liang ge (they/them)

Lecturer in Sociology, University of Manchester | Intimacy, Digital Media&Tech, Gender&Sexuality, ESEA Creative Industries and Popular Cultures | they/them

[liang ge (they/them) @LiangGe96]

✨Thrilled to share our new article published in Information, Communication & Society: “Digital literacies of intimacy: women’s engagement and learning in otome video games”！！！ 🥳 💥 🎉 Open access link: https://t.co/T2n5g1PKXW

[Transcultural Digital Intimacy Research Network @TransDINetwork]

New Article by Liang Ge: “In the Name of Pro-Women”: Intra-Women Surveillance and Internalized Misogyny in Digital East Asia | Article | Media and Communication https://t.co/B5NBEdbi2w check it out! 😊

[liang ge (they/them) @LiangGe96]

5/ The comparative lens matters: In China, censorship displaces outward critique → inward, intensifying intra-group policing as a "safer" outlet. In South Korea, post-Gangnam antagonistic repertoires are mirrored (Kim 2021) inside feminist publics themselves.

[liang ge (they/them) @LiangGe96]

4/I propose internalized and networked misogyny: hegemonic feminist norms reproduced through affective self-surveillance, then scaled into public discipline via platform infrastructure.
The "compromising woman" ambivalent, negotiating under patriarchy, becomes the target.

[liang ge (they/them) @LiangGe96]

🆕 New open-access article out in Media and Communication:
"In the Name of Pro-Women": Intra-Women Surveillance and Internalized Misogyny in Digital East Asia https://t.co/HKCeKCTME9

A short 🧵 on what's in it.

[liang ge (they/them) @LiangGe96]

6/ Theoretically I build on misogyny-as-affect (Harrington 2025; Ahmed; Manne), Banet-Weiser on popular feminism/misogyny as co-constitutive, and Ross on calling in vs calling out.
Solidarity in the platform era is not given. It's a fragile, mediated achievement.

[liang ge (they/them) @LiangGe96]

🆕 New open-access article out in Media and Communication:
"In the Name of Pro-Women": Intra-Women Surveillance and Internalized Misogyny in Digital East Asia https://t.co/HKCeKCTME9

A short 🧵 on what's in it.

[liang ge (they/them) @LiangGe96]

Drawing on interviews with young women in China & South Korea, I show how platform affordances — ranking, screenshotting, pile-ons, algorithmic amplification — translate feminist scripts of refusal into coercive tests of moral purity.

[liang ge (they/them) @LiangGe96]

🆕 New open-access article out in Media and Communication:
"In the Name of Pro-Women": Intra-Women Surveillance and Internalized Misogyny in Digital East Asia https://t.co/HKCeKCTME9

A short 🧵 on what's in it.

[liang ge (they/them) @LiangGe96]

Most work on digital misogyny locates it in male-dominated formations — the manosphere, male-to-female harassment.
But on Weibo, Douban, X or theqoo, "pro-women" publics can also become sites of intense intra-gender disciplining: women policing other women in feminist vocabulary.

[liang ge (they/them) @LiangGe96]

🆕 New open-access article out in Media and Communication:
"In the Name of Pro-Women": Intra-Women Surveillance and Internalized Misogyny in Digital East Asia https://t.co/HKCeKCTME9

A short 🧵 on what's in it.

[liang ge (they/them) @LiangGe96]

🆕 New open-access article out in Media and Communication:
"In the Name of Pro-Women": Intra-Women Surveillance and Internalized Misogyny in Digital East Asia https://t.co/HKCeKCTME9

A short 🧵 on what's in it.

[liang ge (they/them) @LiangGe96]

2nd one in the same day! MENTAL HEALTH AND LGBTQ+ LIVES IN ASIA: CINEMA AND CONVERSATIONS
⏰ Time: 18.00 onwards, 7 May 2026
📍 In person: Bush House (SE) 1.05
Register here: https://t.co/m1ldhpL5vj

[liang ge (they/them) @LiangGe96]

Dear folks! I am sending the invitation and warmly invite you join us on 7 May 2026 for two events!!! 🥳 🥳 🥳
QUEER ASIA AS METHOD LAUNCH EVENT
⏰ Time: 13:00–15:00, 7 May 2026
📍 In person: Bush House (SE) 1.05 / Online: Microsoft Teams
Register here: https://t.co/ZmWwTXxHQX

[liang ge (they/them) @LiangGe96]

2nd one in the same day! MENTAL HEALTH AND LGBTQ+ LIVES IN ASIA: CINEMA AND CONVERSATIONS
⏰ Time: 18.00 onwards, 7 May 2026
📍 In person: Bush House (SE) 1.05
Register here: https://t.co/m1ldhpL5vj

[liang ge (they/them) @LiangGe96]

Dear folks! I am sending the invitation and warmly invite you join us on 7 May 2026 for two events!!! 🥳 🥳 🥳
QUEER ASIA AS METHOD LAUNCH EVENT
⏰ Time: 13:00–15:00, 7 May 2026
📍 In person: Bush House (SE) 1.05 / Online: Microsoft Teams
Register here: https://t.co/ZmWwTXxHQX

[liang ge (they/them) @LiangGe96]

Dear folks! I am sending the invitation and warmly invite you join us on 7 May 2026 for two events!!! 🥳 🥳 🥳
QUEER ASIA AS METHOD LAUNCH EVENT
⏰ Time: 13:00–15:00, 7 May 2026
📍 In person: Bush House (SE) 1.05 / Online: Microsoft Teams
Register here: https://t.co/ZmWwTXxHQX

[liang ge (they/them) @LiangGe96]

3/ The article argues for a critical posthumanist lens that takes synthetic intimacy seriously, without resorting to techno-utopianism.

[liang ge (they/them) @LiangGe96]

New paper (with Tingting Hu) in New Media & Society on VTubers and digital intimacy!🔥
We introduce “affective liquidity” to describe how intimacy flows across voices, avatars, technologies, and fan labour in more-than-human assemblages.

Read here: https://t.co/Cy3Iac0rIt

[liang ge (they/them) @LiangGe96]

2/ For women fans, the screen functions both as an immersive interface and a protective buffer, enabling non-normative desire while managing vulnerability.

[liang ge (they/them) @LiangGe96]

New paper (with Tingting Hu) in New Media & Society on VTubers and digital intimacy!🔥
We introduce “affective liquidity” to describe how intimacy flows across voices, avatars, technologies, and fan labour in more-than-human assemblages.

Read here: https://t.co/Cy3Iac0rIt

[liang ge (they/them) @LiangGe96]

New paper (with Tingting Hu) in New Media & Society on VTubers and digital intimacy!🔥
We introduce “affective liquidity” to describe how intimacy flows across voices, avatars, technologies, and fan labour in more-than-human assemblages.

Read here: https://t.co/Cy3Iac0rIt

[Digital Intimacies Research Bot @DIResearchBot]

#ReadingofTheDay Hu, T., & Ge, L. (2025). Affective liquidity, synthetic bonds: VTubers as posthuman mediators of digital intimacies. New Media & Society, 0(0). https://t.co/lItsT5u1yE

[Digital Intimacies Research Bot @DIResearchBot]

#ReadingofTheDay Ge, L. (2025). Spectral imaginings and sympoietic creativity: AI hallucinations and the ethics of posthuman creativity. Big Data & Society, 12(4). https://t.co/vyqswnx537

[BBK Journalism @BBKBAJM]

Spectral imaginings and sympoietic creativity: AI hallucinations and the ethics of posthuman creativity. https://t.co/BSKjdXZrGe

[liang ge (they/them) @LiangGe96]

🔹I argue for sympoietic creativity:a collaborative practice where humans curate machine stochasticity rather than simply commanding a tool
This work challenges us to harness AI's disruptive potential for posthuman futures while maintaining strict ethical vigilance.

[liang ge (they/them) @LiangGe96]

🆕Publication Arrived!!! Are AI hallucinations bugs to be fixed, or the start of a new kind of creativity? My new paper, "Spectral imaginings and sympoietic creativity," explores how we might move beyond binary framings of AI errors. Check it out here: https://t.co/FMtMzUUSGG

[liang ge (they/them) @LiangGe96]

🔹 The Fluency Trade-off: I analyze why models like DeepSeek-R1 (with a higher hallucination rate) differ from factual optimizers like ChatGPT-o1. The paper examines how "Chain-of-Thought" reasoning enhances creativity but inherently amplifies "spectral" outputs.

[liang ge (they/them) @LiangGe96]

We often dismiss AI hallucinations as mere technical failures or epistemic risks. In this article,I propose a different perspective: these generative anomalies act as hermeneutic knots: sites where algorithmic noise and human agency entangle to produce new modes of meaning-making

[liang ge (they/them) @LiangGe96]

We often dismiss AI hallucinations as mere technical failures or epistemic risks. In this article,I propose a different perspective: these generative anomalies act as hermeneutic knots: sites where algorithmic noise and human agency entangle to produce new modes of meaning-making

[liang ge (they/them) @LiangGe96]

🆕Publication Arrived!!! Are AI hallucinations bugs to be fixed, or the start of a new kind of creativity? My new paper, "Spectral imaginings and sympoietic creativity," explores how we might move beyond binary framings of AI errors. Check it out here: https://t.co/FMtMzUUSGG

[liang ge (they/them) @LiangGe96]

🆕Publication Arrived!!! Are AI hallucinations bugs to be fixed, or the start of a new kind of creativity? My new paper, "Spectral imaginings and sympoietic creativity," explores how we might move beyond binary framings of AI errors. Check it out here: https://t.co/FMtMzUUSGG