Cherian GEORGE
Adjunct Senior Research Fellow

Research Interests: Media, arts and culture

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Dr Cherian George is an Adjunct Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Policy Studies. His full-time position is at the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological University, where he heads the journalism division. He is also a Research Associate of the Asia Research Centre at Murdoch University, Australia.

He is an Associate Professor at the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological University, in the Division of Journalism and Publishing.

Prior to taking up his appointment at Nanyang Technological University, Dr George was a post-doctoral Fellow at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore. He has a PhD in Communication from Stanford University, where he wrote his dissertation on internet-based alternative journalism in Singapore and Malaysia. He is also a graduate of the Journalism School at Columbia University, and of Cambridge University, where he read social and political sciences.

Before moving to academia, he spent 10 years at The Straits Times, where he wrote mainly on domestic politics and media issues. Dr George remains active in professional journalism, as the editor and publisher of What's Up, an independent monthly current affairs newspaper for schools.

• Contentious Journalism & the Internet: Towards Democratic Discourse in Malaysia & Singapore
  Cherian George, Institute of Policy Studies (Singapore) and University of Washington Press (USA), 2006
• Asian Journalisms: Neglected Alternatives
  Cherian George, in "Issues and Challenges in Asian Journalism", X Hao & S K Datta-Ray, eds., Singapore: Times Academic Press, 2006
• Understanding the Internet’s Political Impact in Asia
  Cherian George, Asian Journal of Social Science 32 (3), 2004
• The Internet's Political Impact and the Penetration/Participation Paradox in Malaysia and Singapore
  Cherian George, Asia Research Institute Working Papers Series 14, 2003
• The Internet and the Narrow-Tailoring Dilemma for ‘Asian’ Democracies
  Cherian George, Communication Review 6 (3), 2003
• Singapore: Media at the Mainstream and the Margins
  Cherian George, in "Media Fortunes, Changing Times: ASEAN States in Transition", Russell Heng, ed., Singapore: Institute of South East Asian Studies, 2002
• Singapore: The Air-conditioned Nation. Essays on the Politics of Comfort and Control, 1990-2000
  Cherian George, Singapore: Landmark Books, 2000

• Associate Professor, Division of Journalism and Publishing, Wee Kim Wee School of Communication & Information, Nanyang Technological University.
• Adjunct Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Policy Studies.