https://www.scmp.com/rss/510628/feed en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com [Sponsored Article] In the 21st century, our everyday social activities are routinely influenced by widespread systems of digital computer technology. This is often referred to as the Fourth Industrial Revolution where the increased use of AI, smart technologies and robotics are reshaping our lives.  Higher education is no exception to this transformation. The data that can be derived from modern information systems is continuous and vast. It can be tremendously useful in research studies but... https://www.scmp.com/presented/news/hong-kong/education/topics/digital-revolution/article/3146270/digital-revolution?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/presented/news/hong-kong/education/topics/digital-revolution/article/3146270/digital-revolution?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 01 Sep 2021 03:47:18 +0000 [Sponsored Article] Professor Christine Huang Yi-hui, CLASS new Associate Dean (Faculty and Research) and Chair Professor of Communication and Media, hails from a small village in southern Taiwan. Her career has spanned continents and different fields within the communication discipline.  Huang has likened her professional development to a soul-searching journey. In part, such an outlook is inspired by Paulo COELHO, one of her favourite authors. It was Coelho’s book The Alchemist that drove her... https://www.scmp.com/presented/news/hong-kong/education/topics/digital-revolution/article/3146274/work-your-dreams?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/presented/news/hong-kong/education/topics/digital-revolution/article/3146274/work-your-dreams?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 01 Sep 2021 03:46:19 +0000 [Sponsored Article] Hong Kong-born Professor Alfred Ho Tat-kei has strong ties to the city. Following his father’s example of community service, Ho has worked tirelessly to give back to his homes here and abroad.  It was Ho’s humble beginnings that led him to his field of expertise. He grew up in a squatter village near Shau Kei Wan. “That area is long gone and is now known as Yiu Tung Estate. They chopped off that whole mountainside and then built new housing,” Ho says.  His university studies... https://www.scmp.com/presented/news/hong-kong/education/topics/digital-revolution/article/3146284/runs-family?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/presented/news/hong-kong/education/topics/digital-revolution/article/3146284/runs-family?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 01 Sep 2021 03:45:22 +0000 [Sponsored Article] Face masks have become a necessity since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. While they are proven to be an effective means to limit the spread of the virus, the question of whether to mask or not to mask had been, and perhaps still is, interpreted by some individuals as evidence of “cultural” differences, or taken as an opportunity to position oneself, or certain cultures, as more “prepared” than others. The study of face masks has mostly focused on science: their... https://www.scmp.com/presented/news/hong-kong/education/topics/digital-revolution/article/3146290/face-masks-and?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/presented/news/hong-kong/education/topics/digital-revolution/article/3146290/face-masks-and?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 01 Sep 2021 03:44:07 +0000 [Sponsored Article] Are blockchain games the future of gaming? Dr LIU Xiaofan from CityU’s Department of Media and Communication recently published an article titled CryptoKitties Transaction Network Analysis: The Rise and Fall of the First Blockchain Game Mania in Frontiers in Physics, giving his answers to this question. This is the first article in academia to analyse the entire blockchain transaction history of CryptoKitties, the first blockchain game to gain the general public’s... https://www.scmp.com/presented/news/hong-kong/education/topics/digital-revolution/article/3146295/survive-blockchain?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/presented/news/hong-kong/education/topics/digital-revolution/article/3146295/survive-blockchain?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 01 Sep 2021 03:43:09 +0000 [Sponsored Article] The outbreak of coronavirus disease (COVID-19) has created a global, disruptive, long-lasting, and unprecedented public health crisis. However, the impact of the pandemic has moved beyond health and generated economic uncertainty and political instability. Specifically, many observers expressed concern that the pandemic will stir up protectionist sentiments in many countries and affect the public’s trade preferences worldwide. Public trade preferences are about the public’s... https://www.scmp.com/presented/news/hong-kong/education/topics/digital-revolution/article/3146300/pandemic-and-future?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/presented/news/hong-kong/education/topics/digital-revolution/article/3146300/pandemic-and-future?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 01 Sep 2021 03:42:09 +0000 [Sponsored Article] Dr Eileen TSANG Yuk-ha of CityU’s Department of Social and Behavioural Sciences recently published an article titled A Phoenix Rising from the Ashes: China’s Tongqi, Marriage Fraud, and Resistance in British Journal of Sociology. Tongqi are a group of women who have unwittingly married gay men who are seeking to hide their sexual attraction to other men. In China, gay men rarely confess their sexual orientation. Instead, some of them trick naïve women into “marriage fraud” to... https://www.scmp.com/presented/news/hong-kong/education/topics/digital-revolution/article/3146302/tongqi-stepping-out?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/presented/news/hong-kong/education/topics/digital-revolution/article/3146302/tongqi-stepping-out?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 01 Sep 2021 03:41:12 +0000 [Sponsored Article] The literacy rate for girls in Pakistan is just 46%, and 12 million girls there are not registered at schools. Educational attainment for girls is held back by a number of factors, including a lack of educational resources, poor transportation, patriarchal and religious norms, and political turbulence. Children living in underprivileged countries, particularly girls, encounter significant obstacles in their lives. To encourage young people to learn about international affairs... https://www.scmp.com/presented/news/hong-kong/education/topics/digital-revolution/article/3146306/hong-kong-students?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/presented/news/hong-kong/education/topics/digital-revolution/article/3146306/hong-kong-students?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 01 Sep 2021 03:40:12 +0000 [Sponsored Article] Teachers teach, but they must also learn continuously. Not only can they keep abreast of the rapidly-changing world and develop their professional competencies through lifelong learning, but they also serve as a role model for their students and encourage their enthusiasm for pursuing knowledge.  Programmes Catering to Teachers’ Development Needs  CityU is committed to serving the community and education sectors of Hong Kong. One of its initiatives is the Teachers’... https://www.scmp.com/presented/news/hong-kong/education/topics/digital-revolution/article/3146308/fostering-professional?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/presented/news/hong-kong/education/topics/digital-revolution/article/3146308/fostering-professional?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 01 Sep 2021 03:39:13 +0000 [Sponsored Article] Hope-based research is not a new concept in clinical psychology, but it was not practised widely in Asia when Professor Samuel HO introduced it to Hong Kong in the early 2000s. The famous American psychologist Professor Rick SNYDER was the first to coin the term “hope theory” in psychology and his work has since received widespread traction in practice and has been adopted by other clinical psychologists. Snyder’s theory became a pivotal part of Ho’s work in traumatology and... https://www.scmp.com/presented/news/hong-kong/education/topics/digital-revolution/article/3146160/looking-hope-help?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/presented/news/hong-kong/education/topics/digital-revolution/article/3146160/looking-hope-help?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 01 Sep 2021 03:38:16 +0000 [Sponsored Article] If you have ever watched a reality television series like MasterChef, you will have noticed that quarrels are almost inevitable in group competitions—even if the group size is only two. Can you imagine a group of around 40 people working together on the same project? This scenario was tested as students of the Cultural Heritage stream of CAH curated Performing Our City: Mask ON-Theatre, an online arts festival held from 1 to 16 April 2021 to introduce local artists to the... https://www.scmp.com/presented/news/hong-kong/education/topics/digital-revolution/article/3146202/students-build?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/presented/news/hong-kong/education/topics/digital-revolution/article/3146202/students-build?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 01 Sep 2021 03:37:15 +0000 [Sponsored Article] One of the winners of the Innovative CityU-Learning Awards Semester B, 2020-2021 was Tiffany PANG, who earned the prize for her work “VR in Everyday Language Classroom: A Practical Approach to Language Learning in a Digital Environment”. This project immersed English for humanities and social sciences students in a computer-generated world via Virtual Reality (VR) headsets. They then turned their experiences into a narrative before presenting this work to the class. The... https://www.scmp.com/presented/news/hong-kong/education/topics/digital-revolution/article/3146204/vr-experience-helps?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/presented/news/hong-kong/education/topics/digital-revolution/article/3146204/vr-experience-helps?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 01 Sep 2021 03:36:17 +0000 [Sponsored Article] CityU alumni Ben Lam did not emerge from the traditional academic business stream. Instead, Lam studied East and Southeast Asian Studies (currently the Asian and International Studies programme under CityU’s College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, CLASS), pursuing a longstanding interest in the region. Learning Korean and Japanese, however, proved advantageous when it came to business.  Lam helped Japanese casual wear retail giant Uniqlo open its first office in the... https://www.scmp.com/presented/news/hong-kong/education/topics/digital-revolution/article/3146205/never-stop-learning?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/presented/news/hong-kong/education/topics/digital-revolution/article/3146205/never-stop-learning?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 01 Sep 2021 03:35:21 +0000 [Sponsored Article] Comprising of faculty members of CityU’s Department of English, the local organising committee of the sixth International Conference of the Asia-Pacific Languages for Specific Purposes (LSP) and Professional Communication Association had made an all-out effort to make the conference happened amid the continuing pandemic. Themed “Multimodality and Beyond: Addressing Complexity and Emerging Needs in LSP”, it eventually held online from 3 to 5 June 2021.   The advance in... https://www.scmp.com/presented/news/hong-kong/education/topics/digital-revolution/article/3146206/virtual-conference?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/presented/news/hong-kong/education/topics/digital-revolution/article/3146206/virtual-conference?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 01 Sep 2021 03:34:19 +0000 [Sponsored Article] The COVID-19 situation seems to be getting better, but unfortunately, experts say it may become endemic and never go away. Moreover, chances are that other diseases will emerge in future. Exploring solutions that can help mitigate the health, social, economic, environmental and other impacts of COVID-19 and other novel infectious diseases is crucial. This is what the HK$150 million funding under the One-off Collaborative Research Fund Coronavirus Disease and Novel Infectious... https://www.scmp.com/presented/news/hong-kong/education/topics/digital-revolution/article/3146831/grant-secured-scholars?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/presented/news/hong-kong/education/topics/digital-revolution/article/3146831/grant-secured-scholars?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 01 Sep 2021 03:33:06 +0000 [Sponsored Article] The aim of conducting research is to create new knowledge. But new knowledge has to be transmitted to society through teaching, publications, media channels, collaborations and other means to bring advantages to the public. To honour faculty members whose projects demonstrate clear evidence of innovation, engagement or impact on the community, CityU’s College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences (CLASS) gives out Knowledge Transfer Awards annually. This year, Dr Esther CHOW... https://www.scmp.com/presented/news/hong-kong/education/topics/digital-revolution/article/3146208/recognising-knowledge?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/presented/news/hong-kong/education/topics/digital-revolution/article/3146208/recognising-knowledge?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 01 Sep 2021 03:31:09 +0000 [Sponsored Article] University life should not be limited to attending lectures, completing assignments and getting good grades. It is also the time for students to broaden their horizons, gain various experiences, and expand their social network. Working towards achieving these objectives side by side with peers can make one more motivated and feel encouraged. The Student Chapter of CityU’s College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences (CLASS) is born in this context. Consisting of students from... https://www.scmp.com/presented/news/hong-kong/education/topics/digital-revolution/article/3146212/newly-launched-student?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/presented/news/hong-kong/education/topics/digital-revolution/article/3146212/newly-launched-student?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 01 Sep 2021 03:30:10 +0000