🔥Telegram İfşa

CFP: International conference on Automated Decision-Making and Chinese Societies (ADM & CS), 1-3 February 2023, RMIT and online via livestream. admscentre.org.au/event/adm-cs-2…

This is fantastic!!

Totally gonna assign this piece in my class when we cover global media industries.🤓 restofworld.org/2022/china-rom…

My new work is out! It's called "Culture is Transnational" and I wrote it for the International Journal of Cultural Studies series on What is Cultural Studies? I stress that we all have culture that is always already transnational and I ask for a truly transnational cultural studies. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13…

Wrote about Austin Li, China’s most powerful livestreaming salesman, how his disappearance upended the daily shopping of million of fans, and what his low-key return says about fame and politics in China. w/ Meaghan Tobin restofworld.org/2022/the-retur… via Rest of World

My new piece on short video and rural performativity in China is out online with Television & New Media! journals.sagepub.com/eprint/2PAMZYF…

Chinese video app Kuaishou is turning itself into a job market for blue-collar workers. In the livestreams, recruiters visit carrot farms and dress up as production line workers, touting nice meals and an abundance of female colleagues. restofworld.org/2022/china-job… via Rest of World

The Global University Film Awards, hosted by the #HKBU Academy of Film, are entering their countdown stage with the Awards Presentation Ceremony to be held online at 7pm tomorrow. It’s a grand event not to be missed by all film enthusiasts! Stay tuned! linktr.ee/gufahkbu

'dreams in double time' is now available for pre-order with a discount(!) directly from the @dukeuniversitypress site!

It's time to start booking a 2024-5 book + festival tour for The Chinese Computer: A Global History of the Information Age, coming out w/ The MIT Press @mitpress.bsky.social I need your help! (thread) /1 cc IEEE Computer Society Hong Kong International Literary Festival IMUG

Thanks to Data Justice Lab for a fab #DataJustice2023 conference! Attendees, if yr looking to advance yr digital & data justice research, check out our Economic and Social Research Council Digital Good Network opps - for funded research, internships, fellowships + more digitalgood.net ESRC Digital Good Network

Happy to share my new piece out online with Communication, Culture & Critique, which foregrounds locally relevant ways in which average users in China imagine, apprehend, and approach "web traffic" in everyday life. academic.oup.com/ccc/advance-ar…

My latest in the Journal of Contemporary China, open access. 🙏tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

A fascinating book!

My new book is now out: amazon.com/Organized-Loya…

✨To what extent digital traces can reveal about human activities and opinions? 👀 Our new publication (w/Yingdan_Lu Yiming Wang) introduces a sociotechnical evaluation framework and delves into 30 years of digital trace studies on China. Dive in!👇 tandfonline.com/eprint/SSU5JF8…

Our special issue, "Beyond the Tropicalization of Concepts: Theorizing Digital Realities with and from the Global South," is here! Co-edited by Edgar Gómez Cruz, Heather Horst, Cheryll Soriano, and myself, it's now available in Communication, Culture & Critique. academic.oup.com/ccc/issue/16/4

GO BLUE!!

In this new #OnlineFirst article, Sheng Zou presents a case study of a new #wanghong city, #Zibo, a third-tier industrial city that rose to sudden fame in 2023 with the aid of livestreaming and short video. journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.117…