Associate Professor, School ofCommunication, East China Normal University, Shanghai
Editorial board member: Economic andLabour Relations Review
E-mail: bqxia@comm.ecnu.edu.cn
EDUCATION
· October 2010 –July 2014
Ph.D. (PhDsupervisors: Prof. David Hesmondhalgh and Prof. Helen Kennedy)
School of Media and Communication, Universityof 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
RESEARCHINTERESTS
digital labour, creative/cultural industries, political economic of communication,critical theories, datalabelling workers
PUBLICATIONS
· Xia, B. (2022) “Labour agency in the future ofwork: 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: internshipsin the Chinese internet industries”, TheEconomic and Labor Relations Review 30(3): 382-399
· Xia, B. (2018) “Capitalaccumulation and work in China’s internet content industry: Struggling in thebubble”, The Economic and Labor RelationsReview 29(4): 501-520
· Xia,B. & Fuchs, C. (2017) ‘The financialisation of digital capitalism inChina’, Westminster Advanced Studies,Issue number 4
· Xia, B. (2017) ‘Internetworkers’ 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 socialmedia, European Journal of CulturalStudies 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 ofChinese Internet industry workers in creating alternative online spaces’ inHerold, D. & Marolt, P. (ed.) OnlineChina: Locating Society in Online Spaces, Routledge
· Xia, B. (2012) ‘Preliminary Research on Labour inChinese Internet Industries’, Networking Knowledge: Journalof the MeCCSA-PGN, Vol.5 (1): 246-265
RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
· August 2022 – August 2023
Visiting scholar at Department of Politicaland 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 byShanghai Philosophy and Social Science Funding
· April 2019 – April 2020
Investigator of ‘ 2019 East China Normal University Fundamental ResearchFunds for the Central Universities’, funded by East China Normal University
· June 2018 – March 2019
Investigator of ‘ 2018 East China Normal University Fundamental ResearchFunds for the Central Universities’, funded by East China Normal University
· April 2018 – March 2019
Investigator of ‘High-level Young Talents Programme’, funded by EastChina Normal University
· April– September 2017
Co-Investigator of ‘“New Shanzhai”: Ethnographies of collaborative creativecommunities and associated innovative business models, values, ethics and modesof practice and production processes in Shenzhen’, funded by Arts and Humanities ResearchCouncil (AHRC)
· December2016 – July 2017
Internationalvisiting fellowship in Critical Digital & Social Media Research, funded byThe Westminster Institute for Advanced Studies
· April 2015 – April 2016
Investigator of ‘Will Chinese internetindustries become a ‘Chinese factor’ or ‘Chinese market’? – policies in Chineseinternet industries’, funded by Macau Foundation
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Associate Professor, East China Normal University, December 2021– till now
AssistantProfessor, East China NormalUniversity, January 2018 – December 2021
Assistant Professor, Macau University of Science andTechnology, September 2014 – January 2018
