Tomorrow @asc.upenn.edu, join Prof Jayson Harsin for a talk on his book The Critique of Pure Information www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/... At 5:30pm, join Prof Teemu Ruskola & me for a chat about his book The Unmaking of the Chinese Working Class: www.business-services.upenn.edu/unmaking-chi...

Book Talk: Professor Jayson Harsin

The Critique of Pure Information: Disinformation, Misinformation, and Democratic Life

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Symposium on "Globally Contested Imaginaries: Power and Tensions in the AI Era," April 8-9, 2027. Call for abstracts: www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/...

Call for Abstracts

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Today and tomorrow: cscc.sas.upenn.edu/events/2026/...

I contributed a few lines to an El Pais story on how some Young Chinese embrace Mao’s writing 50 years after his death. Especially happy to see remarks by Sebastian Veg and Daniel Leese: substack.com/@guobinyang/...

A new study by Adetobi Moses, upcoming doctoral graduate at the Annenberg School for Communication, offers a window into how communities process collective trauma and makes the case for oral histories as a powerful tool for preserving memories of the COVID-19 pandemic:

Oral Histories Help Communities Reckon with COVID-19

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144 years ago this week, the Chinese Exclusion Act became law. Restrictions at both the border and the interior shaped Chinese lives in the US for generations. Their lasting impacts are still felt on both sides of the Pacific. Four new books explore the complexities. I write @madeinchinajournal.com:

The Pacific as a Mirror | Made in China Journal

One evening in the early 1960s, physicist Chen Ning Yang took a train from New York City to Long Island. An elderly Chinese man sat next to him and the two struck up a conversation. Born in the centra...

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With a series of reflections penned by symposium participants. romeoffice.georgetown.edu/events/the-h...

It's today! @asc.upenn.edu @cdcspenn.bsky.social www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/...

CDCS is excited to announce the 2026 Symposium: “Good Vibes Only? How Affects and Emotions Are Mediated for Justice in Digital Culture.” 👉 Register: www.eventbrite.com/e/cdcs-2026-...

Virus alert! If you received an email about "BBQ weekend" invitation, it was NOT sent by me. Don't open the link in the email.

We are thrilled to issue the call for applications (global.upenn.edu/future-of-us...) for our fourth fellowship cohort, made possible by generous support from @carnegie.org and the Henry Luce Foundation. Applications are due March 17.

Excited to give a talk on brokerage in feminist movments next week at the Center for Korean Studies. I will also be exploring the implications of networked leadership on algormithmically curated and creator-centric platforms based on my book project. korea.sas.upenn.edu/events/broke...

Six years ago today, Wuhan started its 76-day lockdown. So close yet so far

Our volume “The Digitalisation of Memory Practices in China: Contesting the Curating State” with fantastic chapters about the intersection of digital technologies & memory politics in China is freely accessible. It introduces new ways to study heritage and memory struggles in authoritarian states.

While big tech and market forces get much of the blame for the decline of news media, Professor Barbie Zelizer makes the bold claim in her new book that problematic journalistic practices that became entrenched during the Cold War are responsible for the current issues facing journalism:

How the Cold War Broke the News

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An IAMCR-sponsored online launch of East Asian Media Culture on Jan 29. Registration required: iamcr.org/webinars/eas... @cdcspenn.bsky.social

23rd China Internet Conference, June 22-23, 2026 @ China Institute, Univ of Alberta. Cara Wallis & I'll give keynotes. My topic is “Of earthy flavor and AI flavor: On distinguishing flavors in an age of cyber artificiality and uncertainty." Nice funding for students www.ualberta.ca/en/china-ins...

We are thrilled to announce the Fellows of the Transpacific and Asian Dialogue on China, a new initiative designed to contribute to policy deliberations across the Asia-Pacific region over the novel & complex challenges posed by China’s rise. Read more at: global.upenn.edu/future-of-us...

As media institutions lose their funding, Dean Sarah Banet-Weiser invited professors @victorpickard.bsky.social and Duncan Watts (@csspenn.bsky.social) to discuss the role of journalism in our democracy. Listen to Annenberg Conversations on your favorite podcast app, or visit our website.

Grateful to our awesome in-house writer Hailey Reissman for writing up this story. Just in time to mark the sixth anniversary of the COVID outbreak

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In a new paper, @guobin-yang.bsky.social analyzes how Chinese social media users eulogized Li Wenliang through an ancient literary form:

The latest research publications from Arts & Sciences includes Hardeep Dhillon of History writing about immigration, Xin Sun of Biology on nitrite accumulation in marine oxygen minimum zones, and Guobin Yang of Sociology and Communication on genre borrowing in Chinese digital culture. @upenn.edu

Research Roundup Ocean Build up Digital Culture and Birthright Citizenship

Recent work from faculty in our History, Biology, and Sociology departments.

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Glad to see @sas.upenn.edu Omnia’s new Research Roundup captures my recent article on genre borrowing practices in Chinese digital culture, together with two other fascinating projects by @sas.upenn.edu faculty omnia.sas.upenn.edu/story/resear... @cdcspenn.bsky.social

Research Roundup Ocean Build up Digital Culture and Birthright Citizenship

Recent work from faculty in our History, Biology, and Sociology departments.

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I had a lot of fun talking about my @ucpress.bsky.social book on this @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social podcast! Thanks to Megan Finn for letting me chat about Silicon Valley, activism, and the book on mutual aid I'm writing now. 🎧 in your fave podcast app or here: newbooksnetwork.com/appropriate-...

Our position statement rejecting the use of GenAI for reflexive qualitative research can be found here papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Getting up early to catch the AI bird in Hong Kong. Conference info here: eduhknmsmcon.com

First day of #aoir2025! Glad to see non-English presentations (with English translation) and local histories on a panel about AI infrastructures

Excited to be hosting this symposium next April! Looking forward to a vibrant discourse on affect and activism 😎

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🌟 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/...

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In this piece on "genre borrowing" I study why netizens use Sima Qian's "arrayed biography" (列传) form to write biographies of Li Wenliang & how the narrative devices of this ancient genre align with the logic of digital culture. Open access! @asc.upenn.edu journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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#AoIR2025 is next week! Easiest programme to read on a mobile is on the Sched app: aoir2025ruptures.sched.com