24 March 2015
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Accidental Antagonists or Inevitable Enemies? China and Japan in Asia and Beyond

Professor Odd Arne Westad surveys the past history of relations between Japan and China and suggests how these two states might deal with each other in future. This is the third of a series of lectures by Prof. Westad on China’s relations with other Asian powers.
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23 March 2015
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Computer-mediated risk perception and communication unplugged: A critical assessment of the tools of risk governance in the digital age

Dr. Jamie Wardman offers a personal history of important advances and trends in the evolution of ‘computer-mediated risk perception and communication’ over the past twenty years.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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