Congratulations to Dr. @jiacheng.bsky.social, who defended their dissertation today! With Co-Chairs Michelle Rodino-Colocino and Andrea Miller and committee members Shinsuke Eguchi, Sara Liao, & Ariana Steele.

Disposable counterpublics: Women, queers, and Uyghurs in the White Paper Movement - Jiacheng Liu, 2025 Protesting China's zero-Covid policy and intensified state control, the White Paper Movement (TWPM) is often applauded as a landmark anti-authoritarian mov...

🌟 Excited to share my new article in International Journal of Cultural Studies! I theorize disposable counterpublics to understand the intersectional politics of China's anti-authoritarian activism.

Read it here: doi.org/10.1177/1367...

My new article with Weishan Miao is now out (open access) in
Sexualities, "Platformized production of homonationalism: An ethnography of queer media production in China"
doi.org/10.1177/1363...

Internet studies people unite!

Internet studies starter pack is here - incomplete, skewed etc etc but some fantastic folks, to help us all rebuild our social networks. Happy to add you if I left you out! Please circulate, and here it is:
go.bsky.app/KHmxfWf

to counterbalance the demography in most starter packs I'm trying to build a list of "sinophone women know stuff". let me know if I mis-identified you; and feel free to tag handles that I should add.
go.bsky.app/wtGV1Q

Updated list (pack?) of global media+comm scholars. Pls send me your suggestions. Let's build our network :) go.bsky.app/Avb3yM