Author Archives: Christina Kefala

Christina Kefala is an anthropologist working on creative entrepreneurship, media platforms and digital identities in contemporary China.
An individual stands outside of an off-white building that reads ShanghART with Canontese characters below it. The individual is holding a piece of paper in their right hand and a mobile phone to their ear with their left. On both sides of the large entrance to the building, posters for art exhibits are prominently featured.

Making for the Feed: Creativity, Platforms, and Visibility in China

Creativity is often imagined as a deeply human capacity: a moment of inspiration, a flash of originality, or an individual act of expression. Yet in contemporary digital environments, creativity rarely unfolds in isolation from technological systems. Across creative industries, from fashion and design to visual media, branding, and online content production, creative work increasingly takes shape within infrastructures of platforms, software tools, and algorithmic systems. These technologies do not simply enable creativity; they actively shape how creative ideas are imagined, produced, circulated, and evaluated. (read more...)