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Carwyn Morris

@carwynmorris.bsky.social
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Senior Lecturer in Digital Society and Geography, SOAS Digital and China things, Xiaohongshu and more Wanghong, digital territory, and contentious politics PI of ERC Project CHINA.EU Fashion www.instagram.com/seventyfivelondon

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Centre for Contemporary Chinese Studies @durhamchina.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
we look forward to hosting a guest talk by @carwynmorris.bsky.social on wanghong and speculative investment cycles! 🗓️Tuesday 5 May ⏱️2-3:30pm 📍TLC039
poster: peaker: Dr Carwyn Morris is Senior Lecturer in Digital Society and Geography at SOAS University of London. His work examines how social and digital technologies shape the city and vice versa. He is Principal Investigator of CHINA.EU, an ERC Horizon Starting Grant project exploring the impact of Chinese capital, contemporary culture, and technology on European cities. He has written on digital territory, digital sovereignty, spatial governance, contentious politics, global China, and wanghong.
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James Jackson @james7jackson.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
We argue that this presents all others countries with essentially four options
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Hans Steinmüller @steinmuller.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
I'm giving a lecture on 'complexity and complicity in social anthropology', online and at LSE, on 5th March www.lse.ac.uk/events/socia...
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Carwyn Morris @carwynmorris.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Symposium CFP - Internet Fame and the Future of Internets Everywhere: From Wanghong to AI Slop and Trashfutures Organisers Carwyn Morris (SOAS) and Margaret Hillenbrand (Oxford) Date June 15 (full day) and June 16 (half day) 2026 Application This form forms.cloud.microsoft/e/Ub8FYcSNwE
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Ukraine Solidarity Campaign 🇺🇦✊🏽🚩 @ukrainesol.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
We take no joy criticising a young left-wing UK political figure who has often spoken up for workers' rights and progressive causes. But these barely coherent comments from Zarah Sultana on Ukraine sum up much of what is wrong with her wing of the left www.instagram.com/reel/DQT62ys...
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Carwyn Morris @carwynmorris.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
AAS Vancouver Panel: Global Wanghong, Global China. I'm putting together a panel for the AAS on the global nature of wanghong and how it helps us understand a global China. If you wish to participate send me a title and abstract by end of day July 17: cm89 [ at ] soas . ac . uk
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Carwyn Morris @carwynmorris.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Two fully funded PhDs with me at SOAS. Within my ERC project; one researching in Paris, the other in Düsseldorf. Exploring the impact of Chinese capital on European urban space, the cultural industries, and social media. More info here: drive.google.com/file/d/12srA... Deadline is 21 July.
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2_ Fully Funded PhDs SOAS ENG.pdf
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Carwyn Morris @carwynmorris.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Looking to participate or co-organise an AAS Vancouver 2026 panel on internet fame, wanghong, or Xiaohongshu. If anyone is interested let me know.
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Tama Leaver @tamaleaver.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Today I had my first experience of seeing a paper (and to be clear: a research paper, not a student paper) cite a paper I'm a listed author on where that paper does not actually exist. It's clearly an AI-generated fabrication. *sigh* #generativeAI #artificialintelligence
Brooke Hutchinson, Michael Smith, Joshua Drake, Ryan McKinnon, Jonathan Phillis, Eleanor
Short, Thomas Cribbin, Mark Spierings, and Tama Leaver. Social media moderation of harmful
content: A systematic review. New Media & Society, 24(5):1124–1151, 2022.

(An AI generated false citation.)
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Tommy Tse @tommytse.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
📢 Upcoming Global Africa Seminar @Rm0.16, BG1, Univ of Amsterdam. Join us on 20 Jun | 15:00 – 16:30 CEST. Speakers: Dr. Andrea Pollio (Turin) & Dr. Maria Repnikova (GSU). Moderated by Dr. Carwyn Morris Zoom link: uva-live.zoom.us/j/85202106220 Details: www.chinaafricafashionpower.org/event-detail...
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ASCA Global Africa Seminar Series Event #4 | CAPF
The ASCA Global Africa Reading group is delighted to announce the details of our fourth and final seminar event for this academic semester. For our final session, we will be having a book salon. This ...
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chiedmobilities.bsky.social @chiedmobilities.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
Exciting! Folks in London, please mark your diary and come to listen to @coralinglingxu.bsky.social discuss her book The Time Inheritors @sunypress.bsky.social. @carwynmorris.bsky.social
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Carwyn Morris @carwynmorris.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Back in the UK, working at SOAS. Happy to travel across the British Isles and say hi/give a talk.
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David Brenner @davidbrenner.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Ethnic Armed Organisations (EAOs) are key actors in Myanmar's revolutionary war. But their positioning towards the crisis has been far from clear. How do we make sense of their strategies? I hope to shed some light on this with my new open access article: doi.org/10.1080/0047... Some takeaways🧵1/8
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Rebel Politics after the Coup: Ethnic Armed Organisations and Myanmar’s Spring Revolution
Ethnic armed organisations or EAOs play a pivotal role in the revolutionary war against Myanmar’s junta. These ethno-national rebel movements have not only captured large swathes of territory, but ...
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
I want to give credit to my editors, who asked me to write 2,000 words on why Andrew Tate wears such tight pants. I submitted 3,700. They asked if I really needed to start with a story about the industrial revolution and I said "yes, absolutely don't cut." www.bloomberg.com/features/202...
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Why So Many MAGA Men Look Like Joe Rogan
The slim-fit uniform of grindset entrepreneurs and right wing podcasters can be traced back decades.
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Ayona Datta @ayonadatta.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
📣 New book cover!!!! INFORMATIONAL PERIPHERIES: RETHINKING THE URBAN IN A DIGITAL AGE Free OA with a fantastic lineup of authors. It's been a pleasure working with @fennaimara.bsky.social Shoutout to @uclpress.bsky.social for being so supportive and organised. uclpress.co.uk/book/informa...
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Informational Peripheries
Urbanisation and urban life in a digital age needs to be examined through a lens of information – encompassing both its politics and its geographies. The periphery in an information age is located sim...
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Digital Geographies Research Group @dgrgrgs.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Guess who has finally arrived on bluesky? Here we’ll be sharing lots of digital geography delights: conference news, new publications, spotlights on brilliant research, calls for papers, upcoming events, and the occasional musing. #digitalgeographies #blueskynewbe
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a woman is standing in front of a door with the words i 'm here written in red
ALT: a woman is standing in front of a door with the words i 'm here written in red
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Carwyn Morris @carwynmorris.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
New Text Book Alert: Studying Political Communication and Media in East Asia, by Florian Schneider. It covers everything, including methods + key literature across disciplines & time periods. It also includes detailed guidance on setting up a gamified, XP focused course. www.aup.nl/en/book/9789...
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Studying Political Communication and Media in East Asia
Communication is at the heart of politics, and certainly in East Asia, where vibrant media systems and cultural industries connect with political processes that range from the democratic to autocratic...
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National Committee on U.S.-China Relations @ncuscr.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Applications are now open to join the next generation of American China specialists as the ninth cohort of the Public Intellectuals Program (PIP). Deadline: May 11, 2025 Learn more: www.ncuscr.org/applications...
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Call for Applications: Public Intellectuals Programs Ninth Cohort (2025-2027)
This two-year program is designed to identify outstanding members of the next generation of American China scholars, enrich their understanding of policymaking processes in the United States and Great...
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Carwyn Morris @carwynmorris.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
The Aquabats are one of the strangest and weirdly wholesome bands. Can't believe they've been going for over 30 years.
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Carwyn Morris @carwynmorris.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Chinese companies have been scouting out the UK as a destination to counter/work around US tariffs for quite a while. I guess yesterday continues to make the UK attractive to Chinese capital.
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Carwyn Morris @carwynmorris.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Hosting a #slowfashion and #artisan sample sale, trunk show, and collection preview this weekend in London. Come along and chat to me/us about ANYTHING. It's seventyfive, Monad, The Backward Vendor, and Provision at 18 Iliffe Yard SE17 3QA
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Meredith Mooring @meredithmooring.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
IF YOU FOUND YOUR NOVEL IN THE LIBGEN DATABASE, YOU MAY BE A CLASS MEMBER FOR THE KADREY ET AL V. META PLATFORMS CLASS ACTION Law firms you can contact if you're a potential class member: Joseph Saveri Law Firm, LLP (415) 500-6800 Mathew Butterick (323) 968-2632 mb@buttericklaw.com
A screenshot from a legal complaint with contact information for the plaintiffs' attorneys that states, "Joseph R. Saveri (State Bar No. 130064)
Cadio Zirpoli (State Bar No. 179108)
Christopher K.L. Young (State Bar No. 318371)
Kathleen J. McMahon (State Bar No. 340007)
JOSEPH SAVERI LAW FIRM, LLP
601 California Street, Suite 1000
San Francisco, California 94108
Telephone: (415) 500-6800
Facsimile: (415) 395-9940
Email: jsaveri@saverilawfirm.com
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cyoung@saverilawfirm.com
kmcmahon@saverilawfirm.com
Matthew Butterick (State Bar No. 250953)
1920 Hillhurst Avenue, #406
Los Angeles, CA 90027
Telephone: (323) 968-2632
Facsimile: (415) 395-9940
Email: mb@buttericklaw.com
Counsel for Individual and Representative
Plaintiffs and the Proposed Class"A screenshot from a legal complaint that states, "UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT
NORTHERN DISTRICT OF CALIFORNIA
SAN FRANCISCO DIVISION
Richard Kadrey, an individual;
Sarah Silverman, an individual;
Christopher Golden, an individual;
Individual and Representative Plaintiffs,
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corporation;
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Complaint
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Carwyn Morris @carwynmorris.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
✨TRUNK – AW25 TRUNK SHOW & ARCHIVE SALE ✨ Join us for TRUNK, a collaboration between artisan fashion brands seventyfive, Monad, The Backward Vendor, and lifestyle store Provision. 📍 18 Iliffe Yard, London SE17 3QA 📅 Saturday 5 April | 10AM - 8PM 📅 Sunday 6 April | 12PM - 6PM #slowfashion #fashion
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Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
My first strike ever. I have joined demonstrations before. But Monday I will be on strike. As part of the national series of strikes across the country @woinactie.bsky.social Against draconian, shortsighted cuts to research and higher education 🟥 Hopefully joined by many @uva.nl colleagues.
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Carwyn Morris @carwynmorris.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
new publication by the trendy @drliucao.bsky.social on wanghong consumption in Guangzhou. some of the early research was presented at a workshop we hosted in 2022 and it's great to see this out in the wild. after a week of fashion week research, I think I also have 'fashionable people phobia.'
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Irna Hofman @irnahofman.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
And this Friday (the 7th), Yan Hairong speaking at IIAS, don't miss it! www.iias.asia/events/chine...
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Chinese Capital Accumulation and the Belt and Road Initiative | IIAS
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Carwyn Morris @carwynmorris.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
The brilliant @izading.bsky.social will be giving a talk at Leiden University on March 19th, discussing authoritarian teleology 🔥 www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20... Looking forward to it.
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Authoritarian Teleology
After the fall of the Soviet Union and the withering away of planned economies, the 20th-century literature on communism shifted decisively toward the 21st-century literature on authoritarianism. Iza ...
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Davide Martino @davidemartino.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
What was up with Neptune 400 years ago? @frederickcrofts.bsky.social and I have been trying to find out: we had a great research stay @zikg.eu! While we cross our fingers for the article (under review), you can find out more about the project, and the small exhibition we co-curated, here:
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Carwyn Morris @carwynmorris.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
Looking forward to this event
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Ying Zhang @yingaa.bsky.social · 25/02/2025
@ubleiden.bsky.social Chinese Queer Collection at Leiden University Library will be officially launched. An amazing resource for research and teaching. If you are interested in joining the inaugural workshop and learning more, see the post below!
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Carwyn Morris @carwynmorris.bsky.social · 18/02/2025
Ian Johnson: LIAS China Seminar, 12 March. For the next seminar Ian discusses "Underground China." Ian presents a picture of Xi Jinping’s China where a vibrant movement of underground actors challenge the Communist Party's control of history. www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20...
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Underground China
Newspaper headlines describe a China that is uniformly bleak: a slowing economy, tensions with the West, and a surveillance state that seems to have crushed all opposing voices. But in his new book Sp...
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Carwyn Morris @carwynmorris.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
"sites in Cheese digital spaces" - Favourite term from a recent review. I'm quitting 'digital China' and going to focus on 'digital Cheese' 🧀 Nobody is asking the important questions about cheese digital sovereingty! Is it a 🫕, a 🍔, or a 🪤?
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Carwyn Morris @carwynmorris.bsky.social · 15/02/2025
"The scholarships will cover the costs of flight tickets (in economy class) to and from Sweden, hotel in Stockholm for the period of the workshop, travel between Stockholm and Lund, and visa fee. Students who wish to be considered for the scholarships must indicate this in their application."
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Nancy Baym @nancybaym.bsky.social · 13/02/2025
This is true! Fantastic opportunity for a motivated junior researcher looking for a stimulating research environment in which to grow while prepping to pursue a Ph.D.
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Carwyn Morris @carwynmorris.bsky.social · 12/02/2025
This is today in leiden
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Carwyn Morris @carwynmorris.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Hiring RA: We (led by Chenchen Zhang) are hiring a Research Assistant. It is for a British Academy project: "Digital counterpublics, everyday geopolitics, and the emerging transnational activism of diasporic Chinese youth”. Requires UK right to work. See more: durham.taleo.net/careersectio...
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CASUAL - Research Assistant/Associate - Grade 6
Click the link provided to see the complete job description.
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Carwyn Morris @carwynmorris.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
I and many others have been saying this for years. Glad we are pushing for that.
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Chenchen Zhang 🤦🏻‍♀️ @chenchenzhang.net · 27/01/2025
I'm looking to hire a student research assistant to work on a BA project on digital Chinese diaspora's engagement in progressive social movements. they could be based anywhere in the UK. if this is of interest to any of your students, please let them know! 🙏 durham.taleo.net/careersectio...
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Carwyn Morris @carwynmorris.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
be our student ra (or share this to one of your students)
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胡子哥 @notsaved.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
great postdoc opportunity on China, gamification and green governance candidate.hr-manager.net/ApplicationI...
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Postdoctoral position on Green Volunteering in China for the Gamifying Green Governance Project
A full-time postdoc position for 24 months in the Technologies in Practice Research Group is open for appointment from 1 May 2025, or soon thereafter. The posit
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Carwyn Morris @carwynmorris.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Hiring RA: We (led by Chenchen Zhang) are hiring a Research Assistant. It is for a British Academy project: "Digital counterpublics, everyday geopolitics, and the emerging transnational activism of diasporic Chinese youth”. Requires UK right to work. See more: durham.taleo.net/careersectio...
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CASUAL - Research Assistant/Associate - Grade 6
Click the link provided to see the complete job description.
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Carwyn Morris @carwynmorris.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Leiden China Seminar: Oliver Moore 12th Feb 15.00 in-person Oliver Moore will be delivering the first Leiden China Seminar of the semester. No need to signup; just turn up. Event page: www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/events/20... Unfortunately we don't have the support to stream these.
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Surface Knowledge: the roles and purposes of ink rubbings in- and outside China
Taken via a means of wet impress, paper/ink rubbings of live rock surfaces and other hard objects have long enabled visual and textual knowledge throughout (and from) China. Yet their formation, uses and marketing have been generally minimized in several dismissive arguments: rubbings arise from a secondary…
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Kaiser Kuo 郭怡廣 @kaiserkuo.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
7/ Then there’s a lack of expertise. The U.S. has underfunded and de-prioritized China studies for years. We lack reporters, policymakers, and business leaders who truly understand China’s society, culture, and political economy.
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Justus Uitermark @uitermark.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Postdoc opportunity! The position is part of a project on digital platforms and cities. I’m looking for someone with programming skills to map the uneven presence of places across platforms like Instagram, Google Maps, and TikTok. I’m happy to answer questions. werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...
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Vacancy — Postdoc Position on the Computational Analysis of Cities and Digital Platforms
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Justus Uitermark @uitermark.bsky.social · 22/01/2025
For those of you interested in the interplay of social media and cities, check out this interesting discussion of wanghong urbanism as a phenomenon and concept: chaoyang.substack.com/p/wanghong-u... @carwynmorris.bsky.social @axz.bsky.social
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S01 Episode 9: We Built This City on a Camera Roll
The Season Finale roundtable: what is “wanghong” urbanism + fake street culture nostalgia + the logic of internet fame + punch-in to punch-down
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Martin Stabe @martinstabe.ft.com · 21/01/2025
🚨🚨Job alert🚨🚨 We're hiring a data engineer to join our @data.ft.com data journalism technology team in Sofia, Bulgaria. Details and application form are here: job-boards.greenhouse.io/financialtim...
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Data Engineer - Data Journalism Development
Sofia
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Marc Gilbert @marcgilbert.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
The Robert van Gulik Fund has established a Robert van Gulik Fellowship with effect from 2025, to support research on the sinological collections of the Leiden University Libraries. Details and application form available here: edu.nl/putg4 Deadline for submitting research proposals: 1 April 2025.
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Patrick Leary @patrickleary.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
Oxford University Press will be awarding as many as 10 ECRs the opportunity to publish their first book in fully open access as well as in hardback. Today the website was revised to make clear that independent/unaffiliated scholars are eligible. Deadline March 3. academic.oup.com/pages/early-...
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Ziying Meng @ziyingm.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
How do content creators learn about a dozen platforms and push their content into the ‘for you’ page?🤔 In this new OA paper in New Media & Society, I explore transnational creators' algorithmic and visibility practices across multiple Chinese and US-based platforms. 🔗 shorturl.at/f0mAC
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Qian Huang 黄倩 @qianhuang.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
As promised, a reading list about Xiaohongshu is available now with the help of many Chinese social media researchers: qianxeniahuang.super.site/resources/xi.... Special thanks to @carwynmorris.bsky.social for co-editing this. I am only hosting this on my personal website for logistic reasons.
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Engaging with Xiaohongshu (RED/REDnote/LittleRedBook): A Reading List
In the mold of other reading lists and bibliographies that have inspired us (see Digital Ethnography Collective Reading List, TikTok Researcher Network, and Doing Fieldwork in a Pandemic), and given t...
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