Guobin Yang's Blog
sociology, China, communication studies, journalism, digital activism, digital culture, technology, media studies
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
29.05.2025 15:16 β π 5 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
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 aΓ±os 90 hasta la actualidad, ΒΏen quΓ© consiste la plataformizaciΓ³n y el activismo en lΓnea?
www.revistadelauniversidad.mx/articles/923...
08.05.2025 18:06 β π 7 π 3 π¬ 1 π 0
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
02.05.2025 12:54 β π 10 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
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.
25.04.2025 17:07 β π 7 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0
One week to go!
18.04.2025 16:17 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Join us at the CDCS Colloquium for Professor Carolyn Biltoft's presentation on "Henri Bergsonβs Turing Test for Humans." ποΈ April 7, 12:15-1:30pm, π Annenberg School, Room 300
31.03.2025 14:35 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
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. π 367 McNeil Building
@asc.upenn.edu
24.03.2025 17:48 β π 6 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
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. π 367 McNeil Building
@asc.upenn.edu
24.03.2025 17:48 β π 6 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
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
12.03.2025 12:49 β π 3 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0
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
12.03.2025 02:26 β π 11 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0
Center on Digital Culture and Society Call for Applications - Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2025-2026
Applications for our @cdcspenn.bsky.social postdoctoral fellowship are due on Valentineβs Day, so no one will miss it for the love of it! www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/...
11.02.2025 23:49 β π 12 π 5 π¬ 0 π 0
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:
17.12.2024 19:03 β π 4 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
Sage Journals: Discover world-class research
Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.
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
04.12.2024 13:42 β π 43 π 9 π¬ 0 π 2
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
04.12.2024 14:00 β π 6 π 4 π¬ 0 π 1
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 "
22.11.2024 22:59 β π 10 π 2 π¬ 0 π 1
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...
19.11.2024 12:20 β π 15 π 3 π¬ 0 π 0
Everyoneβs loving #starterpacks on #Bluesky.
So, hereβs 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...
18.11.2024 11:17 β π 48 π 12 π¬ 3 π 3
Sociologist | Science and Technology Studies | Critically researching data technologies for managing socio-natural crises
Research associate @sfb138.bsky.social
https://www.uni-marburg.de/de/fb03/soziologie/fachgebiete/pol_soz/franziska-zirker
Associate Professor, School of Communication
Director, Graduate Research, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences,
University of Technology Sydney
W | http://www.uts.edu.au/staff/bhuva.narayan
ORCID: http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8852-5589
Ignore my late night posts.
Award winning author!
I study Black Twitter: goo.gl/Wc98bf
β¦and digital methods: goo.gl/0njUPf
Openly Black.
Still on The Bird App as *thot leedurr*
andrebrock.academia.edu
Critical Discourse Analyst, Feminist Scholar, Media Researcher, Associate Professor at Warwick Applied Linguistics
PhD student in sociology (@upenn.edu) interested in digital technologies, labor, culture, and the law // Princeton Class of 2022
Postdoctoral Researcher and Lecturer. Chinese Politics. Political Economy. Policy-Making. EU-China relations. Sport Diplomacy
Dominican New Yorker. Assistant Professor of Japanese Studies at Duke University.
Anthropologist specializing in digital culture, youth culture, Afro-Japanese encounters, & #OtakuHotGirlStudies.
Princeton PhD | Dartmouth, MMUF, & IRT alum
professor of media anthropology @LMU Munich, Harvard BKC Fellow, ERC projects on extreme speech, AI, content moderation, social media https://lmu-munich.academia.edu/SahanaUdupa
(he/him) postdoc @yale.edu CompSci #AsianAmerican & #STEM / working dad / PhD @rpihass.bsky.social STS / alum SNU Engineering, LG Electronics, & SNU Science Studies π°π· http://mas.to/@yoehanee
π https://yoehanoh.wordpress.com/
phd student at uic. they/them. queer game studies, crip theory, digital media, decoloniality, intersectionality & interdisciplinarity.
avatar ID: a mirror selfie of a vaguely masc person in a floral shirt
banner ID: hand-holding photos (also paws)
Ph.D. + Lecturer at Cornell - where I teach about and study media culture, sports comm, tech ethics, and identity
FGLI and dedicated to student mentorship
If Iβm not writing, Iβm runningπ
Amid the decay of civilization | Media, Gender and Culture | Korean Diaspora | Practice my eternal in-betweenness
Assistant Prof at SUNY New Paltz | π working on a book manuscript about K-beauty! | sites.google.com/view/dasolkim-
Historian @ ESHCC | History & Games | Public History | Memory | Digital Humanities | Historical Theory | Finalist Young Historian of the Year 2019 | π§πͺ in π³π± | He/him | Opinions are my own
Check out my dissertation: https://repub.eur.nl/pub/134918
Doc filmmaker, cultural producer, multimodal researcher.
Joint PhD in Communication & Social Welfare, from Annenberg School for Comm & SP2 at UPenn.
(she/her/ella)
Associate Prof @PittLaw. She/her. || Critical race theory, intellectual property, rhetoric, media e.g. music, pharma, seeds. Also politics, technology & octopi. π
Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology at BU | Work, Culture, Social Media | elifbirced.com
Scholar/researcher in digital media, STS, web platforms, and livestreaming. PhD in Cinema & Media Studies (he/him)
danrosen.xyz
Sociologist of culture, politics, identity & global China. Postdoc at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University & previously at Penn Asian American Studies. PhD from Emory.
Website: www.weirongguo.com
