Selected Member of a year-long Mellon Sawyer Seminar at University of Cambridge UK looking at 'Histories of AI: A Genealogy of Power' from May 2020 to July 2021.
Elaine Jing Zhao
Deans Research Award for Best Monograph by an Early Career Researcher in the category of Academic Excellence, in recognition of the book Digital China's Informal Circuits: Platforms, Labour and Governance (London and New York: Routledge, 2019).
Committee Feedback: Digital China’s Informal Circuits is a highly original and intellectually energetic work that treats an understudied topic - the imbrication of informal circuits and formal economic structures in China's digital media economy. Well written, highly engaging, and thought provoking, it tackles a subject of immense importance to the contemporary world, while holding significance well beyond its immediate topic.
Fever games: SIMON MICHAEL TAYLOR
Fever Games' a video presentation on thermal surveillance for Tony D. Sampson organised conference—A&SM#4.5 Media Virality and the Lockdown Aesthetic—University of East London, UK 16 July, 2020.
IN THE MEDIA : Elaine Jing Zhao
Elaine Jing Zhao on SBS.com.au talking about TikTok's rapid development and the growing controversy surrounding the platform.
IN THE MEDIA: Tanja Dreher
Tanja Dreher spoke to The Sydney Morning Herald’s Melanie Kembrey on cancel culture controversies.