Zizi Li | Source | Media and Culture Researcher at University of California, Los Angeles

I am a doctoral candidate in Film, Television and Digital Media at UCLA. My primary focus in digital media studies, manifested in my dissertation titled, “Influencer Ecosystem: Labor and/as Infrastructure of and beyond Digital Platforms,” examines the (im)materiality and (in)visibility of labor in gendered and racialized digital cultural media texts. My broader research program explores dynamics of race, gender, and class in film and media cultures, with an overarching goal of elevating labor discourses and ultimately laying the groundwork for improved practices.