Hoa Nguyen
Hoa Nguyen is a Ph.D. from Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland. He holds an MSc. in Media and Communications Management from the University of Stirling, Scotland. Previously, he worked as a TV journalist (2000 – 2007) and deputy director for news (2008 – 2010) and director for news (2010 – 2016) at Ho Chi Minh City Television, Vietnam. A two-time award winner of Vietnam’s National Television Award, Hoa later became a member of the Jury Board of the National Television Award for several consecutive years.
At Philip Merrill, Hoa researches mainstream media versus digital media, audience metrics, risk communication, climate change in the news, media literacy and media history. He works as a teaching assistant and teaches Media Literacy, Journalism Leadership, and Audience Metrics. He believes in the power of journalism education and professionalism. In a connected world and post-truth societies, journalism does not deteriorate but is rather condensed in quality and diversity. In such a trend, social media empower the underprivileged to have their voices heard at local, national, and international levels.
Currently, he is working on completing his dissertation, which analyzes how the public sphere is shaped by the joint forces of legacy media and social media. The thesis hypothesizes that climate change issues represented by both types of media would contribute to the public discourse, and public participation across cultures. Exploring the application of the Habermasian theory of “the public sphere” in a state-owned media, the thesis looks for differences and similarities among the lay people’s perception of climate change as a social issue.
He presented his studies at an ICA pre-conference in Prague in May 2018, at the PCA conference in Washington D.C in March 2019 and AEJMC 2019 in Toronto, Canada. He is an alumnus of the Salzburg Global Academy in Salzburg, Austria. He has been awarded several fellowships and awards including an Eleanor Merrill Graduate Fellowship, a Merrill College Gurevich Fellowship and an Outstanding Graduate Assistant Award for the academic year 2018 – 2019.
Supervisors: Dr. Ronald Yaros
At Philip Merrill, Hoa researches mainstream media versus digital media, audience metrics, risk communication, climate change in the news, media literacy and media history. He works as a teaching assistant and teaches Media Literacy, Journalism Leadership, and Audience Metrics. He believes in the power of journalism education and professionalism. In a connected world and post-truth societies, journalism does not deteriorate but is rather condensed in quality and diversity. In such a trend, social media empower the underprivileged to have their voices heard at local, national, and international levels.
Currently, he is working on completing his dissertation, which analyzes how the public sphere is shaped by the joint forces of legacy media and social media. The thesis hypothesizes that climate change issues represented by both types of media would contribute to the public discourse, and public participation across cultures. Exploring the application of the Habermasian theory of “the public sphere” in a state-owned media, the thesis looks for differences and similarities among the lay people’s perception of climate change as a social issue.
He presented his studies at an ICA pre-conference in Prague in May 2018, at the PCA conference in Washington D.C in March 2019 and AEJMC 2019 in Toronto, Canada. He is an alumnus of the Salzburg Global Academy in Salzburg, Austria. He has been awarded several fellowships and awards including an Eleanor Merrill Graduate Fellowship, a Merrill College Gurevich Fellowship and an Outstanding Graduate Assistant Award for the academic year 2018 – 2019.
Supervisors: Dr. Ronald Yaros
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