Publications
Assistant Professor
TXB 1014
Media and Internet Culture, Creative Cities, Urban Culture
I am looking for part-time RA from CUHKSZ students, who are familiar with Shenzhen Nanyou Clothing Market, Shuibei Gold Market, Hanfu/新中式 enthusiasts. It is better if you have research experience in conducting digital ethnography on e-commerce live streaming platforms. Please contact me if you are interested.
Media and Cultural Studies; Creative Industries, ACG and TV Studies; Cultural Policy and Markets; Algorithm and Platform Governance; Fans, Social Media and Pop Culture.
Monographs
Wang, E. N.* & Huang, Q. (2025). Fandom Nationalism: Participatory Censorship and Performative Patriotism. US: Bloomsbury Academic. (In press/ forthcoming)
Peer Reviewed Articles (Note: *Corresponding author)
Wang, E. N.* (2024). Participatory Censorship with Illusory Empowerment: Algorithmic Folklore and Interpretive Labour beyond Fandom. Social Media + Society, 10(4). https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051241295800 (JCR Q1, 中科院1区Top)
Hu, T., & Wang, E. N.* (2024). Chinese celebrity dossier: the politics of censorship governance. Celebrity Studies, 12(2). https://doi.org/10.1080/19392397.2024.2428141
Hu, T., & Wang, E. N.* (2024). Cyber-nationalism and celebrity: The Zhang Zhehan controversy. Celebrity Studies, 12(2). https://doi.org/10.1080/19392397.2024.2428142
Hu, T.*, Zou, C., & Wang, E. N. (2023). A male idol becoming a girl? Nisu fans’ sexual fantasy about male stars. Transformative Works and Cultures, 41. https://doi.org/10.3983/twc.2023.2369
Wang, E. N., & Ge, L.* (2023). Fan conflicts and state power in China: Internalised heteronormativity, censorship sensibilities, and fandom police. Asian studies review, 47(2), 355-373. (Journal Most Cited Article in last 3 years)
Wang, E. N.* (2022). Squid Game Outside the Wall: Fandom Nationalism in China and Negotiation with State Power. Communication, Culture and Critique. https://doi.org/10.1093/ccc/tcac038
Wang, E. N.* (2022). Dangerous Subaltern: The Power Logic of Fan Subcultures in the Context of Fan Conflicts 危险的附庸：从饭圈冲突看粉丝亚文化的权力逻辑. 文化研究辑刊, (Vol 46 (2021)).
Noppe, N.*, Price, L., Chiu, K., Miller, J. N., Wang, E. N., Vaswani, S. M., Merry, S. K., Pollock, D. E., Black, S. R., Hartwell, R., Naomi, J., Anthony, P., & Emmanouloudis, A. (2022). What if academic publishing worked like fan publishing? Imagining the Fantasy Research Archive of Our Own. Transformative Works and Cultures, (Vol 37 (2022)). https://doi.org/10.3983/twc.2022.2253
Wang, E. N., Kelley, B.*, Price, L., & Schuster, K. M. (2020). Beyond the multidisciplinary in fan studies: Learning how to talk among disciplines. Transformative Works and Cultures, (Vol 33 (2020)). https://doi.org/10.3983/twc.2020.1819
Edited Issues
Cultural Reports Issue: The Politics of Censorship against Celebrities, In Celebrity Studies, 12(2), 2024.
Editors: Hu, T. & Wang, E. N.*, co-authored the Introduction.
Book Chapters
Wang, E. N.* (2024). Vernacular Turns in Transcultural Contexts: The Role of Taiwanese Manga Fans in Political Narratives . In Hu, T., & Wu, F. (Eds.), Transcultural Media Fandom in the Asia Pacific. (In Series of Asian Celebrity and Fandom Studies). Bloomsbury. (Accepted/ forthcoming).
Benecchi, E.*, & Wang, E. N. (2021). Fandom: Historicized Fandom and the Conversation between East and West Perspectives. In G. Balbi, N. Ribeiro, V. Schafer, & C. Schwarzenegger (Eds.), Digital Roots: Historicizing Media and Communication Concepts of the Digital Age (pp. 281-298). (Studies in digital history and hermeneutics). DeGruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110740202
Commentary
Ge, L., & Wang, E. N.* (2022). Scapegoating Fandom: Digital Colonialism, Capitalism, and State. CriticalAsianStudies.org. https://doi.org/10.52698/XMVR6735
Ge, L., & Wang, E. N.* (2022). Intra-Fandom Conflicts and Censorship Sensibilities in Chinese Popular Mediascape. Asian Studies Association of Australia. https://asaa.asn.au/intra-fandom-conflicts-and-censorship-sensibilities/
