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| Carmen K. M. Lee |
| Assistant Professor, Department of English, Chinese University of Hong Kong, H.K. Email: carmenlee at cuhk dot edu dot hk |
| BA (Hons), M.Phil. HKU, Ph.D Lancaster |
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Research and Teaching Interests
Research Project I am/was principal investigator of the following research projects: 2009-2011 Language and writing activities on Web 2.0: The Case of Young People in Hong Kong (HKD 427,286, RGC General Research Fund) (completed in Aug 2008) Multilingualism in Web2.0 Spaces: A Pilot Study (funded by the OUHK Research and Development Fund, as Principal Investigator). Courses Taught (2009-10) Undergraduate: ENG1500 Aspects of English Language Study ENG3660 Issues in Contemporary Linguistics - Language, Literacy and Technology.
Postgraduate: ENG5420 Sociolinguistics (in press, 2010, with D. Barton). Literacy. In R. Wodak, B. Johnstone, and P. Kerswill. (Eds.). The Handbook of Sociolinguistics. London: Sage Publications. (2009, with D. Barton). English and glocal identities on Web 2.0: The case of Flickr.com. In K. K. Tam (Ed.). Englishization in Asia. Hong Kong: Open University of Hong Kong Press. (2007). Linguistic features of email and ICQ instant messaging in Hong Kong. In: The Multilingual Internet: Language, Culture and Communication Online, edited by B. Danet and S. C. Herring. New York & Oxford: Oxford University Press.184-208.
Refereed Journal Articles:
(in press, with D. Barton). Constructing glocal identities through multilingual writing practices on Flickr.com. International Multilingual Research Journal. (2007). Affordances and text-making practices in online instant messaging. Written Communication. 24 (3): 223-249. DOI: 10.1177/0741088307303215 [abstract] (2007). Text-making practices beyond the classroom context: Private instant messaging in Hong Kong. Computers and Composition: An International Journal. Special Issue on Global Perspectives of Computers and Composition. 24 (3): 285-301. (2002). Literacy practices in Computer-Mediated Communication in Hong Kong. Reading Matrix 2 (2). Special Issue on Literacy and the Web. URL: http://www.readingmatrix.com/articles/lee/article.pdf (2003, with A. Bodomo and M.-L. Lam). Some Students Still Read Books in the 21st Century: A Study of User Preferences for Print and Electronic Libraries. Reading Matrix. Special Issue on Reading and Technology. 3(3). URL: http://www.readingmatrix.com/articles/bodomo_lam_lee/article.pdf
(2002, with A. Bodomo). Changing forms of language and Literacy:
technobabble and mobile phone communication. Literacy and Numeracy
Studies. Vol.12 (1): 23-44.
Invited Talks (October, 2010). Invited speaker at the Literacy in the Digital University seminar series, ESRC Seminar Series, The Open University, Milton Keynes, UK. (July, 2010). Invited Speaker, The 17th International Conference on Learning. HKIEd. (2009). Reading English on-/-offline. (網路與生活語境的英語閱讀). Invited talk at the Aberdeen Public Library. June 13, 2009. REFEREED CONFERENCE TALKS 2008. 'Multilingual Text-Making Practices in Online Instant Messaging'. Presented at the 15th Annual Congress of Applied Linguistics (AILA). Essen, Germany. Aug 24-29. (September, 2009). “What are you doing right now?" Facebook status updates as hybrid literacy practices. Paper to be presented at the Language and (New) Media Conference, Seattle, USA. (2009). Learning new text-making practices online: From instant messaging to Facebooking. Paper presented at the 16th International Conference on Learning, Barcelona, Spain. (2009, with D. Barton). New vernacular writing practices on Flickr. Paper presented at the UK Literacy Association conference, Greenwich, London. 2006. 'Affordances and Literacy Practices: Illustration from Online Instant Messaging'. Presented at the Joint Annual Meeting of the British Association for Applied Linguistics and the Irish Association for Applied Linguistics (BAAL/IRAAL) 2006. September 7-9. University College Cork, Cork, Ireland. 2005. 'Instant messaging practices among university students in Hong Kong'. Presented at the Lancaster Literacy Research Centre Seminar Series, Lancaster University, 21 June. 2003. ‘Chinese and English computer-mediated communication in the context of New Literacy Studies’. M.Phil. awardee report for the Outstanding Thesis Award, Annual Research Forum, Linguistic Society of Hong Kong. Hong Kong Polytechnic University. 2001. ‘Features and Issues in bilingual computer-mediated text messages in Hong Kong’. Paper presented at the 2nd International Symposium on Bilingual Studies. The University of Hong Kong, December 27-28, 2001. 2001. ‘On context-sensitivity and the language of email and ICQ messaging in Hong Kong’. Paper presented at the Annual Research Forum, Linguistic Society of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Baptist University, December 2001. 2001. (with A. B. Bodomo) ‘Changing forms of language and literacy in the information age’. Paper presented at the Eighth International Literacy & Education Research Network Conference on Learning. Anargyrios & Korgialenios School of Spetses. Spetses, Greece. July 2001. 2001. ‘Chinese and English computer-mediated communication in the context of New Literacy Studies: a preliminary report’. Paper presented at the Postgraduate Research Forum on Language and Linguistics (PRFLL), City University of Hong Kong 2001. (with A. B. Bodomo) Language and Literacy in the information age: new forms, new media, new tools’. Paper presented at the Conference on Critical Perspectives on Language and Literacy, March 24, 2001.
2004 - Overseas Research
Students (ORS) Award, Universities UK
2006 Occasional Lecturer, Department of Linguistics, Lancaster University.
2002-2003 Research Assistant, Department of Linguistics, University of Hong
Kong
Last updated: 18 Aug, 2008 |
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I am currently Assistant Professor at the
Department of English,
Chinese University of Hong Kong. I am interested in studying the textual and literacy practices of
information & communication technologies within the
New Literacy
Studies
framework.
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