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PhD Researchers

Current PhD Researchers in the Department of Media and Communications

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Ville Aula

Project: Data for Good? Data and justification in the non-profit sector 

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Alex Birintzis

Project: 'Reclaiming Greekness and resolving cognitive dissonance': queer responses to ethno-religious constructions of Greek national identity in public discourse

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Vashan Brown

Project: Profit, Power and the News Industry: Analysing News Production Culture in Jamaica

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Lewis Bush

Project: The implications of automation and artificial intelligence for visual journalism

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Joe-Ann Chavry

Project: (Re)constructing a black creole female subjectivity through online self-representation in Mauritius. 

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Yu Chen

Project: PhD in Media and Communications and Journalism in China

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Zifeng Chen

Project: Emotional Capitalism with Socialist Characteristics: A Study of the "Positive Energy" Culture on China's Short Video Platforms 

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Hossein Derakhshan

Project: Everyday experience of mass personalisation on digital platforms

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Lisa Derand

ProjectThe self-mediation of indigenous grassroots activists

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Louise Marie Hurel Silva Dias

Project: Shifting Infrastructures of Power: repurposing knowledge and configuring maintenance in cybersecurity governance

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Nan Ding

Project: An inquiry into the entanglement between algorithms and urban society: The case of local life information platforms in China




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Min Gao

Project: Telephone Girls Moving Towards Innovation: Revisiting the Socialist Gendered Technoculture in Maoist China (1949-1960)

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Abel Guerra

Project: Platformisation from the South:  mapping the infrastructures, epistemologies and imaginations of Uber’s infiltration in Brazil

Stephanie Guo

Stephanie Guo

Project: Chinese Londoners in Third Space: The digital and material making of an urban diaspora 

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Mengyun He

Project: Digital Body Production of Underprivileged Women in Contemporary China

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Runze Hu

Project:The Cultural Dynamics and Use of Immersive Virtual Environment Technologies in Users' Everyday Life

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Zichen (Jess) Hu

ProjectDynamic networks and emergent publics of Covid-19 vaccine conspiracy theories: starting from (not just fringe) communities on 4chan, 8kun and Reddit  

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Solomon Katachie

ProjectSocial-Mediated Afrobeats Culture and Identity Construction/Expression among Diasporan and Homeland West African Youth

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Asher Kessler

ProjectSpace, Time & Systems: An Intellectual History of Facebook/Meta, 2004-2021

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Ruhi Khan

Project: Feminism 3.0 and the Black Box Society: Encountering gendered violence in the age of artificial intelligence  

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Hatty Liu

Project: Reporting Dystopia: Techno-Orientalism and Speculative Fiction in Representations of China in Journalism

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Saumyadeep Mandal

Project: Screens of Othering, Screens of  Resistance: Caste, Cinema, Audiences, and Affect

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Aikaterini Mniestri

Project: Data Feminism meets Platformisation: A critical study of power and discrimination in YouTube and TikTok

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Kristeena Monteith

Project: Digital inequalities reflected and contested in Caribbean feminists online organising

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Limichi Okamoto

Project: To “Go Up and Down Together”: Participants and Non-Participants’ Legitimisation of Violence as Active Citizenship

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Diana Olaleye 

Project: Producing and Consuming Black Women’s Self-Help in Uncertain Times

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Anna Osterberg 

Project: Platforms Against the System: Historicising Technologies of Transparency and Transgression

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Sindhoora Pemmaraju

Project: South Korean Masculinity and Victimhood

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Gal Ravia

Project: Live memory: Holocaust memory and the holographic encounter

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Shivani Rao

Project: Optimisation Within and Without: Work and Subjectivity in the Smart City

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Stephanie Rodriguez

Project: Filipino American Youth Civic Becoming and Instagram Stories

 

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Paul Rohde

Project: Closing the intention-behaviour gap: validating and testing the promise of behaviour change literacy for parental mediation 

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Subhajit Sikder

Project: The shaping of hegemonic masculine culture on the Indian public sphere through the triadic relationship between visual ephemeras, content creators and ordinary user-consumer-audiences.

Ziwei Tang

Ziwei Tang

Project: Imagined Intimacy in Chinese celebrity fandoms

 

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David Threlfall

ProjectTracing the evolution of “rhetorical political economy” in major political party rhetoric in the UK and USA, 1945-2024: a multi-method comparative conceptual and ideological analysis

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Anran Wang

ProjectThe Resilience of Local Herbal Knowledge in a Mediated Society

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Hao Wang

ProjectTime starts: the politics of China speed and the embodied experience of working temporalities

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Lili Wang

ProjectThe Floating Diaspora: Transnational Habitus of the Chinese Migrants 

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Cong Xu

Project: Exploring the Correlation between Motivational Drivers, Critical Digital Literacy, and Educational Outcomes in Digital Inequalities: A Case Study of Chinese Education

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Chenhao Ye

Project: Financialisation of China’s digital news industry in the context of post-socialist capitalism