Khin Wee Chen
Biographic Data
| ID | 3855528 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Khin Wee Chen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Khin Wee |
| FAMILY NAME | Chen |
| SIGNATURE | CHEN K W |
| AFFILIATIONS | Gulf University for Science & Technology |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9477-751X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Leadership in numbers
This paper examines how former Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong strategically deployed personal pronouns — especially we — in National Day Rally (NDR) speeches (2004–2023) to construct authority, manage affect, and negotiate state–citizen alignment. Situated within Singapore’s hybrid political system, the study adopts a corpus pragmatic approach combining frequency analysis, collocate profiling, and a substitution-based method to track …
Ageism, a Remarkable Election, and the Journalism Objectivity Norm
Age, rarely examined in journalism studies, became salient in 2018 in Malaysia when a 92-year-old, Mahathir Mohamad, unexpectedly became the world’s oldest elected head of state, and he named a 25-year-old, Syed Saddiq, to his cabinet. A content analysis of 1,376 stories published worldwide revealed that journalists treated the ages of the two men infrequently, similarly, and cautiously. Variance occurred with Hofstede’s collectivism-individualis…
The relationship between media use, perceptions and regime preference in post-Arab Spring countries
This paper examines the link between attitudes and perceptions and feelings of dissatisfaction predicating the Arab Spring uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and Yemen and their correlation to various media use. World Value Survey Report data show choice of media directly predicts governance preference and indirectly predicts governance preference through the creation of certain perceptions. Democratic rule preference is strongly linked to the us…
The Singapore Mass Rapid Transport
Political cartoons can function as a means of monitoring the level of press freedom, of government's tolerance of free speech, and their resistance to challenges posed by opposition. It may also be argued that in this digital age the aforesaid barometric utility can extend to other satirical visual forms like memes and videos. Singapore has a long reputation for its strict media control, iron-grip on the mainstream media, and zero-tolerance for a…
The Singapore Mass Rapid Transport
Political cartoons can function as a means of monitoring the level of press freedom, of government's tolerance of free speech, and their resistance to challenges posed by opposition. It may also be argued that in this digital age the aforesaid barometric utility can extend to other satirical visual forms like memes and videos. Singapore has a long reputation for its strict media control, iron-grip on the mainstream media, and zero-tolerance for a…
The relationship between media use, perceptions and regime preference in post-Arab Spring countries
This paper examines the link between attitudes and perceptions and feelings of dissatisfaction predicating the Arab Spring uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and Yemen and their correlation to various media use. World Value Survey Report data show choice of media directly predicts governance preference and indirectly predicts governance preference through the creation of certain perceptions. Democratic rule preference is strongly linked to the us…
The Singapore Mass Rapid Transport
Political cartoons can function as a means of monitoring the level of press freedom, of government's tolerance of free speech, and their resistance to challenges posed by opposition. It may also be argued that in this digital age the aforesaid barometric utility can extend to other satirical visual forms like memes and videos. Singapore has a long reputation for its strict media control, iron-grip on the mainstream media, and zero-tolerance for a…
The relationship between media use, perceptions and regime preference in post-Arab Spring countries
This paper examines the link between attitudes and perceptions and feelings of dissatisfaction predicating the Arab Spring uprisings in Tunisia, Egypt, Libya and Yemen and their correlation to various media use. World Value Survey Report data show choice of media directly predicts governance preference and indirectly predicts governance preference through the creation of certain perceptions. Democratic rule preference is strongly linked to the us…
Ageism, a Remarkable Election, and the Journalism Objectivity Norm
Age, rarely examined in journalism studies, became salient in 2018 in Malaysia when a 92-year-old, Mahathir Mohamad, unexpectedly became the world’s oldest elected head of state, and he named a 25-year-old, Syed Saddiq, to his cabinet. A content analysis of 1,376 stories published worldwide revealed that journalists treated the ages of the two men infrequently, similarly, and cautiously. Variance occurred with Hofstede’s collectivism-individualis…
Leadership in numbers
This paper examines how former Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong strategically deployed personal pronouns — especially we — in National Day Rally (NDR) speeches (2004–2023) to construct authority, manage affect, and negotiate state–citizen alignment. Situated within Singapore’s hybrid political system, the study adopts a corpus pragmatic approach combining frequency analysis, collocate profiling, and a substitution-based method to track …
Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Law (2 works) · Media studies (2 works) · Media Studies and Communication (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Advertising (1 work) · Asian Studies and History (1 work) · Business (1 work)