by admin | May 22, 2024
The generally accepted image of the Boston Tea Party is of defiant colonists dumping crates of tea belonging to the East India Company into Boston Harbour in protest at British taxes on tea. Then they opposed the goods themselves, boycotting tea and British products,...
by admin | May 22, 2024
Professor Edwin Michielsen, who joined HKU’s School of Modern Languages and Cultures as an Assistant Professor specialising in modern Japanese literature in July 2022, was given opportunities last year when he received two fellowships to further his research project...
by admin | May 16, 2024
About 15 years ago, Professor Masato Kajimoto from HKU’s Journalism and Media Studies Centre (JMSC) noticed a worrying trend. Reputable media outlets were publishing stories from social media without checking if they were true – stories such as the rumoured death of...
by admin | May 16, 2024
Which of these is ‘fake news’ – anti-vaxxers posting unfounded stories against COVID-19 vaccines on social media? Or the British newspaper, The Mail on Sunday, publishing a fake article about a climate change study? For Professor Rachel Sterken, Chairperson of...
by benny | Nov 24, 2023
Dr Rujing Stacy Huang, Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow in Music, is one of the few humanities scholars in the world working at the intersections of music and AI. In 2021, she was recruited to join ‘MUSAiC’, a five-year, EU-funded research project based in Sweden, to...
