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Haojie Fang is a full-time doctoral researcher at the School of Social Sciences and Humanities at Loughborough University (2022-2026), supervised by Dr Katie Coveney and Dr Simone Varriale.
He got his MA in Communication in Jinan University and BA in Radio and Television Journalism in Henan Normal University.
His PhD project is jointly funded by Loughborough University and the China Scholarship Council.
Different form of Mendang Hudui: digital dating on the non-dating social media platform Douban
PGR Supervisors: Dr Katie Coveney; Dr Simone Varriale
Haojie’s research interests lie in taste and social stratification (digital dating), digital culture, etc. His current research projects generally examine the impact of digital media on people’s socio-cultural lives.
His master’s thesis examined the structural dilemmas of delivery riders (Research title: Fluid waiter/waitress: the mobility of sewing time and space of delivery riders). His PhD project investigates why some people repurpose the general, culturally oriented, non-dating social media platform (Douban) for digital dating in the Chinese context.