Dang Nguyen (Nguyễn Hồng Hải Đăng in Vietnamese) is a writer and researcher working at the intersection of cultural criticism, technology, and Southeast Asia. She examines the informal infrastructures, moral frictions, and aesthetic conditions that shape digital life, with a focus on how media practices emerge under conditions of constraint.
She is currently a Research Fellow at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society at RMIT University in Australia.
Dang holds a PhD from the University of Melbourne and a Master of Science in 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 serves as a media and technology expert on the International Panel for the Information Environment (IPIE).
Dang has provided media commentary for a range of international outlets, including ABC News (Australia), Triple R Radio (Australia), the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (USA), Rest of World (USA), and ARTE (France).
Dang's books include 'Digital research methods and the diaspora' (Routledge, 2023) and 'Internet cures' (Bristol University Press, 2024). Dang has also published widely in a range of scholarly venues, such as New Media & Society, Information, Communication & Society, Media, Culture & Society, International Journal of Communication, Social Science & Medicine, and Health & Place.
Dang researches the social implications of technology by drawing on interdisciplinary methods and looking beyond Western contexts. Her current work focuses on:
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the digitality of knowledge-making and its impact on the information environment,
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the conditions of possibility for contemporary technological cultures, and
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automated informality and its associated moral economies.
To find out about Dang’s research projects and publications, have a look at the Research section on this website.
Dang has taught media and communication studies subjects at the tertiary level in Australia, Singapore, and Vietnam. She has received a Dean’s Commendation for Outstanding Teaching (RMIT University, 2019) and an Associate Dean’s Commendation for Excellent Teaching (RMIT University, 2018). Details of her teaching experience can be found in the Teaching section on this website.