Dear Wannabe Lawyer,

My name is Poon Mingyang Raymond, and I belong to a pair of final-year students from the School of Communication and Information at Nanyang Technological University. I’ve read your replies to the NUS survey, and hope you can help us too.

For our final-year project, we are doing research on blogging in Singapore for the Singapore Internet Research Centre (SIRC, http://www.ntu.edu.sg/sci/sirc/). Our supervisor is Dr Randolph Kluver (trkluver@ntu.edu.sg), the executive director of SIRC.

We are conducting interviews with local bloggers to find out how they blog about issues of social importance, like the recent incident of the racist blog posts. We’ll also discuss what local bloggers understand about the censorship environment in Singapore and how they cope with it. The focus is thus different from that of the NUS survey, going by its questions.

Will you be able to help us by agreeing to a face-to-face interview? Our aim is to speak with at least 20 bloggers and the interviews will be held in the period from late November to the end of December.

Your thoughts on the topic are greatly appreciated. We are aiming as well to submit the research paper for a conference on media.

I understand you are based overseas. Is there a chance you’ll be back in Singapore at the end of the year? Please tell us if we can set an interview date with you. Do call me at 9679 2965 if you require more information. Thank you

Sincerely,
Poon Mingyang

Mob: 9679 2965

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