Dr Jian Xu is Associate Professor in Communication in the School of Communication & Creative Arts, Deakin University, Australia. He is the Convenor of the Asian Media, Culture and Society Research Group at Deakin University. He is Associate Investigator of the ARC Centre of Excellence for the Digital Child. He was a Research Fellow in Media (Deakin University), Endeavour Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the China Research Centre (University of Technology Sydney), Visiting Scholar in the Centre for Global Communication and the Centre for the Study of Contemporary China (University of Pennsylvania), and the University of Nottingham Ningbo. He obtained his PhD in Media and Communication from the University of New South Wales, Australia.  

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Jian Xu researches Chinese digital media and celebrity/wanghong studies with critical approaches. He has widely published on China's digital media cultures, internet and AI governance, cultural governance, celebrity and wanghong studies. He is Editor-in-Chief of Communication Research and Practice, published on behalf of the Australian and Aotearoa New Zealand Communication Association (AANZCA). He is series editor of Asian Celebrity and Fandom Studies for Bloomsbury Academic, and Cambridge Elements in Digital Asia (Cambridge University Press). 

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Email: j.xu@deakin.edu.au