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Promoting critical scholarship on digital culture, technology, and society from Annenberg School for Communication and SAS Department of Sociology, University of Pennsylvania. www.asc.upenn.edu/research/centers/…

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Annenberg School at Penn @asc.upenn.edu · 20/05/2026
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:
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Oral Histories Help Communities Reckon with COVID-19
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CDCS: Center on Digital Culture and Society @cdcspenn.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
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-...
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CDCS: Center on Digital Culture and Society @cdcspenn.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
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-...
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Guobin Yang @guobin-yang.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
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
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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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CDCS: Center on Digital Culture and Society @cdcspenn.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
🔔 Deadline Reminder: Abstracts due December 1 🔔 The Center for Digital Culture and Society is currently accepting abstract submissions for our upcoming symposium. 📧 Submit to: cdcs@asc.upenn.edu 🔗 More info: lnkd.in/eyyRkcvN
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CDCS: Center on Digital Culture and Society @cdcspenn.bsky.social · 05/09/2025
🌟 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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Call for Abstracts: 2026 CDCS Symposium
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Guobin Yang @guobin-yang.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
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
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sociology, China, communication studies, journalism, digital activism, digital culture, technology, media studies
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Revista de la Universidad @revistaunam.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
Guobin Yang, especialista en cultura digital, nos explica el panorama del internet en China: desde su origen en los años 90 hasta la actualidad, ¿en qué consiste la plataformización y el activismo en línea? www.revistadelauniversidad.mx/articles/923...
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El internet y las redes sociales en China | Sandra Barba, Guobin Yang
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Guobin Yang @guobin-yang.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
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
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Jess Maddox @jessmaddox.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
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.
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Altman Peng @altmanpeng.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
#NewTalkAlert I'm thrilled to share that Prof @guobin-yang.bsky.social will be visiting Warwick AL to give a talk on #SocialMedia and #SocialRhythm. Talk will be hybrid. Please join us in person (room A0.23) or via MS Teams. Scan QR code for more. #LanguageCultureMatters
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CDCS: Center on Digital Culture and Society @cdcspenn.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Here is the program of our 4/25 Symposium on Reframing Leisure, Humor, and Play in Global Digital Culture www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/.... @annenbergcargc.bsky.social
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CDCS Symposium: Reframing Leisure, Humor, and Play in Global Digital Culture
CDCS Symposium: Reframing Leisure, Humor, and Play in Global Digital Culture
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CDCS: Center on Digital Culture and Society @cdcspenn.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Join us at the CDCS Colloquium for Professor Carolyn Biltoft's presentation on "Henri Bergson’s Turing Test for Humans." 🗓️ April 7, 12:15-1:30pm, 📍 Annenberg School, Room 300
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CDCS: Center on Digital Culture and Society @cdcspenn.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
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. 📍 367 McNeil Building @asc.upenn.edu
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CDCS: Center on Digital Culture and Society @cdcspenn.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
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. 📍 367 McNeil Building @asc.upenn.edu
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CDCS: Center on Digital Culture and Society @cdcspenn.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
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
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Guobin Yang @guobin-yang.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
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
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CDCS: Center on Digital Culture and Society @cdcspenn.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Here is the program of our 4/25 Symposium on Reframing Leisure, Humor, and Play in Global Digital Culture www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/.... @annenbergcargc.bsky.social
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CDCS Symposium: Reframing Leisure, Humor, and Play in Global Digital Culture
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Guobin Yang @guobin-yang.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
Applications for our @cdcspenn.bsky.social postdoctoral fellowship are due on Valentine’s Day, so no one will miss it for the love of it! www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/...
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Center on Digital Culture and Society Call for Applications - Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2025-2026
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CDCS: Center on Digital Culture and Society @cdcspenn.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Applications due in 10 days! www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/...
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Center on Digital Culture and Society Call for Applications - Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2025-2026
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CDCS: Center on Digital Culture and Society @cdcspenn.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
We are inviting postdoctoral fellowship applications. Please apply by Feb 14 www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/...
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Center on Digital Culture and Society Call for Applications - Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2025-2026
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CDCS: Center on Digital Culture and Society @cdcspenn.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
We are inviting postdoctoral fellowship applications. Please apply by Feb 14 www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/...
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Center on Digital Culture and Society Call for Applications - Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2025-2026
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Media@Risk @ascmediarisk.org · 10/01/2025
Missed our annual symposium on academic speech and social media? Read the highlights in this Q&A for Penn Today with @guobin-yang.bsky.social and Barbie Zelizer @asc.upenn.edu @upenn.edu @cdcspenn.bsky.social bit.ly/3PwQ6Fu
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Addressing the ‘catch-22’ academics face on social media | Penn Today
The Annenberg School for Communication’s Center for Media at Risk and Center for Digital Culture and Society brought together scholars to analyze the interconnected benefits and risks that academics f...
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CDCS: Center on Digital Culture and Society @cdcspenn.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
CDCS postdoc @lumarch.bsky.social recently spoke to @teenvogue.bsky.social about the social media reactions to the UnitedHealthcare CEO shooting:
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What the UnitedHealthcare CEO Shooting Memes Tell Us
The internet has been completely obsessed with this case.
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CDCS: Center on Digital Culture and Society @cdcspenn.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Our symposium "Academe in the Age of Social Media: Scholarly Inquiry at Risk?" opens later today. Details here: www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/... @ascmediarisk.bsky.social
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Academe in the Age of Social Media: Scholarly Inquiry at Risk?
Join the Center for Media at Risk and the Center on Digital Culture and Society for a symposium examining the relationship between social media and the academy.
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Guobin Yang @guobin-yang.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
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
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Media@Risk @ascmediarisk.org · 04/12/2024
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 buff.ly/410HcHh
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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.
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Annenberg School at Penn @asc.upenn.edu · 02/12/2024
This Thursday and Friday (Dec. 5-6), join @ascmediarisk.bsky.social & @cdcspenn.bsky.social for a symposium exploring how social media impacts academic speech. Learn more and register: www.eventbrite.com/e/academe-in...
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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.
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CDCS: Center on Digital Culture and Society @cdcspenn.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
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 "
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Annenberg School at Penn @asc.upenn.edu · 22/11/2024
@cdcspenn.bsky.social postdoc @lumarch.bsky.social spoke to @washingtonpost.com about how grieving One Direction fans are processing Liam Payne’s death online: www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
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Grieving One Direction fans return to where they last met — online
Liam Payne’s death brought on real grief for Gen Z fans. The only ones who understand how they process it -- sometimes with dark humor -- are fellow Directioners.
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CDCS: Center on Digital Culture and Society @cdcspenn.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
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...
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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.
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Saif Shahin @saifshahin.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Everyone’s loving #starterpacks on #Bluesky. So, here’s 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...
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CDCS: Center on Digital Culture and Society @cdcspenn.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
We're premiering on Bluesky with an announcement of our upcoming symposium on Academe in the Age of Social Media: Scholarly Inquiry at Risk? Jointly organized with @ascmediarisk.bsky.social www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/...
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Academe in the Age of Social Media: Scholarly Inquiry at Risk?
Join the Center for Media at Risk and the Center on Digital Culture and Society for a symposium examining the relationship between social media and the academy.
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