I am a Ph.D. student and Graduate Teaching Associate at the Hugh Downs School of Human Communication, Arizona State University. I am also a Graduate Fellow 2024-2025 at Global Human Rights Hub, ASU. I focus on the socio-cultural implications of emerging technologies, including digital platforms, artificial intelligence, virtual reality and robots. My research interests lie in technological production, perception, practices and governance.

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The principal question guiding my research is: what can we learn from the innovation of technologies? By innovation, I mean the values and norms behind producing, using and managing technologies as a process. Specifically, I mainly use qualitative methods to explore the said question across nations (U.S., China, Sweden), across contexts (Religion and Journalism) and across platforms. I locate my interdisciplinary work at the intersection of three disciplines that are central to academic in understanding the values of emerging technologies in society: Communication, Science and Technology Studies (STS), and Cultural Sociology. 

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I obtained my master's degree (Master's of Social Science, specialising in Digital Media and Society) from Department of Informatics and Media at Uppsala University in Sweden and a B.A. degree (Journalism) at Linyi University in China. Before embarking on my PhD studies, I served as an Instructor in the Department of Communication at Hong Kong Baptist University Mainland campus (UIC).

 

Prior to my academic career, I gained valuable industry experience working as an Editor at ByteDance and a Senior Product Operator at Douyu Live Streaming (NASDAQ: DOYU) for four years.