A few articles I wrote in the past couple of years are coming out in several different volumes in the next few months. I will mention two in this update.
First, in less than a month, Routledge will release the volume East Asian Media Culture in the Age of Digital Platforms: Narratives, Industries, and Audiences edited by Dal Yong Jin and Kyong Yoon. My contribution, entitled "Narratives as Platforms," argues that stories can serve as platforms just like social media (and we ought to turn to stories more).
In October, Bristol University Press will publish the volume The Digitalisation of Memory Practices in China: Contesting the Curating State edited by Maximilian Mayer and Frederik Schmitz. My chapter “How Do Netizens Remember: Digital Memory Work in the History of the Chinese Internet” examines several forms of digital memory work, from the future-oriented curatorial practices in the 1990s and early 2000s to the backward-looking nostalgic memories of the mid-2000s and finally the many creative forms of digital memory during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Two other forthcoming chapters are: “The Ambivalent Art of Living with Chinese Social Media: Digital Vulnerability and Practices of Self-Care,” in Decolonising Approaches to Users and Audiences in the Global South Context, Theory and Method, edited by Tarik Sabry, Winston Mano, and Andrea Medrado and "Networked Repetition and Grassroots Struggles for Alternative Digital Futures" in The Routledge Companion to Digital Media and Democracy, edited by Zizi Papacharissi. More details coming in my next update.
I enjoy contributing chapters to edited volumes. They often result from small workshops (this is the case with both articles listed at the top), where participants have the luxury of presenting their work and getting good feedback through intimate conversations and interactions. The volume editors can never be thanked enough for doing an incredible amount of work in what is often a long process leading to publication. Their work significantly reduces the workload and stress of contributing authors. I also enjoy reading nicely edited volumes, because they usually present a variety of perspectives on a common theme from a diverse group of authors.
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