Yolanda Yuxing Zhang

Yolanda Yuxing Zhang (張宇星) holds a Ph.D. in Information Studies from the University of Toronto. She is interested in how platforms bridge various markets and how value is translated across the interfaces of the economy, the sustainable development sphere, and innovation culture. At the Fairbank Center, Zhang plans to extend her doctoral research to examine the role of platforms, as both a design logic and a structuring system, in industrial upgrading.

Research interests: Digital media; media theory; the political economy of platforms and platform culture; environmental and multispecies anthropology