DrChunmeizi Su

Ph.D., Media & Communication Studies (QUT)

Dr Chunmeizi Su is a Lecturer of Digital Cultures at the University of Sydney, Discipline of Media and Communications. She is also the Deputy Editor-in-Chief at Policy & Internet (Q1, IF: 4.5).

Books and book chapters

Her research interests are primarily focused on platform studies, Generative AI, and policy regulation. Her publications include the sole-authored monograph 'Douyin, TikTok, and China's Online Video Industry: The Rise of Short Video Platforms' (Routledge, 2023), which unpacks the broader platform ecosystem of TikTok and Douyin, as well as the key stages of its recommender algorithms.  She has also published two book chapters, on 'The Will to Power: BAT in and Beyond China', published in Willing Collaborators Foreign Partners in Chinese Media (Rowan and Littlefield, 2018), as well as Regulating Chinese and North American Digital Media in Australia: Facebook and WeChat as Case Studies, in Digital Platform Regulation: Global Perspectives on Internet Governance (Springer, 2022). 

Journals

She has published extensively in Q1 journals, including Media, Culture and Society (2023, IF 4.0), Television and New Media (2022, IF 3.5), Policy & Internet (2026, IF 3.6), and Global Media and China (2023, IF 3.2). She has also published a commissioned report from the CREATe centre at the University of Glasgow, on 'Mapping International Inquiries into the Power of Digital Platforms' (2022). She has edited a special issue with Professor Terry Flew, on Sovereignty and the Return of Governance for Digital Platforms with Global Media and China in 2023.

Research Impact

She has received an exceptionally high FWCI Score of 3.89 (Scopus). 83% of her publications are single or first-authored. Her work has been cited in 5 policy documents from 2023-2025 by Congressional Research Service (a Washington, D.C., think tank), Centre for Strategic and International Studies (a U.S. think tank), the Government of Valencia (Spain) and the Centre for Development and Regional Planning (Brazil government). 

She has co-led partnerships with the University of Glasgow (2020-2022), the Communication University of China (2021-2023), and Peking University (2025-). Her research has reached a broad impact beyond academia. Her media appearances include ABC News Radio in Australia, the Global Media Forum from Germany's National Television Network, and Al Jazeera, among others.