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Dr. Dang Nguyen
Dr. Dang Nguyen (Nguyễn Hồng Hải Đăng in her native Vietnamese) is a Research Fellow at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision Making & Society, located in the School of Media and Communication at RMIT University, Melbourne.
Dang Nguyen (Nguyễn Hồng Hải Đăng in her native Vietnamese) is a Research Fellow at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision Making & Society (ADM+S), located in the School of Media and Communication at RMIT University, Melbourne. She holds a PhD from the University of Melbourne and a Master of Science in Social Science of the Internet from the University of Oxford, where she was a Chevening Scholar. She was also a 2019-20 Fox International Fellow at Yale University.
Dang researches the social implications of technology by bringing together methods from a range of disciplines and by looking beyond Western contexts. Dang's current work examines:
- the digitality of knowledge-making and its implications on the information environment
- the conditions of possibility of contemporary technological cultures
- automated informality and its moral economies.
Dang has published widely in a range of scholarly venues, such as New Media & Society, Information, Communication & Society, Media, Culture & Society, International Journal of Communication, Social Science & Medicine, and Health & Place.
Dang has taught media and communication studies subjects at the tertiary level in Australia, Singapore, and Vietnam. She has received a Dean's Commendation for Outstanding Teaching (RMIT University, 2019) and an Associate Dean's Commendation for Excellent Teaching (RMIT University, 2018).
Please visit Dang's website for the most up-to-date list of publications and projects at https://www.dangnguyen.digital/
- Research
- PhD, University of Melbourne, 2022
- MSc (Social Science of the Internet), University of Oxford, 2015
- BComm, RMIT, 2012
- Nguyen, D. (2023). Wear your digital mask, fight this virus like it’s the enemy: pandemic user-citizenship as platform-infrastructure entanglements In: Information Communication and Society, 26, 3017 - 3034
- Nguyen, D. (2023). Seeing With Transparency: Mapping the Privacy-Security Controversy Over Digital Contact Tracing in Vietnam In: International Journal of Communication, 17, 5440 - 5459
- Nguyen, D. (2023). Digital Research Methods and the Diaspora, Routledge, United Kingdom
- Nguyen, D.,Meese, J.,Burgess, J.,et al, . (2023). AI and Automated Decision-Making in News and Media In: ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society Melbourne, Australia
- Nguyen, D. (2022). In press - Convenient efficiency: A media genealogy of QR codes In: New Media and Society, , 1 - 21
- Nguyen, D. (2021). The network life of non-biomedical knowledge: mapping Vietnamese traditional medicine discourses on Facebook In: Journal of Digital Social Research, 3, 10 - 43
- Nguyen, D.,Arnold, M.,Chenhall, R. (2021). The internet as non-biomedical milieu: Production of alternative health techno-social spaces and the persistence of marginalised medical practices In: Health and Place, 70, 1 - 7
- Nguyen, D. (2021). Can’t wait to feel better: Facebook Live and the recalibration of downtime in tending to the body In: Media, Culture and Society, 43, 984 - 999
- Nguyen, D. (2021). Dropping in, Helping Out: Social Support and Weak Ties on Traditional Medicine Social Networking Sites In: Howard Journal of Communications, 32, 235 - 252
- Nguyen, D.,Brennan, L.,Parker, L.,Phan, T.,Chorazy, E. (2020). Social media mechanics and marketing strategy In: Social Marketing and Advertising in the Age of Social Media, Edward Elgar, United Kingdom
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