- Research Fellow, Influencer Ethnography Research Lab (IERLab), Curtin University
Dr. Sijun Shen received her Ph.D. in Media & Communication Studies from Monash
University. She currently works as a Research Fellow at the Influencer Ethnography Research Lab at Curtin University. Her projects study online popular cultures, with a focus on mukbang and ASMR, to understand the contemporary society in terms of social media’s political, socio-economic, and psycho-sexual implications. She specializes in netnographic research, (psychoanalytic) feminism and takes a special interest in China’s governmentality of its internet industry, hyper-consumerism, and lateral surveillance.
Experience
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–presentPostdoctoral fellow, Film, Media & Communication, Monash University
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–presentLecturer, Media & Communication Studies, Monash Unviersity
Education
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2022Monash University, PhD, Film, Media & Communication, Monash University
Publications
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2022media, culture & society, Commercialising potential as a critical factor of differential media management a cultural zoning study of China’s regulation of mukbang and online eating disorder communities
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