Mark Andrejevic
Mark Andrejevic is a Chief Investigator at the Monash University node of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making & Society (ADM+S). Mark Andrejevic is Professor of Media Studies in the School of Media, Film, and Journalism at Monash University. His research covers the social, political, and cultural impact of digital media, with a focus on surveillance and popular culture. He is the author of four monographs, including, most recently Automated Media, as well as more than 90 academic articles and book chapters. He is a member of the Council for Big Data, Ethics, and Society and heads up the Automated Society Working Group at Monash. Before coming to Monash he held positions at the University of Queensland and the University of Iowa.

Ang Peng Hwa
Ang Peng Hwa is Professor at the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, where he had served as Dean and Chair. Currently, he is editor of the Asian Journal of Communication. He was President of the International Communication Association in 2016/1017, the first Asian to be so elected. His research interests lie in media law and policy and he has consulted on the subject for the governments of Singapore, Thailand and Bhutan.

Seyram Avle
Seyram Avle is an Associate Professor in the Department of Communication, University of Massachusetts Amherst. Her research focuses on digital technology cultures and innovation across parts of Africa, China, and the United States. This work primarily takes a critical approach towards understanding how digital technologies are made and used, as well as their implications for issues of labor, identity, and futures.

Jose-Miguel Bello y Villarino
Jose-Miguel Bello y Villarino is a Research Fellow at the University of Sydney node of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making & Society (ADM+S). José-Miguel (name) Bello y Villarino (surname, altogether) (Lic. Law, Lic. Pol.Sc. (Santiago de Compostela), LLM (CoE, Brugge), LLM (NYU), M.A. Int’l Rel. (Diplom. Sch. Madrid) is a Researcher at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society in the governance programme based at the University of Sydney Law School and a member of the Diplomatic Corps of Spain (on leave). His work in the ADM domain is particularly concerned with the policy implications of machine-assisted decision making and its implementation in regulatory terms. He has previously worked for the Commission and the Council of the EU.

Marianne von Blomberg
Marianne von Blomberg is a Research Associate at the Chair of Chinese Legal Culture where she explores how the evolving Social Credit Systems strengthen, transform, and challenge the law. Her current research focuses on reputational sanctions in social credit systems and social credit’s genealogy.

Vincent Brussee
Vincent Brussee is a PhD Candidate at Leiden University, specializing in the application of data science and natural language processing for contemporary Chinese policy analysis. He is author of the recent book “Social Credit: The Warring States of China’s Emerging Data Empire” (Palgrave Macmillan 2023). Before, he was an Analyst at the Mercator Institute for China Studies (MERICS) in Berlin.

Pengfan Chang
Pengfan Chang is a first-year graduate student in the School of Journalism and Communication, at Shanghai University.

Wenhong Chen
Wenhong Chen is a professor of media studies and sociology and a Distinguished Scholar in the Strauss Center for International Security and Law at UT Austin. Dr.Chen’s current project examines how U.S.and Chinese AI policies affect tech and media entrepreneurship.

Yao Chen
Yao Chen is a PhD Candidate in Hebei University, China.

David Craig
David Craig is a clinical professor at USC Annenberg, a visiting scholar at Harvard University, and a visiting professor at Shanghai JiaoTong University. As a pioneer in the emerging field of creator studies, along with co-authors and co-editors, Craig has published multiple texts about the transnational rise of creator culture and its Chinese counterpart, wanghong culture.

Stuart Cunningham
Stuart Cunningham AM is Distinguished Professor of Media and Communications, Digital Media Research Centre, Creative Industries Faculty, Queensland University of Technology. Previously Director of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation, he is a leading researcher and advocate for the development of creative industries policies. He managed and oversaw the development of the Trident method of measuring the creative economy which has had international influence and has published key works in the field such as Hidden Innovation: Policy, Industry and the Creative Sector. He played a critical advisory role in the development of A New Approach’s Insight Report 5: Australia’s cultural and creative economy: A 21st century guide.

Fankai Dai
Fankai Dai is a graduate student in School of Journalism & Communication, Tsinghua University, China.

Xin Dai
Xin Dai is an Associate Professor at Peking University Law School. Xin’s research interests include legal theories, law and society, economic analysis of law, information privacy and internet law.

Zhang Ding

Pengfei Fu
Pengfei Fu is an Assistant Professor in the School of Media & Communication at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China. His research focuses on data and algorithmic governance, digital labour, and everyday media practices.

Anthony Y. H. Fung
Anthony Y. H. Fung is a professor at the School of Journalism and Communication in the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is also the director of Hong Kong Institute of Asia Pacific Studies in the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Liang Ge
Liang Ge is a PhD candidate at the Culture, Media and Creative Industries Department, King’s College London. Liang’s doctoral project explores the body, desires and embodiment in Chinese boys’ love culture community.

Jake Goldenfein
Jake Goldenfein is a law and technology scholar at Melbourne Law School and an Chief Investigator in the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society. Prior to his appointment at MLS he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Digital Life Initiative at Cornell Tech, Cornell University. Jake studies platform regulation, data governance, digital surveillance, and the governance of automated decision-making. Jake’s first monograph ‘Monitoring Laws’ was published with Cambridge University Press in 2019, and his current work explores the ways law constructs the data economy, digital surveillance including facial recognition, and tools for governing automated decision-making like a ‘human in the loop’ and AI explanations.

Piotr Grzebyk
Piotr Grzebyk is the vice dean for legal research and international collaboration and associate professor at the Faculty of Law and Administration, University of Warsaw. He is the head of the Polish Research Centre for Law and Economy of China and the director School of Law and Economy of China.

Yicong Guan
Yicong Guan is a doctoral student at the School of Media and Communication ofShanghai Jiao Tong University.

Zixin Guo

Xiao Han
Xiao Han is a Research Associate Professor at the State Key Laboratory of Media Convergence and Communication, Communication University of China. Her research focuses on the relationship between digital media and women’s empowerment in the Chinese context.

Qing He
Qing He is Assistant Professor, Law Faculty, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, China. With a PhD in economic law, teaching and research interests including data protection, technology regulation, economic analysis of law and comparative law, Dr Qing He specializes in competition law and Internet law.

Renyi He
Renyi He is a PhD candidate at the School of Journalism and Communication, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. His research interests include nationalism, identity, and digital citizenship.

Jiaxi Hou
Jiaxi Hou is a PhD candidate majoring in Interdisciplinary Information Studies at the University of Tokyo. Her research concentrates on how various digital technologies intervene and reshape social inequalities and marginality in East Asia.

Hu Ling
Hu Ling is an Associate Professor of Law in Peking University, and has a Ph.D Degree from Hong Kong University. His major research area is cyberlaw and legal theory. He has published a number of books, articles and review essays on Internet governance issues, including two recent books: Digital Architecture and Law (2024) and Internet with Cooperation (coauthor, 2024).

Tingting Hu
Tingting Hu is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Media and Communication, Xi’an Jiaotong Liverpool University. Her research interest lies in the articulation of film, media and cultural studies with feminist theories, transmedia studies in various social and cultural contexts.

Bingxi Huang
Bingxi Huang is a final-year PhD student in the School of Communication and Arts at The University of Queensland. Her research topic focuses on the self-representation and identity construction of Chinese rural women on short-video platforms Douyin and Kuaishou.

Gejun Huang
Gejun Huang is an assistant professor in the Department of Media andCommunication at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University. His research mainly toucheson the digital game industry, media entrepreneurship, digital inequalities, and digitalprivacy.

Yingjia Huang
Yingjia Huang is a master’s student in the School of New Media, Peking University. She is interested in human-machine communication and digital society.

Xiufeng Jia
Xiufeng Jia is a Lecturer in Digital Media at the University of Sussex. Her work explores how digital technology, especially AI and data-driven technologies, are experienced in everyday life. She considers questions of privacy, human and data agency, and issues of data and discrimination. She also boasts expertise in Big Data analytics, digital methods, digital health, and app studies.

Qianhui Ju
Qianhui Ju is a Master’s student in the Television School at the Communication University of China, with a research focus on Internet Cultures.

Michael Keane
Michael Keane is adjunct Professor at Queensland University of Technology’s Digital Media Research Centre. Prof Keane’s key research interests are digital transformation in China; East Asian cultural and media policy; television in China, and creative industries and cultural export strategies in China and East Asia.

Jianfeng Lan
Jianfeng Lan is a Ph.D. student in School of Media and Communication, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. He’s interested in the socio-psychological effect of human-robot interaction.

Wynston Lee
Wynston Lee is a PhD candidate at RMIT’s School of Media and Communications. His research intersects between studies of economy, technology and society, with a focus on Asian contexts. His doctorate thesis takes a comparative approach to examining China’s social credit systems.

Jiayue Li
Jiayue Li is a doctoral student at the College of Journalism and Communications,University of Florida,U.S.A.She is interested in investigating human-robot and human-human interactions using a phenomenological approach.

Wenyu Liao
Wenyu Liao is a graduate student in the School of Arts and Sciences at University of Pennsylvania.

Fen Lin
Fen Lin is an Associate Professor in the Department of Media and Communication at City University of Hong Kong. Her research interests include state-media dynamics, media and social change, information governance, technology and innovation, social movements, and political communication.

Jian Lin
Jian Lin is an assistant professor in the School of Journalism and Communication at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He researches platform societies, cultural industries, creative labor, and digital cultures in the global Chinese context.

Zhi Lin
Zhi Lin a PhD student in the School of Journalism and Media, The University of Texas at Austin. Her research explores global political communication, media technology, social media with a focus on the structure of communication and the construction of meaning using mixed-methods.

Chuncheng Liu
Chuncheng Liu is a postdoctoral researcher at Microsoft Research New England Social Media Collective and a forthcoming Assistant Professor of Communication Studies and Sociology at Northeastern University. His research interests span science and technology studies (STS), political sociology, critical data studies, economic sociology, medical sociology, and mixed methods.

Jindong Leo-Liu
Jindong Leo-Liu is a PhD candidate from the School of Journalism and Communication, the Chinese University of Hong Kong. His research interests include Human–Machine communication, VR/AR Metaverse, popular culture, critical analysis, and new media.

Jun Liu
Jun Liu is an award-winning author and Associate Professor in the Centre for Tracking and Society, the University of Copenhagen. His research areas cover political communication, political sociology, ICTs, comparative and computational social science. He is leading a four-year comparative study on political movements in China, EU, and the US.

Shujun Liu
Shujun Liu is a Research Associate of School of Social Sciences at Cardiff University, where she works as a part of ESRC project “Understanding [Online/Offline] Society: Linking Surveys with Twitter Data”. Her key research interests include digital media studies, computational social science, climate communication, political communication.

Tingting Liu
Tingting Liu is an Associate Professor at the School of Journalism and Communication at Jinan University in Guangzhou, China. Dr. Liu’s academic pursuits delve deeply into media anthropology, digital culture, and popular entertainment, with a keen regional focus on both China and Australia.

Xiyao Liu
Xiyao Liu is a PhD candidate in the school of Media, Film and Journalism at Monash University. Her research examines the culture values (trust and credibility) embedded in the China’s Social Credit System.

Ramon Lobato
Ramon Lobato is an Associate Professor and Australian Research Council Future Fellow in the RMIT School of Media and Communication. The analytical focus of his research is on digital distribution networks, and how they structure audience access, discovery, and content diversity. Ramon has published widely within film and television studies, digital media studies, media industry studies, and cultural policy studies.

Jiajie Lu
Jiajie Lu is a lecturer at Dongguan University of Technology. He received his doctoral degree at Queensland University of Technology. Before teaching at university, he had been working for AGB Nielsen Media Research and Shenzhen Media Group. His research interests including media use and identity of Chinese diaspora, digital reading, and video game.

Yuguo Luo
Yuguo Luo, a Master’s student in the Department of Media and Communications at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), with a research focus on Intelligent Communication and Automated Decision Making.

Yunjuan Luo
Yunjuan Luo is a professor in School of Journalism and Communications, South China Univeristy of Technology. Her research interests include digital media use and effects, international communication, and public opinion research.

Aifang Ma
Aifang Ma is a Boya Postdoctoral Scholar and a Lecturer at the School of Journalism and Communication at Peking University. She is the author of China as a Double-Bind Regulatory State: How Regulators’ Predicament Produces Regulatees’ Autonomy (2024, Palgrave MacMillan). Her research interests: internet regulation of China, platform governance, governance of artificial intelligence.

Tianchan Mao
Tianchan Mao is an incoming Post-doctoral Fellow at the School of Journalism, Fudan University. She is a joint Ph.D of Fudan University and the National University of Singapore (2020-2023). Her research primarily focuses on platform studies and media industry studies.

Jing Meng
Jing Meng is an assistant professor in media studies with Peking University HSBC Business School. Her research interests reside in digital journalism and digital technologies.

Ziying Meng
Ziying Meng is a PhD candidate at the University of Melbourne in Australia. Her thesis explores video creators’ cross-platform practices on Chinese and US-based social media services. Her research interests include digital platforms, influencer and creator cultures, Chinese social media, digital ethnography and smart technologies.

Yi Mou
Yi Mou,Ph.D.,is Professor at the School of Media and Communication of ShanghaiJiao Tong University.Her research interest is centered on Human-MachineCommunication,particularly psychological effect and social impacts of artificialintelligence.

Elisa Oreglia
Elisa Oreglia is a Reader in Global Digital Cultures, King’s College London. She studies the circulation, adoption, and use of digital technologies in Asia, with a specific focus on China and the Global South in general. She is interested in the localized socio-technical practices that emerge from technology users who are far from urban centres and advanced economies, as well as the political economy that surrounds technology development and circulation.

Biying Wu Ouyang
Biying Wu Ouyang is a PhD candidate in communication from Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her research interests include affective, news and political mechanism and consequences of emerging media including algorithm, social media, mobile media, HCI.

Yulu Ouyang

Jack Linchuan Qiu
Jack Linchuan Qiu is Shaw Foundation Professor in Media Technology, Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information, Nanyang Technological University. He has published extensively in English and Chinese exploring issues of digital media and social change in relation to labor, class, globalization, and sustainability.

Yuanbo Qiu
Yuanbo Qiu is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in School of Journalism and Communications, South China University of Technology. His research investigates the political and social implications of digital media, particularly when they relate to intersections between participation and datafication.

Ned Rossiter
Ned Rossiter is Director of Research at the Institute for Culture and Society and Professor of Communication in the School of Humanities and Communication Arts, Western Sydney University. He is noted for his research on network cultures, the politics of cultural labour, logistical media, and data politics. His major publications include Organized Networks: Media Theory, Creative Labour, New Institutions (2006), Software, Infrastructure, Labor: A Media Theory of Logistical Nightmares (2016), and (with Geert Lovink) Organization after Social Media (2018).

Sofiya Sayankina
Sofiya Sayankina is a researcher at the Center for International Cooperation and Strategy, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, in Seoul, Republic of Korea. Her research focuses on cybersecurity and emerging technology policy.

Florian Schneider
Florian Schneider’s research interests include questions of governance and public administration in the PRC, Taiwan, and Hong Kong, political communication strategies and political content of popular Chinese entertainment, recent Chinese economic developments, as well as Chinese foreign policy. He is also managing editor of the academic journal ‘Asiascape: Digital Asia’.

Chunmeizi Su
Chunmeizi Su is a Lecturer of Digital Cultures at the University of Sydney. Her research focuses on algorithms, and digital entertainment industry, including but not limited to platform studies, Chinese tech industry studies, screen industry studies, and cultural soft power.

Yinuo Sun
Yinuo Sun is a doctorate student of literature, Journalism and Communication at Nanjing Normal University. Her research interests include internet governance, cross-cultural communication and new media studies.

Yu Sun
Yu Sun is the Lecturer in Media and Sociology at the University of Glasgow. Her research interests involve online deliberation, the public sphere, feminist media studies, data in social movements and activism, mediated publics, internet and digital infrastructure, algorithms and social governance, Global and Chinese media, etc.

Igor Szpotakowsk
Igor Szpotakowski is a PhD Candidate at Newcastle University and a Deputy Convenor of the Law and Futures Research Group within the Newcastle Law School. His research explores the development of and intersection between private law and emerging technology, specifically focusing on the further regulation of generative AI services.

Na Ta
Na Ta is an associate professor at the School of Journalism and Communication, Renmin University of China. Her research interests include online socialnetworks, platformization and new media, computational communication, andintelligent communication.

Zixue Tai
Zixue Tai is the head of the Media Arts and Studies program in the School of Journalism and Media at the University of Kentucky. His research interests pertain to a multitude of issues in the new media landscape of China. He is the author of The Internet in China: Cyberspace and Civil Society (Routledge, 2006).

Jingxin Tan
Jingxin Tan is a Master’s candidate at the School of Journalism and Communication at Jinan University in Guangzhou, China. Ms Tan received the Bachelor degree from South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China. Her research interest focuses on digital labour and gender.

Wenjia Tang
Wenjia Tang is a PhD candidate at Discipline of Media and Communications, University of Sydney. Her research is now on the platform industry and digital glocalisation, with a particular interest in entertainment media, platform policies & regulation, metaverse and web3, and global culture consumption.

Leiyuan Tian
Leiyuan Tian (B.A. Media and Arts/Art History, Duke Kunshan University) is a graduate student currently pursuing her MSc in Media and Communications (Research) at the London School of Economics and Political Science. Her research focuses on digital media cultures and the impacts of new technology on political participation and civic engagement.

Paulina Uznańska
Paulina Uznańska is a PhD candidate in law at the Doctoral School for Social Sciences, the University of Warsaw. Paulina serves as the Deputy Head of the Polish Research Centre for Law and Economy of China.

Gabriel Wagner
Gabriel Wagner is an MPhil candidate at the Division of Public Policy at the Hong KongUniversity of Science and Technology where he focuses on AI governance. His broaderresearch interest concerns science, technology, and innovation policy in contemporary China. He is an affiliate with Concordia AI, a Beijing-based social enterprise focused on AI safety and governance.

Haiyan Wang
Haiyan Wang is an associate professor for the Department of Communication at the University of Macau. Her academic and research interests include the impact of digital media on journalism and political communication. She is the author of The Transformation of Investigative Journalism in China: From Journalists to Activists (2016, Lexington Books).

Weijia Wang
Weijia Wang is a graduate student in College of Media and International Culture, Zhejiang University, China.

Wilfred Yang Wang
Wilfred Yang Wang is a lecturer in Media and Communications Studies at the University of Melbourne, Australia. His research focuses on data and algorithmic governance, the biopolitics of ageing, diasporic media, digital geography and China. He is the author of the book, Digital Media in Urban China Locating Guangzhou (Rowman & Littlefield International, 2019).

Yingwei Wang
Yingwei Wang is a graduate student in School ofJournalism and Communication,Shanghai University.His research interests aremedia effects and new media users.

Zhiwei Wang
Zhiwei Wang is a fourth-year PhD student in Sociology at the School of Social and Political Science, University of Edinburgh. His research interests include national identity; digital and social media; cyberpunk culture; biopower; digital health; social capital; Marxism; neoliberalism; digital labour; agency and structure; surveillance; deviance; and East Asia. The topic of his PhD research is discursive (re)production of Internet-mediated Chinese national identity.

Daniel Whelan-Shamy
Daniel Whelan-Shamy is a New Zealand-born PhD student at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT). His research areas of interest include digital ethics, computational propaganda, misinformation/disinformation and changing perceptions of how we view and interact with automated and highly automated actors online.

Yang Wu
Yang Wu is an PhD student in the Department of Media and Communication at City University of Hong Kong. His research examines media convergence and diffusion of digital human technologies.

Jian Xu
Jian Xu is Senior Lecturer in Communication at Deakin University. He researches Chinese digital media culture and celebrity studies. He is co-convenor of the Asian Media, Culture and Society Research Group at Deakin University and is series editor of Asian Celebrity and Fandom Studies with Bloomsbury.

Kun Xu
Kun Xu is an Assistant Professor ofEmerging Media at the College of Journalism and Communications, University ofFlorida,U.S.A. His research centers on the mutual shaping of humans and technologies in the contexts of human-robot interaction, human-computer interaction, and computer-mediated communication.

Fan Yang
Fan Yang studies the effects of large-scale international digital technologies with their cross-jurisdictional tensions and expectations, and their cross-boarder effects on political activity and identity. Her research interest intersects Chinese technologies and governance, migration studies, innovative digital research methods, and postcolonial technoscience.

Guobin Yang
Guobin Yang is Grace Lee Boggs Professor of Communication and Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania. He researches social movements, digital culture, global communication, and contemporary China. Guobin Yang is also Director of the Center on Digital Culture and Society, Interim Director of the Center for Advanced Research in Global Communication, and Deputy Director of the Center for the Study of Contemporary China.

Yi Yang
Yi Yang is a Ph.D. candidate in the School of Journalism and Communication of the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her research interests lie in platform studies, digital labor studies, and digital memory studies.

Yufan Yang
Yufan Yang, a Master’s student in the Television School at the Communication University of China, with a research focus on Digital Inequality and Digital Inclusion.

Xiaoyu Ye
Xiaoyu Ye is a MA student at the School of Media and Communication of ShanghaiJiao Tong University.

TianjieYi

Haiqing Yu
Haiqing Yu is Professor of Media and Communication and ARC Future Fellow at RMIT University. She is also a Chief Investigator of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society. Her current projects examine the social implications of China’s social credit system, technological innovation and digital transformation; China’s digital presence in Australasia; and Chinese-language digital/social media in Australia.

Kaiyi Yu
Kaiyi Yu is a master student in Hubbard school, university of Minnesota.

Peter Yu
Peter Yu is Regents Professor of Law and Communication and Director of the Center for Law and Intellectual Property at Texas A&M University. He has held a number of visiting professorshi p at international universities. Peter is the founder of Intellectual Property & Communications Law Program at Michigan State University.

Xue Yu
Xue Yu, hold mater degree in Media and Communication Studies, currently working as a media researcher from China Media Group CCTV Pioneer Media Research Center.

Yuehong Yu
Yuehong Yu is a Ph.D. candidate at the School of Journalism and Communication, Renmin University of China.

Zizheng Yu
Dr. Zizheng Yu is a lecturer in promotional media at the Department of Communications, Drama and Film, at the University of Exeter. Zizheng’s recent work is concerned with consumer activism/nationalism, AI/algorithmic resistance, advertising/promotional media, social media platforms (e.g., TikTok/Douyin), media activism, and digital media practices.

Jing Zeng
Jing Zeng is an assistant Professor of Digital Methods and Critical Data Studies atUtrecht University.Her research concerns the sociocultural implications of digitaltechnologies,with a particular focus on developing innovative computational methodsfor empirical research.

Haoyang Zhai
Haoyang Zhai is a PhD candidate at the School of Culture and Communication, University of Melbourne. Her doctoral project explores the intersection of spirituality and digital media, specifically focusing on Chinese social media platforms. She is also interested in investigating the impact of platform governance and Internet censorship on digital culture.

Dino Ge Zhang
Dino Ge Zhang is a media anthropologist teaching at the School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong. His current research focuses on socio-technics, aesthetics, and affective ecologies of contemporary (live)streaming media/platforms in the Sinophone world. For more info, please visit anthropos.live.

Han Zhang
Han Zhang is an associate professor at Shenzhen University. She received her doctoral degree at Wuhan University. Her research interests focus on digital publishing, digital reading, and digital journalism.

Xue Zhang
Dr. Xue Zhang is a Research Fellow at the Centre of Excellence for National Security (CENS), S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore. Her research interests include information, media and health literacy, information management, and counter-misinformation/disinformation measures.

Yiyan Zhang
Yiyan Zhang (Ph.D., Boston University) is an assistant professor at the School of Journalism and Communication at Renmin University of China. Her research focuses on digital media effects, international communication, and computational communication.

Xinyang Zhao
Xinyang Zhao earned his PhD in media, culture and creative arts from Curtin University. He currently works as a postdoctoral fellow at the School of Humanities, Tongji University in Shanghai. His research focuses on the cultural and social implications of extended reality (XR) and artificial intelligence (AI), with a particular emphasis on their manifestations in China.

Pei Zhi
Pei Zhi is a PhD student interested in political communication, especially the election campaign in Hong Kong Legislative Council election. His dissertation topic is about the nexus of political logic and media logic in the political elite-making process in Hong Kong.

Haoming Zhou
Haoming Zhou is a current PhD student in the Department of Communicaion and Media at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. His research interests mainly include digital technologies, marginalized populaions, and criical cultural studies.

Ruiming Zhou
Ruiming Zhou is a “Hundred Talent Program” research fellow in College of Media and International Culture, Zhejiang University, China

Shouhui Zhou
Shouhui Zhou is a Master’s student in Social Data Science at the University of Copenhagen, with a minor in Finance and Accounting from Copenhagen Business School. Besides, he holds a bachelor’s degree from Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, majoring in Finance and Artificial Intelligence. My research interests are Data Science and Computational Social Science, including machine learning, natural language processing, political communication, social media, fintech, etc. He has participated in research on China’s health insurance policy as a research assistant at Tsinghua University. And I am a research group member in the Center for AI and Digital Policy.

Guangnan Zhu
Guangnan (Rio) Zhu is a PhD candidate in School of Communication, Queensland University of Technology. His research focuses on the development and application of computational methods and machine learning techniques in communication and digital media, especially in detecting and analysing online disinformation and misinformation. His PhD project focuses on the detection of coordinated inauthentic behaviour using multimodal data.

Jiawen Zhu

Ju Zou
Ju Zou is deputy dean of School of Journalism and Communication, Nanjing Normal University. He is a correspondent reviewer for the National Social Science Foundation of China, the secretary-general and the executive council member of the Media Regulations and Ethics Committee of the Chinese Association for History of Journalism and Communication, and the executive director of Jiangsu Media Arts Research Committee. He researches media regulations and ethics and cyberspace governance.

Zhengyu Zuo
Zhengyu Zuo is a PhD student at School of Economics, Renmin University of China. Her research interest includes corporate finance and Chinese economy. Her research has been published in journals such as China Economic Review and Systems Engineering-Theory and Practice. Her works are presented at the ABFER, CFRC, and China Finance Annual Conference, etc.