David Kurt Herold

David Kurt Herold obtained both his Bachelor and his PhD at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in London, UK. He has taught at universities in Hong Kong from 2007-2020, before joining the department of Media and Communication in January 2021.David has published widely on the intersections between the online and the offline and the impacts they have on each other - in politics, society, and education. His two edited volumes on the Internet in China have been very well received and are widely cited (2011-Online Society in China: Creating, celebrating, and instrumentalising the online carnival and 2014-China Online: Locating society in online spaces).Between 2008 and 2011 a team under Davids leadership created a virtual university campus in the 3D online world Second Life for the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, which was used by over 4,000 staff and students.ORCID:https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6785-8250Google Scholar:https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=ZqwuGkQAAAAJ

Chinas (digital) encounter with the world

Digitisation of Society

Chinas Internet

Online-offline crossovers

Humans and the digital world

Adjunct Teaching Fellow Media And Communications, HK Baptist University, 2019-2020

Visiting Assistant Professor Media and Communications, City University of HK, 2019-2020

Assistant Professor for Sociology and China Studies, HK Polytechnic University, 2007-2019

COM333-Artificial Intelligence and Big Data in Society

Social Science Theories

Contemporary Social Theories

Qualitative Research Methods

Research Methods in Media/Comm Studies

Advanced Research: Ethnography

Media and Society

The Chinese Internet

Cyber-culture in Contemporary China

Internet Communication

Introduction to Social Media