Studying the Sent-Down Internet: roundtable on research methods

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Elisa Oreglia

Elisa Oreglia is a Research Fellow at the Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information in Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. She studies the appropriation and circulation of mobile phones and computers among marginalized communities, particularly in China and Southeast Asia.

Jack Qiu

Jack Linchuan Qiu is an Associate Professor at the School of Journalism and Communication, the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He researches on ICTs, class, globalization, and social change. His publications include World Factory in Information Age (Guangxi Normal U P, 2013) and Working-Class Network Society (MIT, 2009). He serves on the boards of nine international academic journals and is Associate Editor for Journal of Communication.

Wei Bu

Wei Bu is a Professor at the Institute of Journalism and Communication, the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, where she directs of the Research Center for Children and Media. She does research on communication/ICT for development, children/youth's use of media/ICTs and their sub-culture, feminist media studies, media literacy education, and communication research methodology.

Barbara Schulte

Barbara Schulte is an Associate Professor for Education at Lund University, Sweden. She currently investigates Chinese ICT policies in education, Chinese youth's socialization into using digital media in the classroom, and ICT training provided for local Chinese cadres. Further research topics include private schooling in urban China, educational transfer between China and the ‘West’, as well as questions of (transnational) educational governance.

Jing Wang

Jing Wang is Professor of Chinese Media and Cultural Studies and Director of New Media Action Lab at MIT. She is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of NGO2.0, which is now registered as a non-profit organization in Shenzhen. Her research interests include advertising and marketing, civic media and communication, social media action research, popular culture, and nonprofit technology. http://mitgsl.mit.edu/faculty-staff-detail/115

Cara Wallis

Cara Wallis is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at Texas A&M University. She studies new media technologies and issues of power, difference, subjectivity, and social change in China. She is the author of Technomobility in China: Young Migrant Women and Mobile Phones (NYU Press, 2013).

Baohua Zhou

Baohua Zhou is an Associate Professor at the School of Journalism, Fudan University, China. He is also Director of the New Media Communication Master Program, Associate Director of Media and Public Opinion Research Centre and Research Fellow of the Center for Information and Communication Studies at Fudan University. His research focuses on new media, media effects, and public opinion.