RADICAL CARE WORK
We foster critical conversations, experiments, and advocacy to demand digital care that counters the everyday violences embedded in our technological lives. Our approach is grounded in five interconnected theses: • Radical care is a verb—it must ask hard questions about infrastructure and resource allocation. • Digital care responds to lived harm; we begin by asking what kind of care is needed. • Technological violence is routine; digital care must be an everyday practice. • Digital care should shift the burden of resilience from individuals to systems. • Radical care repositions care from being a last resort to a primary mode of protection.
Global Care Lab
Care as Digital Authorship: Negotiation, Performance, Presentation
2024
Join Dr. Nishant Shah, director, Digital Narratives Studio, and members of the first AuthEx Fellowship 2024, Dr. Martina Leeker, Dr. Daisy Tam and Dr. Konstanze Schütze, as they present their findings and observations after a week-long collaboration into studying Digital Caremaking.
First Fellowship
2023
Fellows Profiles
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The Digital Narratives Studio is pleased to announce its first Fellowship in Experimental Authorship.
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The series is a part of an ongoing collaboration setting up The Global Care Lab, where we contemplate, critique, and co-create narratives and conditions of care.
Digital Care Practice-JRF 2024-2025
Call for Second Fellowship
2024
The Digital Narratives Studio invites applications for the 2nd cohort of up to 4 Junior Research Fellows in digital care-making for the academic year 2024-2025.
Of Care Packages and Backdoors
How Culinary Infrastructure Shapes Foodways of Care
2025
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In the 3rd blog entry, Jad highlights three of the ways in which Hong Kong’s urban culinary infrastructure shapes the foodways of care of foreign domestic helpers. Despite the challenges posed by the limitations of space, technologies, and practices, helpers still manage to find a way to practice care for each other.
The Entanglements of Care and Luck as Seen Through a Game of Tong-its
2025
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In this blog, Jad introduces tong-its, a Filipino card game played with a standard pack of playing cards. He uses the game as a len to understand the dynamics of the redistribution of luck through care and support, as expressed through the material medium of food.
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“What do Filipino domestic workers in Hong Kong eat on a day-to-day basis?” In this blog, Jad explores foodways of care by sharing the journey of designing food diaries as method.
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In the 1st entry of the blog series on ASMR porn research, Shitong compares ASMR porn with other existing genres , and further indicate that through auditory devices, performance techniques, and digital technologies, ASMR porn has the potential to challenge the unparalleled status of the visual in pornography.
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The global refugee crisis has left millions in a prolonged state of impermanence. This blog explores the paradox of refugee camps, highlighting the urgent need for sustainable solutions.
State of the World
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Together with a selected number of Knowledge Partners from different sectors of society, as well as high-profile scholars, we want to address the actual challenges that communities and organizations in Hong Kong, and elsewhere, are facing…
State of the World 2025
A research report by students of the Master of Arts in Global Communication Program
2025
In the Global Communications Masters Programme, at the School of Journalism and Communication, we take pride in equipping our students with a critical tool kit to understand, analyse, address, and repair some of the biggest challenges of our times through rigorous thinking, reading, learning, and research.
In this first edition of the State of the World report, the sections bring together critical questions about global challenges that unfold uniquely in the locatedness of Hong Kong.
Crafting Caring Futures
Talk with Kasia Chmielinski
N-ChaRe Interview Series 1
2024
In the “Crafting Caring Futures” series, we sit down with inspiring thinkers, activists, and practitioners for a few poignant questions. In our first interview, we talked with Kasia Chmielinski about their thoughts in the realm of data.
From Principles to Pixels: On the Promise of Responsible Tech Practices
2023
In this talk, Chmielinski will delve into the concept of "safety by design," advocating for the integration of a safety mindset into the product development cycle from its inception.
Annotation Exchange Series
AnnEx #6: ‘Knowledge-Making in and out of the Academy’ with Dr. Evelyn Wan
2025
For this edition, Dr. Evelyn Wan selected Katherine McKittrick’s “Footnotes (Books and Papers Scattered about the Floor)” from the book “Dear Science and Other Stories” (Duke UP, 2021) to open up a productive dialogue with participants on questions of knowledge-making in and out of the academy.
AnnEx #4: A ‘Collaboration with Stakeholders’ with Phoebe Tang and Preston Cheung
2024
For this edition, we are incredibly excited to welcome Phoebe Tang, an expert in stakeholder collaboration with a decade of service in the legislature and administration, as well as Preston Cheung, a Hong Kong-based public policy specialist with extensive experience in government liaison.
AnnEx #3: ‘Imagining Social Impact’ with Carmen Lam
2024
For this edition, we are incredibly excited to welcome Carmen Lam, a distinguished social worker and founder of Serenity Paradise, to explore the ethical obligation of social workers for addressing disparities in international standards, labour laws, professional commitments, and actual service provision.
AnnEx #2: A Reading Group on Narrative Change with Dr. Alexandra Juhasz
2024
For this edition, we are incredibly excited to welcome feminist writer and film scholar Dr. Alexandra Juhasz with the text: A two-part conversation between Pato Hebert and Alex Juhasz on PerpiTube: Repurposing Social Media Spaces (2011) and Pandemic Media (2022)
AnnEx #1: A Reading Group on Narrative Change with Isabel Crabtree-Condor and Mandy Van Deven
2024
The first Annotation Exchange will take place on 5 April 2024 and feature inspiring recent works by Isabel Crabtree-Condor and Mandy Van Deven. Both authors will be present for the Annotation Exchange to engage in a dialogue with the readers/participants in small, collaborative groups.
Facebook’s Faces
2024
Chinmayi Arun builds on platform governance theories that account for social media platforms’ relationships with states and users, to offer a theory to account for differences among states, the varying influence of different publics, and the complexity and tensions within companies. She does so by focusing on Facebook, and on its decision first to suspend Donald Trump’s account and then to request its Oversight Board to review the decision.