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About Joanne Kuai
Dr Joanne Kuai is a Research Fellow at RMIT University and an Affiliate of the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S). Her research focuses on digital journalism, AI and data governance, and the social implications of automation and algorithmic systems. She serves on the Editorial Board of Digital Journalism, co-edits the Information, Communication & Society special issue on Generative AI Governance, is an instructor with the JournalismAI Academy at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), hosts interviews for the New Books Network, and is the Early Career Representative for the Journalism Studies Division of the International Communication Association (ICA).
She holds a PhD in Media and Communication from the Department of Geography, Media and Communication at Karlstad University, Sweden, where she was a member of the Ander Centre for Research on News and Opinion in the Digital Era (NODE). Born and raised in mainland China, she studied documentary filmmaking and broadcast journalism at the Communication University of China before moving to Macau, where she worked as a news reporter and anchor at Teledifusão de Macau (TDM) and later as an editor at Macau Business.
In 2016, she moved to Lisbon to study Portuguese before joining the Erasmus Mundus Master's in Journalism, Media and Globalisation. She spent her first year at Aarhus University in Denmark and her second year at City, University of London, where she specialised in Business and Financial Journalism. Her academic and professional background across China, Macau, Europe, and Australia informs her interdisciplinary research on the governance of AI-mediated information environments.
NBN Episodes hosted by Joanne:
December 23, 2024
The Space of the World
Is human solidarity achievable in a world dominated by continuous digital connectivity and commercially managed platforms? And what if it’s not? Profe…
July 10, 2024
The Secret Life of Data
What is data, and why does it matter for us to care about the data traces we leave behind? What are the implications for our lives of how this data is…
June 24, 2024
Living with Digital Surveillance in China
How do Chinese citizens make sense of digital surveillance and live with it? What narratives do they come up with to deal with the daily and all-encom…
December 23, 2023
Rethinking Communication Geographies
How are geographies of communication changing with contemporary digital media and data infrastructure? What is ‘geomedia’ and ‘transmedia’? Where are …
September 9, 2023
Victims, Perpetrators and Professionals
How are women represented in Chinese crime films? In what ways do the representation reflect traditional Chinese values and contemporary Chinese socia…
August 25, 2023
Journalism History in Macau: A Abelha da China in its 200 Years
How did the first newspaper in Macau come into being? What was the first foreign language newspaper on Chinese soil about? How was the dynamic between…
May 3, 2023
Journalistic Autonomy
Journalists around the world agree that autonomy is central to their work, but what exactly is it journalists should be autonomous from, and for what …
April 21, 2023
Digital Politics, Digital Histories, Digital Futures
What is digital politics? What new creative and experimental tools can we use to study digital politics historically and analyse and create future ima…
December 24, 2022
The Palgrave Handbook of Digital Russia Studies
How has digitalisation changed Russian politics? How has Russia’s invasion of Ukraine changed Russia studies? What is special about Russia’s approach …
December 2, 2022
Transforming Journalism in Vietnam
What is the journalism culture in Vietnam? What role does Sweden play in the transformation of Vietnamese journalism? How has Swedish media aid fulfil…
October 21, 2022
Reflections on Chinese Sexuality
How is sexuality experienced in contemporary China? What are the connections and tensions between China and the West in producing knowledges of sexual…
June 17, 2022
Artificial Intelligence with Chinese Characteristics
What is artificial intelligence (AI) with Chinese characteristics? Why is the Chinese Government labelling AI as a matter of security? How has AI bee…
May 9, 2022
Covid-19 Nationalism in China and Lessons from the Pandemic
How has digital nationalism manifested amid the Covid-19 pandemic in China? How does anti-American sentiment in China feed into the disinformation cam…
February 11, 2022
Shifting Dynamics of Contention in the Digital Age
How has digital communication technologies impacted the dynamics of political contention in China? What is the role of mobile technology in the countr…
November 19, 2021
Chinese Digital Vigilantism: The Mediated and Mediatised Justice-Seeking
What is digital vigilantism? How do Chinese citizens seek justice online? How does digital vigilantism reflect contemporary Chinese technological and …
October 1, 2021
The Web of Meaning
What is the impact of Internet technology communication in China? How do Chinese people view "privacy" differently from the western perspective? How i…
September 10, 2021
Porn, Privacy and Pain: The Rise of Image-based Abuse in Asia
What is image-based abuse? Why has it been on the rise in Asia, especially amid the Covid-19 pandemic? What has been done to tackle the issue? Raquel …
July 16, 2021
China's New Data Security Law and Cyber Sovereignty
What is China's new vision for regulating cyberspace? What does its new Data Security Law intend to do? Is China's Personal Information Protection Law…
June 7, 2021
The Politics of Chinese Media
Feeling betrayed by liberal ideals in the US and UK, how are Chinese international students dealing with rising racism during the pandemic? Bingchun M…