Julie Yujie Chen
University of Toronto
Julie Yujie Chen is an Associate Professor in the Institute of Communication, Culture, Information, and Technology (ICCIT) and the Faculty of Information at the University of Toronto, Canada. Her research examines the transformation of work and worker’s subjectivity in relation to digital technologies, capitalism, and globalization. She is the co-author of Media and Management (University of Minnesota Press, 2021) and Super-sticky WeChat and Chinese Society (Emerald, 2018), and a member the Capacitor Collective contributing to Notes Toward a Digital Workers’ Inquiry (Common Notions, 2025). Chen is the founding editor of Platforms & Society and the co-editor of SAGE Handbook of Digital Labour (SAGE, 2026). Dr. Chen’s scholarship has been recognized with the Top Paper Award from the Communication and Technology Division of the International Communication Association (2021) and UTM annual research prize (2025). She sits on the editorial boards of the Journal of Cultural Economy and Chinese Journal of Communication.
