Qiu, Jack Linchuan

I am a Professor at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, where I direct the Centre for Chinese Media and Comparative Communication Research and co-direct the Centre for Social Innovation Studies. I am an elected Fellow of the International Communication Association (ICA) and recipient of the C. Edwin Baker Award for the Advancement of Scholarship on Media, Markets and Democracy.

My research focuses on media and social class, globalization, development, social movements, especially on digital economy and digital labor in China, Hong Kong, and Southeast Asia. I publish in both English and Chinese. My work has been translated into German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, and Korean. Thanks to connections through IAMCR, in recent years I have started collaborative publication and research projects with colleagues in Brazil, Portugal and Africa.

I’d like to join the International Council in order to help promote communication research globally, especially in Asia and the Global South. For this, I can share my experiences and resources because I am currently President of Chinese Communication Association (CCA) and Secretary of Asia-Pacific Communication Alliance (APCA). I am also a former chair of ICA’s Membership and Internationalization Committee, and a former ExCo member of Association of Internet Research (AoIR).

For further information, please refer to my personal webpage: http://jack.com.cuhk.edu.hk/Welcome.html

Nominated by Gerard Goggin, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore