Ziwei (Zoe) Xu
MA
School of Sociological Studies, Politics and International Relations
PhD Student
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School of Sociological Studies, Politics and International Relations
The Wave
2 Whitham Road
Sheffield
S10 2AH
- Profile
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Ziwei joined the university in 2021. She completed her MA in Media and Public Relations at Newcastle University in 2019. Her research examines how feminism is negotiated and expressed across Chinese social media platforms. She is particularly interested in the everyday practices of online feminist engagement and how platform environments shape feminist expression.
- Qualifications
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MA Media and Public Relations, University of Newcastle upon Tyne.
- Research interests
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PhD Title: How do women negotiate feminist ideas across Chinese social
media platforms?
Research interests:
Gender equality and gender roles
Chinese digital feminism
Representation and self-representation
Chinese social media censorship
Platform affordances
Media and public relations
Semiotics
- Research group
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Professor Sally Hines
Dr Ysabel Gerrard
Dr Lianrui Jia
- Teaching activities
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Seminar leader for the module SCS 21003 Sociology of the Media and Consumer Culture
Seminar leader for the module SCS 1015 Doing Social Research
Seminar leader for the module SCS1002 The Sociological Imagination