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Dr

Wilfred Wang

Lecturer In Media And Society
social sciences
communication
interfaces
platform regulation
personalization
economy
iqiyi
video streaming
video on demand (vod)
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Dr

Wilfred Wang

 
Division
Arts
 
Primary Interest
Chinese Media
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Dr

Wilfred Wang

 

Wilfred Yang Wang is a lecturer in Media and Communication studies at the University of Melbourne. His research focuses on Chinese language social/digital media, mobile media and migration, digital geographies, and China.

He is the author of the book, Digital Media in Urban China Locating Guangzhou (Rowman & Littlefield International, 2019). The book examines the practices of digital placemaking and the online representation of geo-identities in urban China.

Scholarly Works

Displaying the 13 most recent scholarly works by Wilfred Wang.

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'Property talk' among Chinese Australians: WeChat and the production of diasporic space

Ge Zhang, Wilfred Yang Wang

Journal article  |  2019  |  Media International Australia

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Migrant communities keep our cemeteries alive as more Anglo-Australians turn to cremation

Wilfred Yang Wang, Gil-Soo Han, Helen Forbes-Mewett

Media  |  2019

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Digital Media in Urban China Locating Guangzhou

Wilfred Yang Wang

Book  |  2019

This book examines the use and culture of digital media in urban Chinese cities. By examining examples and data from Chinese and g..

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How China is legally recognising same-sex couples, but not empowering them

Xu Chen, Wilfred Yang Wang

Media  |  2019

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Chinese video streaming services in the context of global platform studies

Wilfred Yang Wang, Ramon Lobato

Journal article  |  2019  |  Chinese Journal of Communication

While recent platform theory within media and communication studies has been developed around US-based examples, platformization h..

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Mapping Cantonese: The Pro-Cantonese Protest and Sina Weibo in Guangzhou

Wilfred Yang Wang

Book Chapter  |  2019

This chapter explores the reproduction of Guangzhou’s local identity during the pro-Cantonese protest in 2010 on Sina Weibo, one o..

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Approaches to Death, Funeral Rites and Memorialisation in Contemporary Australia: Changes and Continuities

Gil-Soo Han, Helen Forbes-Mewett, Wilfred Yang Wang, Yang Wang

Report  |  2019

https://monash.figshare.com/articles/Approaches_to_Death_Funeral_Rites_and_Memorialisation_in_Contemporary_Australia_Changes_and_C..

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Gay men's digital cultures beyond Gaydar and Grindr: LINE use in the gay Chinese diaspora of Australia

Elija Cassidy, Wilfred Yang Wang

Journal article  |  2018  |  Information, Communication & Society

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My own business, not my children's: negotiating funeral rites and the mobility and communication juncture among Chinese migrants in Melbourne

Gil-Soo Han, Helen Forbes-Mewett, Wilfred Yang Wang

Journal article  |  2018  |  Mobilities

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Analysing everyday online political talk in China: Theoretical and methodological reflections

Scott Wright, Todd Graham, Yu Sun, Wilfred Yang Wang, Xiantian Luo, Andrea Carson

Journal article  |  2016  |  Communication, Politics & Culture

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Remaking Guangzhou: Geo-Identity and Place-Making on Sina Weibo

Wilfred Yang Wang

Journal article  |  2015  |  Media International Australia

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Weibo, Framing, and Media Practices in China

Wilfred Yang Wang

Journal article  |  2013  |  Journal of Chinese Political Science

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Who’s blocking the Chinese Internet? The rise of cybercultures and the generational conflicts in China

Wilfred Yang Wang, Yang Wang

Book Chapter  |  2012

As a decentralised communication technology, the Internet has offered much autonomy and unprecedented communication freedom to the..

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Keyword Analysis

Communication
Communication and Media Studies
Demography
Cultural Studies
Human Geography
Community Service (excl. Work)
Macroeconomics
Other Language, Literature and Culture
Policy and Administration
Sociology

Credentials

Positions

Lecturer In Media And Society

Culture And Communication

Board Member

Centre of Holistic Health 怡康全人发展中心

Member Of Regional Advisory Council

Victorian Multicultural Commission

Volunteer Support Member

Country Fire Authority

Education

PhD in Media and Communication

Queensland University of Technology

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