Academic – Conferences

Ray, P. (2022). Role of the Frenemy: AI insights into data mining and data storage. ICL Research Seminar Series. Presented on March 1, 2022.

TechTalk. (2022). Skills Required for Future Employment. Attended virtually on March 31, 2022.

TechTalk. (2022). AI and Automation – Future of Work for Growth, Resilience and Sustainability. Attended on May 19, 2022. 

Ray, P. (2022). Role of the Frenemy: AI insights into data mining and data storage. Research Association New Zealand. Presented on June 30, 2022.

Ray, P. (2022). Digital transformation and innovation in the education industry: Democracy versus political economy. EduLearn22 – 14th annual International Conference on Education and New Learning Technologies, organised by IATED, in Spain. July 4-6, 2022

Ray, P. (2020). ‘Qualitative or quantitative? Shifting the methodological paradigm’. Giles Brooker Research Centre, (via Zoom).

Ray, P. (2020). ‘Marketing via Surveillance: Data Storage and Data Mining’. 10th TechTalk, Techtorium, Auckland, NZ

Karmokar, S & Ray, P. (2019). ‘Outside the Cubicle: Transforming Time, Space and Real World for Women’. NZ Conference of Business & Technology, Auckland, NZ.

Ray, P. (2019). ‘How social is social media? A comparative study of Kiwi-Indian and Māori women Facebook users’. Social & Cultural Studies Seminar Series. College of Humanities and Social Sciences. Massey University, Auckland, NZ.

Ray, P. (2018). ‘Social Media and our Decorum of Surveillance’. JMAD Conference, AUT, NZ.

Ray, P. (2018). ‘Tap an App to connect with the “Imagined Diaspora”’, version 2. Australia NZ Communications Association, University of Auckland, NZ.

Ray, P. (2017). ‘How social is social media? – A comparative study of Kiwi-Indian and Māori women Facebook users’, NZ Asia, University of Otago, NZ.

Ray, P. (2017). ‘Trajectory of Facebook Activism’. Science and Art: Convergence in the Pacific, University of Guam, (via Skype).

Ray, P. (2017). ‘Tap an app to connect with the “imagined diaspora”’, version 1. Global Networks-Indianness Abroad: The New Zealand Story, NZ India R Institute, AUT, Auckland, NZ.

Ray, P. (2016). ‘Activism via Social Networking’. Research Café at ‘I, too, am Auckland’, University of Auckland, NZ.

Ray, P. (2016). ‘Reading the Writing on the Facebook Wall’. Australia NZ Communications Association, University of Newcastle, Australia.

Ray, P. (2015). ‘Facebook as a Platform for an Imagined Diasporic Community’, version 2. NZAsia, University of Canterbury, NZ.

Ray, P. (2015). ‘Online Activism and Fourth Wave of Feminism’. Trans/forming Feminism, University of Otago, NZ.

Ray, P. (2014). ‘Facebook as a Platform for an Imagined Diasporic Community’, version 1. Media Ubiquity: Spaces, Places and Networks, University of Auckland, NZ.

Ray, P. (2013). ‘Virtual Public Space and Communication Culture of Activists’. NZAsia, University of Auckland, NZ.

Ray, P. (2013). ‘SNS Activism in India: Pushing Traditional Political Boundaries’. NZ India Research Institute, Victoria University of Wellington, NZ.

Ray, P. (2012). ‘Digital Activism: Women and Social Networking’. 3rd International Summer School: Political Communication and Electoral Behaviour, University of Milan, Italy.

Ray, P. (2012). ‘Gossip as Vehicle of Activism in the “Virtual Public Sphere”’. Crossroads in Cultural Studies, University of Sorbonne, Paris, France.

Ray, P. (2011). ‘SNS in Activism: A Means to an End’, version 2. Journalism, Media and Democracy, AUT, NZ.

Ray, P. (2011). ‘SNS in Activism: A Means to an End’, version 1. Australia NZ Communications Association, University of Waikato, NZ.

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