ACADEMIC BIO (short)
Thi Ngoc Bich (Becky) Pham is a Ph.D. Candidate (Communication) at the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, University of Southern California. She researches how families, young people and immigrant communities use digital media and consume popular culture, and how their media engagement shapes their communication and lived experience. Her research has been published in Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies, International Journal of Communication, Journal of Children and Media, New Media & Society, and in notable edited volumes. Her writing for general audience has appeared on Psychology Today, Greater Good Magazine, and The Connected Learning Alliance Blog. She has appeared on ABC7 Eyewitness News and her co-authored work has been covered by DEADLINE, IndieWire, Jimmy Kimmel Live, Kidscreen, NextShark, NPR, SBS Evening News, The Guardian, The Hollywood Reporter, and Variety, among others. For more information, visit https://beckypham.com/
ACADEMIC BIO (long)
Thi Ngoc Bich (Becky) Pham is a Ph.D. Candidate (Communication) at the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, University of Southern California (USC). She researches how families, young people and immigrant communities use digital media and consume popular culture, and how their media engagement shapes their communication and lived experience. Her research has been published in Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies, International Journal of Communication, Journal of Children and Media, New Media & Society, and in notable edited volumes. Her writing for general audience has appeared on Psychology Today, Greater Good Magazine, and The Connected Learning Alliance Blog. She has appeared on ABC7 Eyewitness News and her co-authored work has been covered by DEADLINE, IndieWire, Jimmy Kimmel Live, Kidscreen, NextShark, NPR, SBS Evening News, The Guardian, The Hollywood Reporter, and Variety, among others.
Becky is a Fellow with the Center for Scholars and Storytellers at the University of California, Los Angeles, and the Social Media Editor to the Intellect journal Transitions: Journal of Transient Migration.
Becky was born and raised in Vietnam in the 1990s and the 2000s. She moved to Singapore where she studied and worked in the 2010s. In 2019, she moved to Los Angeles, California to pursue her Ph.D. in Communication. She holds a Bachelor of Social Sciences, First Class Honors (2014) and a Master of Arts (2017) from the Department of Communications and New Media, National University of Singapore (NUS), for which she was awarded the ASEAN Undergraduate Scholarship and NUS Tuition Fee Waiver for Graduate Students. She also holds a Master of Arts (2022) from USC, for which she was awarded the Annenberg Fellowship.
For more information, visit https://beckypham.com/
BIO FOR ENGLISH-SPEAKING GENERAL AUDIENCE
Becky Pham (Master of Arts, University of Southern California) is a social science researcher in communication and media studies. She is working on her Ph.D. at the Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism at USC. She specializes in researching digital media use and popular culture consumption by parents, young people and immigrant communities. She firmly believes in translating academic research for societal benefit. Her writing has appeared on Psychology Today. She has appeared on ABC7 Eyewitness News and her work has been covered by DEADLINE, IndieWire, Kidscreen, NextShark, SBS Evening News, and Variety. She has more than 4 years of working experience (ad-hoc basis) with non-profit organizations in the US and the UK. She also has more than 6 years of teaching experience in higher education in the US and Singapore. For more information, visit https://beckypham.com/
BIO FOR VIETNAMESE-SPEAKING GENERAL AUDIENCE / TIỂU SỬ TIẾNG VIỆT
Phạm Thị Ngọc Bích (tên tiếng Anh: Becky Pham) là một nhà nghiên cứu khoa học xã hội về phương tiện và thiết bị truyền thông. Chuyên môn của cô tập trung vào sự ảnh hưởng của truyền thông và văn hoá đại chúng lên cha mẹ, con cái, và cộng đồng người nhập cư. Cô được sinh ra và lớn lên ở Việt Nam, sau đó du học và sinh sống ở Singapore và California, Mỹ. Cô có bằng Cử Nhân và Thạc Sĩ ngành Truyền Thông từ Đại Học Quốc Gia Singapore (NUS), và bằng Thạc Sĩ thứ hai ngành Truyền Thông từ Đại Học Nam California (USC). Cô hiện đang làm chương trình Tiến Sĩ ngành Truyền Thông cũng tại Đại Học Nam California (USC). Cô có hơn 4 năm kinh nghiệm làm việc với các tổ chức phi lợi nhuận tại Mỹ và Anh Quốc, và hơn 6 năm kinh nghiệm giảng dạy đại học ở Mỹ và Singapore. Để biết thêm thông tin chi tiết, truy cập vào trang https://beckypham.com/.