Studying the Politics and Media of East Asia
For students, and researchers who are only getting started with their projects, working in a transdisciplinary context such as politics and media of East Asia can be daunting. PoliticsEastAsia.com offers introductions to important theories of politics and communication, as well as tips and tricks on how to make the most of your sources. Check also the section on presenting your research for advice on how to get your ideas and results across effectively.
What did a gamified seminar at Leiden Uni teach the participants about gamification and motivation in complex information societies? Read their discussions.
Are we trading important public and private processes for digital convenience? Join our debate with East Asian Studies students at Leiden University.
In this graduate research report, Yu Kai Tan compares the design philosophies behind WeChat and WhatsApp.
In this graduate research report, Vincent Brussee discusses his work on censorship on Sina Weibo and Facebook.
In this online debate, our graduate students at Leiden Uni discuss the profound changes that the platform society has wrought in East Asia.
In this graduate research report, Simeon Vonk discusses his work on Chinese legacy media and their struggle against online rumours.
What roles do digital technologies play in the construction of national sovereignty? Who gets to shape the meanings of 'homelands' and 'territories' in the East Asian region? Join us for an online discussion with students from Leiden University.
Call for papers: Leiden Uni and the IIAS welcome contributors to the 3rd Asiascape: Digital Asia conference, on 'Rethinking Communities in the Age of the Digital'.
Call for papers: Leiden Uni will welcome the 16th annual Chinese Internet Research Conference (CIRC16) on 22-23 May 2018. CIRC16 will explore the theme ‘modes of connection’, across social, economic, and political fields.
How powerful are platforms in the East Asian region and beyond? How does platform power reshape society? These are the questions we are debating in this online discussion with students from Leiden University.
For the academic year 2017-2018, I am looking for two student assistants interested in social media and social movement research.
How should we think about the viral spread of information in the digital age? In this graduate research post, Peng Wenxuan explores what Chinese microblogs and messaging services might tell us about new forms of communication.
In this graduate research report, Mariëlle de Goede discusses her work on Chinese blogs and how they might function as utopian works of the imagination.
In this discussion, Leiden University grad students debate how nationalism fairs when it is updated for the information age.
In this discussion, our graduate students at Leiden University take a look at China's search engines and their role as knowledge filters in the PRC.
As Asia scholars, digital research methods can provide exciting windows into the topics we study. But what counts as 'data', how can we get access, and what are the ethical and practical pitfalls of studying the digital, for example in the case of digital China?
Where might we find ‘Digital Asia’? This article examines the online presence of higher education institutions in Greater China, showing how it can be fruitful to search for 'Digital Asia' in its communication networks and digital interfaces.
Want to "snazze" up your presentation with engaging visual art? This blog post explains how you can easily create impressive slides to go with your talk, using the Prezi software.
Have you ever been to a conference, a lecture, or a workshop where the presenter read their presentation to you? Have you ever suffered "death by PowerPoint"? Here are five ways to jazz up your professional or academic presentations... and save your audience's sanity.
What is the difference between a methodology and a method? Where does a methodology section go in an academic paper? Read this post for practical tips on how to improve this fundamental part of your academic work.
How well are the recent Chinese plans for further economic reforms equipped to deliver on the promises of the Third Plenum and the current five-year plan? Join our discussion with students from Leiden University and Rotterdam's School of Management.
This online discussion with students from Leiden University and Rotterdam's School of Management takes a look at Chinese currency reforms and their affect on China’s foreign trade relations and economic growth.
Can China’s environmental pollution still be cleaned up, or are recent official promises for sustainable development simply too little, too late? Join our students from Leiden University and Rotterdam’s School of Management for a discussion on China's environmental future.
What does it take to generate innovation? What kind of environment is needed to promote creativity? And is China’s leadership setting the Chinese economy on the right track to become a knowledge economy? These are the questions we tackle in this week's discussion on China's science, technology, and education policies.
In this discussion, students from Leiden University and Rotterdam's School of Management debate China's demographic shift. With China greying at an alarming rate, are more and more Chinese doomed to be poor when they retire?
In this discussion, students from Leiden University and Rotterdam's School of Management debate how nonperforming loans are effecting China's economy. Are there structural causes for the problems in China's financial sector, or has the government generally taken the right steps to reform banking?
Find out how to conduct a visual communication analysis. Learn what questions, tools, and work-steps are useful when analyzing the political meanings of diverse visual sources, like news photos, propaganda posters, public service announcements, feature films, documentaries, museums, and many more.
This post will introduce you to the theory of semiotics. Using examples from East Asia, it explains key words of this "science of the sign", and shows why semiotics might be a useful way to conceptualize political communication, whether in East Asia or elsewhere.
Is the way we understand mass communication content entirely subjective, or are there patterns in movies, TV broadcasts, pop music, or mass events that lend themselves to analysis? This post discusses what characterizes communication, and why media content analysis is a useful approach to understanding mass-communicated political discourse.
This post looks at some of the challenges researchers face as they analyse texts in East Asian languages. It also provides tips on how to overcome such challenges.
You need a handy set of tools for doing a text-based, qualitative discourse analysis? This post offers ten work steps for conducting such an analysis. It also discusses the advantages and limitations of this methodology.
Watch this video blog for an introduction to discourse analysis, including many examples from actual research.
If you are new to discourse theory, this post will help you get your bearings. It introduces several definitions of discourse and discusses how they relate to theoretical concepts.
This post discusses how to phrase a good research question for a discourse analysis, and how to make good choices when selecting data and research tools.
