Dr Pauline Leong is currently a senior lecturer in the Department of Communication & Liberal Arts, School of Arts at Sunway University Malaysia. She completed her PhD with Monash University Malaysia, specialising in the area of political communication. Dr Leong also holds a Master of Mass Communication from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore where she was awarded the Pearson Education Gold Medal for best graduating student. She graduated from the National University of Singapore with an LLB (Hons) and was a former journalist with The Straits Times in Singapore. Dr Leong currently teaches Law and Ethics in Communication and Political Communication. Her research interests include freedom of speech and political campaigns. Dr Leong’s current research projects focus on online hate speech and satire in Malaysia.