is the author of “Internet: The King Who Rules” (1997), the first book introducing the Internet to Chinese readers, and “The Rising Cacophony: Personal Expression and Public Discussion in the Internet Age” (2008), documenting major transformations in the Chinese cyberspace. He is professor at Peking University’s School of Journalism and Communication, a member of the Steering Committee of Chinese Internet Research Conference (CIRC), and also a member of the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on Social Media, 2013–2016. In 2017 Hu was nominated for the Thinkers50 Digital Thinking Award. In 2018, he was included in the Thinkers50 Radar list of the 30 management thinkers most likely to shape the future of how organizations are managed and led.
is author of “How Not to Network a Nation: The Uneasy History of the Soviet Internet” (MIT Press, 2016), winner of the 2017 Vucinich Book Prize, among others, and editor of “Digital Keywords: A Vocabulary of Information Society and Culture” (Princeton University Press, 2016). He is Hazel Rogers Associate Professor and Chair of Media Studies at the University of Tulsa and an associated fellow at the Information Society Project at Yale Law School.