Dr. ZHOU, Yang

Assistant Professor


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Email: yzhou@hksyu.edu


Academic and Professional Qualification

PhD    Media and Communications, October 2020, London School of Economics
MA    Communication Theory, 2015, Renmin University of China  

 


Specialism and Research Interests

  • Digital platforms and AI
  • Cultural politics
  • Governance,
  • Recognition
  • Class
  • Labour
  • China
  • Ethnography
  • Participatory action research
  • Digital methods  
 


Courses



Selected Publications

Chau L and Zhou Y (2026) The hidden injuries of platform capitalism: Alienation and overwork death in China’s platform economy. Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, Online First, 1–19. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1080/14649373.2026.2647608  

Liu R and Zhou Y (2025) Limited standardization: A case study on on-demand logistics platforms. Sociological Review of China, 12(5), 136–159. Available at: http://src.ruc.edu.cn/CN/Y2024/V12/I5/136 (Top sociology journal in China)

Zhou Y (2024) Towards a new progressive labour culture? Industry-oriented channels, bitter and precarious structure of feeling and worker solidarity in China. Media, Culture & Society, 46(6), 1124–1140. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1177/01634437241242003

Zhou Y and Pun N (2023) Affording worker solidarity in motion: Theorising the intersection between social media and agential practices in the platform economy. New Media & Society, 26(8), 4885–4903. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448221130474

Zhou Y (2022) Trapped in the platform: Migration and precarity in China’s platform-based gig economy. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space 56(4): 1195–1210. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1177/0308518X221119196

Tang X and Zhou Y (2019) Social media use and political participation in rural China: A case study. China Journalism and Communication Journal (CSSCI, in English). Available here 

Research Projects
PI  General Research Fund, Research Grants Council, Hong Kong | HKD 576,094 | 2025-2027  
Whither worker media? Migrant labour, platformised media/cultural production and working-class formation in China
 
Co-I  General Research Fund, Research Grants Council, Hong Kong | HKD 728,000 | 2024-2026 (completed) 
Cultivating worker communities among themselves: Digital technologies, platform workers, and participatory culture in China
 
PI Oxfam Hong Kong | HKD 473,000 | 2023-2024 (policy research, completed)
Analysis of public policies for new citizens in the greater bay area
  • With a matching fund of HKD 236,500 by the Research Grants Council, Hong Kong