Two third-year students ask me if attending lectures is mandatory. 🚩🚩🚩
Sam Chan 陳力深
@liksamchan.bsky.social
Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Digital Cultures @ University of Sydney | Dating app researcher | Author of 𝙋𝙤𝙡𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙘𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝘿𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝘼𝙥𝙥𝙨 | 🇭🇰
In our inaugural Media@Sydney annual lecture, award-winning journalist Dr Kate McClymont will discuss the power of investigative journalism. Fri, 10 July, 5pm. Reception & lecture on campus. Free event. Register here: bit.ly/investigativ...
*CFP* Digital Intimacies 12: Intimately Disconnected considers what remains of digital intimacies when we are digitally disconnected. Keynote: Dr Tingting Liu, University of Technology Sydney Conference: 4-5 Dec 2026@USyd CFP closes: 28 Aug 2026 digitalintimacies12.wordpress.com
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In our upcoming Media@Sydney webinar A/Prof. Tony Zhang will discuss China's everyday internet control and censorship at local governments. 🗓️Fri 24 Apr 1:30pm. All welcome. bit.ly/media-at-syd...
Join our Media@Sydney research seminar with Dr Wilfred Wang (University of Melbourne). He will explore how China's internet platforms are challenging Silicon Valley's dominance. 🗓️Fri, 27 Mar, 1:30pm. On campus and online via Zoom. whatson.sydney.edu.au/event/6f9ed5...
Dating app use and life satisfaction are related in some way - check out my latest article on gay and bisexual men in Taiwan! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Dating App Use, Self-Disclosure, and Life Satisfaction Among Gay, Bisexual, and Other Men Who Have Sex with Men: An Exploratory Study from Taiwan
Research on the relationship between dating app use and life satisfaction has produced mixed findings. This study, based on survey data from 330 self-identified young gay, bisexual, and other men w...
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The ARC have said (on LinkedIn) they will release outcomes for Discovery Projects Expressions of Interest (2027) tomorrow👇
Join our Media@Sydney research seminar with Dr Diana Chester, a sound studies scholar and artist. This talk explores sonic storytelling through deep listening, offering new ways to understand environmental change. 🗓️Fri 6 Mar, 1:30pm 🎯Register: whatson.sydney.edu.au/event/c41051...
Lately I have so little motivation to post. Guess life in Sydney is less stressed?
Have you heard of pictureless dating apps? Yes, dating without pictures 😜. My wonderful undergraduate student Rachel Sin explores why Gen Z opts for this newer type of dating apps and the pathways for relationship development. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Using pictureless dating apps: Affordance, self-presentation, and relationship development - Rachel Ka-man Sin, Lik Sam Chan, 2025
The use of profile photos is central to most dating apps, yet some apps deliberately delay the display of photos. This study examines user experiences on pictur...
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Starting a book is not too difficult - Reach out to me! #GenderSexualityPeterLang #GenderSexualityAsia
Our book series is interdisciplinary! Our team is interdisciplinary (and transnational too) #GenderSexualityPeterLang #GenderSexualityAsia
This can be your first book! Reach out to me if you have any questions! #GenderSexualityPeterLang #GenderSexualityAsia
What to know more about my new book series on Gender and Sexuality Studies? Join our Zoom party/Q&A! No registration needed. #GenderSexualityPeterLang #GenderSexualityAsia
Happy to announce the launch of Gender and Sexuality Studies in S/SE/E Asia book series with the wonderful team as my co-editors! Send me your book ideas! #GenderSexualityPeterLang #GenderSexualityAsia
Happy to announce the launch of Gender and Sexuality Studies in S/SE/E Asia book series with the wonderful team as my co-editors! Send me your book ideas! #GenderSexualityPeterLang #GenderSexualityAsia
Using cross-sectional data in communication studies remains common. While we now consciously acknowledge that correlation does not imply causation, how might the most classic media effects theories evolve with longitudinal data?
The CFP for **Digital Intimacies 11: The Love of Machines** will close on 29 Aug 2025. Get your abstracts in! Join the conversation: 🖥️🤖❤️ 👉 digitalintiamcies11.wordpress.com #digint11 #TheLoveOfMachines
Digital Intimacies 11
The Love of Machines
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Sam Chan 陳力深@liksamchan.bsky.social · last yr.✨ Digital Intimacies 11: The Love of Machines is here! Explore how machines reshape intimacy. Submission deadline: 29 Aug 2025. Join the conversation: 🖥️🤖❤️ 👉 digitalintiamcies11.wordpress.com #digint11 #TheLoveOfMachines
Is the 3-paper dissertation model getting more popular in Communication Studies these days?
[link updated] just wrote a commentary on AI companions: link.springer.com/article/10.1...
How not to train your AI companion to be racist: lessons from Replika - AI & SOCIETY
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✨ Digital Intimacies 11: The Love of Machines is here! Explore how machines reshape intimacy. Submission deadline: 29 Aug 2025. Join the conversation: 🖥️🤖❤️ 👉 digitalintiamcies11.wordpress.com #digint11 #TheLoveOfMachines
Digital Intimacies 11
The Love of Machines
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One of my students talked about 'qualitative content analysis'. Coming from communication studies from HK, UK, and the US, I have never learned of this. Could anyone point me to any authoritative source on this method?
Issue 4 of #JSexResearch is now online @tiff-marcan.bsky.social @drlaurawidman.bsky.social @liksamchan.bsky.social @maritarantino.bsky.social @stinenyg.bsky.social @stephaniebward.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/toc/hjsr20/6... @kinseyinstitute.bsky.social @sexsciencesociety.bsky.social
The Journal of Sex Research
Volume 62, Issue 4 of The Journal of Sex Research
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Jupiter this evening. One of the unusual times when all 4 Gallilean Moons appear on one side of their parent! #astronomy #astrophotography @stormhour.bsky.social @photohour.bsky.social
Couldn’t put this book down once I started. It’s amazing on so many levels—one standout is how it frames visits to themed cafe-bars as a form of "healing," addressing both Japan’s stagnant economic conditions and the precarity faced by visitors. Brilliantly conceived.
Sam Chan 陳力深@liksamchan.bsky.social · last yr.See what just came in? @michellehsho.bsky.social
In this research, we found that dating apps had a negative association with body satisfaction among young MSM, but we also found that creating spaces to expand their social circles and connect with diverse peer groups can help counter the negative influence of dating apps.. doi.org/10.1007/s131...
The Association Between Dating App Usage and Body Image Dissatisfaction among Young Men Who Have Sex with Men in Hong Kong: A Mixed Methods Study - Sexuality Research and Social Policy
Introduction Recent studies show that men who have sex with men (MSM) face body image concerns. This research examines the link between dating app usage and body image dissatisfaction among young MSM ...
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Just read a paper whose author claimed that Taiwanese gay men who want to get married, but whose mainland Chinese boyfriends don't (or can't), are marginalizing Chinese gay men and imposing a Western ideology.