curriculum vitae

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Academic Positions

• 2019 — Assistant Professor. Simon Fraser University, School of Communication. Canada. Affiliated Faculty, Digital Democracies Group

 

• 2018 - Postdoc Researcher. Centre of Excellence in Game Culture Studies, University of Jyväskylä, Department of Music, Art, and Culture Studies. Finland.

 

• 2015 - Research Intern. Microsoft Research New England; Social Media Collective. USA.

Education

• 2017 - Ph.D. In Communication and Culture | Minor in Telecommunications.  Indiana University Bloomington (Advisor:  Mary L. Gray; Committee: Harmeet Sawhney, Susan Lepselter, Robert Ivie)

• 2009 - MA in Communications and New Media. National University of Singapore

• 2002 - BA in Sociology and Cultural Studies (First-class honours). University of Melbourne

Service: Reviewing

• Journals: Journal of Critical Studies in Media Communications​; Journal of Consumer Culture; Journal of Virtual Worlds Research
• Presses: Rowman & Littlefield International
• Conferences: Association of Internet Researchers; Digital Games Research Association; European Communication Research and Education Association​; Foundations of Digital Games Conference; GamiFIN Conference; Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Service: Conference Organizing 

• 2020 - Organizing Committee: "Organized Abandonment: Cultures of Crisis and Resistance." Canadian Association of Cultural Studies. Vancouver, Canada. [COVID-19 Cancellation]
• 2020 - Workshop co-organizer: "Agency in Videogames after Humanism" DiGRA, Tampere, Finland. [Cancelled]
• 2019 - Panel co-organizer: "Production Beyond the Studio: From Playbour to Gamework." DiGRA, Kyoto.
• 2018 - Panel co-organizer: "Situating the Body of the Researcher." Nordic DiGRA, Bergen.
• 2018 - Organizing Committee: "eS­ports, Exer­ga­ming, and Fan­ta­sy Lea­gues." Jyväskylä, Finland. 

Publications: Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

• Chia, A. (2020) "Productive Leisure in Post-Fordist Fandom." Journal of Fandom Studies. Special Issue: Events, Tourism and Leisure

 

• Chia, A. (2019) "The Moral Calculus of Vocational Passion in Digital Gaming​​​." Television & New Media. Special Issue: Contested Formations of Labor in Digital Gaming

 

• Chia, A. (2019) "Virtual Lucidity: A Media Archaeology of Dream Hacking Wearables." Communication +1. 7(2) Special Issue: Intersectionalities and Media Archaeologies​

 

• Chia, A. (2017) "Scaling Technoliberalism for Massively Multiplayer Online Games." Journal of Virtual Worlds Research. 10(3)

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• Chia, A. (2012) “Welcome to Me-Mart: The Politics of User Generated Content in Personal Blogs.” American Behavioral Scientist. 56(4): 421-438

Publications: Book Chapters & Editorials

• Chia, A. (Forthcoming, 2020) "Self-making and Game-making in the Future of Work​​​." Game Production Studies: Cultural Studies of Video Game Industries. Amsterdam University Press.

 

• Aleena Chia, Ana Jorge and Tero Karppi eds. (Under Contract, 2021) Reckoning with Social Media: Disconnection in the Age of the Techlash. Rowman & Littlefield International.

Publications: In Preparation ​ ​

• "Oneirogenic Innovation in Consciousness Hacking." Co-authored book (In preparation)

 

• "Playing with Platforms: Game-Making Practices and Labour under Platform Governance" Co-authored Invited journal article (Under review)

Online Articles & Book Reviews

• 2020 - "Diagrams of Flexibility in the Future of Work." Centre for Ethics Journal, University of Toronto. 
• 2020 - "New Age Media" theme week. In Media Res. 
• 2019 - Review of "Media Anthropology for the Digital Age. Anna Cristina Pertierra." Television & New Media.
• 2019 - Review of "Antisocial Media: Anxious Labor in the Digital Economy. Greg Goldberg." Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly.
• 2018 - Review of "The Participatory Condition in the Digital Age by Darin Barney, Gabriella Coleman, Christine Ross, Jonathan Sterne, Tamar Tembeck, editors" International Journal of Communication. 12: 3427-3430

Orcid ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7066-7244