Research & Publication
I am a feminist media studies researcher and I study gender, feminisms, social media, and pop cultures.
My doctoral thesis (2023) is about postfeminism in China and beauty cultures on Chinese social media. A monograph adapted from the thesis is estimated to be published in 2025/2026. I have published peer-reviewed journal articles, peer-reviewed book chapters, and non-traditional research outputs in the fields of Media and Communication Studies, Cultural Studies, Gender Studies, and Tourism Studies.
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​I work as a research assistant in the Influencer Ethnography Research Lab at Curtin University and for a research project on robots in everyday spaces in the Discipline of Media and Communications at the University of Sydney.
Publications
Monograph
Guo, J. (Forthcoming). Postfeminism in China: Cosmopolitan young women, aesthetic labour, and social media (working title). Routledge.
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
Chen, S. H., & Guo, J. (Submitted). A case study of a gender-diverse celebrity statesperson: On Audrey Tang’s political radicalness and Taiwan’s global image. Celebrity Studies.
Guo, J., & Taylor, A. (Accept subjected to minor revision). Global (post)feminist icon? Mapping Eileen Gu’s star persona in China and the US. Celebrity Studies.
Guo, J., Connell, J., & Gibson, C. (2024). The tourist pose: Aesthetic labour, social media, and new gendered tourism geographies. Tourism Geographies. 26(8), 1269–1292. https://doi.org/10.1080/14616688.2024.2424363
Guo, J. (2024). ‘Living-alone’ wanghong: Women’s singleness as a genre and the configuration of Chinese postfeminist wanghong culture. Global Media and China. Online first. https://doi.org/10.1177/20594364241278101 [Invited SI article]
Li, D., & Guo, J. (2024). Online feminist stand-up comedy: An emerging affective-discursive intervention on gender in China. Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies. Online first. ​https://doi.org/10.1080/10304312.2024.2354247
Guo, J. (2022). The postfeminist entrepreneurial self and the platformisation of labour: A case study of yesheng female lifestyle bloggers on Xiaohongshu. Global Media and China, 7(3), 303–318. https://doi.org/10.1177/20594364221095896
Kong, S., Guo, J., & Huang, D. (2022). The girlfriend getaway as an intimacy. Annals of Tourism Research, 92. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annals.2021.103337
Peer-Reviewed Book Chapters
Guo, J. (Forthcoming). Contextualising postfeminist entrepreneurship: Chinese female (aspirant) microcelebrities negotiating stability and precarity. In A. Taylor & J. McIntyre (eds.), Routledge Companion to Celebrity Studies. Routledge. [Invited book chapter]
Guo, J., & Kong, S. (2023). When “jiquan” fandom meets “big sisters”: The ambivalence between female queer (in)visibility and popular feminist rhetoric in Sisters Who Make Waves. In J. J. Zhao (ed.), Queer TV China (pp. 52–66). Hong Kong University Press. https://hkupress.hku.hk/Queer_TV_China
Non-Traditional Research Outputs
Abidin, C., Cabalquinto, E., Nayaka, S., & Guo, J (2025). Groundhog day | "Influencers are just vain". International Journal of Communication, 19, 535–542. [Forum]
Abidin, C., & Guo, J. (2023). Platformed creator discourse in Chinese markets. Influencer Ethnography Research Lab (IERLab), Faculty of Humanities, Curtin University. https://ierlab.com/platformed-creator-discourse-chinese/ [White-paper style research report]