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MY RESEARCH INTERESTS

I am a predominantly qualitative social sciences researcher. I have conducted ethnography, interviews, focus groups, discourse analysis, and surveys. 


I am interested in studying 

the social & cultural implications of digital media and transnational popular culture (especially from East Asia) on youth, families, and immigrant communities, with a focus on Vietnamese and Vietnamese Americans.

PUBLICATIONS

Editorial Work on Journals

  • Co-editor.
    Delano, I., Jenkins, H., Kim, D. O., Lanz, P., Pham, B., Reed, K., Rivera, J., Shresthova, S., Wilson, E. (In progress). Forum: Feeding the Civic Imagination! Lateral: Journal of the Cultural Studies Association. 

Peer-reviewed, Original Research Journal Articles (6)

  • Solo-authored. (Revise & resubmit). International Journal of Communication. 


  • Co-authored. (Revise & resubmit). Online Social Networks and Media (Elsevier). 


6. Pham, B. (2022). Public reception of young K-pop fans in Vietnam, 2011-19. Transformative Works and Cultures, 38. https://doi.org/10.3983/twc.2022.2061 [open-access]


5. Delano, I., Glenhaber, M., Kim, D. O., Lanz, P., Mischie, I., Quick, T., Peterson-Reed, K., Persaud, C. J., Pham, B., Reddy, R., Rivera, J., Wilson, E., Jenkins, H., & Shresthova, S. (2021). Flying Cars and Bigots: Projecting Post-COVID-19 Worlds Through the Atlas of the Civic Imagination as Refuge for Hope. Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies. https://doi.org/10.1080/10304312.2021.2003303 


4. 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, 38(1), 23-31. https://doi.org/10.1080/08824096.2020.1870445


3. 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. https://doi.org/10.1080/17482798.2019.1613247 


2. 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. https://doi.org/10.1386/tjtm.2.2.107_1


1. 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. https://doi.org/10.1177/1461444816655612

Commentary Article in Journals (1)

  • Co-authored. (In progress). Journal of Children and Media. 


1. 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. https://doi.org/10.1080/17482798.2019.1669295 


Book Chapters (5)

  • Solo-authored. (Under review). In A. Z. H. Yee (Ed., forthcoming), Mobile media use among children and youth in Asia. Springer. 


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]


4. 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]


3. 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]


2. 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]


1. 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]


Non-Peer Reviewed Journal Articles (3)

3. Jenkins, H., Brichta, M., Kim, D. O., Lanz, P., Lee, A., Proudfoot, S., Shresthova, S., DeLano, I., Frizzell, M., Hedge, A., Madebo, A., Mischie, I., Persaud, C., Pham, B., Randazzo, M., Reed, K., Reid, D., Sørenssen, I. K., Steel, J., Nair, M., & Wilson, E. (2022, December 1). What Super Bowl Advertisements Can Teach Us About the Civic Imagination. Journal of Media Literacy. [link] [open-access]


2. Chang, H. H., Pham, B., & Ferrara, E. (2021). K-Pop Fandoms Drive COVID-19 Public Health Messaging on Social Media. arXiv Pre-print, Social and Information Networks. [link] [open-access]   


1. 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. https://doi.org/10.4000/rfsic.7912 [invited article] [open-access]

research grants

2. 2023. USD$1,500 (Principal Investigator)

Summer 2023 EASC Graduate Fellowship

East Asian Studies Center, University of Southern California, USA

Project focus: Hallyu and digital youth culture in Vietnam


1. 2020. USD$1,650 (Principal Investigator)

Annenberg Summer Research Fellowship

Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, University of Southern California, USA 

Project focus: Digital media and parenting practices in Vietnam

Research outputs: 1 journal article (revise and resubmit), 1 book chapter (under review), 1 conference presentation (NCA 2022) 

research affiliations

Member, Civic Paths, USC Annenberg

I am a Member (since Fall 2019) of the Civic Paths research group at the University of Southern California. 


I am also Research Assistant (Spring 2021, Fall 2021, Spring 2023) to Civic Paths.

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

Social Media Editor, Transitions: Journal of Transient Migration (since 2023)

I am the Social Media Editor (since 2023) to the Intellect journal Transitions: Journal of Transient Migration. 


Former Editorial Assistant, Book Reviews, Mobile Media & Communication (2017-2022)

I was the Editorial Assistant (2017-2022) to the Book Reviews section of the SAGE journal Mobile Media & Communication. 


Ad-hoc Reviewer, for Academic Journals

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

  • European Journal of Cultural Studies
    • 2018: 1 manuscript
  • First Monday 
    • 2018: 2 manuscripts
  • Frontiers in Psychology 
    • 2020: 1 manuscript
  • International Journal of Communication 
    • 2023: 1 manuscript, 2022: 2 manuscripts, 2020: 1 manuscript
  • Journal of Children and Media 
    • 2021: 2 manuscripts
  • Mobile Media & Communication 
    • 2022: 2 manuscripts, 2021: 1 manuscript
  • Social Media + Society 
    • 2019: 1 manuscript
  • Transformative Works and Cultures
    • 2021: 1 manuscript
  • Transitions: Journal of Transient Migration 
    • 2019: 1 manuscript


I have been reviewing book chapter manuscripts for the following book series so far:

  • Mobile Communication in Asia: Local Insights, Global Implications (Springer)
    • 2023: 1 manuscript


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