curriculum vitae

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Activities

Academic Positions

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

 

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

 

• 2015 - PhD 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 (Microsoft Research); Committee: Harmeet Sawhney (IU Media School), Susan Lepselter (IU Anthropology), Robert Ivie (IU Communication & Culture)

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

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

Grants

• 2021 - SFU/SSHRC Small Research Grant
• 2013 - Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research. Dissertation Fieldwork Grant​

Reviewing

• Journals: Big Data & Society; Science, Technology, & Human Values; 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

Invited Talks 

• "Automated Futurisms in Digital Game Production" at Microsoft Research AI and Gaming Research Summit. 24 Feb 2021. [Online]​
• "The Post-Work Productivity of Everyday Game Making" The Future of Work in the Age of Automation and AI."  15 May, 2020. [Online]
• Keynote & Discussant at Tampere University Game Research Lab Spring Seminar on Immersive Experiences. 30th-31st Mar 2020 in Tampere, Finland. [Cancelled]
• "Data-Driven Dreaming and Biopolitical Immediacy" at the Science, Technology and Innovation Studies Seminar. 29 Sept 2018, University of Edinburgh.

Conference Proceedings

• 2020 - "Disconnection: Designs and Desires." Karppi, Tero, Aleena Chia, Airi Lampinen, Zeena Feldman, Michael Dieter, Pedro Ferreira, and Alex Beattie. AoIR Selected Papers of Internet Research. ​
• 2013 - "(Invisible) Internet infrastructure labor." Finn, Megan, Ashwin Mathew, ShinJoung Yeo, Lilly Irani, Sheeharsh Kelkar, Aleena Chia, Morgan Ames, and Kate Crawford. AoIR Selected Papers of Internet Research. 

publications

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

• Chia, A., Keogh, B, Leorke, D., & Nicoll, B. (2020) "Platformization in Game Development." OA Download: Internet Policy Review. 9(4)

 

• Chia, A. (2020) "Productive Leisure in Post-Fordist Fandom." Journal of Fandom Studies. 8(1): 47-63

 

• Chia, A. (2019) "The Moral Calculus of Vocational Passion in Digital Gaming​​​." ​ Television & New Media. 20(8): 767-77

 

• Chia, A. (2019) "Virtual Lucidity: A Media Archaeology of Dream Hacking Wearables." OA Download: Communication +1. 7(2)​

 

• Chia, A. (2017) "Scaling Technoliberalism for Massively Multiplayer Online Games." OA Download: 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

Edited Books
Editorial Projects 

• Chia, A., Jorge, A. and Karppi, T. eds. (Forthcoming) Reckoning with Social Media: Disconnection in the Age of the Techlash. Rowman & Littlefield. ​

Book Chapters

• Chia, A. (2021) "Self-making and Game-making in the Future of Work​​​." Game Production Studies. Download: Amsterdam University Press.
• Chia, A. and Beattie, A. (Forthcoming). “Ethics and Experimentation in The Light Phone and Google Wellbeing.” in Reckoning with Social Media.

Under Review
Journals

• Convergence Special Issue Editor with Paolo Ruffino: CFP: Politicizing Agency in Digital Play after Humanism. 
• Karppi, T., Chia, A., & Jorge, A. “Attunement to Connection in the Disconnection Marketplace.” Revise and Resubmit.

Books

• Neves, J., Chia, A., Paasonen, S., & Sundaram, R. TechnoPharmacology. In Search of Media Series. Meson/University of Minnesota Press. Under Review.

Non-Peer Reviewed Publications
Articles

• 2020 - "Diagrams of Flexibility in the Future of Work." Centre for Ethics Journal, University of Toronto. 
• 2020 - New Age Media. “There are Infinities within the Mind: Isolation Tanks and Psychonautic Capitalism.” In Media Res. 
• 2014 - “Vemödalen and The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows.” Antenna.
• 2013 - “More Lively than Life is our Motto: Better Living through Gamification.” Antenna.
• 2012 - “Oops, I Swiped my Book: Nostalgia and Finitude in Digital Media.” Antenna.

Book Reviews

• 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.

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Microsoft Research AI and Gaming Research Summit 
February 24, 2021.

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