Xiufeng (Sharon) Jia
MSc, MA
Department of Sociological Studies
PhD Student
xjia9@sheffield.ac.uk
The Wave
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Xiufeng (Sharon) Jia
Department of Sociological Studies
The Wave
2 Whitham Road
91̽»¨
S10 2AH
Department of Sociological Studies
The Wave
2 Whitham Road
91̽»¨
S10 2AH
- Qualifications
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- MSc (Research) Media and Communications, London School of Economics (LSE)
- MA New Media and Society, University of Leicester
- Research interests
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- The datafication in society and communications: datafied agency, data justice;
- Social media data mining;
- Digital self-tracking and self-care in everyday life.
Thesis: Datafied Agency: investigating affective responses towards personal digital self-tracking data in China
My project explores how ordinary self-trackers live with, and feel about, their self-tracking data in their everyday lives.
This entails investigation of self-tracking routines, behaviours ordinary people act based on their data, diversity of affective responses surrounding personal self-tracking data, and online expressions about self-tracking experiences and the data on social media platforms and in the self-tracking apps.
- Research group
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Supervisors
- Professional activities and memberships
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- National Academic Scholarship (2014);
- Best Undergraduate Student (2014);
- Best Undergraduate Thesis (2014);
- University Undergraduate Academic Scholarship (2011, 2012 and 2013).