Dissertation
Steer the Sound: Organizing, Governing, and Practicing Music Creativity in China.
- Funded by American Sociological Association Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant, Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation Doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
- Honorable Mention, Geoffrey Tootell Mathematical Sociology Outstanding Dissertation-in-Progress Award, American Sociological Association
Peer-Reviewed Article
Nie, Ke. 2023. “Bowing to Five Pecks of Rice: How Online Monetization Programs Shape Artistic Novelty.” Chinese Sociological Review 55:1, 66-95. [Abstract] [Full article (OA)]
Nie, Ke. 2022. “Inaccurate Prediction or Genre Evolution? Rethinking Genre Classification.” Proceedings of the 23rd International Society for Music Information Retrieval Conference, 329-336. [Abstract] [Full article (OA)]
Nie, Ke. 2021. “Disperse and Preserve the Perverse: Computing How Hip-Hop Censorship Changed Music Genres in China.” Poetics 88:101590. Featured in Special Issue: Measure Mohr Culture, edited by Clayton Childress and Craig Rawlings. [Abstract] [Full article (OA)].
- Winner of Communication, Information Technologies, and Media Section Best Student Paper Award, American Sociological Association
- Early Career Workshop Award, Society for the Advancement of Socio-Economics
Work in Progress
Nie, Ke, and Thomas Medvetz. A sociological study of politics and artistic autonomy in 1960s China. (Preparing for submission) [Request]
Nie, Ke. “How cultural consumption works as strategy of compensating for cultural capital.” (Preparing for submission) [Request]