Dr. Qiu is an assistant 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 public sphere, late capitalism, globalization, grassroots media, China, and the Asian Pacific. Currently, Dr. Qiu is conducting research on the spatial and class formations of ICTs in China's key city-regions and the social practices of wireless technologies in Asia.

His publications include many research articles, book chapters, and review essays in Communication Research, the International Journal of Communications Law & Policy, the Journal of Communication Inquiry, China Information, Cardozo Arts & Entertainment Law Journal, Information Communication & Society, Online Journalism Review, Japan Media Review, Global Civil Society Yearbook, Twenty-First Century (in Chinese) and Journalism and Communication Studies (in Chinese). He co-authors the book Mobile Communication and Society: A Global Perspective (MIT Press, 2006) with Manuel Castells, Mireia Fernandez-Ardevol, and Araba Sey.

Besides academic projects, Dr. Qiu 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.

Dr Qiu 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).

Updated on May 8, 2007