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  • ACADEMIC RESEARCH
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  • NON-PROFIT WORKS
  • RANDOM THINGS

MY RESEARCH INTERESTS

As a communication researcher with a heavy focus on media studies, I am interested in studying 

the social & cultural implications of emerging communication technologies.  My current research interests are:

Children, Youth & Families' Technology Use



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Digital Literacy & Public Understanding of Technologies



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Transnational Culture



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PUBLICATIONS

Journal Articles (7)

  • Nekmat, E., Tan, M. Y., & Pham, B. (forthcoming). Engaging in Collapsed Context: Opinion Expression Strategies on Social Media by Young Adults in Singapore. International Communication Gazette.  [IF: 1.877]


  • Zhen, L., Nan, Y., & Pham, B. (2021). College students coping with COVID-19: Stress-buffering effects of self-disclosure on social media and parental support. Communication Research Reports (online first). [Scimago: Q1] [link]


  • Lanz, P., Quick, T., Glenhaber, M., miller, j., Mischie, I., Peterson-Reed, K., Pham, B., Proudfoot, S., & Sengupta, P. (2020). New Civic Paths and a Public Sphere of the Imagination: The Civic Imagination Project. Revue Française des Sciences de l'Information et de la Communication, 18. [invited article] [link]


  • Pham, B., & Loh, R. S. M. (2019). Conducting fieldwork on children and media: comparing research in Singapore and Vietnam. Journal of Children and Media, 13(4), 494-497. doi: 10.1080/17482798.2019.1669295 [IF: 1.246] [link]


  • Pham, B., & Lim, S. S. (2019). Vietnamese pre-schoolers' tablet use and early childhood learning: an ecological investigation. Journal of Children and Media, 13(3), 241-259. doi: 10.1080/17482798.2019.1613247 [IF: 1.246] [link]


  • An, S., Lim, S. S., Lee, H., & Pham, B. (2018). Overcoming Prejudice, Seeking Support: Transnational Social Media Communication of Female Vietnamese Students in South Korea and Singapore. Transitions: Journal of Transient Migration, 2(2), 107-126. doi: 10.1386/tjtm.2.2.107_1 [link]


  • Lim, S. S., & Pham, B. (2016). ‘If you are a foreigner in a foreign country, you stick together’: Technologically mediated communication and acculturation of migrant students. New Media & Society, 18(10), 2171-2188. doi: 10.1177/1461444816655612 [IF: 4.577] [link]


*Peer-reviewed, unless noted otherwise

Book Chapters (5)

  • Livingstone, S., Lim, S. S., Nandi, A., & Pham, B. (2019). Comparative global knowledge about the use of digital technologies for learning among young children. In O. Erstad, R. Flewitt, B. Kümmerling-Meibauer, & I. S. P. Pereira (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Digital Literacies in Early Childhood. Routledge.  [link]


  • Pham, B., & Lim, S. S. (2018). Bridging Parental Expectations and Children's Aspirations: Creative Strategies in Migrant Students' Mediated Communication with their Left-behind Families. In C. Gomes & B. S. A. Yeoh (Eds.), Transnational Migration in the Asia-Pacific. London: Rowman & Littlefield. [link]


  • Pham, B., & Lim, S. S. (2016). Empowering interactions, sustaining ties: Vietnamese migrant students’ communication with left-behind family and friends. In S.S. Lim (Ed.), Mobile Communication and the Family - Asian Experiences in Technology Domestication (pp. 109-126). Dordrecht: Springer. [link]


  • Lim, S. S., Pham, B. & Cheong, K. (2016). At the crossroads of change – New media and migration in Asia. In L. Hjorth & O. Khoo (Eds.), Routledge Handbook of New Media in Asia (pp. 241-250). London: Routledge. [link]


  • Lim, S. S., & Pham, B. (2015). Digital connections and disjunctures of migrant students. In T. Skelton, N. Worth & C. Dwyer (Eds.), Geographies of Identities and Subjectivities. London: Springer. [link]


Blog Posts (2)

  • Pham, B., Sengupta, P., & Gonzalez, E. (2020, April 3). Imagining Humanity: The Potential and Limits of Humans of New York (2 of 2). Professor Henry Jenkins's Blog. http://henryjenkins.org/blog/2020/3/19/popular-culture-amp-the-civic-imagination-2


  • Pham, B., Sengupta, P., & Gonzalez, E. (2020, April 2). Imagining Humanity: The Potential and Limits of Humans of New York (1 of 2). Professor Henry Jenkins's Blog. http://henryjenkins.org/blog/2020/3/19/popular-culture-amp-the-civic-imagination-1

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

Editorial Assistant, Book Reviews, for Mobile Media & Communication

I am currently the Editorial Assistant to the Book Reviews section of the SAGE journal Mobile Media & Communication. 


We are actively seeking relevant academic book titles and suitable book reviewers for our forthcoming issues. Please feel free to be in touch by emailing me at becky [dot] pham [at] usc [dot] edu. 

Research Assistant, for Civic Paths

I am currently Research Assistant to the Civic Paths research group at the University of Southern California. 


We are actively working on the Atlas of the Civic Imagination project to bridge perceived cultural gaps between diverse communities. 

Ad-hoc Reviewer, for Academic Journals

I have been reviewing manuscripts for the following journals so far:

  • European Journal of Cultural Studies  
  • First Monday
  • International Journal of Communication
  • Journal of Children and Media
  • Mobile Media & Communication
  • Social Media + Society
  • Transformative Works and Cultures
  • Transitions: Journal of Transient Migration

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