Peichi Chung
Chinese University of Hong Kong
Peichi Chung is an associate professor in the Department of Cultural and Religious Studies, Chinese University of Hong Kong. She is interested in various impacts of digital technology on Asian popular culture. Her research foci include the political economy of game industries in Asia, cultural policy and digital culture in East and Southeast Asia. She has published works on comparative analysis of game industry dynamics in Asia. Her recent works include independent game distribution in East Asia, esports history and ecosystem in Northeast Asia and the preservation of video game culture in Hong Kong.
Wesley Jacks
Lingnan University
Wesley Jacks is Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Visual Studies at Lingnan University in Hong Kong where he teaches courses on creative and media industries, Hollywood and genre, and non-fiction filmmaking. He earned an MA in Communication Arts (Film) from UW-Madison and a PhD in Film and Media from UC-Santa Barbara in 2019. He has now spent more than seven years living between Beijing, Hong Kong, and Taipei. His work focuses on film distribution, media piracy, and Chinese cinema historiographies. He is revising his dissertation for publication as a monograph and working on several articles at the moment.
Nobuko Kawashima
Doshisha University
Nobuko Kawashima is Professor at the Faculty of Economics, Doshisha University in Kyoto and Visiting Professor at the Institute for Future Initiatives, University of Tokyo. Areas of her research expertise include cultural policy, cultural economics, law and economics of copyright and the media and creative industries. Her recent publications in English include Asian Cultural Flows, co-edited with Hye-Kyung Lee (Springer 2018), Film Policy in a Globalised Cultural Economy, co-edited with John Hill (Routledge, 2017) and "Changing business models in the media industries," The Media Industries Journal (2020). Having served a number of Councils and Committees of the Agency for Cultural Affairs (the lead agency for cultural policy in Japan), she has been the Chair of the Council for Cultural Policy of ACA since 2019. She has also served the Editorial Boards of the International Journal of Cultural Policy and the Media Industries Journal, as well as the Scientific Committee of the International Conference on Cultural Policy Research.
Aynne Kokas
University of Virginia
Aynne Kokas is the C.K. Yen Professor at the Miller Center, the director of the University of Virginia East Asia Center, and an associate professor of media studies at the University of Virginia. Kokas’ research examines Sino-U.S. media and technology relations. Her book Trafficking Data: How China is Winning the Battle for Digital Sovereignty (Oxford University Press, October 2022) argues that exploitative Silicon Valley data governance practices help China build infrastructures for global control. Her award-winning first book Hollywood Made in China (University of California Press, 2017) argues that Chinese investment and regulations have transformed the U.S. commercial media industry, most prominently in the case of media conglomerates’ leverage of global commercial brands.
Kokas is a non-resident scholar at Rice University’s Baker Institute of Public Policy, a fellow in the National Committee on United States-China Relations’ Public Intellectuals Program, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Gyu-tag Lee
George Mason University - Korea
Gyu Tag Lee received his bachelor’s in English language and literature from Seoul National University, South Korea. After completing his three-year military service in the Republic of Korea Air Force, he received his master’s in communication from Seoul National University. In 2013, he earned his doctorate in Cultural Studies from George Mason University. Since 2014, he has been teaching at George Mason University-Korea. He is an expert of popular music, media studies, globalization of culture, and especially, K- Pop. He has been writing books and articles about K-Pop, popular music and Hallyu for a number of on- and off-line media, and is a committee member of Korean Music Awards. Additionally, he has been interviewed by a number of Korean domestic and international media such as Netflix's documentary Explained, EBS's public lecture Class e, Wall Street Journal, Joong-Ang Ilbo, Chosun Ilbo, KBS, MBC, SBS, etc.
Hye-Kyung Lee
King's College London
Dr Hye-Kyung Lee is Reader in Cultural Policy at the Department of Culture, Media and Creative Industries, King’s College London, UK. She is interested in the evolving dynamics between the cultural sector, the state and the market and has worked on cultural policy, arts subsidy, creative industries discourse, cultural fandom and marketing. Her publications include Cultural Policies in East Asia (2014), Asian Cultural Flows (Springer 2018), Cultural Policy in South Korea: Making a New Patron State (Routledge 2019), and Routledge Handbook of Cultural and Creative Industries in Asia (2019). She co-edits Cultural Trends.
Grace Leung
Chinese University of Hong Kong
Dr Grace Leung is a lecturer in the School of Journalism and Communication, Chinese University of Hong Kong, and a Visiting Scholar, School of Journalism and Communication, Tsinghua University, China. She is the author of a few books, including Tabloidization of Hong Kong newspaper (2006), News Writing and Reporting (2009), The Media and Society (2011) and Innovative and Creative industries in Hong Kong: A Global City in China and Asia (2019). She has also been a popular commentator on media and creative industry development in Hong Kong and the Greater China Region for over two decades. Her research interest lies in the changing regulatory regime in a convergent media environment, the future of public service broadcasting and development of media industries. She also writes extensively in the local and international journals, both in the industry and in the academic field.
Teri Silvio
Academia Sinica
Teri Silvio is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan. She is an anthropologist who has done extended ethnographic research on theater, puppetry, toy design, and comics. Her work combines approaches from anthropology, cultural studies, gender and sexuality studies, performance studies, and media studies. Her book, Puppets, Gods, and Brands: Theorizing the Age of Animation from Taiwan (University of Hawai`i Press 2019) develops an anthropological concept of animation as a complement to the concept of performance, and elaborates this concept through Taiwanese examples including televised puppetry, folk religious practice, and manga/anime fandom.
Marc Steinberg
Concordia University
Marc Steinberg is associate professor of film studies at Concordia University and director of The Platform Lab. He the author of Anime’s Media Mix: Franchising Toys and Characters in Japan (University of Minnesota Press, 2012) and The Platform Economy: How Japan Transformed the Commercial Internet (University of Minnesota Press, 2019). His current research focuses on the manufacturing history of digital platforms, with special attention to Toyota’s just-in-time management practices. The connections between just-in-time and platforms are the focus of his co-authored book, Media and Management (University of Minnesota Press, 2021) and his recent article “From Automobile Capitalism to Platform Capitalism: Toyotism as a Prehistory of Digital Platforms,” published in Organization Studies.