About Joanne Kuai

Currently a PhD candidate at the Department of Geography, Media and Communication and a member of the Ander Center for Research on News and Opinion in the Digital Era (NODE) at Karlstad University, Sweden, Joanne Kuai is a media scholar with a research focus on data and AI for media, computational journalism, and social implications of automation and algorithms. Born and raised in mainland China, she majored in documentary filmmaking and broadcasting journalism at the Communications University of China. Later, she moved to Macau and acted as a news reporter and anchor at local TV station Teledifusão de Macau and afterwards as an editor at Macau Business. In 2016, she moved to Lisbon to pursue the study of the Portuguese language before participating in the Erasmus Mundus Master’s in Journalism, Media, and Globalization, with the first-year spent at Aarhus University, Denmark, and second-year specializing in Business and Financial Journalism at City, University of London.

Joanne Kuai is a PhD Candidate at Karlstad University, Sweden, with a research project on Artificial Intelligence in Chinese Newsrooms. Her research interests centre around data and AI for media, computational journalism, and the social implications of automation and algorithms. Find her on LinkedIn or on Twitter @JoanneKuai.

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NBN Episodes hosted by Joanne:

André Jansson, "Rethinking Communication Geographies: Geomedia, Digital Logistics and the Human Condition" (Edward Elgar, 2022)

December 23, 2023

Rethinking Communication Geographies

André Jansson
Hosted by Joanne Kuai

How are geographies of communication changing with contemporary digital media and data infrastructure? What is ‘geomedia’ and ‘transmedia’? Where are …

Tingting Hu, "Victims, Perpetrators and Professionals: The Representation of Women in Chinese Crime Films" (Liverpool UP, 2021)

September 9, 2023

Victims, Perpetrators and Professionals

Tingting Hu
Hosted by Joanne Kuai

How are women represented in Chinese crime films? In what ways do the representation reflect traditional Chinese values and contemporary Chinese socia…

Journalism History in Macau: A Abelha da China in its 200 Years

August 25, 2023

Journalism History in Macau: A Abelha da China in its 200 Years

Hugo Pinto
Hosted by Joanne Kuai
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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…

Henrik Örnebring and Michael Karlsson, "Journalistic Autonomy: The Genealogy of a Concept" (U Missouri Press, 2022)

May 3, 2023

Journalistic Autonomy

Henrik Örnebring and Michael Karlsson
Hosted by Joanne Kuai

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 …

Adi Kuntsman and Liu Xin, "Digital Politics, Digital Histories, Digital Futures: New Approaches for Historicising, Politicising and Imagining the Digital" (Emerald, 2023)

April 21, 2023

Digital Politics, Digital Histories, Digital Futures

Adi Kuntsman and Liu Xin
Hosted by Joanne Kuai

What is digital politics? What new creative and experimental tools can we use to study digital politics historically and analyse and create future ima…

Mariëlle Wijermars et al., "The Palgrave Handbook of Digital Russia Studies" (Palgrave MacMillan, 2020)

December 24, 2022

The Palgrave Handbook of Digital Russia Studies

Daria Gritsenko, Mariëlle Wijermars, and Mikhail Kopotev
Hosted by Joanne Kuai

How has digitalisation changed Russian politics? How has Russia’s invasion of Ukraine changed Russia studies? What is special about Russia’s approach …

Transforming Journalism in Vietnam: An Exploration of Two Swedish Media Aid Projects

December 2, 2022

Transforming Journalism in Vietnam

Andreas Mattsson
Hosted by Joanne Kuai

What is the journalism culture in Vietnam? What role does Sweden play in the transformation of Vietnamese journalism? How has Swedish media aid fulfil…

Reflections on Chinese Sexuality: A Conversation with Weiyi Hu

October 21, 2022

Reflections on Chinese Sexuality

Weiyi Hu
Hosted by Joanne Kuai

How is sexuality experienced in contemporary China? What are the connections and tensions between China and the West in producing knowledges of sexual…

Artificial Intelligence with Chinese Characteristics

June 17, 2022

Artificial Intelligence with Chinese Characteristics

Jinghan Zeng
Hosted by Joanne Kuai

What is artificial intelligence (AI) with Chinese characteristics? Why is the Chinese Government labelling AI as a matter of security? How has AI bee…

Covid-19 Nationalism in China and Lessons from the Pandemic

May 9, 2022

Covid-19 Nationalism in China and Lessons from the Pandemic

Florian Schneider
Hosted by Joanne Kuai

How has digital nationalism manifested amid the Covid-19 pandemic in China? How does anti-American sentiment in China feed into the disinformation cam…

Jun Liu, "Shifting Dynamics of Contention in the Digital Age: Mobile Communication and Politics in China" (Oxford UP, 2020)

February 11, 2022

Shifting Dynamics of Contention in the Digital Age

Jun Liu
Hosted by Joanne Kuai

How has digital communication technologies impacted the dynamics of political contention in China? What is the role of mobile technology in the countr…

Chinese Digital Vigilantism: The Mediated and Mediatised Justice-Seeking

November 19, 2021

Chinese Digital Vigilantism: The Mediated and Mediatised Justice-Seeking

Joanne Kuai
Hosted by Joanne Kuai

What is digital vigilantism? How do Chinese citizens seek justice online? How does digital vigilantism reflect contemporary Chinese technological and …

Elaine Yuan, "The Web of Meaning: The Internet in a Changing Chinese Society" (U Toronto Press, 2021)

October 1, 2021

The Web of Meaning

Elaine Yuan
Hosted by Joanne Kuai

What is the impact of Internet technology communication in China? How do Chinese people view "privacy" differently from the western perspective? How i…

Porn, Privacy and Pain: The Rise of Image-based Abuse in Asia

September 10, 2021

Porn, Privacy and Pain: The Rise of Image-based Abuse in Asia

Raquel Carvalho
Hosted by Joanne Kuai

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 …

China's New Data Security Law and Cyber Sovereignty with Rogier Creemers

July 16, 2021

China's New Data Security Law and Cyber Sovereignty

Rogier Creemers
Hosted by Joanne Kuai

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…

The Politics of Chinese Media: A Discussion with Bingchun Meng

June 7, 2021

The Politics of Chinese Media

Bingchun Meng
Hosted by Joanne Kuai

Feeling betrayed by liberal ideals in the US and UK, how are Chinese international students dealing with rising racism during the pandemic? Bingchun M…