Dr Lei Hao

Teaching Fellow in Digital Media, Communications and Cultural Studies

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20192024

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Dr. Lei Hao earned his Ph.D. in Media and Communications from Goldsmiths, University of London. He engages in interdisciplinary scholarship at the intersection of cultural and media studies, ethnic minority studies, and platform studies. His research interrogates how media technologies influences the construction of identities. Specifically, his work examines how media, culture, and technologies have emerged as sites for the production and reproduction of hegemonic power, and investigates how agents, institutions, and communities negotiate meaning and assert agency within these evolving spaces.

 He is the author of the monograph "Minzu as Technology: Ethnic Identity and Social Media in Post-2000s China," which offers a critical examination of how technological dynamics of social media affect the materialization of ethnic identities.

Dr. Hao is currently collaborating with Professor Yat Ming Loo on his second book project, "Cultural Memory in the Digital Era." This upcoming book delves into the burgeoning role of the attention economy inherent in social media platforms, exploring the discourse of visibility. It particularly focuses on how these elements reshape and represent the historical architectural narrative of Dalian, investigating the ways digital platforms influence cultural memory and identity representation.

Dr Hao serves as an academic journal reviewer for the academic journals of New Media and Society, International Journal of Cultural Studies, and Global Media and China. 

Research Interests

  • Impact of Social Media on Minority Groups
  • Ethnic Minority Identity in China
  • Platform Studies
  • Critical Algorithm Studies

Expertise Summary

  • Cultural and social effects of social media on minority communities
  • Identity formation among ethnic minorities in China
  • The cultural aspects of digital platforms
  • the socio-political implications of algorithmic systems

Teaching

Undergraduate 2024-2025:

  • INCM1032: Communication and Technology 
  • BA Dissertation supervision

Postgraduate 2024-2025:

  • INCM4038  Media and Communication Research Methods 1
  • MA Dissertation supervision
  • PhD Supervision 

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

  • SDG 9 - Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure

Education/Academic qualification

Fellow of the Higher Education Academy UK (FHEA), Higher Education Academy

Award Date: 24 Feb 2023

Person Types

  • Staff

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