Wilson Lau New Media

 
My final project is taking shape. I’ve just finished the drafts of the three articles that will be my contribution to New Media Workshop’s Hong Kong Stories. The articles are: one on the overall changes of Buddhism and activities organized by Buddhist organizations, the other two focus on changes in academic studies of the religion and why it has become more […]

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I have been liaising with several individuals interviews with them for my final project. I am aiming to talk to an executive of the association Buddhist Compassion to get a better understanding of the changes undergone by Buddhist organizations in Hong Kong over the past 10 years. The main point in my article is that whether the economic and political instability in […]

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For my final project “The Changes of Buddhists’ Organizations and Their Activities in Hong Kong since the Handover”, I plan to do a series of short articles and will use several online media to link the various parts.
I plan to have a major long article that will outline the overall changes in attitude towards Buddhism among the population in Hong […]

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One of the first bloggers in China, Isaac Mao, expressed confidence that many Chinese on the mainland are blogging their way to free-thinking. The Web 2.0 community and blogging form part of the “new social media” in the country. It’s a flat media in which news spreads very quickly, much faster than government-controlled media because […]

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Vincent’s topic for the final project of this course is to do with how seriously global warming has affected Hong Kong for the past 10 years. He wants to look at the issue through several aspects: households, businesses, NGOs and government. Just a brief discussion with him of his project’s core ideas has prompted me […]

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