[Commlist] Global Media and China_Special Issue: Platformisation and entrepreneurial labour via Chinese digital networks

*Global Media and China
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*Special Issue: Platformisation and entrepreneurial labour via Chinese 
digital networks*
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*Guest Editors: Haiqing Yu (RMIT University, Australia); Jian Xu (Deakin 
University, Australia); Ping Sun (Chinese Academy of Social Science, China)*

*Deadlines:*
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_*--30 July 2021: *_Abstracts (400-500 words) submitted to guest editors:
*Haiqing Yu (*(haiqing.yu /at/ rmit.edu.au) <mailto:(haiqing.yu /at/ rmit.edu.au)>*)*
*Jian Xu, ((j.xu /at/ deakin.edu.au) <mailto:(j.xu /at/ deakin.edu.au)>)*
*Ping Sun (**(sophiesunping /at/ gmail.com) <mailto:(sophiesunping /at/ gmail.com)>) *

_--20 August 2021:_ Invitation to submit full papers sent to selected 
authors

_--20 December 2021:_ Full paper submission

_--20 March 2022: _Peer review reports sent to authors

_--20 May 2022:_ Final paper submission to GMAC; with introduction to 
the special issue


*Overview:*
This special issue, “Platformisation and entrepreneurial labour via 
Chinese digital networks,” examines entrepreneurial labour and 
its relationship with the platformisation of Chinese society and 
economy. As a key feature of our digital economy and lifestyle, powerful 
digital platforms have transformed how cultural production is 
carried forward, how services are delivered, how businesses are 
established, how talents are identified and developed, and how new forms 
of entrepreneurial activities are regulated and governed. While 
platformisation has technological, infrastructural, and economic 
dimensions, its human dimension highlights individual agency and 
limitations in the platformisation process. We call for papers that 
examine individuals and groups who have demonstrated the entrepreneurial 
spirit, skills, and thinking in taking advantage of Chinese digital 
networks, systems and platforms to reinvent themselves, change 
lives, and influence others and society.

The entrepreneurial individuals and groups include: new media 
professionals (e.g. wanghong and self-media content producers); 
platform managers, engineers, and programmers; e-commerce and social 
commerce operators, agents, and co-ops; product and service 
brokers, intermediaries, and consultants; government officials and 
agencies in managing digital and social media platforms, networks, and R&D.

This special issue will provide a new perspective on digital culture, 
digital economy, and platform studies by focusing on 
“entrepreneurial” labour, in order to highlight the importance of human 
agency and creativity, as individuals and communities navigate 
changes and disruptions in their everyday life brought about by digital 
platforms and the platformisation of cultural, economic, and knowledge 
production.

We welcome abstracts and papers from a wide range of disciplines and 
interests, including but not limited to: social studies of science 
and technology, digital media and communication studies, information 
systems, platform studies, digital humanities, digital anthropology, 
and digital China studies in general.
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