Chuncheng Liu
@cliu.bsky.social
Sociologist working on STS, data, and the state. Assistant Professor of Communication and Sociology at Northeastern University. chunchengliu.com
Bad bad very bad.
A ‘Steep Decline’ in Students’ Academic Preparation at UC-San Diego Struck a Nerve www.chronicle.com/article/peop...
A ‘Steep Decline’ in Students’ Academic Preparation at UC-San Diego Struck a Nerve www.chronicle.com/article/peop...
November 14, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Bad bad very bad.
A ‘Steep Decline’ in Students’ Academic Preparation at UC-San Diego Struck a Nerve www.chronicle.com/article/peop...
A ‘Steep Decline’ in Students’ Academic Preparation at UC-San Diego Struck a Nerve www.chronicle.com/article/peop...
Working in progress...
October 6, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Working in progress...
I’m thrilled to share that I’ve signed a book contract with University of California Press for my ethnography of a social credit system in China. Stay tuned!
September 10, 2025 at 3:17 PM
I’m thrilled to share that I’ve signed a book contract with University of California Press for my ethnography of a social credit system in China. Stay tuned!
I’m heading to Chicago for the ASA conference tomorrow. Hope to see you at our panel, “The Culture and Politics of Emerging Technology,” on August 10 at 10:00 a.m!
August 7, 2025 at 8:11 PM
I’m heading to Chicago for the ASA conference tomorrow. Hope to see you at our panel, “The Culture and Politics of Emerging Technology,” on August 10 at 10:00 a.m!
Looking forward to talking about political data work and the politics of data-driven system design in Chinese government at Centre for Digital Governance of Hertie School.
Register here: www.hertie-school.org/en/digitalgo...
Register here: www.hertie-school.org/en/digitalgo...
March 25, 2025 at 1:44 PM
Looking forward to talking about political data work and the politics of data-driven system design in Chinese government at Centre for Digital Governance of Hertie School.
Register here: www.hertie-school.org/en/digitalgo...
Register here: www.hertie-school.org/en/digitalgo...
Join our AAS panel "Sociotechnical Translations: Instruments and Imaginaries in China’s Techno-state Capitalism" to discuss the politics of government data-driven systems, ride-sharing industry, and social credit system in China! (March 15 10:30 - 12:00)
March 11, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Join our AAS panel "Sociotechnical Translations: Instruments and Imaginaries in China’s Techno-state Capitalism" to discuss the politics of government data-driven systems, ride-sharing industry, and social credit system in China! (March 15 10:30 - 12:00)
Looking forward to sharing a new working paper at the Canada Research Chair in Digital Regulation at Work and Life at the Université du Québec à Montréal on Jan 16. We adopted a relational approach to evaluate people's trust in AI evaluation based on a national survey in China.
December 20, 2024 at 1:55 PM
Looking forward to sharing a new working paper at the Canada Research Chair in Digital Regulation at Work and Life at the Université du Québec à Montréal on Jan 16. We adopted a relational approach to evaluate people's trust in AI evaluation based on a national survey in China.
Northeastern Global Asian Studies Program announces TWO inaugural two-year postdoctoral fellowships—one in Asian American Studies, one in Asian Studies. More information and link to application below. northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/careers/job/...
December 4, 2024 at 4:39 PM
Northeastern Global Asian Studies Program announces TWO inaugural two-year postdoctoral fellowships—one in Asian American Studies, one in Asian Studies. More information and link to application below. northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/careers/job/...
First of all: No I didn't cite an article published on Applied Organometallic Chemistry. Second: what the hell is this new academic-influencer-neoliberal mode of journal promotion???
December 4, 2024 at 2:59 PM
First of all: No I didn't cite an article published on Applied Organometallic Chemistry. Second: what the hell is this new academic-influencer-neoliberal mode of journal promotion???
Looking forward to the conversation about organizations and AI ethics at the Summit on Open Problems in AI this week in Boston. www.algopreneurship.ai
December 3, 2024 at 9:46 PM
Looking forward to the conversation about organizations and AI ethics at the Summit on Open Problems in AI this week in Boston. www.algopreneurship.ai
Nice try, google, but you got the pic wrong.
November 27, 2024 at 9:04 PM
Nice try, google, but you got the pic wrong.
OK this is funny www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
November 11, 2024 at 11:59 PM
OK this is funny www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Do I really need to go back to work?
May 15, 2024 at 1:43 PM
Do I really need to go back to work?
Me, looking at a D&I form that I need to fill, thinking about all these stressful email exchanges I had to make in the past year just to be able to stay here.
April 22, 2024 at 8:18 PM
Me, looking at a D&I form that I need to fill, thinking about all these stressful email exchanges I had to make in the past year just to be able to stay here.
Happy publication day! We reconstructed the metric of a social credit system to examine its logic and unequal focus on social groups, showing the codified biases and clumsiness that impairs the already-plausible promise of governing with numbers. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
April 16, 2024 at 3:44 PM
Happy publication day! We reconstructed the metric of a social credit system to examine its logic and unequal focus on social groups, showing the codified biases and clumsiness that impairs the already-plausible promise of governing with numbers. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Every time I worried that I am not writing fast enough so people would already been debunked about Chinese social credit system and nobody would care about my work when it is out, this kind of tweet emerged. I feel very comfortable keep procrastinating now.
April 16, 2024 at 12:56 PM
Every time I worried that I am not writing fast enough so people would already been debunked about Chinese social credit system and nobody would care about my work when it is out, this kind of tweet emerged. I feel very comfortable keep procrastinating now.
This is a requirement for a tenure track assistant professor application (in sociology)? Gosh...
March 13, 2024 at 2:14 PM
This is a requirement for a tenure track assistant professor application (in sociology)? Gosh...
Elsevier is really a cancer in academia 🙄
February 7, 2024 at 3:35 PM
Elsevier is really a cancer in academia 🙄
Happy to share a book chapter published in The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Machine Learning, where I discuss the sociotechnical condition of machine learning deployment in Chinese social credit systems.
doi.org/10.1093/oxfo...
doi.org/10.1093/oxfo...
November 25, 2023 at 3:13 PM
Happy to share a book chapter published in The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Machine Learning, where I discuss the sociotechnical condition of machine learning deployment in Chinese social credit systems.
doi.org/10.1093/oxfo...
doi.org/10.1093/oxfo...
Very excited about @4sweb.bsky.social this week! Wanna binge watch scholars talk about the politics of data?
@zephoria.bsky.social, Jayshree Sarathy, and I organized three panels on this topic, all happening on Thursday afternoon. Have a visit and be part of the conversation!
@zephoria.bsky.social, Jayshree Sarathy, and I organized three panels on this topic, all happening on Thursday afternoon. Have a visit and be part of the conversation!
November 6, 2023 at 6:39 PM
Very excited about @4sweb.bsky.social this week! Wanna binge watch scholars talk about the politics of data?
@zephoria.bsky.social, Jayshree Sarathy, and I organized three panels on this topic, all happening on Thursday afternoon. Have a visit and be part of the conversation!
@zephoria.bsky.social, Jayshree Sarathy, and I organized three panels on this topic, all happening on Thursday afternoon. Have a visit and be part of the conversation!
I know tenured professors in elitist universities living in their own universe but still this reasoning is crazy.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2023...
www.thecrimson.com/article/2023...
October 18, 2023 at 9:33 PM
I know tenured professors in elitist universities living in their own universe but still this reasoning is crazy.
www.thecrimson.com/article/2023...
www.thecrimson.com/article/2023...
Today I visited a gallery and saw the cover of Foucault: A Very Short Introduction.
September 6, 2023 at 9:06 PM
Today I visited a gallery and saw the cover of Foucault: A Very Short Introduction.