We are proud to announce that Jack Qiu has confirmed as a keynote speaker at our event Designing the Hybrid City this summer in Shanghai.

Jack Qiu – associate professor at the School of Journalism and Communication, Chinese University of Hong Kong

Jack Qiu’s academic interests include Internet and society, information and communication technologies (ICTs) and class, late capitalism, globalization, grassroots media, China, and the Asian Pacific. His publications include Working-Class Network Society: Communication Technology and the Information Have-Less in Urban China (MIT Press, 2009), Mobile Communication and Society: A Global Perspective (MIT Press, 2006, co-authored with Manuel Castells, Mireia Fernandez-Ardevol, and Araba Sey), and many chapters, articles, and review essays.

More keynote speakers will be announced shortly.