
PhD @cornellgov on Myanmar, studying mass contention & social media in Southeast Asia
Joined October 2010
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Update on my social media use: I'll limit my professional updates on Facebook & X from now on. If interested, you can find me on LinkedIn or Blue Sky:
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I'll share some useful resources in this thread.
Happy Year of the Snake!
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Join us next week!
On April 22 at 5pm ECT we will have @vmtran (@Brussels_School) presenting "Social Media's Algorithmic Affordances for Authoritarian Repression: Evidence from Myanmar" and Jennifer Whitten-Woodring (@UMassLowell) and Eddie Yang (@LifeAtPurdue) discussing.
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Fresh off New Media & Society! First publication in 2025 on "covert political campaigning" focused on investigating influencers across 4 social media platforms during elections using field and computational methods + economic modeling ✨doi.org/10.1177/146144482413… With my co-authors—
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🚨 APPLICATIONS OPEN🚨
Applications for the Southeast Asia Student Dissertation Fieldwork Grant are now open.
Providing up to £500 of funding for field research in Southeast Asia. Open to all disciplines. Deadline 12 Feb 2025.
lse.ac.uk/seac/Support-for-S…
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We’re excited about our lineup of insightful talks at SEAC this winter term!
Don’t miss out - sign up now! Visit lse.ac.uk/seac/events for more information.
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Check out my open-access article in @JEAS_journal, where I explore the South Korean ruling party, the PPP, and its supporters.
cambridge.org/core/journals/…
Where not #OpenAccess the articles in our 2023 volume are free to read until the end of 2024 - cup.org/3Zz1F4w
With papers by @ImMyungheeLee, @PaulSchuler10, @MaedaPoliSci, @SKimLeffingwell, @taegyun_lim, @StephanHaggard, @TomPepinsky, & more...
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This was a really fun interview to do (and includes a cartoon from the book!)
New #AsiaNow post: an interview with Elliott Prasse-Freeman @_e_pf_ about his 2023 @stanfordpress book, RIGHTS REFUSED: GRASSROOTS ACTIVISM AND STATE VIOLENCE IN MYANMAR.
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International criminal court prosecutor seeks arrest warrant for Myanmar military leader Min Aung Hlaing for crimes against humanity linked to the alleged persecution and deportations committed against the Rohingya a mainly Muslim minority.
(Reuters News)
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🚀@ComDem_ECREA & @AcsjIca are co-organizing "Voices of Change: Activism Democracy & #SocialJustice" talk series
📆Nov 29
⌛️10am CET
First talk to feature @anne_kaun @icahdq award-winning book 'Prison Media'
👇sign up here & find out more about the series
cts.ku.dk/projects/to-use-or…
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We’re announcing Call for Submissions: ASEAS 2025 Conference “Global Southeast Asia: Continuity and Change”
St John’s College, University of Cambridge, 15–17 September 2025.
📌Deadline: 30 April 2025📌 More info, please visit: aseasuk.org/aseas-conference…
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Courtney Wittekind (@ctwittekind) joins @UMCSEAS for a hybrid lecture on, "Real Farmers, Dream Cities: Agrarian Change, Demonstration, and the Politics of Visibility in Myanmar"
Nov 8 @ 12 PM (Michigan)
tinyurl.com/4vcne8v3
#Myanmar #Burma #Yangon #SoutheastAsia #Activism
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Probably the best Southeast Asian Studies graduate student conference in the world!
The 27th Cornell SEAP Graduate Student Conference: Mobility
Conference Dates: March 7-9, 2025
Abstracts Due: November 30, 2024
einaudi.cornell.edu/programs…






















