Media

SELECTED PUBLIC ARTICLES

Zhao, Mengyang. 2024 (Jun 7). “Why Are There Male Game Companions? Gender Division of Labor in the Platform Gaming Service Industry.” Madame Muse. In Chinese. https://new.qq.com/rain/a/20240607A02BMD00 

Zhao, Mengyang. 2023 (July 15). “Art of Endurance: Insights from Atlanta's Stop Cop City.Initium Media. In Chinese. https://theinitium.com/article/20230717-international-cop-city/ 

Yin, Aiwen and Zhao, Mengyang. 2023 (June 23). “Playing ‘Liquid Dependencies: What Does a Decentralised Caring Society Look Like’ (2021-Present).” Arts of the Working Class. #26 Grassroots. https://artsoftheworkingclass.org/text/playing-liquid-dependencies-what-does-a-decentralised-caring-society-look-like-2021-present 

Zhao, Mengyang. 2022 (Dec 22). “Divide or Unite? American Leftist Organizations at a Crossroads.Initium Media. In Chinese. https://theinitium.com/article/20221222-opinion-reflection-left-wing-us/ 

Zhao, Mengyang. 2022 (June 30). “We Have Never Been Progressive? Street War of the American Anti-abortion Movement.” the Paper. In Chinese. https://www.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_18798577 

Zhao, Mengyang. 2022 (May 5). “The Undercurrents and Rebellion of the American Right after Capitol Hill.the Paper. In Chinese. https://www.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_17938955 

Zhao, Mengyang. 2022 (Feb 20). “No Games, No Gig: Gig Game Workers in China.Initium Media. In Chinese. https://theinitium.com/article/20220220-game-on-labor/ 

Zhao, Mengyang. 2022 (Jan 5). “Eliminating Boundaries with Care: A Game’s Social Practice.” Stanford Social Innovation Review (Chinese Edition). https://mp.weixin.qq.com/s/oVsO5oWjWudSW3jUqYOhTg 

Zhao, Mengyang. 2021 (July 28). “Black Lives Matter a Year Later: A Fragile Coalition and Rightwing Backlash.the Paper. In Chinese. https://www.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_13762409  

Zhao, Mengyang. 2021 (May 16). “Devaluation, Invisibility and Stalled Struggles: Care Labor in the Chasms of Future Work.the Paper. In Chinese. https://www.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_12696705  

Zhao, Mengyang. 2021 (Feb 27). “UK Supreme Court Rules that Uber Drivers are Workers, Can We Call it a Victory for Gig Workers?the Paper. In Chinese. https://www.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_11480239   

Zhao, Mengyang. 2021 (Jan 14). “Can Google’s Minority Union Become a Template for Tech Worker Activism in the Future?Initium Media. In Chinese. https://theinitium.com/article/20210114-opinion-google-labour-union-explainer/  

Zhao, Mengyang. 2020 (Nov 14). “Facing Down the Hong Kong Protests’ Right-wing Turn and a New Afterword.Lausan. https://lausan.hk/2020/facing-down-the-hong-kong-movements-right-wing-turn-afterword/  

Zhao, Mengyang. 2020 (Nov 11). “Are Latinxs Really Shifting Right? Debunking the Myth of Latinx Vote in the U.S.Initium Media. In Chinese. https://theinitium.com/article/20201111-opinion-latinx-in-us/ 

Zhao, Mengyang. 2020 (Sept 16). “Play as Work: Are Chinese Game Workers Earning Easy Money or Struggling Hopelessly?Masses. In Chinese. https://bit.ly/3DaOd9c  

Zhao, Mengyang. 2021 (June 7). “The History and Organization of the Black Power Movement.the Paper. In Chinese. https://www.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_8175114  

Zhao, Mengyang. 2020 (March 27). “The American Workplace During The Pandemic.the Paper. In Chinese. https://www.thepaper.cn/newsDetail_forward_6698738  

SELECTED ENGLISH MEDIA APPEARANCES

2023 (March 14) “Who, What, Why: Zoe Zhao on Emerging Digital Labor, What Counts as Work.” Penn Today

2023 (Feb 16) “Heartbroken Gamers Mourn World of Warcraft’s Shutdown in China.Rest of World

2022 (Dec 8) “Scholars Look at Ramifications from ‘Zero COVID’ Protests in China.” Penn Today. 

2022 (Nov 30) “China Protests Mushroom Around the World.The Wall Street Journal. 

2022 (June 3) “The Radical, Transnational Legacy of Tiananmen Workers.The Nation. 

2022 (March 8) “From the ‘Chinese National Character’ Debates of Yesterday to the Anti-China Foreign Policy of Today.Made in China. 

2011 (Sept 24) “A Chinese ‘Game Companion’ Platform’s Phantom Shutdown.” Protocol. 

2021 (Sept 10) “Chinese Tech Giants are Forming Unions. It’s not What You Think.Protocol

2021 (July 20) “China’s New Gaming Underclass.Protocol

2021 (Feb 1) “Worker Deaths Put Big Tech in China Under Scrutiny.The New York Times

2019 (Aug 28) “Thwarted at Home, Can China’s Feminists Rebuild a Movement Abroad?ChinaFile

2019 (April 17) “Office Workers in China Organise a Rare Online Labour Movement.The Economist

2019 (March 21) “After New Zealand Massacre, Islamophobia Spreads on Chinese Social Media.” Columbia Journalism Review

SELECTED PODCASTS

2022 (May 30) "The Young Generation that Play-to-earn." Call Operator 接线员. In Chinese

2022 (Jan 26) "Reimagining Social Relationship: Why Do We Need Mutual Care beyond Kinship." GraveTalk Podcast 井号键. In Chinese

2021 (Sept 2) "How to Rehearse a Caring Future through a Game." neo-Portal 传送门. In Chinese

2021 (Aug 15) "Platform Workers in the Video Game Industry." Newslab Podcast 新闻实验室. In Chinese

2020 (Dec 20) "Is There a Gap between Game Streaming and Doctoral Study." 365 days of finding my path 迷惘青年寻路记. In Chinese

2020 (Dec 14) "Asian and Latinx Immigrants: Political Imagination of Identity. " Veitgeist 唯理对谈. In Chinese

2020 (June 6) "Resisting Injustice from Black Lives Matter." Stochastic Volatility 随机波动. In Chinese