Email: tianyangfu@utexas.edu
Hometown: Yantai, China
B.A. Degree: Beijing Foreign Studies University, Beijing, China
M.A. Degree: The University of Chicago
Current Research Interests: My research sits between the political economy of communication and critical organizational communication studies, with special concerns of digital capitalism and algorithmic management. I examine how emerging ICTs constitute labor relations, shape workers’ agency, and produce new forms of organizational authority and legitimacy, with particular attention to how digital platforms reconfigure class conflict and the possibilities of collective resistance and social activism. Methodologically, I am committed to ethnographic and qualitative approaches, while increasingly interested in experimenting with vibe coding to extend the reach of critical inquiry.
Faculty Advisor: Dr. Dawna Ballard
Projected Graduation Date: Spring 2028
Personal Website: https://tianyangfu.github.io/
