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Jiayi Wang

Burnaby,BC

Overview

3
3
years of professional experience

Work History

Teaching Assistant

Simon Fraser University
Burnaby, British Columbia
09.2023 - Current
  • Assisted in "Introduction to Communication Studies"; "Creativity and Communication across Media"; "Empricial research methods"
  • Facilitated small group instruction sessions on literature review, creative writing, research methods, questionair design, and data analysis in excel and spss.
  • Graded assignments, tests and papers according to teacher instructions.

Program Tutor

Neoscholar Academy Program
Online
01.2024 - 04.2024
  • Individually conduct 10 seminars on AI and communication studies, AI ethics, and social changes in the digital era.
  • Prepared and administered tests to assess student understanding of course material.

Full Time Lecturer

Harbin University
Harbin , Heilongjiang
01.2022 - 08.2023
  • Created instructional framework for "Creative Content and New Media," covering video editing and storytelling techniques, and creative media industry analysis.
  • Facilitated lectures for multiple class levels, enhancing student engagement.
  • Assisted students in successfully crafting original video content from scratch.

Education

M.A. - Asian Studies(Res.) (with Distinction)

Leiden University
the Netherland
01.2021

Exchange Student - Cultural Studies And Anthropology

Chinese University of Hong Kong
Hong Kong
01.2019

B.A. - Chinese Literature

Beijing Normal University
China
01.2018

Exchange Student - Humanities and Japanese studies

Osaka University
Japan
01.2016

Skills

  • Creative writing
  • Research methods (Ethnography, Interview, Focus Group, Discourse Analysis, Content Analysis, Policy Analysis, Questionair)
  • Data analysis (NVivo, SPSS)
  • Content creation
  • Critical thinking
  • Team collaboration

Research Outcomes

  • Becoming "Taitai": Fan Labor, Platformization, and the Digital Economy of Fandom in China
    Presentation at IAMCR Singapore 2025.
    This research, based on interviews with 15 fan writers on Lofter, investigates how commercial digital platforms are reshaping fan subjectivity—transforming amateur fans into semi-professional platform laborers more attuned to the logic of platform capitalism and the creative economy.
  • Love with AI: rethinking anthropomorphic labor in contemporary digital economy.

      The reseach artciulate an alternative theoretical framework to understand the emerging ai-mediated intimacy in China.  It contours how being sense as a human has been a new site of labor.  

  • Rehearsing Romance: Heterosexual Scripts and Parodic Intimacy in Ficto-Love

       This research examines alternative scripts for virtual romance. Focusing specifically on Xingye, Maoxiang, and Zhumeng Dao, it investigates how AI intimacy generators are agentively used by female writers to explore diverse forms of love, intimacy, and sexuality which is beyond the power relations of heteronormatve relations. 

Fellowships Grants Awards

  • Ph.D. Research Scholarship, 2023-2025
  • Outstanding Student Scholarship (Grade 2), 2014-2015
  • Outstanding Student Scholarship (Grade 3), 2015-2016
  • Advanced Individual of Social Work of Beijing Normal University, 2015-2016
  • Exchange scholarship from Japan Student Services Organization (JASSO), 2016-2017

Languages

English
Full Professional
Japanese
Professional

Timeline

Program Tutor

Neoscholar Academy Program
01.2024 - 04.2024

Teaching Assistant

Simon Fraser University
09.2023 - Current

Full Time Lecturer

Harbin University
01.2022 - 08.2023

M.A. - Asian Studies(Res.) (with Distinction)

Leiden University

Exchange Student - Cultural Studies And Anthropology

Chinese University of Hong Kong

B.A. - Chinese Literature

Beijing Normal University

Exchange Student - Humanities and Japanese studies

Osaka University

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