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LIN, Jian

LIN, Jian

Assistant Professor

B.A.
Anhui Normal University

M.A.
Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Ph.D.
University of Amsterdam and Western Sydney University (Joint Ph.D. award)

(852) 3943-7703 (852) 2603-5007 jianlin1@cuhk.edu.hk

Teaching and/or Research Interests

  • Media Industries
  • Digital Cultures
  • Platform Studies

 

 

Professional Experience

  • 2019-2021 Assistant professor, Department of Media Studies and Journalism, University of Groningen
  • 2022-2023 A-Hundred-Talent program young professor, College of Media and International Culture, Zhejiang University
  • 2022-present Associate editor, journal Communication and the Public
  • 2023-Present Cultural Commons and book review editor, European Journal of Cultural Studies

 

 

Advice to student

We have tomorrows for a reason.

 

Publication List :

Books

Craig, David, Lin, Jian, and Cunningham, Stuart. Wanghong as Social Media Entertainment in China. Palgrave and McMillan. (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-65376-7

Lin, Jian. Chinese Creator Economies: Labour, Subjectivity and the Bilateral Creatives. New York University Press (2023) https://nyupress.org/9781479811878/chinese-creator-economies/

Referred Articles

Lin, J. (2024). Algorithmic cosmopolitanism, and platform nationalism: From the paradox of the TikTok ban. Dialogues on Digital Society, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/29768640241260181View >
Fong, S. Y., & Lin, J. (2024). Envisioning cultural commoning: New Cultural Commons editors’ dialogue on Global South perspectives, inclusivity and Cultural Studies. European Journal of Cultural Studies. https://doi.org/10.1177/13675494241237158View >
Lin, J., & de Kloet, J. (2023). TikTok and the platformisation from China: Geopolitical anxieties, repetitive creativities and future imaginaries. Media, Culture & Society, 45(8), 1525-1533.View >
Lin, J., Swart, J., & Zeng, G. (2023). Theorising TikTok cultures: Neuro-images in the era of short videos. Media, Culture & Society. https://doi.org/10.1177/01634437231202167View >
Duan, Shichang, Jian Lin, and José van Dijck. “Producing new farmers in Chinese rural live E-commerce: platformization, labor, and live E-commerce sellers in Huaiyang.” Chinese Journal of Communication (2023): 1-17.
van Dijck, José, and Jian Lin. “Deplatformization, Platform Governance and Global Geopolitics: Interview with José van Dijck.” Communication and the Public, (2022): 10.1177/20570473221102199.
De Kloet, Jeroen, Jian Lin, and Juelin Hu. “The politics of emotions under COVID-19: Turning fear into pride in China’s WeChat discourse”. China Information 35.3 (2021):366–392, https://doi:10.1177/0920203X211048290.
Chen, Siyu, and Jian Lin. “Making with Shenzhen (Characteristics)—Strategy and Everyday Tactics in a City’s Creative Turn.” Sustainability 13.9 (2021): 4923.
de Kloet, Jeroen, Jian Lin, and Yiu Fai Chow. “‘We are doing better’: Biopolitical nationalism and the COVID-19 virus in East Asia.” European Journal of Cultural Studies 23.4 (2020): 635-640.
de Kloet, Jeroen, Jian Lin, and Yiu Fai Chow. “Introduction: Creative labour in East Asia.” Global Media and China (2020): 347-353. (special issue)
Lin, Jian, and Jeroen de Kloet. “Platformization of the unlikely creative class: Kuaishou and Chinese digital cultural production.” Social Media+ Society 5.4 (2019): 2056305119883430.
Lin, Jian. “Be creative for the state: Creative workers in Chinese state-owned cultural enterprises.” International Journal of Cultural Studies 22.1 (2019): 53-69.
Lin, Jian. “(Un-) becoming Chinese creatives: transnational mobility of creative labour in a ‘global’Beijing.” Mobilities(2019): DOI: 10.1080/17450101.2019.1571724.

Book Chapter(s)

Lin, Jian. The Spatial Production of Wanghong: Political Economy, Labour Mobility and the “Unlikely” Creativity. In M. Will-Zocholl, & C. Roth-Ebner (Eds.), Topologies of Digital Work: How digitisation and virtualisation shape working spaces and places. Palgrave MacMillan. (2021): 121-148.

Lin, Jian, and Jeroen de Kloet. “Platformization of the unlikely creative class: Kuaishou and Chinese digital cultural production.” (reproduction). In R. Hoyng, & G. P. L. Chong (Eds.), Communication Innovation and Its Infrastructures: A Critique of the New in a Multipolar World. Michigan State University Press (2022)

Edited Special Issue

Lin, J., & de Kloet, J. (Eds.) (2023). TikTok and the platformisation from China. Media, Culture & Society, 45(8).
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