Bertha Chin (she/her)
@berthac.bsky.social
Fan, celebrity & cultural studies academic. Senior lecturer in media & cultural studies in Singapore. Intermixing posts on shows I'm watching/discovering, fandoms, academia, and occasionally, work. Opinions strictly my own.
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Singapore expert panel recommends targeting harmful social media features instead of imposing age bans
The government-appointed panel also called for a precautionary approach to regulating social media, stronger age checks, and greater support for parents and young users.
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Late post, but so glad I managed to snag the last few tickets to The Odyssey at the BFI IMAX before I left London. So beautifully shot, and it brought back memories of reading about Odysseus as a child.
#Tunnel appears to be one of those highly recommended Kdramas, and the premise is interesting, but I don’t know, the cops are all very clueless. Like, in terms of cop shows, they’re just bad cops in comparison to shows like Stranger or Through the Darkness. Or even Signal.
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Shaw Theatres in Singapore will screen The Odyssey on 35mm film, only cinema in Southeast Asia to do so
Directed by award-winning filmmaker Christopher Nolan, The Odyssey is also the first movie to be shot entirely on IMAX's 70mm film cameras.
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Went to watch #DearYou in the cinema in London, mostly due to the controversy it courted in Singapore due to the language issue. It was an endearing tale of Chinese migrants to Southeast Asia; I think people who have closer ties to China and these narratives would find it more personal.
New issue of Fandom | Cultures | Research is out now ⬇️⬇️⬇️ #FanStudies journals.uni-marburg.de/fcr/issue/vi...
Making sure you're not a bot!
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"I have accepted Keir Starmer's resignation as my chief servant and have invited Andy Burnham to lay out details for how many meals a day he'll give me"
When people lament about how good Kdramas are circa 2016, all I see are toxic female characters and so. Much. Gaslighting. They were the reason why I resisted watching Kdramas in the first place. I think right around 2019, they start to get a bit more enlightened…
What the fuck is it good for? Im asking sincerely. Medical people say its shit for diagnosing, its utter garbage for creative fields, it cannot teach and hallucinates false answers, programmers have to fix its code half the time, businesses find it doesn't help productivity and it causes psychosis.
Michael Nabert@sustainablesong.bsky.social · 2mo agoResearch confirms that the more skilled professionals like doctors and software engineers rely on AI, the more their skills degrade. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
So, Tracker seems to have moved away from the missing persons case-of-the-week format into X-Files territory…where is Mulder when you need him?!
The U.S.–Israeli war of choice may be remembered as the most pointless war in modern history: a conflict waged not for security or principle, but to prop up two politically weakened leaders struggling to maintain their grip on power.
The one irk I have whenever I read articles from TWC is the inability to download the file as a pdf. I mean, I’d like to highlight and make notes, not put the article via AI to summarise it. 😑
If you’re shopping around for a PhD studentship and approaching potential supervisors, DO NOT, I repeat, for the love of God, DO NOT write that email using AI. We can tell!
Of course people are always looking for the easy answers and obvious scapegoats. 🙄
The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2mo agoKeir Starmer set to announce under-16s social media ban – UK politics live
I forget how whimsical Park Chan Wook’s films are
Oh no! 😢 Buffy and Ted Lasso star Anthony Head dies at 72 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Anthony Head: Buffy and Ted Lasso actor dies at 72
The British actor, who also appeared in Merlin and Little Britain, died of complications from pneumonia.
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HTB for BTS: Why more fans in Singapore are using Help-To-Buy services for concert tickets
Help-To-Buy (HTB) services have become a booming business in the ticketing space. With sales for K-pop superstars BTS’ upcoming Singapore shows in full swing, CNA Lifestyle spoke to fans who regularly...
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“Its central idea is the "evolved zombie," a concept Yeon connects to questions about the collapse of individuality in the age of artificial intelligence.” www.koreatimes.co.kr/entertainmen...
'Colony' director seeks experimental turn in AI era - The Korea Times
“It has been 10 years since I started making commercial films,” director Yeon Sang-ho said. “During that time, I spent years collaborating within c...
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I enjoyed #Colony more than I did #TrainToBusan, to be honest. It was the Jun Ji Hyun factor for me, but I also enjoyed the origin story.
The Scarecrow is intense and so dark but so good. And Park Hae Soo is so great in it.
A great pleasure to host the Trans-Asian Transcultural Fandom @transasianfan.bsky.social symposium at NUS yesterday; generously supported by @cnmnus.bsky.social. So many interesting projects being done in the field of #transculturalfandom! We need to continue the conversation! #FanStudies
And of course, we can’t do without our stellar group of presenters! #FanStudies #TransculturalFandoms
Trans-Asian Transcultural Fandom@transasianfan.bsky.social · 2mo agoThe parallel sessions will be held simultaneously in two rooms, AS7 01-01 and AS7 01-02. They are next to each other.
A few more days before our event featuring our plenary speakers Wikanda Promkhuntong, Anthony Fung and @acafanmom.bsky.social #FanStudies #TransculturalFandoms
Trans-Asian Transcultural Fandom@transasianfan.bsky.social · 2mo ago📍The Plenary with our speakers, Anthony Fung, Wikanda Promkhuntong, and Lori Morimoto and chair, Bertha Chin @berthac.bsky.social will be held in AS7, 01-02.
What should we make of Hollywood’s turn toward microdramas, as well as TikTok’s heavy investment in them? How is any of this different than Quibi? @krystenstein.bsky.social and I answer those questions in our latest op-ed for The Conversation. theconversation.com/tiktoks-popu...
TikTok’s popular microdramas shrink TV into bite-sized chunks
As TikTok invests in short-form scripted series, it’s leaning into the same storytelling, advertising and viewing habits that defined television.
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Seriously, UK!? www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
Elections 2026 live: Labour set for historic defeat in Wales; Starmer vows to fight on as Reform surge in English council elections
Welsh Labour leader and first minister Eluned Morgan loses seat; John Swinney declares victory for SNP in Scotlan
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