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About
Dr Ye obtained his BA in journalism at Zhejiang University in China and completed his MA in Global Media and Communication with distinction at the University of Warwick, UK. He finished the PhD at the Department of Media and Communications at the LSE in December 2024. Following the critical political economy of communication tradition, Dr Ye’s doctoral research investigates the financialisation of China’s digital news industry in the historical context of China’s post-socialist transformations.
Expertise
political economy of communication; media policy and governance; media industries; China
Research
Dr Ye’s research focuses on theorizing different patterns of state-capital nexus played out in the Chinese media system and beyond against the historical backdrop of financialised capitalist development. With China being the main empirical focus, he endeavors to advance intellectual debates on the role of the state and finance capital in reconfiguring media and communication industries in the context of transnational financial capitalism.
Teaching
Dr Ye convenes the course Global Media Industries (MC423) and contributes to team-taught postgraduate media and communication courses on theories and concepts (MC408), as well as Critical Approaches to Media, Communication and Development (MC421).