📢The GDC is recruiting 📢 We're advertising a 2-year #postdoc position on "Global Perspectives on Platforms". The candidate will be working with Thomas Poell, jeroendekloet, stefania milan, Tobias Blanke, & @nieborg.bsky.social. Deadline: September 1. Spread the word! vacatures.uva.nl/UvA/job/Postdo…

1/ Peer review is in trouble! So much of the knowledge we produce & share rests on the idea that our work goes through a rigorous review by experts. After serving as an editor-in-chief for 5 yrs. & an associate editor for 3 yrs., I'm worried that our system is in trouble:

Very excited! So grateful for the amazing support from the NYUP team and series editors @jonathanagray NYU Press Aswin Punathambekar

What an exciting news!!! As the #AssociateEditor of Communication and the Public, I am extremely proud of our accomplishment during last year! 👍🏻 LIN Jian Fen Jennifer Lin !

Coauthored with Joëlle Swart and Guohua Zeng, our piece Theorizing Tiktok Culture: neuro image in the era of short videos just out on MCS, after so long! ✌️🎉🍾️Full manuscript: journals.sagepub.com/eprint/TBJTTAD…

Season's greetings from the editorial board!

WE ARE #OpenAccess NOW! Since our last issue, CAP has been transformed to a 100% #OpenAccess journal! Your submissions are warmly welcomed ! SFSIC LIN Jian Fen Jennifer Lin Zhao Alexandre HUANG ISA ICOMM ICA Popular Media & Culture ICA Public Diplomacy Interest Group Journalism Studies / ICA ICA Visual Communication Studies journals.sagepub.com/home/ctp

#CAP will attend to #ICA24 in Australia! International Communication Association Our #interdivisional Roundtable's topic will be "30 Years of the Chinese Internet and Beyond"! SFSIC Zhao Alexandre HUANG LIN Jian Fen Jennifer Lin Yi-Hui Christine Huang Guobin Yang Thanks to sponsors: The Communication & Technology Division of ICA ICA Public Diplomacy Interest Group ICA Popular Media & Culture

Do you want to write a sharp, innovative and timely response to current issues in Cultural Studies? Consider submitting to our Cultural Commons section! Our editors (Siao Yuong (Rong) Fong & LIN Jian ) are looking for concise (3000 words), urgent, and essential contributions.

New work: I wrote this experimental/summary piece, 'The female entrepreneur: fragments of a genealogy' for European Journal of Cultural Studies (EJCS)'s shortform 'cultural commons' section. It's part of a special issue on 'Freelance Feminisms' being published soon. Open access: journals.sagepub.com/eprint/XAKEYRR…

This piece by LIN Jian and myself as editors of Cultural Commons at European Journal of Cultural Studies (EJCS) introduces our vision for the section as a 'smart kampung' for Cultural Studies' engagement with / circumvention of the system. Proposals welcome! Read our piece here: doi.org/10.1177/136754…

In "Envisioning cultural commoning: New Cultural Commons editors’ dialogue on Global South perspectives, inclusivity and Cultural Studies", co-editors Siao Yuong (Rong) Fong and LIN Jian introduce themselves to the journal. Read it here: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13…

In this article I re-visit the origins of British cultural studies at Birmingham as implicitly a 'peace time' field disrupted in the 70s by Hall and Gilroy but overall not fully equipped for war, violence and global conflict journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13…

New piece for the launch of ⁦Dialogues on Digital Society⁩ big congrats to and great efforts by Kylie Jarrett⁩ and the team. Algorithmic cosmopolitanism, and platform nationalism: From the paradox of the TikTok ban journals.sagepub.com/eprint/VCD7IJT…

Join the creator studies conference, June 11, 2025

Dialogue on creator and wanghong studies: Conceptual challenges and global approach - Jian Lin, David Craig, 2025 journals.sagepub.com/eprint/Y47BWVI…