Dr. Lei Hao obtained his PhD in Media and Communications at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK.  His research interrogates how media technologies influences the construction of identities. Specifically, his work examines how media, culture, and technologies have emerged as sites for the production and reproduction of hegemonic power, and investigates how agents, institutions, and communities negotiate meaning and assert agency within these evolving spaces. He is the author of the monograph "Minzu as Technology: Ethnic Identity and Social Media in Post-2000s China," which offers a critical examination of how technological dynamics of social media affect the materialization of ethnic identities.

 

Dr. Hao is currently collaborating with Professor Yat Ming Loo on his second book project, "Cultural Memory in the Digital Era." This upcoming book delves into the burgeoning role of the attention economy inherent in social media platforms, exploring the discourse of visibility. It particularly focuses on how these elements reshape and represent the historical architectural narrative of Dalian, investigating the ways digital platforms influence cultural memory and identity representation.

 

Since 2012 he has been teaching Communications and Technology at the University of Leicester, University of Bedfordshire, and University College Dublin. Currently, he is the module convenor of Communication and Culture (INCM1030 UNNC) at the University of Nottingham Ningbo China. Dr Hao also serves as a Research Fellow at the Institute for Mobile Studies, University of Nottingham Ningbo China, Research Fellow at the Institute of Asia and Pacific Studies, University of Nottingham Ningbo China.