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Liang Ge is a Lecturer of Digital Sociology in University College London, Social Research Institute, where Liang is a member of the Thomas Coram Research Unit. Liang's work lies in the intersection of cultural sociology, digital media and technologies, digital methods, gender, sexuality, youth and East and Southeast Asian popular cultures and creative industries. Liang's research seeks to elucidate how digital media and technologies function as terrains of struggle, and to explore how queerness and feminism in digital cultures act as the very creative drive that generates transgressive and transformative potentials.
Prior to joining TCRU, Liang taught and researched at King’s College London and City, University of London. Liang is the founder and Co-Chair of the Transcultural Digital Intimacies Research Network (TransDI). Their current research project is Posthuman Digital Intimacy: Affects, Women and Digital Technologies, which explores the affective experiences of women who play women-oriented video games and intensively use AI-generated social robots in East and Southeast Asia and examine the multi-facets of such more-than-human digital intimacies with virtual characters.
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Their recent publications can be found in European Journal of Cultural Studies, Media, Culture & Society, International Journal of Cultural Studies, Feminist Theories, Continuum, and Asian Studies Review, among others.
Recent
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Plz Check My New Publication here:
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​Ge, L. (2025). The Haitang Incident 2024 and the ugliness of danmei culture/industry. European Journal of Cultural Studies, Online First https://doi.org/10.1177/13675494251326775
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Yang, Z., Liu, L. and Ge, L. (2025) ‘Claiming queerness on Weibo: Public interaction discourse towards Chinese queer women athletes and their chugui’, Women’s Studies International Forum, 110, p. 103082. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wsif.2025.103082.
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Ge, L. (2024). Ambivalent affective labor: The datafication of qing and danmei writers in the cultural industry. European Journal of Cultural Studies, Online First. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13675494241270468

News and Activities
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3 April 2025: Speaker, Fandom and Home Symposium, Cardiff University
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13-17 July 2025: Presenter, International Association for Media and Communication Research, Singapore
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23-25 July 2025: Speaker, Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Society, Walailak, Thailand
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Recent Past​​
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13 Mar 2025: Presenter, AAS Annual Conference, Columbus, OH
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28 Jan 2025: Speaker, Social Research Institute, University College London: Chinese Young Women as Ambivalent Desiring Subjects
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24 Jan 2025: Chair, Book Launch: Queer Literature in the Sinosphere.
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25 Dec 2024: Invited Lecture: Digital Labor in Transmedia Boys' Love Industries, at Shanghai Jiaotong University
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30 Oct 2024: AoIR Annual Conference, Sheffield University
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20 Sep 2024: Invited Lecture: Digital Ethnography and Youth Culture, at Harbin Institute of Technology (Shenzhen)
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6 Sep 2024: Presentation: MeCCSA 2024, Manchester Metropolitan University
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29 Aug 2024: Online Roundtable Organisation: ThreeGen Danmei Researchers: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly of Transmedia Danmei Culture
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14 Aug 2024: Queer Asia Network, Somerset House
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10 Jul 2024: Talk, Centre for Cultural and Media Policy Studies, University of Warwick
