Postgraduate Research Scholarship in the Sydney Vietnam Media Innovation Hub

This scholarship has been established to provide financial assistance to research students who are interested in undertaking research in Vietnamese media and its digital platforms. The successful candidate will join a team of researchers in the Sydney Vietnam Media Innovation Hub to work on the Vietnam Media and Platforms project. The burgeoning digital economy of Vietnam is built on the platformisation of its marketplace. The Platforms research node of the Sydney Vietnam Media Innovation Hub explores how Vietnam's platform society operates in a non-Western country. This research node is designed to critically analyse its local platform contributions such as Grab and Zalo, while integrating Western versions of Meta, Bytedance and a variety of other non-local platforms. This research node will explore the gatekeepers of the platform society, its backbone regulatory drivers and the formal and informal economies of Vietnamese media industries. The scholarship is funded by the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, and supported by the Discipline of Media and Communication and the Sydney Vietnam Institute.