was passed in June 2010 is expected to be in force soon, this year. The Philippines Congress recently wrapped up the debate and tabling of the Act. The draft law on Data Privacy of 2011 is being reconciled as the Senate and House of Representatives have come out with two different versions. In Singapore, following two public consultations last year, the Ministry of Information, Communications and the Arts, has recently, issued a proposed Personal Data Protection Bill for another public consultation. This presentation considers briefly the international instruments on personal data protection and the recent developments in Europe and the USA. This is followed by a comparative study of the laws in Malaysia, Korea and Taiwan. In conclusion, this talk will analyse the Singapore proposed law.

About the speaker:
Professor Abu Bakar Munir is an internationally renowned scholar, expert and consultant on data protection law and ICT Law. He was the Dean of the Faculty of Law, University of Malaya, Malaysia. Currently, he is a Professor of Law and Associate Fellow at the University Of Malaya Malaysian Centre Of Regulatory Studies (UMCoRS). He is also a Visiting Professor at several universities in Asia, Australia, New Zealand, the Middle East and Europe. He is the author of several books; Privatization (1992), Cyberlaw: Policies and Challenges (1999), Privacy and Data Protection (2002), Internet Banking: Law and Practice (2004), and Information and Communication Technology Law: State, Internet and Information (2010). His most recent work; Personal Data Protection in Malaysia:  Law and Practice published in 2010 is a must-read book that provides a guidance to comply with the Malaysian Personal Data Protection Act 2010 (PDPA). He has widely published articles on several aspects of ICT law and data protection law. He speaks extensively at seminars and conferences within Malaysia and around the globe. In September 2011, he was invited to speak on Privacy and Data Protection in Asia at the 102nd of the Society of Legal Scholars Conference hosted by the Downing College, University of Cambridge.

He has been the Data Protection Consultant to Chartis Insurance Malaysia (formerly known as AIG Insurance) and is currently advising Telekom Malaysia, PETRONAS and POS Malaysia on compliance of the PDPA. He is working on another book on Data Protection Law in Asia Pacific. His other areas of specialization include Air and Space Law, Nanotechnology Law and Renewable Energy Law.

17 November 2011
Location and Time: WKWSCI Level 2 Executive Seminar Room, 1100 - 1200
Speaker: Dr Zhang Guoliang, Shanghai Jiaotong University
Talk title: The Development of New Media In Mainland China

In this presentation, Dr. Zhang discussed the development of new media in Mainland China addressing the following 4 aspects:
a) Overview: Contemporary China on its way to the world largest new media empire.
b) Structure: the prosperity of new media industry in China
c) Problems: challenges of new media for marginalized groups;
d) Effects: construct an internet community in public domain.
 
About the speaker Zhang Guoliang is professor, PhD supervisor, and dean of School of Media & Design, Shanghai JiaoTong University. Graduated from Fudan University, holding PhD in History; Visiting Researcher to Tokyo University & Waseda University of Japan; first Chairman of the Communication Association of China, Shepherd of National Pivot Disciplines.
Honorary Rewards: Conferred “The Over-Century Excellent” by Education Ministry, Expert with “Prominent Contribution Award” by the State Council, Shanghai Excellent Social Scientific Achievement Award, Excellent Thesis of China’s News Awards, “Gold Key”to China’s library, and etc.
Reprehensive Achievements: In charge of more than 50 research projects, including “Developmental Communication Studies of China”, “Mass Communication Studies” and etc; published over 100 papers, including “Analysis of the ‘Function of Agenda Setting’ of China’s Mass Media”, “Shanghai Citizens and Informationization” and etc; published over 30 books, including “Classics in 20th Communication Studies”, “Modern Mass Communication Studies”, “News Media and the Society” and etc. Recently, his academic article "Agenda-Setting Effects in China" got published in Communication Research (Oct. 2011), the international core journal. The paper has an in-depth discussion on the characteristics and orderliness of "agenda-setting" in China, which has made an innovative contribution to enrichment of communication effect theory.

To view the presentation, please click here.

11 August 2011
Location and Time: WKWSCI 4th Floor Conference Room (#04-48), 1500-1600
Speaker: Dr Check Kok Wai, Associate Professor, Multimedia University Malaysia
Seminar title: Factors Influencing School-going Youth’s Risky Internet Behavior in the Klang Valley, Malaysia
 
This is a work-in-progress study.  It aims to answer this research question: What are the factors that influence school-going youth’s risky Internet behavior in the Klang Valley, Malaysia?   In this study, the scope of risky Internet behavior is limited to meeting face-to-face someone they first encountered online.  The objective of this study is to investigate if the theory of planned behavior can be used to predict school-going youth’s risky Internet behavior in the Klang Valley, Malaysia.
 
Theory of planned behavior (TPB) has been used to predict instant messaging behaviours (Yaobin, Zhou, & Wang, 2009), high-level social networking sites use among young people (Pelling and White, 2009) and social networking sites use (Baker & White, 2010). The literature on the usage of TPB to predict school-going youth’s risky Internet behavior has not been found so far, Therefore, in this study, the TPB will be used as the theoretical framework to determine the factors that influence school-going youth’s risky Internet behavior, namely meeting face-to-face someone they first encountered online in the Klang Valley, Malaysia.
 
The population for this study is school-going youths aged between 15-17 year-old (Form 3, 4 and 5) living in the Klang Valey, Malaysia.  The pilot study will consist of 50 Form 3 to Form 5 students from a school in the Klang Valley. Random sampling will be used to select 10 schools in the Klang Valley for the main study. Convenient sampling will be used to choose 100 students from each school. Therefore, there will be 1000 respondents in the main study. Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) will be used for data analysis.

About the speaker:
Dr. Chew Kok Wai is an Associate Professor, Faculty of Management, Multimedia University, Malaysia. He is a Singapore Internet Research Center Associate, Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.  He has published more than 40 papers in refereed journals and conference proceedings. As Principal Investigator, he has completed two e-commerce research projects funded by the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation (MOSTI), Malaysia. His research interests include Behavior and Internet, Industrial and Organizational Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management.

27 July 2011
Location and Time: WKWSCI 4th Floor Conference Room (#04-48), 1420-1530
Speaker: Ms Michelle Helena van Velthoven, PhD Candidate, School of Public Health, Imperial College London
Seminar Title: Scope and Effectiveness of Mobile Phone Messaging for HIV/AIDS services: A Systematic Review

Given the wide spread of mobile phones in high HIV prevalence countries, mobile phone messaging has potential to improve HIV/AIDS services. The objective of the study was to assess the scope, effectiveness, acceptability and feasibility of mobile phone messaging for HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment and care. The study team undertook a comprehensive search of peer-reviewed and grey literature. Two authors independently screened citations, extracted data and assessed trial quality. All types of studies focussing on mobile phone messaging interventions for HIV/AIDS services were included and results were presented in a narrative overview.

Twenty-one studies met the inclusion criteria of the review: three randomized controlled trials (RCTs), fourteen interventional studies using other study designs, one cross-sectional study and six mixed design studies (cross-sectional and qualitative outcomes). In addition, six on-going trials and 21 project are described. Mobile phone messaging was researched for HIV prevention, appointment reminders, HIV testing reminders, medication adherence and for communication between health care workers.

The study found a limited evidence base for mobile phone messaging in HIV/AIDS services. The potential of the use of mobile phone messaging for HIV prevention, treatment and care is acknowledged and a number of small-scale programmes are reported. However, there is a need to adequately document outcomes and constraints to assess the impact of interventions and to focus on best practice.

About the Speaker
Michelle joined the Global eHealth Unit in April 2010 to complete her Master in Health Technology Assessment  from Radboud University Nijmegen, the Netherlands. She worked on systematic reviews on telephone consultation for HIV/AIDS services and on intergrating prevention of mother to child tranmission (PMTCT) of HIV into other health services. She also undertook a minor in International Health including an public health internship in Tanzania. She has graduated with her first degree in Biomedical Sciences. Her postgraduate research started in January 2011 focuses on the adoption of mHealth in low- and middle-income countries. Currently, her work involves a systematic review on mobile phone messaging for HIV/AIDS services, three Cochrane Collaboration systematic reviews on telephone consultation for HIV/AIDS services and the use of smart phone apps for self-monitoring of diabetes. She is supervised by Dr Josip Car, director of the Global eHealth Unit and Professor Rifat Atun, Director of Strategy, Performance and Evaluation Cluster in the Executive Management Team of The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.

20 May 2011
Location and Time: WKWSCI 4th Floor Conference Room (#04-48), 1000-1130
Speaker: Andrew Lih, Associate Professor, University of Southern California’s Annenberg School of Communication and Journalism
Seminar Title: Revolution 2.0: Did Twitter, Facebook, WikiLeaks, really matter? Implications of the Jasmine Revolution in Asia

Lih will discuss online trends seen in the Arabic speaking world, and how Wikipedia, blogs, mobiles, and social media tools affected popular uprisings across the Middle East and North Africa. As we examine the modern dynamics of a pan-Arab identity for citizen journalism and activism that transcends national boundaries, what are the lessons for other Internet-connected communities? He will consider the landscape for China's users, where Facebook, Twitter and Youtube are blocked.　

China has reaped the benefits of a modern Internet-connected society while maintaining tight controls on content and activism. The Jasmine Revolution showed in dramatic fashion how the Internet can indeed usher in massive political change. Are these phenomena compatible and what does the future hold for Asian Internet communities?

Following with the talk by Andrew in the morning session, SiRC has also arranged for the following activities with Andrew. Do let us know if you will also been keen to participate:

 - 11:30am-12noon: Networking buffer for those who want some face time with Andrew

 - 12 -1pm: Andrew to share his latest research on new narrative patterns of online video storytelling

29 April 2011
Location and Time: WKWSCI 4th Floor Conference Room (#04-48), 1430-1530
Speaker: Dr Chew Kok Wai, Head of Management and Marketing Department, Faculty of Management, Multimedia University, Malaysia.
Seminar Title: Malaysians’ Acceptance of MyKad as an E-Commerce Tool

MyKad became the world’s first smart national identity card in September 2001. Through the use of a single smartcard, the MyKad utilizes the security enhanced 64K microprocessor chip and biometric technology. It ensures a high level of accuracy, enabling more than 27.73 million Malaysians to transact conveniently and securely with the government and private sectors. In this study, a modified Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) was　used to predict the Malaysians’ acceptance of using MyKad as an e-commerce tool in Malaysia. The sample for this study consisted of MyKad owners who are able to support themselves financially. Using a survey method, data were collected from 1014 respondents in eight states in Malaysia (Kedah, Penang, Selangor, Kuala Lumpur, Malacca, Johore, Sarawak and Sabah). Results showed that the modified TAM was found to be useful in explaining the Malaysians’ acceptance of using MyKad as an e-commerce tool. 

12 October 2010
Location and Time: WKWSCI 2nd Floor Executive Seminar Room (#02-19), 1100-1200
Speaker: Natasha Cowan 
Seminar Title: The Capacity of the Internet to Enhance Political Communication and Participation in Strong State Democracies

There has been much written on the political uses of the Internet focusing on the development and successes of e-Government and e-Democracy experiments; including aspects such as citizen outreach, attempts to improve direct communication on political party websites or specially created bureaucratic zones; the experimentation with e-voting at different levels of government; and the uses of the Internet for the expansion of bureaucratic service provision.  However, the literature lacks focus on the newer uses of the Internet for political action.  Although blogs of politicians feature as an aspect of analysis for political scientists studying the Internet, the pervasive social networking sites Facebook and Twitter do not receive so much attention.  The aim of this project is to analyse the uses of the Internet, specifically social networking sites, as serious points of contact on a platform in which citizens can participate regularly, alongside their usual social networking and information gathering and dissemination.  The benefit of Facebook and Twitter is that if it is being used for usual Internet practices, then it is minimal extra effort to keep updated on the goings on of political parties, news and media companies and groups or activists because of the hyper-networking strategies of these sites.

The focus of this analysis is Singapore and Malaysia, as strong-state democracies, with democratic structures and governments that provide high material comfort of their citizens but also have a play a directly interventionist role in the running of society.  Much of the literature on e-Democracy and e-Government and the uses of the Internet for political participation and communication focuses on Western liberal-democracies, particularly the United States and the United Kingdom, or takes the opposite approach to analyse authoritarian states such as China, Myanmar or Iran.  This project therefore seeks to analyse the middle ground of strong-government states that have in the past challenged the need to adopt the British or American model of liberal-democracy and have pursued their own successful variants of democracy.

This project analyses the pragmatic uses of the Internet by media producers and political actors, but also the innovative ways of using platforms that citizens will engage with such as social networking, or creating a website or blog that will continue to attract attention.  It also scrutinises the general success of e-Government and e-Democracy initiatives, such as the provision of bureaucratic services online, or community engagement and outreach websites.  It further analyses how the Internet interacts with the strong-state apparatus and the restrictions on potentially disruptive activity, and how the state, civil society and the bureaucracy adapt to the changes that take place in the fluidic Internet.

20 September 2010
Location and Time: WKWSCI 4th Floor Conference Room (#04-48), 1400-1500
Guest Speaker: Jacques Steyn (PHD) 
Seminar Title: Small solutions for big problems: Connecting the world

Vogue terms used in the media suggest global connectivity in the near future, and cover novelties such as server farms, cloud computing, augmented reality, interactive surfaces and 3D. Yet 3 billion people are not even connected or have access to IT. How will this ever be achieved? And: why do we need to connect people? Is it really necessary? This presentation highlights some of the issues, and some projects in the field of Development Informatics with novel approaches to address this issue. Some projects and concepts highlighted are such as the Digital Doorway project, ePost, the Batphone, and the potatoes mesh.

14 April 2010
Location and Time: Executive Seminar Room (#02-19), 1400-1530
Joe Phua, Ph.D. candidate at the Annenberg School for Communication of the University of Southern California 
Seminar Title: Online Communities for Smoking Cessation: Implications for Perceived Social Support and Smoking Cessation Self-Efficacy among Active Participants and Lurkers

Previous research on health-related online communities has found positive health benefits for participants on the sites.  This paper accessed engagement and social support among members of several online communities for smoking cessation, hypothesizing that perceived social support would be positively associated with participation and smoking cessation self-efficacy, and also mediate the relationship.  Additionally, active participants and lurkers would also differ significantly in perceived social support and smoking cessation self-efficacy.  Data gathered from an online questionnaire posted on the message boards of the smoking cessation online communities confirmed these hypotheses.  Implications for future research are discussed.

25 February 2010
Location and Time: SCI Conference Room, Level 4, 1600-1700
Benjamin Sanders, SiRC Visiting Scholar 
Seminar Title: Risk Reduction in Online Interactive Environments

Previous studies highlight the ever increasing number of threats to personal and sensitive data within online interactive environments.  Indeed, evidence suggests that the rapid adoption of online services such as social networking websites and massively multiplayer online role playing games has not been matched with a corresponding embrace of security culture. This presentation explores the ever increasing privacy threats associated with social engineering and discusses statistical findings of security awareness studies on UK and European online gamers.  In addition, a novel Social Engineering Classification and Response Framework (SECREF) will be discussed together with a novel approach to raising awareness.

24 February 2010
Location and Time: SCI Seminar Room, Level 2, 1330-1430
Professor Abu Bakar Munir, SiRC Visiting Professor 
Seminar Title: Personal Data: Malaysian Personal Data Protection Law

Privacy concerns have been on the rise with the advent of digital technologies that afford the mixing and mashing of data. In this talk, Professor Abu Bakar Munir, one of the foremost privacy law experts in the world, will talk about the privacy concerns globally and discuss in particular the Malaysian case, where he helped draft the privacy law that is before the Malaysian Parliament.

25 September 2009
Associate Professor Eric Klopfer, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Seminar Title: Learning Games! = Edutainment

The edutainment era of the 1990s brought the dawn of educational games.  The vast majority of these games treated the game play as a reward for learning.  Paralleling the rise of a new generation of video games that involve more complex game play, a new generation of learning games risen that more deeply and integrally connects the learning goals with game play.  Work in the Scheller Teacher  Education Program (STEP) has focused on the design, development and research of this new generation of learning games.  These games do not need to be big expensive 3D first person shooters, but instead can be web or mobile-deployed applications that are both engaging and educational.  This talk will provide some background on the design of learning games, with examples of learning games developed by STEP for the web and mobile devices.

11 September 2009
Dr. Yah Huei Hong, Alice, ACRC Visiting Research Scholar
Seminar Title: The innovative adoption and resistance of politically related websites and blogs among Internet users in Taiwan and Singapore

14 August 2009
John Kelly, SiRC invited speaker
Seminar Title: Mapping Online Publics: Language, Politics and Culture in the Global Blogosphere

The global blogosphere has a rich network topology, formed by a complex overlap of factors, including language, nationality, politics, culture, networks of practice, social roles, and myriad other drivers of online attention.  By mapping its subnetworks and overlaying computer and human analysis of metadata and text content, a layered understanding emerges of the online publics enacted through weblogs.  We will look at a number of international mappings, including English, Arabic, Farsi, Chinese, Pakistani, Indian and German, extracting some common patterns and unique features.

20 January 2009
Patrick Soh, SiRC Visiting Fellow
Seminar Ttile: Internet usage, addiction, peers and parental influences amongst youths in Malaysia

29 September 2008
Professor Justine Cassell, SiRC invited speaker
Seminar Title: Virtual Peers for Studying and Scaffolding Real Social Interaction

28 September 2007
Dr Jeffrey Cole
Seminar Title: "Just an Essential Part of Everyday Life: The Impact of the Internet"
Before we even realized it, the Internet has become an essential part of everyday life transforming how we communicate, work, play and learn. The Center for the Digital Future leads a teams of over 20 countries around the world looking at the ways in which Internet and wireless technologies transform our social, political and economic lives.

11 April 2007
Prof. Mark Levy will be presenting a seminar on "ICTs for Development: Emerging Technologies, New Paradigms" at 1:30-2:30 p.m. Level 4 Conference Room (#04-48), Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information Building. Mark Levy is a professor in the Department of Telecommunication, Information Studies, and Media at Michigan State University. He is currently a Fulbright Scholar at WKWSCI. Before earning his Ph.D. in sociology from Columbia University, Dr. Levy was a journalist at NBC News in New York and with Newsweek magazine.

28 March 2007
Dr. Marcel Machill will be presenting a seminar on "The Power of Search Engines: Systematization of an Interdisciplinary Research Area" at 1330-1430 pm at the Conference Room at Level 4(#04-48). Dr. Marcel Machill is a tenured professor of journalism and international media systems at the University of Leipzig in Germany. He is with NTU’s Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information as a visiting professor in 2007.

26 March 2007
Professor Wu Hequan will be visiting NTU. He will be giving a talk on “The State of the Internet in China: Opportunities and Challenge” at 15:00-16:00 pm at the Lecture Theatre 2 (N4-02-36). Professor Wu Hequan is Vice-President of the Chinese Academy of Engineering (CAE). He has played various leading roles in the technologies as well as policy and strategic development of the communication industry of China.

20 March 2007
Dr. Ravi S. Sharma will be presenting a seminar on "Bridging the Digital Divide in Asia: Challenges and Solutions" at 1330-1430 pm at the Conference Room at Level 4(#04-48). Dr. Ravi S. Sharma is Associate Professor of Knowledge Management at the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, NTU.

1 February 2007
Dr. Jack Linchuan Qiu will be presenting a seminar on "The Information Have-Less and Working-Class ICTs in Urban China" at 1400-1500 pm at the Conference Room at Level 4(#04-48). Dr. Jack Linchuan Qiu is an assistant professor at the School of Journalism and Communication, Chinese University of Hong Kong.

31 January 2007
Dr. Douglas A. Gentile will be presenting a seminar on "A Dimensional Approach to Understanding Video Game Effects" at 1330-1430 pm at the Conference Room at Level 4(#04-48). Dr. Douglas A.Gentile is assistant professor of psychology at Iowa State University and the director of research for the National Institute on Media and the Family.

17 January 200
SCI Assistant Professor Chang Yun-Ke will be presenting a seminar on "Multimedia Chinese Web Search Engines: A Survey" at 1330-1430 pm at the Conference Room at Level 4(#04-48).

20 September 2006
SiRC faculty, Associate Professor Benjamin Detenber will be presenting a seminar on "The Impact of Source Cues in Computer-mediated Communication" at 1330- 1430 pm at the conference room at level 4.

6 September 2006
SiRC visiting fellow Jens Damm will be presenting a seminar on "What's wrong with online privacy policies?" at 1330- 1430 pm at the conference room at level 2.

30 March 2006
SiRC visiting fellow Jens Damm will be presenting a seminar on "China's Internet as Signifier: Contradicting Discourses, Paradigms, and Interpretations" at 1300- 1400 pm at the conference room at level 4.

23 March 2006
SiRC visitor Professor Wolfgang Kleinwaechter will be presenting a seminar on "Internet Governance at the Crossroads" at 1330- 1430 pm at the SCI conference room at level 4.

22 March 2006
SiRC Associate May Lwin will be presenting a seminar on "Protecting Child Privacy on Electronics Media: Initial Findings on Parental Roles Vs Web Controls" at 1330- 1430 pm at the SCI conference room at level 4.

8 March 2006
Location and Time: SCI Conference Room, Level 4, 1330-1430
SiRC Associate, Asst Prof Wayne Fu presented a seminar on Concentration and Homogenization of Internationa; Movie Sources: Examining Foreign Film Import Profiles.

15 February 2006
Location and Time: SCI Conference Room, Level 4, 1330-1430
Arul Chib, SiRC Visiting Fellow presented a seminar on Information Communication Technologies for Development: Cases from Tsunami-Affected Communities in Indonesia and India.

8 February 2006
Location and Time: SCI Conference Room, Level 4, 1330-1430
SiRC Associate, Prof Eddie Kuo presented a seminar on "Whiter Asian Communication? Reflections from the Margin".

1 February 2006
Location and Time: SCI Conference Room, Level 4, 1330-1430
SiRC Associate, Asst Prof Lee Waipeng and Asst Prof Stella Chia presented a seminar on "How do Media Contribute to Misconception of Social Norms about Sex?"

19 October 2005
Assistant Professor Marko M. Skoric, SiRC Associate presented a seminar on Communication Technologies and Political Development: Cultures Matter, Vertical Media Don't!

10 October 2005
Jens Damm, SiRC Visiting Fellow presented a seminar on The Internet and the Fragmentation of Chinese Society

31 August 2005
Location and Time: Conference Room, Level 2, 1230-1330
Jeannine Goh, SiRC Visiting Fellow presented a seminar on Facing the Future: The Presence of Others in the Age of Video-Medicated Communication.

24 August 2005
Location and Time: SCI MMC Room, Level 2, 1330-1430
Clint Smith, SiRC Visiting Fellow presented a seminar on the Internet and Political Change in Singapore.

10 August 2005
Location and Time: SCI MMC Room, Level 2, 1330-430
Clint Smith, SiRC Visiting Fellow presented a seminar on the Internet and Political Change in Singapore.

10 August 2005
Location and Time: SCI MMC Room, Level 2, 1330-430
Dr. Steven M. Edwards, SCI Visiting Senior Fellow & Associate Professor in the Department of Advertising, Public Relations, and Retailing at Michigan State University, presented a seminar titled Physical distance or psychological distance online: What matters most? SiRC Asst. Prof. Mark Cenite chaired and moderated the session.

9 March 2005
Location and Time: SCI MMC Room, Level 2. 1330-1430.
Asst. Prof. Xu Xioage presented the results of study on the design and delivery of online news. He compared the delivery of online news across 8 Asian nations. SiRC Asst. Prof. Mark Cenite chaired and moderated the session

7 March 2005
Location and Time: SCI Seminar Room, Level 2. 1100-1200.
Prof. Rohan Samarajiva, LIRNE Asian will present a research seminar, looking at the role of the Internet in the aftermath of the Asian Tsunami Crisis. SiRC Executive Director Randolph Kluver chaired and moderated the session.

3 December 2004
Location and Time: SCI Seminar Room, Level 2. 1330-1430
Prof. Noshir Contractor, University of Illinois Urbana-Champagne conducted a research seminar on the 3 of December 2004 at the SCI Conference Room at 1330. Prof. Contractor presented on the Coevolution of Knowledge Networks and 21st century Organizational Forms. SiRC Executive Director Randolph Kluver chaired and moderated the session.

27 July 2004
Location and Time: MMC Room, Level 2. SCI Building, 1600-1700. Adam Peake has given presentations at many conferences and seminars, including a keynote presentation to the OECD/UN/World Bank Forum, Integrating ICT in Development Programmes, March 2003, Paris, France, and had the opportunity to introduce the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) to the Conference of NGOs (CONGO) Asian Civil Society Forum 2002, December 2002, Bangkok, Thailand. He discussed the outcomes of the Internet governance debate within the World Summit on the Information Society and an update from ICANN, Kuala Lumpur.

17 March 2004
Location and Time: MMC Room, Level 2, SCI Building, 1330-1430 Steven M. Schneider, highlighted the WebArchivist, a system for collecting and managing archives of Web materials recently implemented on two collections: the September 11 Web Archive and the Election 2002 Web Archive, both produced in collaboration with the US Library of Congress and the Internet Archive.