CDCS: Center on Digital Culture and Society

Call for Abstracts: 2026 CDCS Symposium

🌟 Call for Abstracts: 2026 CDCS Symposium 🌟
The Center for Digital Culture and Society is now accepting abstract submissions for our upcoming symposium.

📝 Deadline: December 1, 2025
📧 Submit to: cdcs@asc.upenn.edu

More information: www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/...

There is some talk about the revival of blogging. For starters, I've updated my Blogger site after almost three years! guobin-yang.blogspot.com

El internet y las redes sociales en China | Sandra Barba, Guobin Yang

Guobin Yang, especialista en cultura digital, nos explica el panorama del internet en China: desde su origen en los años 90 hasta la actualidad, ¿en qué consiste la plataformización y el activismo en línea?

www.revistadelauniversidad.mx/articles/923...

This beautiful magazine published an interview with me discussing the internet and social media in China. The best part is that it's in Spanish, though I wish it had an English edition as well:
www.revistadelauniversidad.mx/articles/923... @asc.upenn.edu @cdcspenn.bsky.social

I love how much focus on the autoethnographic is present today at @cdcspenn.bsky.social's symposium! We as scholars need to remember our own relationship to leisure and play as we navigate complicated and tension-filled online spaces of leisure and play.

#NewTalkAlert I'm thrilled to share that Prof @guobin-yang.bsky.social will be visiting Warwick AL to give a talk on #SocialMedia and #SocialRhythm. Talk will be hybrid. Please join us in person (room A0.23) or via MS Teams. Scan QR code for more. #LanguageCultureMatters

CDCS Symposium: Reframing Leisure, Humor, and Play in Global Digital Culture CDCS Symposium: Reframing Leisure, Humor, and Play in Global Digital Culture

Here is the program of our 4/25 Symposium on Reframing Leisure, Humor, and Play in Global Digital Culture www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/.... @annenbergcargc.bsky.social

One week to go!

Join us at the CDCS Colloquium for Professor Carolyn Biltoft's presentation on "Henri Bergson’s Turing Test for Humans." 🗓️ April 7, 12:15-1:30pm, 📍 Annenberg School, Room 300

Monday, 03/31 at 12:15pm, join us at the CDCS Colloquium for Professor Devon Powers' presentation on "What is a Trend? Towards a Keyword for Media and Communication." Discover the significance of trends in our media, cultural, and information environment. 📍 367 McNeil Building
@asc.upenn.edu

Monday, 03/31 at 12:15pm, join us at the CDCS Colloquium for Professor Devon Powers' presentation on "What is a Trend? Towards a Keyword for Media and Communication." Discover the significance of trends in our media, cultural, and information environment. 📍 367 McNeil Building
@asc.upenn.edu

This Satur 4pm at #aas2025, CDCS doctoral fellow Yingchuan Qu will be presenting her paper "Fishing for Poetry in the Digital Debris: Algorithmic Zombies and the Echoes of a Broken Language" on the panel "Apps, AI, and Bots: A New Era in Digital Technology." @asc.upenn.edu

On way to #aas2025, and a couple of talks I'll be giving before and after. Link to next week's UBC event here:
greencollege.ubc.ca/civicrm/even... @cdcspenn.bsky.social @asc.upenn.edu

CDCS Symposium: Reframing Leisure, Humor, and Play in Global Digital Culture CDCS Symposium: Reframing Leisure, Humor, and Play in Global Digital Culture

Here is the program of our 4/25 Symposium on Reframing Leisure, Humor, and Play in Global Digital Culture www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/.... @annenbergcargc.bsky.social

Center on Digital Culture and Society Call for Applications - Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2025-2026

Applications for our @cdcspenn.bsky.social postdoctoral fellowship are due on Valentine’s Day, so no one will miss it for the love of it! www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/...

Center on Digital Culture and Society Call for Applications - Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2025-2026

Applications due in 10 days! www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/...

Center on Digital Culture and Society Call for Applications - Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2025-2026

We are inviting postdoctoral fellowship applications. Please apply by Feb 14 www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/...

Center on Digital Culture and Society Call for Applications - Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2025-2026

We are inviting postdoctoral fellowship applications. Please apply by Feb 14 www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/...

Addressing the ‘catch-22’ academics face on social media | Penn Today The Annenberg School for Communication’s Center for Media at Risk and Center for Digital Culture and Society brought together scholars to analyze the interconnected benefits and risks that academics f...

Missed our annual symposium on academic speech and social media? Read the highlights in this Q&A for Penn Today with @guobin-yang.bsky.social and Barbie Zelizer @asc.upenn.edu @upenn.edu @cdcspenn.bsky.social bit.ly/3PwQ6Fu

What the UnitedHealthcare CEO Shooting Memes Tell Us The internet has been completely obsessed with this case.

CDCS postdoc @lumarch.bsky.social recently spoke to @teenvogue.bsky.social about the social media reactions to the UnitedHealthcare CEO shooting:

Academe in the Age of Social Media: Scholarly Inquiry at Risk? Join the Center for Media at Risk and the Center on Digital Culture and Society for a symposium examining the relationship between social media and the academy.

Our symposium "Academe in the Age of Social Media: Scholarly Inquiry at Risk?" opens later today. Details here: www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/... @ascmediarisk.bsky.social

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Part 1 of our special issue "Thirty Years of the Internet in China" is out, open-access, with 10 articles & an Introduction
journals.sagepub.com/toc/ctpa/9/4. The remaining 14 pieces are out OnlineFirst. Thank you to our contributors! @annenbergpenn.bsky.social @cdcspenn.bsky.social

Academe in the Age of Social Media: Scholarly Inquiry at Risk? Center for Media at Risk and the Center on Digital Culture and Society's symposium on the relationship between social media and the academy.

Starting tomorrow! How does social media surveillance impact scholarship? How should future scholars think about their social media presence? We explore these questions and more at our annual symposium at @annenbergpenn.bsky.social c-sponsored with @cdcspenn.bsky.social https://buff.ly/410HcHh

This Thursday and Friday (Dec. 5-6), join @ascmediarisk.bsky.social & @cdcspenn.bsky.social for a symposium exploring how social media impacts academic speech. Learn more and register: www.eventbrite.com/e/academe-in...

Congratulations to former CDCS doctoral fellow
@zoezhao.bsky.social
on receiving the Outstanding Dissertation Award from the Association of Chinese Communication Studies at #nca2024
for her dissertation "The Rise of Platform Game Work in China "

Grieving One Direction fans return to where they last met — online Liam Payne’s death brought on real grief for Gen Z fans. The only ones who understand how they process it -- sometimes with dark humor -- are fellow Directioners.

@cdcspenn.bsky.social postdoc @lumarch.bsky.social spoke to @washingtonpost.com about how grieving One Direction fans are processing Liam Payne’s death online: www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

Appropriate, Negotiate, Challenge by Elisabetta Ferrari - Paper Scholarship is a powerful tool for changing how people think, plan, and govern. By giving voice to bright minds and bold ideas, we seek to foster understanding and drive progressive change.

Congratulations to former CDCS postdoctoral fellow & @annenbergpenn.bsky.social alum @bettyferrari.bsky.social on the release of her book Appropriate, Negotiate, Challenge: Activist Imaginaries and the Politics of Digital Technologies from Univ of California Press! www.ucpress.edu/books/approp...

Everyone’s loving #starterpacks on #Bluesky.

So, here’s a #thread of 12 starter packs for #digital #internet & #platform studies & adjacent disciplines (tech law, #css, #sts). Pls share/add.

I start with my own pack on (digital) #activism & social movements.

#AcademicSky

bsky.app/starter-pack...

Academe in the Age of Social Media: Scholarly Inquiry at Risk? Join the Center for Media at Risk and the Center on Digital Culture and Society for a symposium examining the relationship between social media and the academy.

We're premiering on Bluesky with an announcement of our upcoming symposium on Academe in the Age of Social Media: Scholarly Inquiry at Risk? Jointly organized with @ascmediarisk.bsky.social www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/...