NUS Department of Communications & New Media

NUS Department of Communications & New Media We are one of Asia's leading departments in Communication and Media Studies.

The official page of the Department of Communications & New Media (CNM), Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences (FASS), National Univesity of Singapore. The Department integrates the social sciences, humanities, arts, computing, design and engineering to create a space for teaching, researching and practicing communication in new and emergent media contexts. Ranked among the best Communication and Medi

a Studies Departments globally, the Department of Communications & New Media (CNM) at the National University of Singapore is the only degree programme in Southeast Asia that offers media studies, cultural studies, interactive media design and communication management with a focus on new media.

🚨 The world is more connected than ever—and so is every crisis. A single post, statement or delayed response can quickly...
31/07/2026

🚨 The world is more connected than ever—and so is every crisis. A single post, statement or delayed response can quickly shape public perception and influence how events unfold.

Whether it's a public health emergency, product recall, or viral controversy, effective communication plays a critical role in managing risk and maintaining public trust.

🔎 's Communicating Risk and Crisis in the Digital Age (NM3252) introduces students to the principles and practice of risk and crisis communication. Through real-world case studies and hands-on activities, students learn how to analyse crises, develop communication strategies, and engage stakeholders across traditional and digital media.

This course will be taught by Assistant Professor Soo Jung Hong, whose research focuses on health and risk communication.

🔗 Learn more: https://nusmods.com/courses/NM3252/communicating-risk-and-crisis-in-the-digital-age

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NUS Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences







🎬 Every day, we stream shows, scroll social media, and consume content from around the world. But behind every platform ...
29/07/2026

🎬 Every day, we stream shows, scroll social media, and consume content from around the world. But behind every platform and every piece of content is a media industry shaped by business, policy, and culture.

🔎 's Media Industries in the Global Age (NM3251) explores how media systems operate in Singapore and around the world, examining why content may travel globally while production, regulation and industry structures often remain rooted in national contexts.

Through media analysis, industry engagement and field trips, students gain a deeper understanding of the forces shaping the modern media landscape.

The course will be instructed by Senior Lecturer Dr Jinna Tay, whose teaching and research explore media and cultural studies, television, media audiences, national identities, and popular culture.

🔗 Learn more: https://nusmods.com/courses/NM3251/media-industries-in-the-global-age

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NUS Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences







📱 Every commute, food delivery, map search, and neighbourhood recommendation is shaped by digital platforms and the data...
27/07/2026

📱 Every commute, food delivery, map search, and neighbourhood recommendation is shaped by digital platforms and the data behind them.

Cities today aren't just built with roads and buildings. They're also shaped by media, algorithms, and digital infrastructures.

🔎 's course on Media, City and Public Culture (NM3250) explores how media and communications influence the way we experience urban life, from community and identity to citizenship and inequality.

The course will be taught by Assistant Professor Jun Yu, whose research examines how data, platforms and algorithmic systems reshape the ways people understand, evaluate and act in everyday life.

🔗 Learn more: https://nusmods.com/courses/NM3250/media-city-and-public-culture

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NUS Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences







🎷🥘 CNM is heading to New Orleans, Louisiana, for ! The Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (...
24/07/2026

🎷🥘 CNM is heading to New Orleans, Louisiana, for !

The Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) Annual Conference, now in its 109th year, will take place from 5–8 August under the theme “Jazz & Jambalaya: Nurturing Harmony and Health in Higher Education.”

🎉 And we have big news to celebrate: CNM graduate student Yuheng Wang, has received the First Place Student Paper Award for More than Transcendence: Techno-Salvationism and the Reconfiguration of Religious Authority in Asian Buddhism!

🧡💙 The celebration continues from CNM’s strong showing at the recently concluded International Communication Association (ICA) Conference, where our faculty and graduate students were also recognised for outstanding research:

🏅 “Depression Is a Rich Word”: Framing Mental Illness and Stigma in Women's Stand-Up Comedy — Gina Junhan Fu [Top Paper]

🏅 Anonymity and Cyberbullying Perpetration: A Meta-Analytic SEM of the Cognitive Restructuring Pathway — Xiaohuan Zhang, Haoyu Wang, Jia Yee Tan, He Gong [Top Paper]

🏅 The Elite Effect: Elite Visibility on Social Media Drives Misinformation and Distorts Political Learning — Kokil Jaidka, Yphtach Lelkes, Subhayan Mukerjee, and Harsh*t Aneja — [Top Faculty Paper Runner-Up]

➡️ Swipe for a day-by-day breakdown of where to catch CNM at AEJMC this year.

🔗 To find out more about CNM’s research impact, visit: https://www.fass.nus.edu.sg/cnm/research

🗓️ For the full conference schedule, visit: https://www.aejmc.org/aejmc-events/conference/conference-schedule

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NUS Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences


📰 today is about more than breaking the news.From AI-assisted reporting to data visualisation, modern journalists need...
23/07/2026

📰 today is about more than breaking the news.

From AI-assisted reporting to data visualisation, modern journalists need to tell compelling stories backed by credible evidence and digital tools.

🔎 's Digital News Writing and Data Analysis (NM3249) will equip you with practical newsroom skills, from pitching stories across politics, crime, sports, and lifestyle to analysing data with Excel and Tableau to uncover meaningful insights.

The course will be led by Senior Lecturer Dr Shangyuan Wu, a former Mediacorp broadcast journalist who covered politics, defence, and education. Drawing on her newsroom experience, students gain hands-on exposure to the evolving practices of digital journalism.

🔗 Learn more: https://nusmods.com/courses/NM3249/digital-news-writing-and-data-analysis

National University of Singapore
NUS Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences








🎓✨ Celebrating at NUS Commencement 2026 ✨🎓Congratulations to all our graduating students from the Department of Comm...
22/07/2026

🎓✨ Celebrating at NUS Commencement 2026 ✨🎓

Congratulations to all our graduating students from the Department of Communications and New Media! Today marks a major milestone as our graduates cross the stage at the NUS Commencement Ceremony.

🧡💙 From coursework to capstone projects, thesis defences to late-night edits, this achievement is a reflection of your hard work, curiosity, and resilience.

We're also proud to recognise those whose exceptional achievements have been honoured at the NUS Commencement Ceremony on 22 July 2026:

📙 Undergraduate Award Recipients
🌟 Chong Si Hua Xavier – NTUC Income Prize (Communications and New Media), SPH Media Award
🌟 Gillian Rae Ang Tian-En – CNM Best Communication Management Prize
🌟 Yap Dian Xiu – GHY Culture and Media Prize
🌟 Ethan Jonathon Ong – Special Prize (Communications and New Media)
🌟 Bernard Lee Jia Yoong – SPH Media Award

📘 Graduate Award Recipients
🌟 Chundanveetil Puthiya Nalakath Khadeeja Amenda – SPH Media Award, Top Graduate in Research Programmes
🌟 Nur Afiqah Binte Mazlan – SPH Media Award, Top Graduate in the Master of Communication Coursework Programme
🌟 Tsukiko Horikoshi – SPH Media Award, Top Graduate in the Master of Arts (Arts and Cultural Entrepreneurship) Coursework Programme

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Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences








🌍♻️ Sustainability isn’t just about what organisations do — it’s also about how they communicate it.Every climate pledge...
20/07/2026

🌍♻️ Sustainability isn’t just about what organisations do — it’s also about how they communicate it.

Every climate pledge, ESG report, and recycling campaign shapes public understanding of environmental issues. As businesses face growing pressure to prove they’re environmentally accountable, who gets to tell the sustainability story — and how?

🔎 's Communications, Culture, and Sustainability (NM3248) examines how media, culture, and communications infrastructure do more than report on the environment; they actively shape, and sometimes distort, how we understand it.

Undergraduate students can expect to create and evaluate impactful communications across media and cultural contexts, supporting emerging areas such as environmental management, green infrastructure, mobility, and resource circularity.

This course will be taught by Lecturer Dr Shi Chen Baey, whose research explores sustainability, social equity, and cultural policy, bringing real-world perspectives on how sustainability is communicated across industries.

🔗 Learn more: https://nusmods.com/courses/NM3248/communications-culture-and-sustainability

National University of Singapore
NUS Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences






🏛️ What does cultural entrepreneurship look like in today's digital world?For 's Professor Audrey Yue, it's about far m...
17/07/2026

🏛️ What does cultural entrepreneurship look like in today's digital world?

For 's Professor Audrey Yue, it's about far more than the intersection of art and commerce. It means understanding how culture is shaped by digital platforms, algorithms, public policy, and global systems of governance.

📄 In her recent contribution to UNESCO's "Re|Shaping Policies for Creativity: We share, we act, we build", Prof Yue explores why cultural entrepreneurship has become an essential discipline for navigating an increasingly interconnected and digitally mediated creative economy.

📚 These ideas also inform how the Master of Arts (Arts and Cultural Entrepreneurship) coursework, Cultural Policy (NM5218), is being taught. In this course, Prof Yue encourages students to examine how policy, media, technology, and culture intersect to shape creative industries and cultural participation.

As Prof Yue notes, Singapore offers a unique vantage point. It is a crossroads between East Asia, Southeast Asia, and the wider world, where questions of multilingual media, trusted information and digital well-being are lived realities rather than abstract concepts.

🔗 Read her full take here: https://fass.nus.edu.sg/cnm/2026/06/30/reconfiguring-media-diversity-why-the-next-generation-of-cultural-entrepreneurs-will-decide-what-survives/

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😤📱 When a bad food delivery or a public fallout gets aired online, is venting on social media a release valve — or does ...
07/07/2026

😤📱 When a bad food delivery or a public fallout gets aired online, is venting on social media a release valve — or does it risk backfiring on the person doing it? From Joanne Peh's viral livestream exit to everyday grievances posted in frustration, more people are turning to social platforms to have their say.

💬 Speaking to CNA938 Rewind's "The Big Question," 's Head of Department, Associate Professor Natalie Pang, shares her insights on why people vent online, and whether it actually works in their favour. For some, social media becomes a tool to "tell their side of the story and then change the discourse and narrative" — a way of reclaiming a version of events on their own terms. However, she notes that going online to vent or put out a different narrative can cut both ways, especially when the context is missing.

But this isn't a guaranteed win, Dr Pang cautions. As she puts it, "it may not always work out the way they want." The same platforms that offer a voice can just as easily amplify backlash, distort intent, or invite scrutiny the person never asked for.

❓ It raises a question worth thinking about: when does venting online genuinely serve the person doing it, and when does it simply hand the narrative over to everyone else watching?

🔗 Listen to the full episode with Assoc Prof Pang and clinical psychologist Dr Joel Yang here: https://www.channelnewsasia.com/listen/cna938-rewind/big-question-venting-social-media-helpful-or-harmful-6208646







"If everyone around you is experiencing such harms, why make a fuss?"This is the reality that 's Asst Prof Michelle Ho ...
18/06/2026

"If everyone around you is experiencing such harms, why make a fuss?"

This is the reality that 's Asst Prof Michelle Ho has been documenting since 2021. Together with the NUS CASMIDA project team, she has surveyed over 3,000 undergraduates across two studies, finding that around 2 in 5 university students have experienced technology-facilitated sexual violence. Despite the scale of the problem, many young people dismiss their own experiences or make excuses for those responsible.

Asst Prof Ho's research, recently featured in The Straits Times, makes the case that addressing online sexual harms requires more than policy fixes. It starts with changing the culture around them.

Learn more about the research coming out of NUS Communication and New Media: https://fass.nus.edu.sg/cnm/







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