Dr. SHUM, Hoi Ki Holy 岑愷琦
Dr. SHUM, Hoi Ki Holy 岑愷琦
Assistant Professor
Contact
Office: Room LC840, Library Complex, Hong Kong Shue Yan University, 12 Wai Tsui Crescent, North Point, Hong Kong
Phone: 2104-8292
Email: hkshum@hksyu.edu
Academic and Professional Qualification
Ph.D. Sociology, The University of Hong Kong
MSocSc Master of Social Sciences in Media, Culture and Creative Cities (Distinction), Sociology, The University of Hong Kong
B.A. Major in Philosophy and Psychology, The University of Hong Kong
Specialism and Research Interests
• Digital technology and art
• Moralities of technologies and media use
• Creative labour
• Cultural and creative industries
• Postcolonialism/ decolonisation
• Ethnography and qualitative research methods
Courses
SOC205 Sociological Theories I
SOC345 Digital Sociology
SOC360 Social Change and Modernity
SOC406 Selected Topic
GED214 Smart Cities - Technologies and Applications
Peer-reviewed Journal Publications
Shum, H. (2024). Oculus power! Arts and technology’s mediation of postcolonial neoliberal nationalism in Hong Kong. Global Media and China, 9(1), 84-100. https://doi.org/10.1177/20594364231194671
Shum, H. (2022). A tech takeover: Alibaba and the transforming work culture of the South China Morning Post. Social Transformations in Chinese Societies. 19(1), 15-28. https://doi.org/10.1108/STICS-01-2021-0003
Tse, T., & Shum, H. (2022). Platforms, politics and precarity: Hong Kong television workers amid the new techno-nationalist media agenda. European Journal of Cultural Studies. 26(3), 289-312. https://doi.org/10.1177/13675494221105534
Awarded: Outstanding Paper (2022-2023) by The Academy of Hong Kong Studies
McDonald, T., Shum, H., & Wong, R. (2021). Payments in the pandemic: orchestrating and imagining cross-boundary digital money infrastructures in China during COVID-19. Media International Australia, 181(1), 44–56. https://doi.org/10.1177/1329878X211024265
Scholarly Book Chapters
McDonald, T., & Shum, H. (2024). Smartphones, shopping and the technomobility of migrant mothers. In X. Pei, P. Malhotra,& R. Ling (eds.), Women’s Agency and Mobile Communication Under the Radar. London: Routledge. Chapter 10.
McDonald, T., Shum, H., & Wong, K. C. (2022). Mediated money and social relationships among Hong Kong cross-boundary students. In E. Costa, P. G. Lange, N. Haynes,& J. Sinanan (eds.), The Routledge Companion to Media Anthropology. London: Routledge. 301-313.
Conference Presentations
“Platforms, politics and precarity: Hong Kong television workers amid the new techno-nationalist media agenda”. Hong Kong Studies Annual Conference organised by The Academy of Hong Kong Studies, The Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. (7-8 March 2024)
“3D printing and creative labour (dis)empowerment: A case study of Hong Kong startup”. “Global Perspectives on Platforms, Labor and Social Reproduction” Conference, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands. (27-28 June 2023)
“Oculus power!: Arts and technology's mediation of postcolonial neoliberal nationalism in Hong Kong”. 22nd Annual Research Postgraduate Conference, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. (25 June 2022)
“Lost in virtual art world: Tension and negotiation among government, marketers and art creators on art x tech development in Hong Kong”. “Global Perspectives on Platforms and Cultural Production” Conference, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands. (1-2 June 2022)
“A tech takeover: Alibaba and the transforming work culture of South China Morning Post”. Hong Kong Studies Research School, The Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong. (9-11 December 2020)