Join the CMS Mobilities research group for a talk on Chinese-language media, transnational platforms, and political belonging among PRC immigrants in Australia.
The arrival of more than half a million immigrants who were born in the People’s Republic of China (PRC) in recent decades has changed the demographic profile of Chinese Australians. What is the media eco-system inhabited by these new Chinese-Australians, and how does this distinct ecology of technologies, platforms, and transnational content shape the PRC immigrants’ political engagement and sense of belonging? This presentation examines the role of local Chinese-language media producers in Australia as cultural brokers, as well as the distribution and circulation of their products on Chinese social media platforms such as WeChat.
Prof. Wanning Sun is a Professor of Media and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Technology, Sydney. She serves as the deputy director of the UTS Australia-China Relations Institute, and is a fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities. As an academic researcher, Wanning is best known for her ethnography of rural-to-urban migration in China, and for her study of transnational and diasporic Chinese media. Her latest research focuses on the digital Chinese diaspora and transnationalism, against the background of escalating geopolitical tensions between China and the West.
