Dr. Qiu is an associate professor at the School of Journalism and Communication, Chinese University of Hong Kong. His 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 in Communication Research, New Media & Society, Javnost-the Public, Journal of Urban Technology, Asian Journal of Communication, the International Journal of Communication, the Journal of Communication Inquiry, China Information, Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal, Information Communication & Society, Online Journalism Review, Global Civil Society Yearbook, Journalism and Communication Studies (in Chinese), Twenty-First Century (in Chinese), and Open Times (in Chiense).

Dr. Qiu serves as associate editor for Chinese Journal of Communication (CJoC) and is book review editor for CJoC and International Journal of Communication (IJoC). He coordinates the MA in Global Communication programme at CUHK and is a member of the Annenberg Research Network on International Communication. He co-founded and moderates the China Internet Research Network, the world's largest network of China Internet researchers with more than 360 selected members from the academic, policymaking and journalistic communities. He co-directed the conference "China and the Internet: Technology, Economy, and Society in Transition" (Los Angeles: May 30-31, 2003), which started the China Internet Conference series held at UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism (2004), Michigian State University College of Law (2005), the Singapore Internet Research Centre at Nanyang Technological University (2006) and Texas A&M University (2007).

Besides academic projects, he also provides consultancy services for various international organizations such as the OECD. His writings have been translated into multiple languages and circulated among new media policymakers globally through such organizational channels as UNESCO and UNITAR.

Updated on March 8, 2010