Assistant Professor Treepon Kirdnark, Ph.D.

NAME: Treepon Kirdnark

OFFICE: 1113 Boromrajakumari Building

EMAIL ADDRESS: Treepon.K@Chula.ac.th

EDUCATION

• Ph.D. in Cultural, Literary and Postcolonial Studies, 2018
  SOAS, University of London
• Master of Arts in Mass Communication, 2006
  Department of Journalism
  College of Arts, Media and Communication
  California State University – Northridge
• Bachelor of Arts in Mass Communication, 2001
  Department of Mass Communication (First class honor)
  Faculty of Humanities
  Chiang Mai University, Thailand

RESEARCH INTERESTS

• Media representation
• Media and social movements
• Media and religions
• Visual culture
• Social media
• Muslims in the south of Thailand

COURSES TAUGHT

• 2200331 Visual Culture
• 2200311 Popular Culture
• 2200342 Social Media and Culture
• 2200150 Basic Thoughts of Asia
• 2200334 Public Speaking in Multicultural Society

KEY PUBLICATIONS

       Journal Article

• Porranee, S. & Kirdnark, T. (2024). Mia-Farang on YouTube: (Re)defining Thai Womanhood in the Network Society. MANUSYA: Journal of Humanities, 27(1), 1-18. https://brill.com/view/journals/mnya/27/1/article-p1_006.xml
• Kirdnark, T. (2022). Bangkok middle-class spectatorship and social realist media: contesting modernity through visualizing Muslim minorities. South East Asia Research, 30(3), 361-376. https://doi.org/10.1080/0967828X.2022.2111268
• Wall, M. & Kirdnark, T. (2012). Online maps and minorities: Geotagging Thailand’s Muslims. New Media & Society, 14(4), 701-716. https://doi.org/10.1177/1461444811422889

       Book Chapter

• ตรีพล เกิดนาค. (2567). พลวัตแห่ง “ความหมาย” และพัฒนาการขององค์ความรู้ทางมนุษยศาสตร์ดิจิทัล. ใน กัญญา วัฒนกุล (บ.ก.), มนุษยศาสตร์สหวิทยาการ: สู่อาณาบริเวณใหม่ในศตวรรษที่ 21. (น.40-93). สำนักพิมพ์ศยาม.
• Wall, M. & Kirdnark, T. (2013). Digitizing Discontent: YouTube and Thailand’s Red Shirt Uprising.
  In R. Berenger (ed.) Social Media Go to War: Rage, Rebellion and Revolution in the Age of Twitter (pp.205-215). Spokane, Washington: Marquette Books LCC.
• Wall, M. & Kirdnark, T. (2011). The Blogosphere in the ‘Land of Smiles’: Citizen Media and Political Conflict in Thailand. In T. Dumova & R. Fiordo (eds.) Blogging in the Global Society: Cultural, Political and Geographical Aspects (pp. 19-36). Hershey, PA: IGI Global.

CONFERENCE PRESENTATION

• Kirdnark, K. (2024, March). Getting Paid to “Live My Own Life”: Disrupting the Notion of Kathoey through “Platform-Dependent Creative Labour”. The Association of Asian Studies Annual Conference (AAS2024), Virtual Presentation, Seattle, USA.
• Kirdnark, K. (2023, May). Kathoey and Social Media Content Production: (Trans)gendering Creative Labour in Thailand. The 13^th Asian Conference on Cultural Studies (ACCS 2023). Presented in Tokyo, Japan.
• Singpliam, P. and Kirdnark, T. (2022, May). Mia-Farang on YouTube: (Re)defining Thai Womanhood in the Network Society . Paper presented at 14th International Conference on Thai Studies: Thailand at a Global Turning Point 2022, Virtual Presentation, Kyoto University, Japan.
• Kirdnark, T. (2019, June). The self-representation of Thai Muslims in the south of Thailand in social media. SEASIA Biennial Conference 2019 “Change and Resistance: Future Directions of Southeast Asia”, Taipei, Taiwan.
• Kirdnark, T. (2017, September). Re-constructing “Good Muslims” through the Halal Media Movement: Negotiating Thai Muslim identity in online disruptive visual spaces. Paper presented at Centre for Southeast Asian Studies Postgraduate Conference, SOAS, University of London.
• Kirdnark, T. (2016, September). Self-representation of Malay Muslims on YouTube: Negotiating Muslim Self with Halal Audio-visual Media. Paper presented at the annual meeting of Association of Southeast Asian Studies in the United Kingdom (ASEASUK). SOAS, London.
• Kirdnark, T. (2015, June). Uploading ‘Playful’ Muslims: Re-mixing Islamic Visual References With Thai Popular Music in Amateur YouTube Videos Produced by Malay Muslim Pupils in the ‘Deep South’ of Thailand. Paper presented at Centre for Media and Film Studies Postgraduate Symposium, SOAS, London.
• Kirdnark, T. and Wall, M.  (2010, August). Mapping discourses about minorities: Locating Thai Muslims on Flickr.  Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, The Denver Sheraton, Denver, CO Online . 2012-06-19.
• Kirdnark, T. and Wall, M. (2010, June). Signifying Thai Muslims: Resisting Stereotypes or Reinforcing the Tourism Machine?. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the International Communication Association, Suntec Singapore International Convention & Exhibition Centre, Suntec City, Singapore.