Yu-Kei Tse

I am Assistant Professor of media and cultural studies at the Department of Society, Culture and Media. I joined this Department in 2018. I received my doctoral degree, PhD, in Media and Communications from Goldsmiths, University of London in 2016. My research adopts a critical, cross-cultural and ethnographic approach to media consumption, transnational media and cultural flows, media’s changing social positions in the age of digitalisation and convergence.

I am working on my monograph entitled Television and Audience in the Globalising Post-Network Era. Part of my doctoral research was published in the top-ranked Social Science Citation Index (SSCI) journal New Media & Society (2016). My latest research on Netflix’s expansion in Taiwan and Japan was published on Journal of Cinema and Media Studies (2020). I am also the author of the multi-award-winning book The Doraemon Catalogue: Japanese Popular Culture in Taiwan (2002, in Mandarin, 哆啦A夢收藏大集合, 果實出版).

In November 2016, I joined the Global Internet Television Consortium, a transnational network for research on Netflix and other internet-distributed TV services. She is responsible for analysing internet-distributed TV services’ implications for the media environment in Taiwan.

I am the Co-Investigator in a Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (Project number: 19K02055) project that explores the impact of subscription video-on-demand services on the production and distribution of media content in East Asia from April 2019. I am the co-organiser of an international conference on this research topic held in Ritsumenkan University in December 2019.