Rui Hou

Sociologist & Ethnographer
assistant professor @smuhalifax
Research Interests: technology; emotions; digital health; surveillance; culture; China

[Rui Hou @hrhourui]

How does the Chinese state construct “good” and “bad” citizen ideal types in the #SocialCreditSystem?
@dianafutweets and I address this question in our new paper in @Gov_Journal
Sorting citizens: Governing via China's social credit system https://t.co/X8p4llzMDy

[Jiao Sun @sunjiao123sun_]

Mitigating racial bias from LLMs is a lot easier than removing it from humans!

Can’t believe this happened at the best AI conference @NeurIPSConf

We have ethical reviews for authors, but missed it for invited speakers? 😡

[Rui Hou @hrhourui]

Who is helping students? A qualitative analysis of task-shifting and o... https://t.co/zZNnxx0kie

[Bridging Divides @BridgDivides]

🔎How do older immigrants in long-term care use cultural-language translation apps?

As part of their BD project, @BridgDivides team members published a scoping review in @BMJ_Open, highlighting gaps in app acceptability, feasibility and equitable care. 📰https://t.co/mQAG9lTCOB

[Rui Hou @hrhourui]

Anyone heard about platform permission in digital ethnography? Do researchers need platform permission to conduct online observation? Should pilot-experiment researchers also obtain platform permission to carry out that kind of research? #REBcomments #ethnography

[Big Data & Society @BigDataSoc]

Revisit this 2023 article by Curran. Surveillance capital has twinned imperatives: to collect (data) and connect (systems). However, these expansions coopt inevitably fragile systems, creating vulnerable digital networks. https://t.co/7SpgilvvGP

[Big Data & Society @BigDataSoc]

Check out this 2023 article by Hwankyung Janet Lee which studies the relations between data-producing individuals and their data products in #SouthKorea in the intersection of #surveillance and critical data studies #agency, #imaginary, #tracing https://t.co/UfMCyM7YuR

[Big Data & Society @BigDataSoc]

📢 New paper is out!! ‘The curious case of blockchain in rural China: Unravelling power, profit, and surveillance’ by Alvin Hoi-Chun Hung (@alvinhchung1). Head here for full article ➡️: https://t.co/AK3SuM38cB
#Blockchain #AuthoritarianCapitalism #surveillance

[Lesley Wood @lesleybikes]

My new piece on temporal conflict. Ie how police and protesters manage the pace and duration of action and the temporal horizon and orientation in order to gain leverage.

[Data & Society @datasociety]

On May 9 at 1pm ET, join psychologist Linda Michaels, @InclusiveMH founder Melody Li, @CCHPCA’s Mei Wa Kwong, and D&S researcher @livgar_ for a conversation about how technology is changing how therapists do their work — and the work of therapy itself. https://t.co/DW2gXgJ2pf

[Jiaqi M. Liu 刘佳琪 @JiaqiLiu_soc]

I suspect a senior scholar has plagiarized my work during peer review. They rejected my submission but published an article with similar arguments. What can I do? This isn't the first time this senior scholar has plagiarized my work. Meanwhile, my article kept getting rejected...

[Dasol Kim 김다솔 @everysol_]

"Selling Otherness on YouTube," my latest article, is now available online first in @IJCS_journal! I discuss "global CPM arbitrage"; YouTube's ad system rewards content targeting wealthier countries with higher ad rates, incentivizing creators to cater to those audiences.

[Robyn Caplan @robyncaplan]

"AI is just today’s buzzword for “outsourcing,” and it comes with the same problems that have plagued outsourced companies and workforces for decades."
Fantastic piece from Janet Vertesi in @techpolicypress!

https://t.co/5xuihyzdFw

[Robyn Caplan @robyncaplan]

New from @elenamaris1, me, and @hibbythach: "Taking Back and Giving Back: Algorithmic Mutual Aid in the Platform Economy." Out in New Media & Society today!

This paper was 4 (!) years in the making and we are so excited to finally be sharing it! 1/ https://t.co/G1IRFgubMP