Xin Gu public CV

Xin Gu

Lecturer, Communications & Media Studies

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1791-9991

EmailXin.Gu@monash.edu

Accepting PhD Students

PhD projects

creative economy and sustainable development maker culture and the political economy of media media cities

Research output per year

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Personal profile

Biography

Dr. Xin Gu is an Expert appointed by UNESCO 2005 Convention on the Protection and Promotion of Expression of Cultural Diversity (2019-2022). She heads the Master of Cultural and Creative Industries (MCCI) at Monash University in Australia. She has published widely on urban creative clusters and agglomerations, cultural work, creative entrepreneurship, cultural and creative industries policy, media cities, maker culture and cyberculture. Xin has worked with policy initiatives in the UK, China and Indonesia to support small-scale local creative industries development services. Her work focuses on the transformation of creative cities and the creative economy under different social, economic and political conditions. Xin’s current research concerns the digital creative economy, looking at the democratization of creativity through vast transformative digital media ecosystems. Her co-authored book Red Creative historicises the rise of creative economy in China, to be published by Intellect in 2020.

External positions

Expert Facility for the implementation of the 2005 Convention, United Nations Educational Scientific & Cultural Organization

2019 → 2022

Research area keywords

cultural industries
creative industries
communication and media studies
cultural studies
creative clusters
culural economy
cultural policy
social networking
creative entrepreneurship
urban regeneration
Asia
maker culture

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Projects

1 Finished
2 Active

AV: When Your Face is Your ID: Public Responses to Automated Facial Recognition

Andrejevic, M., Selwyn, N., Smith, G., Gu, X. & Roche, C.

10/03/20 → 9/03/24

Project: Research

Going global: Australian indigenous music culture meets Chinese indie music

Gu, X., Dickenson, P. & Domer, N.

23/10/19 → 22/11/20

Project: Research

Urban cultural policy and the changing dynamics of cultural production

Grodach, C., Gibson, C., O'Connor, J., Gu, X. & Warran, A.

21/02/17 → 20/02/20

Project: Research

Research Output

16 Chapter (Book)
14 Article
3 Other contribution
1 Other Report
3 More

From 'creative cities' to 'media cities': the case of Manchester and Shanghai

Gu, X., 2020, The Routledge Companion to Urban Media and Communication. Debrah, S. & Krajina, Z. (eds.). 1st ed. Abingdon Oxon UK: Routledge, p. 255-264 10 p.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (Book) › Research › peer-review

(Un)Design, commerce and artistic autonomy: site-specific art in China

Gu, X. & O'Connor, J., 2019, Undesign : Critical practices at the intersection of art and design. Coombes, G., McNamara, A. & Sade, G. (eds.). Abingdon Oxon UK: Routledge

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (Book) › Research › peer-review

Creative Milieu in China - 'disjuncture' in the global cultural economy

O'Connor, M. J. & Gu, X., 2019, Routledge Handbook of Cultural and Creative Industries in Asia. Lim, L. & Lee, H-K. (eds.). 1st ed. Abingdon Oxon UK: Routledge, p. 177-192 16 p.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (Book) › Research › peer-review

Fabbing the Chinese Maker Identity

Gu, X. & Shea, P., 2019, The Critical Makers Reader: (Un)learning Technology. Bogers, L. & Chiappini, L. (eds.). 1 ed. Amsterdam The Netherlands: Institute of Network Cultures, p. 269-277 (Institute of Network Cultures Reader #12).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (Book) › Other