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Dr

Wilfred Wang

Lecturer In Media And Society
Culture And Communication
social sciences
chinese migrants
memorialisation
communication
china
social media
funeral rites
australia
sociology
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Dr

Wilfred Wang

 
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Arts
 
Primary Interest
Chinese media
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Dr

Wilfred Wang

 

Wilfred Yang Wang is the lecturer in Media & Society at the University of Melbourne. He is the Undergraduate Program Coordinator for media and communication studies.

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 18 most recent scholarly works by Wilfred Wang.

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Together Here, Now and Forever: Chinese Immigrants' Belonging in Australia, Family, Ethnicity and Memorialisation

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

Journal article  |  2020  |  Journal of Intercultural Studies

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Digital Media, State's Legitimacy and Chinese Paternalism

Wilfred Yang Wang

Scholarly Contribution to Database/Website  |  2020

Building on the three approaches that try to explain the ‘democratic failure’ of China’s digital media, I would like to introduce ..

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

Wilfred Yang Wang

Book Chapter  |  2020

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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Together Here, Now and Forever: Chinese Immigrants’ Belonging in Australia, Family, Ethnicity and Memorialisation

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

Journal article  |  2020  |  Journal of Intercultural Studies

This paper investigates end-of-life decisions, ethnic influences and memorialisaton of Chinese immigrants in Melbourne, Australia...

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

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

Report  |  2019

Cemeteries in Victoria were planned and designed 150 years ago, without any major developments taking place since. Large numbers o..

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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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Re-imagining Guangzhou on Sina Weibo: Geo-identity and Chinese Social Media

Wilfred Yang Wang

Book Chapter  |  2017

Despite the rich insights provided by current research on Chinese social media, studies tend to conceptualise China's cyberspace a..

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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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Chinese Social Media

Book Chapter

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Scholarly Works

Keyword Analysis

Communication
Communication and Media Studies
Demography
Cultural Studies
Human Geography
Community Service (excl. Work)
Expanding Knowledge
Literary Studies
Macroeconomics
Other Language, Literature and Culture

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

Member

Association of Internet Researchers

Education

PhD in Media and Communication

Queensland University of Technology

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