十大网赌网址

Associate Professor, School of Communication, East China Normal University, Shanghai

Editorial board member: Economic and Labour Relations Review

E-mail: bqxia@comm.ecnu.edu.cn

EDUCATION

· October 2010 – July 2014

Ph.D. (PhD supervisors: Prof. David Hesmondhalgh and Prof. Helen Kennedy)

School of Media and Communication, University of Leeds, UK

· 2008 - 2010

Master of Arts

Department of Communication and New Media, Faculty of Social Science and Humanities, University of Macau, Macau

· 2004 - 2008

Bachelor of History

Department of History, Faculty of Humanities, Zhejiang University, China

RESEARCH INTERESTS

digital labour, creative/cultural industries, political economic of communication, critical theories, data labelling workers

PUBLICATIONS

· Xia, B. (2022) “Labour agency in the future of work: Shenzhen’s maker community”, The Economic and Labour Relations Review 33(3): 484–501

· Xia, B. (2021) “Rethinking digital labour: A renewed critique moving beyond the exploitation paradigm”, The Economic and Labor Relations Review 32(3): 311-321

· Xia, B. (2019) “Precarious labour in waiting: internships in the Chinese internet industries”, The Economic and Labor Relations Review 30(3): 382-399

· Xia, B. (2018) “Capital accumulation and work in China’s internet content industry: Struggling in the bubble”, The Economic and Labor Relations Review 29(4): 501-520

· Xia, B. & Fuchs, C. (2017) ‘The financialisation of digital capitalism in China’, Westminster Advanced Studies, Issue number 4

· Xia, B. (2017) ‘Internet workers’ emerging agency and new political dynamics in China’, in ICA Theme Book

· Xia, B. (2015) ‘Marx’s in Chinese online space: some thoughts on the labour problem in Chinese internet industries’, in Christian F. & Fisher E. (ed.) Reconsidering value and Labour in Digital Age, Palgrave

· Xia, B. (2015) Who shapes online sociality – Book review: Jose van Dijck, The culture of connectivity: A critical history of social media, European Journal of Cultural Studies Aug-Oct 18: 595-598

· Xia, B. (2014) ‘Digital labour in the new media sweatshop’, Communication, Capitalism & Critique, Vol.12(2): 668-693

· Xia, B. & Kennedy, H. (2014) ‘The role of Chinese Internet industry workers in creating alternative online spaces’ in Herold, D. & Marolt, P. (ed.) Online China: Locating Society in Online Spaces, Routledge

· Xia, B. (2012) ‘Preliminary Research on Labour in Chinese Internet Industries’, Networking Knowledge: Journal of the MeCCSA-PGN, Vol.5 (1): 246-265

RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

· August 2022 – August 2023

Visiting scholar at Department of Political and Social Sciences at Milan University, funded by China Scholar Council

· August 2019 – December 2022

Investigator of ‘The construction process of AI news producers’ subjectivities: Reconstruction of gatekeepers’ professionalism’, funded by Shanghai Philosophy and Social Science Funding

· April 2019 – April 2020

Investigator of ‘ 2019 East China Normal University Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities’, funded by East China Normal University

· June 2018 – March 2019

Investigator of ‘ 2018 East China Normal University Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities’, funded by East China Normal University

· April 2018 – March 2019

Investigator of ‘High-level Young Talents Programme’, funded by East China Normal University

· April – September 2017

Co-Investigator of ‘“New Shanzhai”: Ethnographies of collaborative creative communities and associated innovative business models, values, ethics and modes of practice and production processes in Shenzhen’, funded by Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)

· December 2016 – July 2017

International visiting fellowship in Critical Digital & Social Media Research, funded by The Westminster Institute for Advanced Studies

· April 2015 – April 2016

Investigator of ‘Will Chinese internet industries become a ‘Chinese factor’ or ‘Chinese market’? – policies in Chinese internet industries’, funded by Macau Foundation

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Associate Professor, East China Normal University, December 2021 – till now

Assistant Professor, East China Normal University, January 2018 – December 2021

Assistant Professor, Macau University of Science and Technology, September 2014 – January 2018