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Niki Cheong

@nikicheong

Lecturer in Digital Culture and Society at King’s College London @kingsdh.bsky.social. I research misinformation and the everyday navigation of political information. Former journalist. www.nikicheong.com

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Come work with me (ish)! Two-year fellowship at @kingsdh.bsky.social! www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/140165-...

05.03.2026 20:07 👍 2 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
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Social media memory capsule reminds me that there was a time in 2016, during my PhD, when an Excel sheet like this made sense.

30.10.2025 11:07 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
cover of Sophie Bishop's Influencer Creep

cover of Sophie Bishop's Influencer Creep

much look forward to welcoming @sophiebishop.bsky.social to talk about her new book "influencer creep" tomorrow with @zaborowski.bsky.social and Zeena Feldman! 🎊 www.kcl.ac.uk/events/influ...

28.10.2025 21:21 👍 6 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0

Academic friends! If I can be so bold to ask if anyone has used any of my work (sole or co-authored is fine!) in their teaching, could you please let me know?

28.10.2025 11:22 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Enjoy your leave! haha Good compartmentalisation. Tahniah!

25.09.2025 10:25 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Making (internet) space for the ‘opposition playground’ in Malaysia - Niki Cheong, 2025 Malaysia bucked the trend of regime resilience in Southeast Asia when the ruling coalition was voted out for the first time in 2018. For six decades, the coalit...

Making (internet) space for the ‘opposition playground’ in Malaysia

Some of my thoughts on Malaysia for a special issue on Authoritarianism in the Digital Age in Dialogues on Digital Society journal was published yesterday!

journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

25.09.2025 09:37 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
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10 years ago today I moved back to the UK. Lots have happened for me since - dad passing, a book published, PhD completed, permanent job, flat in London. Don’t know what the future holds for me (and the world at large) but tonight, I’ll pop open a beer and just be grateful for my charmed life.

15.09.2025 18:04 👍 7 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Genuine question: what have all the US TikTokkers done with their Little Red Book (RedNote) accounts?

08.09.2025 21:52 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I really should come on here more than just reposting work stuff 🤣 I forget what I used to do on Twitter last time 😬

15.08.2025 08:53 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Digital Humanities Today: Critical Inquiry with and about the Digital From the 23-26 June 2026, the Department of Digital Humanities at King’s College London will host an international conference exploring the evolving role of Digital Humanities in a world increasingly ...

I'm very excited and proud that my dept @kingsdh.bsky.social is hosting this major conference in 2026. There are many streams of DH, some old, some new, and I've always believed that the future of the field is dialogue between them. This landmark event will do that www.kcl.ac.uk/events/digit...

02.08.2025 20:13 👍 24 🔁 14 💬 1 📌 0

📢 We’re hiring a Lecturer in Digital Media and Culture Education (Academic Education Pathway)!

📅 Start date: 29 September 2025 (or soon after)
📔 Contract: Full-time, fixed term until 30 September 2026
🗓 Apply by: 27 August 2025

Full details here: my.corehr.com/pls/kclrecru...

#AcademicJobs

14.08.2025 09:31 👍 7 🔁 13 💬 0 📌 1

📢 We’re hiring a Lecturer in Computational Humanities Education (Academic Education Pathway).

📔 Contract: Full-time, indefinite contract
🗓 Apply by: 25 August 2025

Full details here: my.corehr.com/pls/kclrecru...

#DigitalHumanities #AcademicJobs #Hiring

14.08.2025 09:46 👍 11 🔁 18 💬 1 📌 2

I'll check it out! :)

12.08.2025 20:37 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Come work (with me) at @kingsdh! Hiring one open-ended role - Lecturer in Computational Humanities my.corehr.com/pls/kclrecru... - and one fixed-term contract role - Lecturer in Digital Media and Culture my.corehr.com/pls/kclrecru... Deadlines in a couple of weeks!

12.08.2025 20:36 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

First time hearing about this - will check it out. Thanks!

08.08.2025 12:41 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

TFW you’re in the mood to code some interviews and your Nvivo license has expired and the one on your institution’s software centre hasn’t been updated either so you opened an IT ticket and spend the day refreshing your email hoping someone will reply soon. 😩

08.08.2025 12:30 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

Working on it!

19.07.2025 06:49 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The panel + organiser today (from left): Kam Raslan, Zahim AlBakri, Fasyali, Ann Lee, Niki Cheong, Ida Nerina & Susan Philips

The panel + organiser today (from left): Kam Raslan, Zahim AlBakri, Fasyali, Ann Lee, Niki Cheong, Ida Nerina & Susan Philips

The panel in action

The panel in action

Panel today got me thinking: we 🇲🇾-ns collectively don’t appreciate our own greats/experts. Especially in the Arts - and moreso when these pieces are used to force us to confront the most uncomfortable parts of ourselves.

Here’s to more discourse of Jit’s works in academia. @nikicheong.bsky.social

12.07.2025 13:15 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1

Ohhhh!

11.07.2025 09:39 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Tomorrow morning! No Jit? A roundtable discussion about Jit Murad's place in academic discourse, hosted by me and featuring an amazing panel. More info in images attached.

Date: 12 July 2025 (Saturday)
Time: 10.30am
Location: ASWARA

Free entry but register at www.cloudjoi.com/shows/3710-n...

11.07.2025 09:38 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Folks in Kuala Lumpur this weekend - I'm hosting a roundtable discussion on Jit Murad's place in academic discourse, as part of #JitFest25. Come join the discussion with Susan Philip, Ann Lee, Fasyali Fadzly and Kam Raslan! Free entry, but please register here: www.cloudjoi.com/shows/3710-n...

08.07.2025 07:33 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 1
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Wrath Month - An Anthology of Queer Rage The punk anthology where queer rage kicks down the doors of fantasy, science-fiction and horror.

We're smashing into Pride 2025 with a gang of radical queer writers and a brand new book: #WrathMonth

We're channeling our fury into a new collection of biting, blood-splattered stories at the cutting edge of fantasy, horror, and science fiction.

💙📚🪐📚🌈📚🌈🚀💫

04.06.2025 19:49 👍 123 🔁 63 💬 2 📌 10

More feel good than celebratory but thanks!

30.05.2025 19:24 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Vaguepost because superstitious but today I felt like I achieve something significant in my academic life that (to me) feels like a massive milestone. 😬 Also trepidatious. 🫣

30.05.2025 12:19 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I hope a third is on the cards!

29.05.2025 19:18 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

I'm not crying you're crying.

28.05.2025 21:13 👍 73 🔁 24 💬 0 📌 2

Congrats!

28.05.2025 15:24 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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A letter to the editor of the @economist.com

We need good news to remind us of what’s possible!

27.05.2025 15:35 👍 16 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 1

Really thrilled to be at a conference where academics think it’s a good idea to wear red caps which reads: Make Tech Fun Again

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14.04.2025 11:36 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 2 📌 0

20 FELLOWSHIPS! Great opportunities in AI at King's, and to work with the amazing @drkatedevlin.bsky.social (and maybe by extension, me, by virtue of being in the same institution? Am less amazing though so maybe that's not a selling point 😆)!

26.03.2025 11:42 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0