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Aleena Chia is Lecturer in Media, Communications and Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths, University of London and retains an adjunct position at Simon Fraser University's School of Communication, where she was an Assistant Professor from 2019-2021 and continues to supervise existing students. She uses ethnographic and textual methods to study cultures of creativity such as vocational passion and computational creativity in digital game production, lucid dreaming practices in consciousness hacking, and wellness discourses in social media disconnection. She uses ethnography to investigate gaming's boundary work as structuring categories in post-Fordism and as moral calculations in creative industries. She uses media theory to examine New Age spiritualists' use of neuro-wearables and wellness rituals for creativity on demand.
Dr. Chia received her PhD in Communication and Culture from Indiana University in 2017 and was a postdoctoral researcher at the Academy of Finland's Centre of Excellence in Game Culture Studies in 2018. Her work has been supported by training from the School of Criticism and Theory, funding from the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, and an internship at Microsoft Research New England's Social Media Collective. |
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SCMS Panel: Networks & Neuropolitics
March 20, 2021. |
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a.chia (at) gold.ac.uk
