- Chen, Z.T., Cameron, J. and Liu, N.X. (2024). Fandom as Method: Decolonising Research on Social Media Communications Through Chinese Transnational Fandoms of a Japanese Olympic Figure Skater. Journal of Current Chinese Affairs, 53(3), pp. 402–427. doi:10.1177/18681026241255134.
- Fu, P. (2024). Book Review: Zhen Troy Chen, China’s Music Industry Unplugged: Business Models, Copyright and Social Entrepreneurship in the Online Platform Economy. European Journal of Cultural Studies, 27(5), pp. 1082–1084. doi:10.1177/13675494231218100.
- Chen, Z.T. (2024). Mapping Digital Game Culture in China: From Internet Addicts to eSports Athletes,
Mapping Digital Game Culture in China: From Internet Addicts to eSports Athletes
, by Marcella Szablewicz, London, Palgrave Macmillan, 2020, 218 pp., £79.99 (hardcover), ISBN 978-3-030-36110-5, £79.99 (softcover), ISBN 978-3-030-36113-6, £63.99 (eBook), ISBN 978-3-030-36111-2. Asian Journal of Sport History & Culture, 3(2), pp. 239–241. doi:10.1080/27690148.2024.2353476. - Peng, A.Y., Liu, F. and Chen, Z.T. (2024). Co-Constructing a Gender–State Entanglement in Canonical Three Kingdoms Fandom: A Discourse-Historical Approach. Asian Studies Review, 48(2), pp. 410–429. doi:10.1080/10357823.2023.2245130.
- Pei, X., Chen, Z.T. and Zhang, L. (2024). Comprehending ICT for gender empowerment in an aging context: digitalization of marginalized female elderly in the Global South during COVID-19. Information Technology for Development, 30(2), pp. 291–307. doi:10.1080/02681102.2023.2300669.
- Chen, Z.T. and Lam, C. (2023). Special issue on Chinese fandoms: Prosumers, communities, and identities. Transformative Works and Cultures, 41. doi:10.3983/twc.2023.2627.
- Chen, Z.T., Whyke, T.W., Lopez-Mugica, J. and Peng, A.Y. (2023). Cashing the pink RMB through docile bodies: queering paradox of erotic entrepreneurs on Chinese social media platforms. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 10(1). doi:10.1057/s41599-023-02006-0.
- Peng, A.Y., Chen, Z.T. and Chen, S. (2023). A wen-wu Approach to Male Teenage Chinese Sports Fans’ Heteronormative Interpretation of Masculinity. Feminist Review, 134(1), pp. 69–85. doi:10.1177/01417789231155896.
- Whyke, T.W., Chen, Z.T., Lopez-Mugica, J. and Wang, A. (2023). Unboxing the Chinese Blind Boxes among China’s grown-up missing children: Probabilistic and elastic prosumption through mediated collection, exchange and resale of figurines. Global Media and China, 8(1), pp. 93–111. doi:10.1177/20594364221140812.
- Chen, Z.T. (2023). Book Review: A Feminist Reading of China’s Digital Public Sphere. Global Media and China. doi:10.1177/20594364231160106.
- Gilardi, F., White, A., Chen, Z.T., Cheng, S., Song, W. and Zhao, Y. (2023). From copycat to copyright: intellectual property amendments and the development of Chinese online video industries. International Journal of Cultural Policy, 29(2), pp. 152–168. doi:10.1080/10286632.2022.2040494.
- Cheung, M. and Chen, Z.T. (2022). Power, Freedom, and Privacy on a Discipline-and-Control Facebook, and the Implications for Internet Governance. IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, 65(4), pp. 467–484. doi:10.1109/tpc.2022.3191103.
- Whyke, T.W., Chen, Z.T. and Lopez-Mugica, J. (2022). An analysis of cultural dissemination and national image construction in Chinese influencer Li Ziqi’s vlogs and its impact on international viewer perceptions on YouTube. The Journal of Chinese Sociology, 9(1). doi:10.1186/s40711-022-00173-2.
- Chen, Z.T. and Cheung, M. (2022). Consumption as extended carnival on Tmall in contemporary China: a social semiotic multimodal analysis of interactive banner ads. Social Semiotics, 32(2), pp. 163–183. doi:10.1080/10350330.2020.1720992.
- Whyke, T.W., Lopez-Mugica, J. and Chen, Z.T. (2021). The Rite of Passage and Digital Mourning in Fang Fang’s Wuhan Diary. Global Media and China, 6(4), pp. 443–459. doi:10.1177/20594364211041683.
- Chen, Z.T. (2021). Flying with two wings or coming of age of copyrightisation? A historical and socio-legal analysis of copyright and business model developments in the Chinese music industry. Global Media and China, 6(2), pp. 191–206. doi:10.1177/2059436421998466.
- Chen, Z.T. (2021). Poetic prosumption of animation, comic, game and novel in a post-socialist China: A case of a popular video-sharing social media Bilibili as heterotopia. Journal of Consumer Culture, 21(2), pp. 257–277. doi:10.1177/1469540518787574.
- Chen, Z.T. and Chen, L.-.M. (2021). Chinese “female force” in an “American Factory”: Women’s identity formation in an English reading club. Asian Journal of Women's Studies, 27(2), pp. 161–183. doi:10.1080/12259276.2021.1913850.
- Chen, Z.T. (2020). Slice of life in a live and wired masquerade: Playful prosumption as identity work and performance in an identity college Bilibili. Global Media and China, 5(3), pp. 319–337. doi:10.1177/2059436420952026.
- Chen, Z.T. and Cheung, M. (2018). Privacy perception and protection on Chinese social media: a case study of WeChat. Ethics and Information Technology, 20(4), pp. 279–289. doi:10.1007/s10676-018-9480-6.
Troy Chen
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Overview
Dr. Troy Chen, PhD, FHEA, is Senior Lecturer in Media, City University of London and an Adjunct Research Fellow of MXII Innovation Institute, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology. His research interests are in digital media and advertising, cultural and creative industries, cultural and media policy (copyright), journalism, and experience design.
Troy worked for a number of institutions such as University of the Arts London, University of Nottingham and Liverpools' China campuses and the City University of Hong Kong before joining City, University of London. Troy obtained his PhD at the AHRC Centre for Digital Copyright at Nottingham University, fully funded by Nottingham’s China and UK Campuses, AHRC and the Newton Fund. He is also an alumnus of QUT’s Digital Research Methodologies summer doctoral programme. He holds degrees in MA International Communications (Nottingham), PgLaws (London), BSc Management in e-Commerce (LNU), Corporate Communication (degree of completion) from Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU).
Apart from research, he is an award-winning communication and marketing professional in international higher education. He has numerous articles, reports and media production featured in mainstream legacy media outlets and digital leaders such as Politico, South China Morning Post, CCTV, CETV, Xinhua News, People's Daily (online), The Paper, China Science News, and Sina Sports. He has extensive working experience in the media, consultancy, IT and the Finance industry where his research gets nurtured and developed.
Qualifications
- PhD, University of Nottingham, United Kingdom
- eCommerce specialist, Chinese Chamber of Commerce, China
Postgraduate training
- PGDip in Laws, University of London, London, United Kingdom
- MA Intl Communications, University of Nottingham, Nottingham, United Kingdom
- Strategic Comms (Certificate of Completion), Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, Korea, Republic of
Employment
- Senior Lecturer in Media, City, University of London, Mar 2023 – present
- Senior Lecturer in Digital Advertising (Comms and Media), University of the Arts London, Jul 2021 – Mar 2023
- Tech Support Engineer, HP Inc, Jul 2009 – Nov 2011
- Financial Analyst and Consultant, Accenture, Apr 2008 – Jul 2009
- Host and DJ, DLTV and FM106.7, Sep 2005 – Jul 2009
Visiting appointments
- Adjunct Research Fellow, MXII Innovation Institute, Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology, Sep 2022 – present
- Senior Research Fellow, Griffith University, Jan 2021 – Jan 2023
- Honorary fellow, University of Liverpool, Sep 2018 – Sep 2020
Memberships of professional organisations
- IAMCR - 2019 China Local Organising Committee
- ICA - International Communication Association
- SCMS - Society of Cinema and Media Studies
Expertise
Geographic Areas
- Asia - East
- Europe
Publications
Publications by category
Books (5)
- Chen, Z.T., Han, J., Kuang, X. and Liu, X. (Eds.), (2024). Identity, Space, and Everyday Life in Contemporary Northeast China. Springer Nature Singapore. ISBN 978-981-9945-29-0.
- Wang, Y. and Alberto, M. (Eds.), (2024). Catching Chen Qing Ling. Peter Lang Verlag.
- Chen, Z. (2022). Data Collection, Analysis, and Small-Data Visualization: A Qualitative Interpretation of Novel Fandom Behaviors on Social Media Platforms. SAGE Publications, Ltd..
- Chen, Z.T. (2021). China’s Music Industry Unplugged. Springer Singapore. ISBN 978-981-16-3948-7.
- Pei, X., Malhotra, P. and Ling, R. Women’s Agency and Mobile Communication Under the Radar. Routledge.
Chapters (20)
- Ge, L. and Chen, Z.T. (2024). Those Who Left and Those Who Stayed: Zhao Benshan’s Comedy Sketches in the Spring Festival Gala and Their Impact on the Regional Stereotypes of North-East China. Identity, Space, and Everyday Life in Contemporary Northeast China (pp. 69–92). Springer Nature Singapore. ISBN 978-981-9945-29-0.
- Chen, T.Z. and Chen, L.M. (2024). “Invisible people have no politics”: Becoming middle-class working women with rural roots in a mobile assemblage. Women's Agency and Mobile Communication Under the Radar (pp. 163–175).
- Chen, T. (2024). Introduction. In Chen, T. (Ed.), Identity, Space, and Everyday Life in Contemporary Northeast China Palgrave Macmillan. ISBN 978-981-9945-29-0.
- Chen, Z.T., Han, J., Kuang, X. and Liu, X. (2024). Introduction. Identity, Space, and Everyday Life in Contemporary Northeast China (pp. 1–15). Springer Nature Singapore. ISBN 978-981-9945-29-0.
- Ge, L. and Chen, Z.T. (2023). ‘Watching Our Men Playing for the Nation’: Esports LPL’s Hierarchical, Gendered, and Mainstremeist ‘All-Chinese Team’ Fandom in China. Palgrave Series in Asia and Pacific Studies (pp. 207–226). Springer Nature Singapore. ISBN 978-981-9937-95-0.
- Chen, T. (2023). Poetic Prosumption and Disruptive Creativity: Social Media Uploaders and Influencers as the New Bandits, Pirates, and Guerrilla Winners. The Piracy Years Internet File Sharing in a Global Context Liverpool University Press. ISBN 978-1-80207-662-2.
- Lam, C. and Chen, T. (2023). Performing the creative and irritating/ed fans: discomfort, flames and social media spectacle in Xiao Zhan’s RPS fandom. In Wang, Y.C. and Alberto, M. (Eds.), Catching Chen Qing Ling New York: Peter Lang.
- Chen, T. (2023). Policy, locality and networks in a cultural and creative countryside: The case of Jingdezhen, China. In Luckman, S. and Thomas, N. (Eds.), Craft Economies Bloomsbury Publishing. ISBN 978-1-350-35340-4.
- Chen, Z.T. (2023). Poetic Prosumption and Disruptive Creativity:. The Piracy Years (pp. 269–292). Liverpool University Press. ISBN 978-1-80207-054-5.
- Chen, T.Z. and Chen, L.-.M. (2023). "Invisible people have no politics". Women’s Agency and Mobile Communication Under the Radar (pp. 163–175). Routledge.
- Chen, Z.T. (2022). TOO VULNERABLE TO FIGHT:. Fame and Fandom (pp. 95–110). University of Iowa Press. ISBN 978-1-60938-855-3.
- Chen, Z.T. and Whyke, T.W. (2022). Manufacturing and Commodifying “Chineseness”. China's International Communication and Relationship Building (pp. 150–164). Routledge.
- Chen, Z.T. and Whyke, T.W. (2022). Manufacturing and Commodifying “Chineseness”: Micro-Celebrity Li Ziqi’s Construction of an Idyllic Rural China and Her Media Representation on YouTube. China's International Communication and Relationship Building (pp. 150–164).
- Chen, Z.T. and Pei, X. (2022). “You Wait for Me for a Moment”: Mobile Usage of the Elderly Female Adults in China to Cope with COVID-19. Coping with COVID-19, the Mobile Way (pp. 11–30). Springer Nature Singapore. ISBN 978-981-19578-6-4.
- Liu, N.X. and Chen, Z.T. (2022). Collaborative Learning During the Pandemic: The Role of Mobile Devices. Coping with COVID-19, the Mobile Way (pp. 259–280). Springer Nature Singapore. ISBN 978-981-19578-6-4.
- Chen, Z.T. (2021). What newspapers and people say about #China70. Chinese News Discourse (pp. 84–102). Routledge.
- Chen, Z.T. (2021). What newspapers and people say about #China70: News discourse and framing through social media. Chinese News Discourse: From Perspectives of Communication, Linguistics and Pedagogy (pp. 84–102).
- Chen, T. (2018). China's copyright law and the music industry: the past and the future. In Yi, N. and Chen, X. (Eds.), Young Scholars' Anthology of Culture Industry 2017 Yunnan: Yunnan University Press.
- Troy Chen, Z. (2017). Policy, locality and networks in a cultural and creative countryside: The case of Jingdezhen, China. (pp. 150–161). Bloomsbury Publishing Plc. ISBN 978-1-4742-5953-8.
- Chen, T. (2017). Trauma reporting and its impacts on journalists: A case study of leading Chinese news outlets. In Hodgson, G. (Ed.), Conflict, Trauma and the Media A Collection of Essays (pp. 45–66). Cambridge Scholars Publishing. ISBN 978-1-5275-0431-8.
Conference paper/proceedings
- Chen, T. (2023). Officially cancelled but eternally remembered: The queering paradox of Chinese comedic influencers through multi-platform mediation. Society of Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS2023) 9-14 April, Denver.
Journal articles (20)
Scholarly edition
- Chen, T. and Lam, C. (2023). Chinese fandoms: Prosumers, communities, and identities.
Professional activities
Editorial activity (22)
- The manosphere and networked misogyny, for Humanities & Social Sciences Communications., Guest editor, Jul 2024.
- Co-editing a special issue with Dr Celia Lam on Chinese fandoms and platforms with the Transformative Works and Culture., Special issue on Chinese fandoms and platforms, Sep 2021 – Nov 2023.
- European Journal of Cultural Studies, Expert peer review, Sep 2020.
- Global Media and China peer review for more than 6 years, Expert peer review, Sep 2016 – Sep 2023.
- Journal of Consumer Culture, Expert peer review.
- Asia Pacific viewpoint, Expert peer review.
- Asian journal of women's studies, Expert peer review.
- Chinese journal of communication, Expert peer review.
- ommunication research and practice, Expert peer review.
- Fudan Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Expert peer review.
- Humanities & social sciences communications, Expert peer review.
- International journal of communication, Expert peer review.
- Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, Editorial board - Humanities and Social Sciences Communications.
- International journal of cultural studies, Expert peer review.
- International journal of law, crime and justice, Expert peer review.
- Media, culture, and society, Expert peer review.
- Men and masculinities, Expert peer review.
- New Media & Society, Expert peer review.
- SAGE Open, Expert peer review.
- Social media + society, Expert peer review.
- Transformative works and cultures, Expert peer review.
- Journal of Contemporary China, Expert peer reviewer.
Keynote lectures/speeches (2)
- China's Cultural and Creative Industries. Kings, University of London (2023).
- Platform economy and governance. University of Leeds (2023).