Transcultural Digital Intimacy Research Network

Transcultural Digital Intimacy Research Network. Chair: Dr Liang Ge (UCL) @liangge96

[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! 😊

[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]

🆕 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]

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]

🎉I am extremely happy to share that our first research output on AI chatbot and gamifying digital intimacy, from our Posthuman Digital Intimacies project has now been published by Media Culture & Society! Please do check out here: https://t.co/fQjSzig1o5

[icsjournal @icsjournal]

#OutNow in #iCS
In otome games, Chinese women craft rich emotional ties with virtual partners. This article argues that such play develops intimate literacies that mix pleasure, critique, and resistance to the ideologies embedded in these stories.
https://t.co/NV8eWVoi5u

[Digital Journalism @djeditorialteam]

LATEST NEWS! We continue with our introduction of the new Editorial Board members joining us this year! We’re welcoming to our Digital #Journalism Editorial Board 19 new members, and here’re 4 of them – @JoanneKuai, @simranoff_, @RanaArafat12 & @SNkoala. Welcome onboard!

[Oxford Internet Institute @oiioxford]

Is "AI sovereignty" the wrong goal?

Join the OII's Visiting Policy Fellow Rebecca Razavi on 21 Jan as she argues for a shift to AI Agency: a nation's capacity to steer outcomes in a globalised world.

Learn more and register here: https://t.co/Ym6SyIIycq

[Association for Asian Studies @AASAsianStudies]

Call for applications: Global Asias Cyber Chat on "Building Global Asias in Liberal Arts Colleges." Cyber Chat will take place on February 27, 2026; applications are due by February 20.

https://t.co/84Mx1e6Nmh

[Dr Cora Lingling Xu许玲玲博士 @CoraLinglingXu]

I am really touched and encouraged by Dr Linyao Wang's (University of Reading) in-depth and apt review of 'The Time Inheritors', which has been published at International Studies in Sociology of Education.
https://t.co/CQjI6ODYaf

[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

[Digital Journalism @djeditorialteam]

ONLINE FIRST & OPEN ACCESS! This article by @vildess draws on interviews with twenty Norwegian #media executives to explore strategies for reaching young #audiences, identifying three common strategies for engaging #youth. https://t.co/tNnaIfgM2K

[David J. Gunkel @David_Gunkel]

Today is (the long awaited) publication release date for "Robophilosophy" @mitpress My contribution (chapter one) is titled "The Machine Question: Rethinking Moral Philosophy in the Face of Others." The book will eventually be available #OpenAccess
https://t.co/eVsHI7KmGJ

[BBK Journalism @BBKBAJM]

AI generation of rage bait: Implications for digital harms. https://t.co/Prl0LKbqdv

[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

[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

[Social Media+Society @SocialMedia_Soc]

(New) Manuscript Monday! Check out the latest on our feed📲Digitally Constructing Marginalized Neurodivergence: Understanding South Asian Diasporic Autism and ADHD Communities on TikTok - Meryl Alper, Sadia Ehsan Cheema, Zubin DeVitre, Snehaa Ram, 2025 https://t.co/ljD2ccSPlk

[Michelle Ho (she/her) @michellehsho.bsky.social @michellehsho]

📢 Webinar launch for #EmergentGenders
@DukePress 🏳️‍⚧️ happening next year hosted by Fabio Gygi @SOAS #Japan Research Centre

📅 January 14 (Wed)
⏰ 11am GMT (London time)
📍 Zoom & Open to all
🔗 https://t.co/mrMgHCBV3k (sign up!)

@CNMnus

[BBK Journalism @BBKBAJM]

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