curriculum vitae

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Academic Positions

• 2019 - Tenure-Track Assistant Professor. Simon Fraser University, School of Communication. Vancouver, Canada.

• 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. Cambridge, Massachusetts, 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

• Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR)
• Digital Games Research Association (DiGRA)
• Foundations of Digital Games (FDG)
• Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS)
• GamiFIN Conference

Service: Conference Organization 

• Panel co-organizer: "Production Beyond the Studio: From Playbour to Gamework." DiGRA 2019, Kyoto.
• Panel co-organizer: "Situating the Body of the Researcher: Cultural Capital, Affect, and Vulnerability in Qualitative Approaches to Play." Nordic DiGRA 2018, Bergen.
• Conference organizer: "eS­ports, Exer­ga­ming, and Fan­ta­sy Lea­gues 2018." Jyväskylä. 

Publications: Peer-Reviewed Articles

• Chia, A. (Forthcoming) "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 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. 12: 3427-3430

Publications: In Preparation 

• "The Future of (Game)Work: Productive Leisure for Post-Work Society." Book Chapter.
• "Branding World-making and Rule-making in Online Games." Journal Article.