Yujie (Julie) Chen

Julie Yujie Chen is an Associate Professor in the Institute of Communication, Culture, Information, and Technology (ICCIT) and holds a graduate appointment at the Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto, Canada. Her research explores the transformation of work and worker's subjectivity in relation to digital technologies, capitalism, and globalization. She is the co-author of Media and Management (University of Minnesota Press, 2021) and Super-sticky WeChat and Chinese Society (Emerald, 2018). Dr. Chen’s scholarship has been recognized with the Top Paper Award from the Communication and Technology Division of the International Communication Association (2021). She is the founding editor of Platforms & Society and the co-editor of a forthcoming SAGE Handbook of Digital Labour (2025). She also sits on the editorial boards of the Journal of Cultural Economy and Chinese Journal of Communication. She has been the principal investigator leading research projects funded by major research institutions, including Canada’s Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC), the Connaught New Researcher Award, the International Development Research Centre (IDRC, Canada), and International Labour Organization (Switzerland). She is a Senior Fellow at Massey College, University of Toronto. Currently, she is working on two SSHRC-funded projects, one book manuscript examining AI data work and digital working class in China and the other exploring the limitations of the prevailing frameworks of AI safety.

Programs
CCIT; Graduate Appointment at the Faculty of Information