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SERVICE

EDITORIAL BOARDS

  • Bloomsbury Press ‘Asian Celebrity and Fandom Studies’ series (July 2021–)
  • Bloomsbury Press ‘Fandom Primers’ series (August 2022–)
  • Bloomsbury Press ‘Studies in Digital Cultures’ series (October 2021–)
  • Cambridge Journal of Anthropology (September 2022–)
  • Celebrity Studies (June 2023–)
  • Convergence: The International Journal of New Media Technologies (April 2018–)
  • Creator and Influencer Studies (Jan 2026–) 
  • Cultural Science Journal (July 2017–)
  • Global Media and China (February 2023–)
  • Global Perspectives – Technology and Global Change section (February 2021–October 2024)
  • Journal of Communication (September 2019–September 2024)
  • Journal of Computer Mediated Communication (October 2021–)
  • Journal of Sociotechnical Critique (April 2019–October 2024)
  • Media International Australia: Editor-in-Chief (July 2022–March 2025), Exec (April 2025–)
  • Social Media + Society (November 2015–)
  • Television & New Media (March 2022–)

REVIEWING

Journals:

  • African Journalism Studies
  • Anthropological Forum
  • Asiascape: Digital Asia
  • Cambridge Journal of Anthropology
  • Celebrity Studies
  • Chinese Journal of Communication
  • Communication, Culture and Critique
  • Convergence
  • Global Media and China
  • Information, Communication and Society
  • International Journal of Communication
  • International Journal of Cultural Studies
  • Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication
  • Journal of Gender Studies
  • Limina 
  • M/C Journal
  • Media International Australia
  • New Media & Society
  • Persona Studies
  • Poetics
  • Popular Communication
  • Qualitative Research
  • Quarterly Review of Film and Video
  • Social Media + Society Journal
  • The Asia Pacific Journal of Anthropology 

Publishers:

  • Bloomsbury Academic
  • Emerald Publishing
  • Hong Kong University Press
  • Lexington Books
  • MIT Press
  • Oxford University Press
  • Palgrave
  • Routledge
  • SAGE Publishing

Conferences:

  • Association of Internet Researchers
  • Australia New Zealand Communication Association
  • Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
  • International Communication Association

Grants:

  • Australian Research Council
  • National Science Foundation

ASSOCIATIONS

Membership:

  • Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR), 2014–
  • Australian Anthropological Society (AAS), 2012–2016
  • Cultural Studies Association of Australasia (CSAA), 2015–2016
  • International Communications Association (ICA), 2016–2020
  • Korean Studies Association of Australasia (KSAA), 2019–
  • The Australian Sociological Association (TASA), 2017–

Australia & Aotearoa New Zealand Communication Association (AANZCA)
>>Executive Committee Member (September 2021–)

Australian Network of Student Anthropologists
>>Web Officer & Social Media Curator (September 2012–August 2015)
>>State Representative for Western Australia (September 2012–August 2015)

Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR)
>>Executive Committee Member (Open Seat) (October 2019–September 2021, October 2017–September 2019)
>>Executive Duties on subcommittees of Code of Conduct, Diversity & Inclusivity, Institutional Memory, Nominations, Public Communications, Satellite Symposia, Translations, Travel Grant (October 2019–September 2021, October 2017–September 2019)

National University of Singapore
>>Class Ambassador for the Sociology Honours Cohort 2010/2011 (June 2011)


UNIVERSITY

Curtin University

  • Faculty Academic Promotions Committee, Faculty of Humanities (May 2023–)
  • Research and Creative Practice Committee, iSchool (March 2022–March 2023)
  • Advisory Board, MCASI (July 2021–)
  • Executive Board Member, Tourism Research Cluster, Curtin Business School (May 2021–)
  • ERA Readiness Taskforce, MCASI (March 2021–)
  • ECR Rep, Faculty Research Committee, Faculty of Humanities (March 2021–March 2023)
  • Mentor, Curtin Global Campuses Mentoring Programme (2021) 
  • Reviewer, Human Research Ethics Committee (July 2020–)
  • Mentor, Curtin Staff Mentoring Programme (2020)
  • Reviewer, HASS Grant Success Panel, Research Office (October 2019)
  • Invited panelist at “All Faculties ARC Rejoinder Session”, Curtin Grant Success Panel (June 2019)
  • Mentor at the “Cultures of Knowledge: Creative Economy and China Summer School and Conference” (February 2017)

Jönköping University

  • Expert Panelist at the “JIBS Entrepreneurship Challenge” (April 2015)

University of Western Australia

  • Postgraduate Representative for the Department of Anthropology & Sociology (July–December 2013, July–November 2014)
  • Invited Postgraduate Panelist at the “ALVA Supervision Workshop” hosted by the Graduate Research School, UWA (May 2014)
  • Mailing List Administrator for the Department of Anthropology & Sociology (April 2012–January 2013, July–December 2013)
  • Advisory Group Member and Facilitator at the “Intercultural Interviews Workshop Trial Honours Project” with the Study Abroad programme at UWA (August–October 2013)
  • Postgraduate Representative for various events such as Open Day (August 2012, August 2013, August 2014)
  • Research Features for various Graduate Research School events such as the Postgrad and Honours Expo (September 2013), Graduate Welcome Tea (August 2012, September 2013)
  • Contributing writer, photographer, and model for various entitles such as Open Day (August 2013), Student Services (July 2013), Information Services (January 2012); Postgraduate Students Association (Spring 2012, Spring 2013)
  • Postgraduate Mentor to Honours Year Anthropology & Sociology Students at UWA (October–December 2012)
  • Coordinator & Discussant for various postgraduate writing groups and work-in-progress workshops (2011-2015)

RESEARCH GROUPS

  • Asia Life Digital Project, 2014–2015
  • Australian Network of Student Anthropologists (ANSA), 2012–2015
  • Children’s Digital Futures Consortium, 2017
  • Cultural Science Society, 2017
  • Digitizing Early Childhood International Steering Committee, 2017
  • Fame and Persona Research Consortium, 2017
  • Fembot Collective, 2015
  • Hey Girl Global, 2015
  • Identity Research Network, 2014
  • PopAnth, 2013
  • Postdigital Intimacies, 2021
  • Postgraduate Students Association (UWA), 2011–2015
  • Selfies Pedagogy Group, 2014
  • The Selfies Research Network, 2014
  • Western Australian Anthropological and Sociological Students Association (WAASSA), 2012–2015
  • Western Australia Communication, Culture, Media (WACCM), 2016–2021

This page was last updated on 28 January 2026.