Renae Sze Ming Loh (@[email protected])

Researcher at Centre for Trusted Internet and Community, NUS • Digital resilience, digital skills, socio-digital inequality, education, youth • she/her •

[Renae Sze Ming Loh (@[email protected]) @RSMLoh]

A week since I stepped out of the @Radboud_Uni Aula with a PhD in hand! 👩‍🎓
My dissertation, Copy Paste? Digital skills, social reproduction, and social mobility in education, comes with a magazine, a video, and a game! (I knoooow!)
All available on https://t.co/qjFwiGdQu6.

[Renae Sze Ming Loh (@[email protected]) @RSMLoh]

What's next?
I'll be packing my life up here in the Netherlands and moving to Singapore! There, I'll join colleagues at @NUSingapore at the Centre for Trusted Internet and Community as a Research Fellow on digital resilience!
Ahem, also attending my brother's B.Eng graduation!🌟

[Renae Sze Ming Loh (@[email protected]) @RSMLoh]

A week since I stepped out of the @Radboud_Uni Aula with a PhD in hand! 👩‍🎓
My dissertation, Copy Paste? Digital skills, social reproduction, and social mobility in education, comes with a magazine, a video, and a game! (I knoooow!)
All available on https://t.co/qjFwiGdQu6.

[Renae Sze Ming Loh (@[email protected]) @RSMLoh]

@pengzell Probably exhausted looking for space to add moderations.🙃

[Renae Sze Ming Loh (@[email protected]) @RSMLoh]

There, you'll also find a dissertation game I made summarizing some of the findings from the dissertation!
Yes, a game! You play as a student going through a (condensed) day at school. 🎒

[Renae Sze Ming Loh (@[email protected]) @RSMLoh]

The countdown begins towards my PhD defense!
The day is become more real! We just did the tech-check for my slides and saw a copy of my dissertation catching some sun in the Aula.

[Renae Sze Ming Loh (@[email protected]) @RSMLoh]

My dissertation examines the roots and consequences of digital skills inequality in education, with a consideration for family, friends, school, and country factors.
A summary magazine, available in English and Dutch, is up on my website.
https://t.co/qjFwiGdQu6

[Renae Sze Ming Loh (@[email protected]) @RSMLoh]

@NellaGeurts @SLdeLange Thanks for the shoutout, Nella! 🌟
I also made a magazine and animated video to share the findings of the project. Am open to discussing my efforts and science communication more broadly so do reach out!

[Renae Sze Ming Loh (@[email protected]) @RSMLoh]

Congrats @MyriaGeorgiou4 !! Can't wait to dig into it.

[LSE Media & Communications @MediaLSE]

📖 Very excited for the recent publication of @MyriaGeorgiou4's 🆕 book 'Being Human in Digital Cities'!🏙️

➡️ Now available to order @WileyGlobal
https://t.co/nNjqp7vCZ6

#AItech #digitalurbanism #datastudies #digitalcity #digitaljustice #newbook #partofLSE #urbanstudies

[Renae Sze Ming Loh (@[email protected]) @RSMLoh]

@pablogracia_twi @MelissaBohnert @TCDsociology @cara_booker @kat_chzhen @digymatex @TCD_SSP @TRiSSTCD @TLRHub @TCD_TRiCC Absolutely grand!!! Congratulations @MelissaBohnert!! 🥳

[Renae Sze Ming Loh (@[email protected]) @RSMLoh]

Spoke with Thomas Haenen, from the Radboud University Science Communications team about our latest research about how ICT infrastructure in schools matter for the translation of digital skills into learning outcomes.
Available in English and in Dutch: https://t.co/9oYLY19Un3

[Renae Sze Ming Loh (@[email protected]) @RSMLoh]

By doing so we come to some telling results! Namely that narrowing school ICT infrastructure disparities is key when it comes to addressing digital educational inequalities between countries.💻❗️

[Renae Sze Ming Loh (@[email protected]) @RSMLoh]

📢Fresh off the press at the @EuropeanEducat3! Myself, Gerbert Kraaykamp, & Margriet van Hek find that students’ ICT skills translate to greater math performance gains in countries with higher levels of ICT access in educational environments. Open access: https://t.co/1tFOwocoFT

[Renae Sze Ming Loh (@[email protected]) @RSMLoh]

Why? These, in combination, reflect the opportunities students have to put their digital skills to use and whether these skills are valued.

[Renae Sze Ming Loh (@[email protected]) @RSMLoh]

I’m over on the bluer cloudy site with the same handle! See you there ☁️ https://t.co/THDTBI3k5y

[Saba Hamedy @saba_h]

i worry about how much trauma we are collectively exposed to as a society and how we never really process that trauma because by the time we want to, something else awful consumes us and we don't prioritize mental health care

[Ian Kar @iankar_]

The reason this is going viral isn't actually that hard to figure out—because of COVID, young people now have a deeply skewed view of post-grad life.

She talks about her friends that work remotely and don't have to commute, and walking to work (if you walk to work in NYC you're hella rich IMO.)

The fact is there's a generation that don't know what "adulting" is—they don't really have any in-person work experience, or even in-person college experience. So things like commuting, spending $ for rent close to your office, time management, etc aren't big considerations.

One of the more interesting trends with remote work is the fact that people do household chores (laundry, cooking, cleaning) *during* the workday. This used to be a luxury, became a norm for a few years bc of COVID.

There's also not much of a concept of "paying your dues" anymore but that's probably a separate topic.

Every new grad goes through this—the fact is being an adult does suck at first and is really hard for a lot of people. It feels even worse and more solitary when none of your friends have to deal with the shit you do.

So, I feel bad for her but tbh expect a LOT of new/young grads feeling like this over the next 3-5 years

[Renae Sze Ming Loh (@[email protected]) @RSMLoh]

Full piece:
Loh, R.S.M., Kraaykamp, G., & van Hek, M. (2023). Student ICT resources and intergenerational transmission of educational inequality: Testing implications of a reproduction and mobility perspective. European Sociological Review, 39(5), jcad008. https://t.co/tJybgqse9z

[Renae Sze Ming Loh (@[email protected]) @RSMLoh]

Extra official now! Our paper on digital resources and social stratification in educational performance in the @ESR_news has got its volume and issue numbers!
Taking this chance to bring eyes to our companion video that summarizes the key findings. ⬇️

[Renae Sze Ming Loh (@[email protected]) @RSMLoh]

Our paper in the @ESR_news on student #ICTresources and the intergenerational transmission of #EducationalInequality now has an animated video companion! It summarizes the key findings, all in just about 2 minutes. Have a look!