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Th e arrival of more than half a million immigrants who were born in the Peopl e's Republic of China (PRC) in recent decades has changed the demographic p rofile of Chinese Australians. What is the media eco-system inhabited by th ese new Chinese-Australians\, and how does this distinct ecology of technol ogies\, platforms\, and transnational content shape the PRC immigrants’ pol itical engagement and sense of belonging? This presentation examines the ro le of local Chinese-language media producers in Australia as cultural broke rs\, as well as the distribution and circulation of their products on Chine se social media platforms such as WeChat.
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Prof. Wanning Sun is a Professor of Media an d Cultural Anthropology at the University of Technology\, Sydney. She serve s as the deputy director of the UTS Australia-China Relations Institute\, a nd 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 mi gration in China\, and for her study of transnational and diasporic Chinese media. Her latest research focuses on the digital Chinese diaspora and tra nsnationalism\, against the background of escalating geopolitical tensions between China and the West.
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