Academic Publications
Refereed journal articles
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Long, P., & Lu, I. F. (2024). Narrating Migrant Enterprise and Experience in the Australian Cultural and Creative Industries. In Mobility, Agency, Kinship: Representations of Migration Beyond Victimhood (pp. 205-228). Cham: Springer Nature Switzerland.
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Lu, I. F. (2024). Apple Town Square: Digital Placemaking and Digital Transformation of Urban Public Spaces. In The Physical and the Digital City (pp. 222-235). Intellect.
Lu, I. F. (2022) To Subdue the Enemies without Fighting: State-Sponsored Disinformation as Digital Warfare, Digital War. (pdf)
Feng, X., & Lu, I. F. (2022) From Media Events to My Events: Chinese Mediated Festivals in the Digital Era, Convergence. (pdf)
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Lu, I. F., & Wang, L. (2022). Relational platform entrepreneurs: Live commerce and the 818 Jiazu. Global Media and China, 20594364221097493. (pdf)
Xiao, J., & Lu, I. F. (2021). Art as intervention: Protests on urban transformation in China and Australia. Journal of Urban Affairs, 1-20. (pdf)
Refereed book chapters
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Lu, I. F. Apple Town Square: Digital Placemaking and Digital Transformation of Urban Public Space. In Carta, S (ed.) The physical and the digital city: invisible forces, data and manifestations. Intellect Book. (forthcoming, pdf)
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Lu, I. F. (2022). Urban Artivism and Placemaking: The Case of Federation Square. In Andrews T J & LaWare M (eds.) Art and the Global City: Public Space, Transformative Media and the Politics of Urban Rhetoric, NY: Peter Lang Publishers. (pdf, email me about the e-book)
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Lu, I. F. (2021). Remediating China’s Virtual Borders: The Ambient Myth of Moha (Toad Worship). In Visual Culture Wars at the Borders of Contemporary China (pp. 155-176). Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan. (pdf, more memes and rants)
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Lu, I. F. (2020). Dear Hannah Arendt. In PhiloMedium (ed.) A Dear John Letter to the Philosophers. Taipei: China Times Publishing Co. [In Mandarin]
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Lu, I. F. (2020). A letter to Gilbert Simondon. In PhiloMedium (ed.) A Dear John Letter to the Philosophers. Taipei: China Times Publishing Co. [In Mandarin]
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Lu, I. F., & Wang, L. (2020). Kuaishou Jianghu: on Platform Relationality. In INetwork (ed.) Citizen 21 Conference Publication, Hangzhou: Zhejiang Uni Press. [In Mandarin]
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Work in Progress
Papastergiadis, N, Wyatt, D. Lu, I. F. (eds.). Arts Precincts and Public Culture: Melbourne Model and Beyond. Melbourne: Surpllus.
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Peer review
Books: Cambridge University Press
Journals: ​​New Media & Society; Convergence​
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Conference & Presentation
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"5G and Society" Annual Conference of Astralasian Taiwan Studies Association
Presentation Topic: Disinformation: Co-production, Digital Warfare and Alternative State-making
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International Forum of Information Warfare and National Security, Taipei and online (Jul 2022)
Presentation Topic: Australian Chinese-language Media and 2022 Russian Invasion of Ukraine (with Dr Lennon Chang)
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China In The World (CITW), Online Conference (Nov 2021)
Presentation Topic: Platformised Propaganda: from Coercion to Co-production
Urban Assemblage: The City as Architecture, Media, AI and Big Data, University of Hertfordshire and Online (Jun 2021)
Presentation Topic: Re-Assembling Digital Placemaking as Urban Sociotechnical Assemblage (watch here)
Communicative City Research Network 2020, Online (Jul 2020)
Presentation Topic: Taiwan Is a Place, Not a Problem: Disinformation and sociotechnical regime
International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR), Online (Jul 2020)
Presentation Topic: Kuaishou Jianghu: Investigation into Platform Participation through Cultural Geography
INetworkSociety, Netizen 21, Hangzhou, China (Nov 2019)
Presentation Topic: Networked Jianghu: The Spiritual Life of Chinese Grassroots and Short Video Streaming Platform
Art and City, Urban Communication Foundation, Chicago (Nov 2019)
Presentation Topic: Urban activism as aesthetic placemaking: a case of #OurCityOurSquare
Conference presentation, abstract reviewer, ANZCA, Canberra (Jul 2019)
Presentation Topic: Activist Digital Placemaking and the Networked Public Space
Migrating Concepts, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (Feb 2018)
Presentation Topic: Memes as Techniques of Demythologising
Language of Global Media, the University of Melbourne (Dec 2016)
Presentation Topic: The Meme and Myth of Moha (Toad Worshipping)
Media
Lu, IF. (2019). City and Geomedia: On Recent Conflicts amongst Australian Chinese and the Hong Kong issues [in Mandarin]. Initium. https://theinitium.com/article/20190911-notes-city-media-and-geomedia/.
Lu, IF (2020). Taiwan is a Place, Not a Problem: Disinformation and sociotechnical regime, Conference presentation, Communicative City Research Network 2020, YouTube.
Wang, L., & Lu, IF. (2020). Life in Kuaishou’s Watery Margins, Sixth Tone, accessed 1 Oct 2020.
Cheng, J. (2020). After the Death of Melbourne Food Delivery Worker: How Food Delivery Business Remains a Legal Blind Spot?, SBS. [in Mandarin].
Cheng, J. (2021). Chinese High School Student Suicide Video is Televised, ABC. [in Mandarin].
Lu, IF. To Subdue the Enemies without Fighting: The Art of War and Disinformation Warfare. Isabel Lu’s Blog, Philomedium, https://philomedium.com/blogs/isabel-lu [in Mandarin].
Lu, IF. Fake News, Opinion Leading and Actor-Network. Isabel Lu’s Blog, Philomedium, https://philomedium.com/blogs/isabel-lu [in Mandarin].
Lu, IF. People’s Republic of Desire: Live Streaming, Platform Capitalism and Libidinal Dispositif. Isabel Lu’s Blog, Philomedium, https://philomedium.com/blogs/isabel-lu [in Mandarin].
Lu, IF. No Time: Slow Time in the Networked Society. Isabel Lu’s Blog, Philomedium, https://philomedium.com/blogs/isabel-lu [in Mandarin].
Lu, IF. Penetrating the Heart of the Internet: the Publicness of Digital Memes. Isabel Lu’s Blog, Philomedium, https://philomedium.com/blogs/isabel-lu [in Mandarin].
Lu, IF. Are You Fully Dead?: Death and Immortality in the Digital Age. Isabel Lu’s Blog, Philomedium, https://philomedium.com/blogs/isabel-lu [in Mandarin].