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Chuncheng Liu

@cliu.bsky.social
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Sociologist interested in STS, data, and the state. Assistant Professor of Communication and Sociology at Northeastern University. chunchengliu.com

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Chuncheng Liu @cliu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Today's rabbit hole: reading Ovid's Metamorphoses (why, why!??)
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Chuncheng Liu @cliu.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Heading to 4S? I’ll be in Toronto October 7–10, presenting three coauthored papers: a quantitative study of public perceptions of human intervention in algorithmic decisions, a conceptual paper on technological liminality, and a qualitative study of bureaucrats’ data work. Come say hi!
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Chuncheng Liu @cliu.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Here's a screenshot of a Chinese online discussion group on "human–machine love." Almost no one in the group is actually discussing the topic and the first three pages are nearly all research recruitment ads...
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Chuncheng Liu @cliu.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
is the underwhelming feeling when actually finish writing a book normal or should i just drink more coffee
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Chuncheng Liu @cliu.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The end of an era indeed
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Chuncheng Liu @cliu.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
lmao what is this: i-dislike-sociology.com
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Hey Students, Considering Majoring in Sociology?
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Chuncheng Liu @cliu.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
I love(d?) using antithesis in my papers, but now AI has ruined it—just like it ruined em dashes.
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Chuncheng Liu @cliu.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
So excited about the nyc trip I've almost booked all my meals already
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Chuncheng Liu @cliu.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
This is horrible news. I don't think I could conduct my fieldwork or finish my dissertation without the DDRIG. This would also eliminate one of the very few funding opportunities accessible to international students, making their already-terrible situations worse.
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Chuncheng Liu @cliu.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
It's clear to me now that many really don't care about sociology as a discipline, but are simply using the moment to express their grievance and resentment toward the journals and departments that rejected them. Funny that this is the same group of people who are against "grievance studies."
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Chuncheng Liu @cliu.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
I'm checking the ASA conference program now, and so many panels I want to attend are at the same time 😩
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Chuncheng Liu @cliu.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
I tried so hard to be sympathetic to the conservative wing of sociology, but what on earth is requiring all faculty to take the GRE and firing those with lower scores supposed to achieve?
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Chuncheng Liu @cliu.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
RIP Andrew Lakoff
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Laura K. Nelson @lauraknelson.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
We've seen this over and over again. Why don't women negotiate more? Because they're punished when they do. Why don't they network with more people? Because they're punished for it. Women don't need to change the way they act. They're acting rationally based on the way the world reacts to them. +
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Daniel Driscoll @danieldrisc.com · 07/07/2026
Friends!!! My book, Why Carbon Taxes Failed, is online. Chapters are free to download if you have access to @academic.oup.com: academic.oup.com/book/62984
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Larry Au @larryau.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
📚 My book 𝘿𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙢𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝙂𝙡𝙤𝙗𝙖𝙡 𝙎𝙘𝙞𝙚𝙣𝙘𝙚: 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙏𝙧𝙖𝙣𝙨𝙣𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙖𝙡 𝙋𝙤𝙡𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙘𝙨 𝙤𝙛 𝘾𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙚𝙨𝙚 𝘽𝙞𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙙𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙡 𝙄𝙣𝙣𝙤𝙫𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 has a publication date of Dec 2026, and the website is live and now available for pre-order at @columbiaup.bsky.social! cup.columbia.edu/book/dreams-...
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Dreams of Global Science | Columbia University Press
The idea of global science is aspirational. Access to scientific resources and prestige is unevenly distributed, shaped by inequalities along the lines of na... | CUP
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Chuncheng Liu @cliu.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Am I overworking on this R&R so I don't need to work on my book? Yes.
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Chuncheng Liu @cliu.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Sigh. That feeling when you think a reviewer’s critique missed the point, but then you start reworking the manuscript and discover issues even more critical than what they pointed out and now the revision is taking way longer than expected
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Chuncheng Liu @cliu.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
ASA this year is really gonna be something huh…
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Weirong Guo @weirongguo.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Super interesting article by Lingxiao Chen (PhD candidate at Emory Sociology), a rising star in political culture and nationalism! This study is an extraordinary exemplar of mixed-methods research. Highly recommended to everyone! journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Performing Nationalism: Celebrity Politics and Audience Boundary Work Under Authoritarianism - Lingxiao Chen, 2026
How do citizens in authoritarian contexts interpret nationalist messages embedded in everyday life? While research shows that nationalism is reproduced through ...
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Hannah Waight @hwaight.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
I’m excited to share a new paper in Nature that shows how large language models launder the strategic rhetoric of authoritarian states. Paper here: www.nature.com/articles/s41.... A thread.
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State media control influences large language models - Nature
Government-controlled media influences the output of large language models via their training data, and models queried in the languages of countries with lower media freedom show a stronger ...
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Julián Posada @posada.website · 20/04/2026
#PlatformExtractivism is available for 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐞𝐫 (out Oct 20)! Thrilled to share what @geoplace.bsky.social has to say about the book: "A grounded and uncompromising account of the infrastructures and workers that sustain AI." 𝐋𝐢𝐧𝐤: www.ucpress.edu/books/platfo... #BookRecommendation #Books
This image features a vibrant yellow promotional graphic for a book titled "Platform Extractivism: Data Work and the People Powering Artificial Intelligence" by Julián Posada.

The top of the graphic displays the text "PRE-ORDER NOW! COMING OCTOBER 20, 2026" in bold blue capital letters. Centered in the middle is a 3D rendering of the book cover, which includes three vertical photo strips showing people working in office settings and server racks.

Below the book image is a quote in large, bold black and red font:

"A GROUNDED AND UNCOMPROMISING ACCOUNT OF THE INFRASTRUCTURES AND WORKERS THAT SUSTAIN ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE."
— Mark Graham, co-author of Feeding the Machine: The Hidden Human Labor Powering A.I.

The bottom of the graphic features the logo and name for the University of California Press.
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Chuncheng Liu @cliu.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
First they came for my beloved em dash and colon, and now they’re coming for my favorite sentence structures: apparently, ‘not only… but also,’ ‘instead of,’ and ‘is not… but’ have all been condemned as AI language now...
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Chuncheng Liu @cliu.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
I’m so tempted to organize my book introduction around the stories of three Wangs to connect social credit system with China’s social transformation in the 1980s, policy experimentation and admiration for U.S. systems in the 2000s, and the normalization of bureaucratic practice in the 2010s
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Chuncheng Liu @cliu.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
can i just have my afternoon coffee without having people around me talking about ai please
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Chuncheng Liu @cliu.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
Found a random classification gap: the “Research Article” category for CHI only appears after 2008. Before that, papers were labeled simply as “articles,” which isn’t included in the ACM Digital Library’s “content type” filter. So if you rely on that filter (like me), you may miss a lot of papers.
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Chuncheng Liu @cliu.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
I used Claude for some small computational text analysis tasks, and it performed better than expected. Maybe I’m not an expert in CSS, so I can’t judge it very well, but it feels like it did a better job there than when using Claude for qualitative analysis, where it feels quite rigid
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Chuncheng Liu @cliu.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Man I do love writing STS papers. Putting "heterogeneous network" in a sentence itself make me happy.
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Chuncheng Liu @cliu.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Thrilled our paper with @zephoria.bsky.social (in the works since 2022!) is accepted at #CHI2026. In the paper, we look at how “fake” state data perform institutional work, tracing how fakeness gets produced and de/stabilized inside of the Chinese and US bureaucracy. arxiv.org/abs/2602.10944
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Chuncheng Liu @cliu.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
I spent my whole morning trying to upload a paper to arxiv is this part of the additional labor of the interdisciplinary scholarship 😮‍💨
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Vance Ricks @ricksva.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
I’m leading a search to hire a colleague at Northeastern. The position is open rank, for a teaching faculty member who’ll be full-time in the Philosophy department and specializes in AI Ethics. They’d begin this coming fall semester.
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Assistant Teaching Professor/ Associate Teaching Professor/ Full Teaching Professor
About the Opportunity The College of Social Sciences and Humanities and its ten tenure units are the home of the Experiential Liberal Arts. Through its research, teaching, and engagement missions, the...
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Chuncheng Liu @cliu.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Maybe I'm too woke now, but the misogyny in Two and a Half Men is really unbearable
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Chuncheng Liu @cliu.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Serving as a guest editor twice has given me a new perspective on just how broken our academic system is. Finding reviewers for certain papers has become nearly impossible nowadays.
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Chuncheng Liu @cliu.bsky.social · 07/01/2026
Why is James Baldwin this good
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Nancy Baym @nancybaym.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
We are looking for advanced PhD student interns! Spend 12 weeks scratching a research itch in our Cambridge Massachusetts lab. Closes January 17. apply.careers.microsoft.com/careers/job/...
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Research Intern - Sociotechnical Systems | Microsoft Careers
Research Interns put inquiry and theory into practice. Alongside fellow doctoral candidates and some of the world's best researchers, Research Interns learn, collaborate, and network for life. Researc...
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goldstar971.bsky.social @goldstar971.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
*Ahmed Al Ahmed
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Chuncheng Liu @cliu.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
Encountering a misinformation campaign in real time. The bystander who tackled the gunman at Bondi was identified as Ahmed el Ahmed (link below). But in almost every tweet I saw, there are people claiming the real person is "Edward Crabtree," referencing a website called "The Daily."
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Hero bystander who tackled gunman in incredible footage identified
In the aftermath of the devastation at Bondi, a deluge of footage poured onto social media. One video of an act of incredible bravery stood out.
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Chuncheng Liu @cliu.bsky.social · 07/12/2025
What a sad story
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The Married Scientists Torn Apart by a Covid Bioweapon Theory
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Chuncheng Liu @cliu.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
I still get physically ill whenever open a reviewer report with a rejection in it
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Chuncheng Liu @cliu.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
Northeastern University is hiring an Assistant Professor in AI Policy and Media. The tenure home would be either Communication Studies or Journalism, with a joint appointment with the policy school. Please apply and be my colleague :) northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/careers/job/...
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Assistant Professor in AI Policy and Media
About the Opportunity About the Opportunity The College of Arts, Media and Design (CAMD) at Northeastern University invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in AI Policy and Media, ...
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Chuncheng Liu @cliu.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Always love Critics at Large but this episode is particularly superb. LOVE the ending discussion on imagination of the future. In "Pluribus," Utopia Is...!l It's Cracked Up to Be open.spotify.com/episode/4Pkp...
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Spotify – Web Player
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Chuncheng Liu @cliu.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Is Pluribus an AI ethics show…?
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Chuncheng Liu @cliu.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Bad bad very bad. A ‘Steep Decline’ in Students’ Academic Preparation at UC-San Diego Struck a Nerve www.chronicle.com/article/peop...
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Chuncheng Liu @cliu.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
I will workshop my book project - an ethnography of a social credit system in China - at Harvard History, Culture, and Society Workshop 12:00 - 1:30 pm next Friday (11/21) at William James Hall 1550. Join me if you are around. Lunch will be provided!
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Chuncheng Liu (Northeastern University) | Harvard History, Culture, and Society Workshop
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Anthropology of Work Review @anthropologyofwork.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Congratulations to the winner of 2025 @saw-anthroofwork.bsky.social Book Prize Hector Beltran's @teflonbeltran.bsky.social Code Work: Hacking Across US-Mexico Techno Borderlands! @princetonupress.bsky.social press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
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Code Work
How Mexican and Latinx hackers apply concepts from coding to their lived experiences
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Big Data & Society @bigdatasoc.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
🚨 New in Big Data & Society 🚨 "China as an analytical lens for AI and society" by Chuncheng Liu & Zhifan Luo doi.org/10.1177/2053... Offers a four-part framework using “China” to rethink AI, political economy, and global entanglements in critical AI studies.
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Chuncheng Liu @cliu.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
Happy to share our commentary is published on Big Data & Society today! Instead of seeing China as AI’s dystopian specter, what if we use it as a generative lens to rethink global AI? journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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China as an analytical lens for AI and society - Chuncheng Liu, Zhifan Luo, 2025
How can “China” serve as a productive analytical tool for understanding the relationship between artificial intelligence (AI) and society? This commentary propo...
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Chuncheng Liu @cliu.bsky.social · 15/10/2025
Teaching technology and society this semester. I found it’s interesting that their default mode is “tech is bad.” Other than helping them to see how the system works beyond the statement, I need to do a lot more to help them to see the early excitement and promises of the Internet!
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Chuncheng Liu @cliu.bsky.social · 06/10/2025
am i going to introduce students what neoliberalism is in one slide? challenge accepted.
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