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Yu Sun

@yu-ys.bsky.social
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Lecturer in Media and Sociology at University of Glasgow. I started my academic journey in media studies from University of Groningen in the Netherlands during 2013 to 2018, now doing research in digital politics and Chinese media industries, etc.

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AFT @aft.org · 04/03/2026
Join us tonight at 7 p.m. ET for a webinar on “Challenging Authoritarianism Through People Power” to learn more about what’s at stake in this moment and how we mobilize and organize to protect our kids, families and communities. Sign up ⬇️ aft.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
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Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Challenging Authoritarianism Through People Power. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Challenging Authoritarianism Through People Power. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
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Karen Gregory @karengregory.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Our Critical Data Studies group at @edfuturesinstitute.bsky.social has a few talks this semester: March 27th: Jonathan Gray: Public Data Cultures April 1st: Amelia Acker: Archiving Machines: A Material History of Data Storage April 29th: Sophie Bishop: Influencer Creep See eventbrites below
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Arianna Bussoletti @bussolettiar.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
🚨 New article out in New Media & Society🚨 Super proud to share our work @emilianotrere.com and @fcomun.bsky.social on the contradictions & creative tensions at the heart of #climateactivism Check it out here 👇 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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A media ecology of ecological media? Conceptualizing environment-oriented communication and its digital footprint in climate change activism - Arianna Bussoletti, Emiliano Trerè, Francesca Comunello, ...
Recognizing the role-played by mainstream social media (i.e. Instagram, Facebook, etc.) in climate activism, this article focuses on how FridaysForFuture (FFF) ...
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Yu Sun @yu-ys.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
Our second ECR session is upcoming on 25 February 👀
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 29/10/2024
In recognition of us doing fuck all to reduce emissions, let me remind y'all that carbon dioxide removal (CDR) is useless unless we decarbonize drastically. rdcu.be/dbFbB
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Carbon dioxide removal is not a current climate solution — we need to change the narrative
Drastically reduce emissions first, or carbon dioxide removal will be next to useless.
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Karen Gregory @karengregory.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
"This is a glaring issue that will be faced by every hyperscale data centre coming through the planning system..." aprs.scot/press-releas...
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Edinburgh Data Centre Refused - Action to Protect Rural Scotland
A few minutes ago the Development Management sub-committee at Edinburgh City Council refused Planning Permission in Principle for a 210MW data centre at the Gyle, Edinburgh. Here are some observations...
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Yu Sun @yu-ys.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
All welcome to drop by the final last talk on datafied civil society and environmental action in China as we’re wrapping up for the year. This seminar is in hybrid format. See the zoom link in the comment section below.
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Yu Sun @yu-ys.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
This is still an ongoing project with Dr Wilfred Yang Wang @ichbinwill.bsky.social We try to conceptualize techno-moral governance in digital China. It’s exciting work but find theorizing empirical evidence is so challenging! Hopefully, will get there gradually! Welcome to attend if you are around🥂
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Yu Sun @yu-ys.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Following the fruitful discussions at ICA, another VoC seminar with senior colleagues sharing experiences and offering advice on navigating early academic life is upcoming on 25 June. Registration is still open, see below.
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Chenchen Zhang 🤦🏻‍♀️ @chenchenzhang.net · 24/03/2025
great PhD opportunity - Migration, Border Securitization, and Citizenship in the Global South. at Dublin City University www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMJ996/d...
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DCU PhD Scholarship - Migration, Border Securitization, and Citizenship in the Global South. at Dublin City University
At jobs.ac.uk, you can apply for a DCU PhD Scholarship - Migration, Border Securitization, and Citizenship in the Global South.. Explore our diverse range of PhD opportunities today.
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Activism Communication and Social Justice @acsj-ica.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
The ACSJ interest group of the ICA has now joined this bright place and abandoned what we felt was no longer a good environment for research into social justice and activism. Let’s make this site a lively forum for exchange together. ACSJ members and friends - please follow us here
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Activism Communication and Social Justice @acsj-ica.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
The ACSJ Interest Group Call for award nominations is open until February 20 Outstanding Dissertation Award: Open to dissertations completed in the past two years Outstanding Book Award: Honoring the best book (sole or co-authored) on themes central to ACSJ, published within the past two years.
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Awards 2025
The ICA Interest Group on Activism, Communication, and Social Justice (ACSJ) invites nominations for the Outstanding Dissertation Award and Outstanding Book Award to be given at the ACSJ business meeting at the 2025 ICA Conference in Denver.
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404 Media @404media.co · 05/02/2025
You can’t post your way out of fascism Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them 🔗 www.404media.co/you-cant-pos...
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You Can’t Post Your Way Out of Fascism
Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them, Janus Rose writes.
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Chuncheng Liu @cliu.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
The symposium 'The Politics of Governance by Quantification Infrastructure,' co-edited by @jliu2024.bsky.social and me, is now out in Critical Sociology, featuring 4 articles exploring the middle ground between subjects and systems of quantification globally. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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Yu Sun @yu-ys.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Voice of Change second webinar is coming on 19 February, featuring on effective climate communication.
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