Xiang Ren

Xiang Ren is a media and communications scholar who researches digital publishing, open knowledge innovation, media industries, and Chinese digital media and cultures. He is a Senior Lecturer at Western Sydney University and holds a PhD in media and cultural studies from Queensland University of Technology, where he received the Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Award.

Ren is the author of China’s eBook Evolution: Disruptive Models and Emerging Book Cultures and co-author of Open Knowledge Institutions: Reinventing Universities, published by MIT Press.