Guobin Yang
@guobin-yang.bsky.social
Sociology & communication prof at Penn researching: Internet, activism, digital media & technology, narrative, emotion, sinology. All views my own. Website: https://www.asc.upenn.edu/people/faculty/guobin-yang-phd
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In this piece on "genre borrowing" I study why netizens use Sima Qian's "arrayed biography" (列传) form to write biographies of Li Wenliang & how the narrative devices of this ancient genre align with the logic of digital culture. Open access! @asc.upenn.edu journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Our position statement rejecting the use of GenAI for reflexive qualitative research can be found here
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<span>We reject the use of generative artificial intelligence for reflexive qualitative research</span>
We write as 416 experienced qualitative researchers from 38 countries, to reject the use of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) applications for Big Q Qu
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November 4, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Our position statement rejecting the use of GenAI for reflexive qualitative research can be found here
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Getting up early to catch the AI bird in Hong Kong. Conference info here: eduhknmsmcon.com
November 2, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Getting up early to catch the AI bird in Hong Kong. Conference info here: eduhknmsmcon.com
First day of #aoir2025! Glad to see non-English presentations (with English translation) and local histories on a panel about AI infrastructures
October 15, 2025 at 9:08 PM
First day of #aoir2025! Glad to see non-English presentations (with English translation) and local histories on a panel about AI infrastructures
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Excited to be hosting this symposium next April! Looking forward to a vibrant discourse on affect and activism 😎
🌟 Call for Abstracts: 2026 CDCS Symposium 🌟
The Center for Digital Culture and Society is now accepting abstract submissions for our upcoming symposium.
📝 Deadline: December 1, 2025
📧 Submit to: [email protected]
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The Center for Digital Culture and Society is now accepting abstract submissions for our upcoming symposium.
📝 Deadline: December 1, 2025
📧 Submit to: [email protected]
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Call for Abstracts: 2026 CDCS Symposium
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October 11, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Excited to be hosting this symposium next April! Looking forward to a vibrant discourse on affect and activism 😎
In this piece on "genre borrowing" I study why netizens use Sima Qian's "arrayed biography" (列传) form to write biographies of Li Wenliang & how the narrative devices of this ancient genre align with the logic of digital culture. Open access! @asc.upenn.edu journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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October 7, 2025 at 12:37 PM
In this piece on "genre borrowing" I study why netizens use Sima Qian's "arrayed biography" (列传) form to write biographies of Li Wenliang & how the narrative devices of this ancient genre align with the logic of digital culture. Open access! @asc.upenn.edu journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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#AoIR2025 is next week! Easiest programme to read on a mobile is on the Sched app: aoir2025ruptures.sched.com
October 7, 2025 at 12:21 AM
#AoIR2025 is next week! Easiest programme to read on a mobile is on the Sched app: aoir2025ruptures.sched.com
Thank you Jeff for giving a fabulous talk! We were honored to host you!
Thanks for hosting me, all at CSCC, great questions and all around nice to be back speaking at Penn and seeing people there after a long time
October 6, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Thank you Jeff for giving a fabulous talk! We were honored to host you!
Folks in Philly, don't miss @jwassers.bsky.social 's talk today at the Center for the Study of Contemporary China @sas.upenn.edu @upenn.edu
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From Beijing to Bangkok and Back Again: Songs and Slogans from the Time of Tiananmen to the Era of the Milk Tea Alliance and White Paper Protests | Center for the Study of Contemporary China
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October 2, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Folks in Philly, don't miss @jwassers.bsky.social 's talk today at the Center for the Study of Contemporary China @sas.upenn.edu @upenn.edu
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Excited to kick off my postdoc @cdcspenn.bsky.social @asc.upenn.edu with a colloquium on Monday, September 29th ✨
I’ll be sharing from my dissertation-to-book project titled, "Creator Logic-in-Practice: Political Content Creators and the Negotiation of Influence in the Post-Networked Era."
I’ll be sharing from my dissertation-to-book project titled, "Creator Logic-in-Practice: Political Content Creators and the Negotiation of Influence in the Post-Networked Era."
CDCS Colloquium: Yena Lee
Creator Logic-in-Practice: Political Content Creators and the Negotiation of Influence in the Post-Networked Era
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September 23, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Excited to kick off my postdoc @cdcspenn.bsky.social @asc.upenn.edu with a colloquium on Monday, September 29th ✨
I’ll be sharing from my dissertation-to-book project titled, "Creator Logic-in-Practice: Political Content Creators and the Negotiation of Influence in the Post-Networked Era."
I’ll be sharing from my dissertation-to-book project titled, "Creator Logic-in-Practice: Political Content Creators and the Negotiation of Influence in the Post-Networked Era."
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I have a chapter on Japan's TVer in this new volume on East Asian platforms and media, edited by Dal Yong Jin and Kyong Yoon. Lots of great work here by @guobin-yang.bsky.social, @hlynn5.bsky.social, @otomedoctor.bsky.social, and others.
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East Asian Media Culture in the Age of Digital Platforms | Narratives,
Focusing on the convergence of popular culture and digital platforms in the East Asian context, this book delves into the increasing role of East Asia, not only
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September 17, 2025 at 7:39 PM
I have a chapter on Japan's TVer in this new volume on East Asian platforms and media, edited by Dal Yong Jin and Kyong Yoon. Lots of great work here by @guobin-yang.bsky.social, @hlynn5.bsky.social, @otomedoctor.bsky.social, and others.
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September 5, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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“Good Vibes Only? How Affects and Emotions Are Mediated for Justice in Digital Culture”
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September 5, 2025 at 1:16 PM
“Good Vibes Only? How Affects and Emotions Are Mediated for Justice in Digital Culture”
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Paper alert: in one or our latest apers, #AndrewWirzburger writes about #reviewbombing on the game #platform #Steam, arguing that review bombing serves as a political tool while being problematized by Steam as social misconduct. Read more at journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
May 20, 2025 at 12:06 PM
Paper alert: in one or our latest apers, #AndrewWirzburger writes about #reviewbombing on the game #platform #Steam, arguing that review bombing serves as a political tool while being problematized by Steam as social misconduct. Read more at journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
Congratulations to Stephen Hartnett on the publication of his new book! msupress.org/978161186543...
August 27, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Congratulations to Stephen Hartnett on the publication of his new book! msupress.org/978161186543...
CSCC @upenn.edu @sas.upenn.edu has a fantastic lineup of speakers for the fall semester, starting next week with Prof @yanlong-soc.bsky.social 's talk on her award-winning new book!
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Authoritarian Absorption: The Transnational Remaking of Infectious Disease Politics in China | Center for the Study of Contemporary China
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August 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
CSCC @upenn.edu @sas.upenn.edu has a fantastic lineup of speakers for the fall semester, starting next week with Prof @yanlong-soc.bsky.social 's talk on her award-winning new book!
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American journalism has serious problems. But how did we get here? @bzelizer.bsky.social’s new book 📚 How the Cold War Broke the News📚 uncovers the surprising roots of journalism’s decline and offers a plan to make it better. Pre-order now: bit.ly/4mqcr68
August 20, 2025 at 5:29 PM
American journalism has serious problems. But how did we get here? @bzelizer.bsky.social’s new book 📚 How the Cold War Broke the News📚 uncovers the surprising roots of journalism’s decline and offers a plan to make it better. Pre-order now: bit.ly/4mqcr68
Here is my latest blog update
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I enjoy contributing chapters to edited volumes.
sociology, China, communication studies, journalism, digital activism, digital culture, technology, media studies
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August 16, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Here is my latest blog update
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Updates about some recent publications guobin-yang.blogspot.com/2025/07/july...
July 2025 updates
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July 24, 2025 at 12:53 PM
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June 13, 2025 at 3:24 PM
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"Every chapter is a gem"!
Lovely review by @guobin-yang.bsky.social of How Maoism was Made. "Weiner’s chapter... reveals the [early Maoist] state’s ethnopolitical anxieties and efforts to create ethnic minority categories."
@aaronwmoore.bsky.social
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Lovely review by @guobin-yang.bsky.social of How Maoism was Made. "Weiner’s chapter... reveals the [early Maoist] state’s ethnopolitical anxieties and efforts to create ethnic minority categories."
@aaronwmoore.bsky.social
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Two Maoisms | Los Angeles Review of Books
Guobin Yang dives into two new books on Mao-era China.
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June 11, 2025 at 2:21 PM
"Every chapter is a gem"!
Lovely review by @guobin-yang.bsky.social of How Maoism was Made. "Weiner’s chapter... reveals the [early Maoist] state’s ethnopolitical anxieties and efforts to create ethnic minority categories."
@aaronwmoore.bsky.social
lareviewofbooks.org/article/two-...
Lovely review by @guobin-yang.bsky.social of How Maoism was Made. "Weiner’s chapter... reveals the [early Maoist] state’s ethnopolitical anxieties and efforts to create ethnic minority categories."
@aaronwmoore.bsky.social
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In this review of two new books, I link to earlier report on Mao by @liyuan6.bsky.social & Xi by @eosnos.bsky.social
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Two Maoisms | Los Angeles Review of Books
Guobin Yang dives into two new books on Mao-era China.
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June 7, 2025 at 1:29 PM
In this review of two new books, I link to earlier report on Mao by @liyuan6.bsky.social & Xi by @eosnos.bsky.social
lareviewofbooks.org/article/two-... @lareviewofbooks.bsky.social @asc.upenn.edu @jwassers.bsky.social
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There is some talk about the revival of blogging. For starters, I've updated my Blogger site after almost three years! guobin-yang.blogspot.com
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sociology, China, communication studies, journalism, digital activism, digital culture, technology, media studies
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May 29, 2025 at 3:16 PM
There is some talk about the revival of blogging. For starters, I've updated my Blogger site after almost three years! guobin-yang.blogspot.com
Amazing discovery! Thanks to a piece (www.hssonline.cn/homeNav?site...) I wrote for the Chinese journal Foreign Literature, I came upon a new publishing platform "HSS Online" launched by Foreign Language & Teaching Press in Beijing. It features instant AI translation of Chinese texts into English!
I found a great article to share with you.
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May 28, 2025 at 2:25 PM
Amazing discovery! Thanks to a piece (www.hssonline.cn/homeNav?site...) I wrote for the Chinese journal Foreign Literature, I came upon a new publishing platform "HSS Online" launched by Foreign Language & Teaching Press in Beijing. It features instant AI translation of Chinese texts into English!
Exciting to have 2 interviews out this month with 2 great journals: one on Chinese internet culture in Spanish
www.revistadelauniversidad.mx/articles/923...
and the other on Communication as Translation in Chinese: cjjc.ruc.edu.cn/CN/Y2025/V47... @asc.upenn.edu @revistaunam.bsky.social
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and the other on Communication as Translation in Chinese: cjjc.ruc.edu.cn/CN/Y2025/V47... @asc.upenn.edu @revistaunam.bsky.social
El internet y las redes sociales en China | Sandra Barba, Guobin Yang
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May 27, 2025 at 7:21 AM
Exciting to have 2 interviews out this month with 2 great journals: one on Chinese internet culture in Spanish
www.revistadelauniversidad.mx/articles/923...
and the other on Communication as Translation in Chinese: cjjc.ruc.edu.cn/CN/Y2025/V47... @asc.upenn.edu @revistaunam.bsky.social
www.revistadelauniversidad.mx/articles/923...
and the other on Communication as Translation in Chinese: cjjc.ruc.edu.cn/CN/Y2025/V47... @asc.upenn.edu @revistaunam.bsky.social