Plenary Session: Jack Linchuan (Live)
Saturday April 16, 7:00AM CST // 8:00PM Taiwan
Description
Jack Linchuan Qiu is Professor and Research Director in the Department of Communications and New Media, the National University of Singapore. He has published more than 100 research articles and chapters and 10 books in English and Chinese including Goodbye iSlave: A Manifesto for Digital Abolition (University of Illinois Press, 2016), World Factory in the Information Age (Guangxi Normal University Press, 2013), Working-Class Network Society (MIT Press, 2009), and co-authored book Mobile Communication and Society (MIT Press, 2005). His work has been translated into German, Japanese, Korean, French, Portuguese, and Spanish. Jack is recipient of the C. Edwin Baker Award for the Advancement of Scholarship on Media, Markets and Democracy, and an elected Fellow of the International Communication Association (ICA). He has served on the editorial boards of 14 academic journals, while collaborating with trade unions, NGOs, co-ops, startups, and international organizations to promote social justice and sustainable development.