Just finished reading this paper. The challenge of climbing in China's academia is just like what the authors said. It is the best of times, it is the worst of times.

We're happy to announce the top student papers for #ICA24 for the Communication and Technology Division

Temporality Experience of Surveillance Technology in Family Life by Na Liu Luna Liu from Leicester Media & Communication #ica24

Digital Good from the South - A roundtable conversation with Payal Arora, Jonathan Corpus Ong, and Ranjit Singh Plus info about our #Fellowships. Tues 12 March 2024, 3PM – 4PM (UK time) Free tickets: digitalgood.net/promoting-the-… @3Lmantra Jonathan Corpus Ong Ranjit Singh Data & Society

A CFP for a special issue on Chinese Childhoods through Children's Own Eyes think.taylorandfrancis.com/special_issues…

The 1st issue of our ResearchLab newsletter is here! A joint effort of all the people at CCMPS Warwick Uni to spread our research vibez - powered by the powerful MediaLab. I am so proud of the result 😍 Def NOT your usual academic thing 🪩😎 check it out 👇 ccmpsresearchlab.com

📢‼️We are thrilled to announce that our DigiGen book Understanding The Everyday Digital Lives of Children and Young People is now out. This Open Access publication is available here: link.springer.com/book/10.1007/9… OsloMet Horizon 2020 News Open Research Europe

Please share. Excellent #postdoc #job opportunity on privacy in China at Freie Uni Berlin. Mixed methods. 3yrs, FT. Work in Berlin in a friendly team! Ping me if you have questions. Deadline 1.4. More info: fu-berlin.de/universitaet/b…

Call for Editor – Mobile Media & Comm Sage's Mobile Media & Communication is looking for a mobile communication scholar to join Adriana Souza e Silva as Co-Editor. The full call can be found here: journals.sagepub.com/pb-assets/cmsc…

My paper with Yang Hu (the other place: @yanghu.co.uk) on the digitalization of family life is online! doi.org/10.1111/jomf.1… It is part of @[email protected] 2025 mid-decade special issue on theory and methods. We develop a multilevel conceptual framework for understanding the digitalization of family life.

✨Emerging Scholar Research Grant ✨ Deadline 5 May Submit applications for a $500 grant to support a specific Mobile Communication research project. The winner will be announced at the Mobile Communication Division business meeting at #ICA24 International Communication Association Details in the call below!

1/🔍 New Article Alert in the FRS Journal! 📚 How do digital technologies become embedded in family life across generations? 🤔 Check out our findings in this thread! CHANSE LSE Media & Communications Read our open-access pre-print here: eprints.lse.ac.uk/122327/

Thanks to everyone who joined us last night for Beeban Kidron's talk on #AI. Lots of engaging questions from our in-person & online audiences! Special thanks to our chair Sonia Livingstone LSE Events 5Rights Foundation Mariya Stoilova. Watch the replay: youtube.com/live/1h82vwtJR…

tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… New publication alert! We talked about the points-based channels for accessing urban citizenship (hukou) in seven cities of China. Please feel free to read if you are interested.😀

Look forward to this public lecture LSE Events where I will discuss my new book 'Technocolonialism: when technology for good is harmful' politybooks.com/bookdetail?boo… out Polity Media, Communications and Cultural Studies Thursday December 5th, 6:30pm, in-person or online - all welcome! Details ⬇️

Jing Song The Chinese University of Hong Kong - CUHK , Feinian Chen Johns Hopkins University , & I UBC Sociology are organizing a special issue on Gender Dynamics within and beyond Families in East Asia for Chinese Journal of Sociology . Please consider submitting your paper and spreading the word! Call for Papers: mp.weixin.qq.com/s/MEu7OUhEbzI1…

What is the #platformisation of the #family? In this short o/a chapter, Julian Sefton-Green and I examine how, increasingly, families conduct their interior and exterior lives through digital platforms at a time of radical social restructuring. link.springer.com/chapter/10.100… LSE Media & Communications

📢CALL FOR ABSTRACTS- Migration, Place/making and Belonging Conference at The ISS21 Migration and Integration Research Cluster UCC Ireland (5 & 6 June 2025) ‼️Deadline: Friday 14th February 2025 🔍All details here: ucc.ie/en/iss21/resea…

#OutNow in #iCS Na Liu and Yutian Xiong trace how digital media shape motherhood and womanhood across generations in Chinese migrant families, showing how technology deepens feminist aspirations yet remains bound by patriarchy. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…