It’s somewhat ironic but not unexpected if you understand how academic research unfolds, that this is the second book I have had a hand in publishing for 2020. Call me a slow academic if you like but it takes me years of work before the ideas, content, data, drafts and re-drafts result in a book […]
Continue ReadingA new book!
It’s been a loooong time between posts and, to be honest, I am not sure if anyone is reading this. I get the occasional email from my readers (ahem!) but the suspicion that I am talking out loud to myself on this site never ceases. Anyway, after a drought of many years I am happy […]
Continue ReadingTeaching again
For a period of about three years I had very little to do with teaching, compared to earlier years. While I did continue supervision higher degree by research project, give a number of few guest lectures and talks, etc, it was not the same as having to run a class or a unit. Beginning 2018, […]
Continue ReadingLatter-Day Danger Asians
I have never written and published in fiction so this piece in Peril Magazine is a first for me. I am grateful to Peril for accepting it. Titled, Latter-Day Danger Asians, it speaks to issues that have troubled me for a while but because of the genre of fiction (or should it be that neologism, […]
Continue ReadingWhat they DONT’t tell you before you embark on a PhD
(originally published in Australia Asia Pacific Institute Review Jan-March 2016, p. 9) Well, if you thought that working on a PhD was about spending 3 years (or more? Yay!) reading and writing about your pet topic, you’re wrong. The first thing they don’t tell you is that editing will be much more important than writing. […]
Continue ReadingSupervising someone else’s dream?!!
This year I find myself taking on more postgraduate supervisions than I’ve ever had, though not as many as some of my colleagues because I’m wary of the responsibility of supervising someone else’s dream. And that’s how I think of postgraduate supervision, particularly for PhDs. People undertake these projects for different reasons, sometimes it’s a […]
Continue ReadingThe Craft of Writing for Research
Scholarship is a choice of how to live as well as a choice of career; whether he knows it or not, the intellectual workman forms his own self as he works toward the perfection of his craft; to realize his own potentialities, and any opportunities that come his way, he constructs a character which has […]
Continue ReadingMCCA Symposium 2015
Here’s a record of an event recently held at Curtin University compiled using Storify. You should see some descriptive text when you hover your mouse over each image/ resource … [View the story “The MCCA Directions & Destinations Symposium 2015” on Storify]
Continue ReadingNew Media and the Nation in Malaysia: Malaysianet
The first copy of my monograph was sitting in my pigeonhole at work this morning. It’s hot off the press and hopefully is going to make me a millionaire (not!). It seems to have taken far too long to get to this point from when I submitted my doctoral thesis for examination. Yet, in hindsight, […]
Continue ReadingAda: Journal of Gender, New Media and Technology
A new journal specially addressing new media, gender and technology, Ada, according to the Fembot collective who published it is: a feminist, multimodal, peer reviewed journal that examines the intersections of gender, new media, and technology. It is a publication of the Fembot Collective, and the product of countless hours of volunteer labor on the […]
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