DR DANG NGUYEN

Dang Nguyen (Nguyễn Hồng Hải Đăng) is a Research Fellow at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision Making & Society, based in the School of Media and Communication at RMIT University, Melbourne. Her work investigates digital economies, informal infrastructures, and platform governance—from below.

Dang holds a PhD from the University of Melbourne and an MSc in the Social Science of the Internet from the University of Oxford, where she was a Chevening Scholar. She has been a Fox Fellow at Yale University and a Majority World Scholar at Yale Law School. Dang currently serves on the International Panel for the Information Environment (IPIE) as a media and technology expert.

Her books include Digital Research Methods and the Diaspora (Routledge, 2023) and Internet Cures (Bristol University Press, 2024). Her research has also appeared in leading journals such as New Media & Society, Information, Communication & Society, Media, Culture & Society, International Journal of Communication, Social Science & Medicine, and Health & Place.

RECENT BOOK RELEASES

Internet Cures: The social lives of digital miracles (2024)

Unravelling the intricate connections between social, technological, biomedical, and non-biomedical spheres, Dang’s new book  ‘Internet Cures’ explores the intersection of miracle cures and technology, combining computational social media data with ethnographic insights from Vietnam and the US, and captures the interconnected lives of such cures in the digital realm.

Access ‘Internet Cures’ via: https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/internet-cures

Digital Research methods and the Diaspora (2023)

In this clip, ADM+S Research Fellow Dr Dang Nguyen unpacks the themes and motivations of her book, Digital Research Methods and the Diaspora.