(Shangwei) S Wu
- Location
- Burg. Oudlaan 50, Rotterdam
- wu@eshcc.eur.nl
Profile
Shangwei Wu is a PhD candidate in the Department of Media & Communication at Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication.
With Prof. Susanne Janssen and Dr. Janelle Ward respectively being his promotor and co-promotor, Shangwei studies Chinese gay men's dating app use. Specifically, he is interested in the mutual shaping between dating app use and Chinese gay men's social relationships.
Before coming to Erasmus University Rotterdam, he studied in Renmin University of China from 2009 to 2016. He obtained both his bachelor’s and master’s degrees at the School of Journalism and Communication. In 2014, he also studied international affairs at Sciences Po in Paris. He worked as an intern at CCTV (…
Shangwei Wu is a PhD candidate in the Department of Media & Communication at Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication.
With Prof. Susanne Janssen and Dr. Janelle Ward respectively being his promotor and co-promotor, Shangwei studies Chinese gay men's dating app use. Specifically, he is interested in the mutual shaping between dating app use and Chinese gay men's social relationships.
Before coming to Erasmus University Rotterdam, he studied in Renmin University of China from 2009 to 2016. He obtained both his bachelor’s and master’s degrees at the School of Journalism and Communication. In 2014, he also studied international affairs at Sciences Po in Paris. He worked as an intern at CCTV (China Central Television) in 2012 and the Wall Street Journal in 2015.
Shangwei’s research interests include media technologies, television audience, and cyber nationalism. He is particularly interested in how social media mediate monority groups' lives.
- S. Wu & T. Bergman (2019). An active, resistant audience – but in whose interest? Online discussions on Chinese TV dramas as maintaining dominant ideology. Participations, Journal of Audience and Reception Studies (online), 16 (1), 107-129. [go to publisher's site]
- S. Wu & J.R. Ward (2018). The mediation of gay men's lives: A review on gay dating app studies. Sociology Compass, 12 (2), 1-10. doi: 10.1111/soc4.12560
Com. Technologies and their Impacts
- Title
- Com. Technologies and their Impacts
- Year
- 2019
- Year level
- (BA-1)
(external) researcher
- University
- Erasmus University Rotterdam
- School
- Erasmus School of History, Culture and Communication
- Department
- Department of Media and Communication
- Country
- The Netherlands
Address
Visiting address
Burg. Oudlaan 50 3062 PA RotterdamPostal address
Postbus 1738 3000 DR RotterdamNews regarding (Shangwei) S Wu
“Tinder maakt van daten een spelletje”
Elisabeth Timmermans (28) en Shangwei Wu (27) onderzochten de troeven en valkuilen van dating apps. Een gesprek over status, monogamie, stigma's én – toch nog – liefde.