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Edson

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Professor, NTU

Director, IN-cube

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Who i am

About Me

I am a Professor at the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore, where I am also the founding Director of the Centre for Information Integrity and the Internet (IN-cube) and the Associate Chair for Research.

I am the Vice Chair of the Journalism Studies Division of the International Communication Association. I am also the author of Analyzing Analytics: Disrupting Journalism One Click at a Time (2019) and co-editor of Critical Incidents in Journalism: Pivotal Moments Reshaping Journalism around the World (2020).

Being a former newspaper journalist, I have focused my research on the impact of journalistic roles, emerging technologies, and audience feedback on the news gatekeeping process. I also study how people make sense of critical incidents in journalism and take part in reconsidering journalistic norms; and how changing news consumption patterns facilitate the spread of fake news.

MY WORK EXPERIENCE

ASSOCIATE CHAIR RESEARCH

Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, NTU Singapore, July 2021 to Present

FOUNDING DIRECTOR

Centre for Information Integrity and the Internet

NTU Singapore, January 2021 to Present

Non-resident research fellow

Ateneo School of Government, Philippines

October 2022 to October 2023

visiting professor

Ewha Womans University, South Korea

August 2022 to August 2023

PROGRAMME DIRECTOR

PhD and Research Master's

Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information

September 2018 to June 2021

MY RESEARCH

2023

Is Facebooking really depressing? Revisiting the relationships among social media use, envy, and depression

Constructing the Legitimacy of Journalists’ Marketing Role

Uninformed and Misinformed: Advancing a Theoretical Model for Social Media News Use and Political Knowledge

Does Length Matter? The Impact of Fact-Check Length in Reducing COVID-19 Vaccine Misinformation

Mainstream News Media’s Role in Public Health Communication During Crises: Assessment of Coverage and Correction of COVID-19 Misinformation

I have published more than 180 peer-reviewed articles and book chapters. For a complete list, please visit my Google Scholar profile.

TEACHING

I teach a variety of undergraduate and graduate courses at WKWSCI. At the undergraduate level, I teach CS0204 (Basic Media Writing), a core module for all our first-year students. At the master's level, I co-teach MC6302 (Communication Research Methods), a core module for our Master of Media and Communication students. At the doctoral level, I teach A9015 (Qualitative Research Methods).

I also supervise undergraduate students under our NTU's Undergraduate Research Experience on Campus (URECA) Programme as well as junior college and secondary school students under the Nanyang Research Programme (NRP) and Humanities and Social Science Research Programme (HSSRP). Many of my students have won research awards, including:

Bing Ming Woo, Shi Nan Soh, Megan Mingzhen Tan, & Dilys Ting Ying Woon; TOP STUDENT PAPER (COMM TECH); Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication 2021

Beverly Tan, Gabrielle Lee, Rachel Angeline Chua, & Charlyn Ng; TOP STUDENT PAPER (MASS COMM); Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication 2021

Lydia Cheng; TOP STUDENT PAPER (MAGAZINE MEDIA); Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication 2020

Soh Shi Nan Shane; BEST REGIONAL PAPER; Social Science for The Global Undergraduate Awards 2020

Fiona Mei Robinson, Crystal Hong Zhen Ting, Toh Jia Jing Abigail, & Sherlyn Goh Jia Ling; TOP STUDENT PAPER (CSW-IG); Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication 2019

Au Tsi Ying, Dion Loh Jia Sin, Ho Yi En, & Mok Wen Jun Celine; TOP STUDENT PAPER (MASS COMM); Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication 2019

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