Dr Niki Cheong

Johns, A. & Cheong, N. (2023) The Affective Pressures of WhatsApp: From Safe Spaces to Conspiratorial Publics, in Cinque, T., Maddox, A. & Gehl, R. W. (eds) The Dark Social Online Practices of Resistance, Motility and Power. Routledge.

Johns, A., Byron, P., Cheong, N., Wijaya, H.Y., & Afifi, N. (2022) “Report for, and needs of Marginalized Young Peoples on Digital Literacy, Safety and Participation”. UNDP and UNESCO. Available online: https://www.undp.org/publications/resources-and-needs-vulnerable-and-marginalized-young-people-digital-literacy-safety-and-participation

Johns, A. & Cheong, N. (2021). "The affective pressures of WhatsApp: from safe spaces to conspiratorial publics". Continuum, 35(5), 732-746. https://doi.org/10.1080/10304312.2021.1983256

Cheong, N. (2021). “Internet-led Political Journalism: Challenging hybrid regime resilience in Malaysia”. In Morrison, J., Birks, J., and Berry, M. (Eds), Routledge Companion to Political Journalism, Routledge.

Cheong, JPG., Khoo, S., Inoue, C., Surujlal, J., Cheong, N., Esfahani, M., Lin, P., Brooke, M., Li, Y., Chun, H., Alshahrany, A., Al-Shamli, A., and Razman, R. (2020). "An 11-country analysis of newspaper coverage of the 2016 Rio Paralympic Games”. Disability and Society. https://doi.org/10.1080/09687599.2020.1756746

Cheong, N. (2020). "Malaysia: Disinformation as a response to the ‘opposition playground’". in Sinpeng, A. and Tapsell, R. (Eds), From Grassroots Activism to Disinformation: Social Media in Southeast Asia, ISEAS Publishing: Singapore

Johns, A., & Cheong, N. (2019). "Feeling the Chill: Bersih 2.0, State Censorship, and 'Networked Affect' on Malaysian Social Media 2012–2018". Social Media + Society. https://doi.org/10.1177/2056305118821801

Cheong, N. (2017). Growing Up In KL: 10 Years of The Bangsar Boy. Petaling Jaya, Selangor: MPH Group Publishing.

Cheong, N. (2016). “Propagate the idea of mutual respect”. In Soo, EJ. (Ed), Moderation (pp 22-27). Petaling Jaya, Selangor: Star Media Group.

Funded by the Faculty of Arts & Humanities Small Research Grant (Early-career Researcher strand) and the DDH Departmental Research Grant at King's College London.

Working alongside Dr. Amelia Johns and Dr. Paul Byron (University of Technology, Sydney), and Mr. Hendri Yulius, funded by UNESCO/UNDP.

Co-leading with Dr. Selina Khoo and Dr. Jadeera Cheong (Universiti Malaya), involving researchers in 19 countries.

Named researcher on a project based at the University of Huddersfield (PI: Professor Cornel Sandvoss)

Working alongside Dr. Crystal Abidin (Curtin University), Dr. Amelia Johns (University of Technology Sydney), Dr. Natalie Pang (National University of Singapore) and Associate Professor Joanne BY Lim (University of Nottingham Malaysia. Successfully awarded the the Facebook Integrity Foundational Research Award (US$50,000).

Led by Associate Professor Selina Khoo and Dr. Jadeera Cheong (University of Malaya), involving researchers in 11 countries.

Research Assistant for Dr. Amelia Johns (University of Technology Sydney). I was also involved in her follow-up fieldwork for the project titled: The Digital Citizenship Practices of Malaysian-Chinese Youth in the lead up to the 2018 General Election.