Haiqing Yu profile
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Haiqing Yu

Haiqing Yu is Professor of Media and Communication and Australian Research Council (ARC) Future Fellow at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia, focusing on Asian (digital) media, communication and culture.

Research interests

  • Social studies of science and technology
  • Digital media and communication
  • Digital and global China research
  • Asian media and communication studies
  • Migration studies and digital transnationalism
  • Platform and infrastructural studies

About Haiqing Yu

Haiqing Yu is Professor of Media and Communication and Australian Research Council (ARC) Future Fellow at RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia. She is also a Chief Investigator at the ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S), co-leading the “Language and Cultural Diversity in ADM” signature project. 

Haiqing is known for her interdisciplinary research on digital media, communication, and culture in and about China (as a geopolitical concept) and Chinese (as a cultural and linguistic construct), digital transactional ecosystems in Asia, as well as research on the social, cultural, and political impacts of digital technologies, media, and communication among linguistically and culturally diversified communities in Australia, Asia, and the Global South.

At the Leiden Asia Centre, she is an editor of the Voices of Asia project together with Academic Director Florian Schneider.