Julie Yujie Chen

Julie Yujie Chen is an Associate Professor at the Institute of Communication, Culture, Information, and Technology (ICCIT) at the University of Toronto Mississauga and holds a graduate appointment at the Faculty of Information. She has a PhD in American Studies from the University of Maryland, College Park. Before joining the University of Toronto, she was a Lecturer in the School of Media, Communication, and Sociology at the University of Leicester.

Professor Chen is interested in studying how culture, digital technologies, and the established economic structures shape the experience and perception of work. 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. Professor Chen 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.