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What did a gamified seminar at Leiden Uni teach the participants about gamification and motivation in complex information societies? Read their discussions.

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.

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.

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 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.

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.