Chuncheng Liu
@cliu.bsky.social
Sociologist working on STS, data, and the state. Assistant Professor of Communication and Sociology at Northeastern University. chunchengliu.com
Northeastern University is hiring an Assistant Professor in AI Policy and Media. The tenure home would be either Communication Studies or Journalism, with a joint appointment with the policy school. Please apply and be my colleague :)
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Assistant Professor in AI Policy and Media
About the Opportunity About the Opportunity The College of Arts, Media and Design (CAMD) at Northeastern University invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in AI Policy and Media, ...
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November 24, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Northeastern University is hiring an Assistant Professor in AI Policy and Media. The tenure home would be either Communication Studies or Journalism, with a joint appointment with the policy school. Please apply and be my colleague :)
northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/careers/job/...
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Always love Critics at Large but this episode is particularly superb. LOVE the ending discussion on imagination of the future.
In "Pluribus," Utopia Is...!l It's Cracked Up to Be
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In "Pluribus," Utopia Is...!l It's Cracked Up to Be
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November 20, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Always love Critics at Large but this episode is particularly superb. LOVE the ending discussion on imagination of the future.
In "Pluribus," Utopia Is...!l It's Cracked Up to Be
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In "Pluribus," Utopia Is...!l It's Cracked Up to Be
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Eww, so many layers of eww
When former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers was pursuing a romantic relationship with a woman he described as a mentee, he turned to a longtime associate for guidance: Jeffrey E. Epstein.
Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.
Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.
As Summers Sought Clandestine Relationship With Woman He Called a Mentee, Epstein Was His ‘Wing Man’ | News | The Harvard Crimson
When former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers was pursuing a romantic relationship with a woman he described as a mentee, he turned to a longtime associate for guidance: convicted sex offender…
www.thecrimson.com
November 17, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Eww, so many layers of eww
Is Pluribus an AI ethics show…?
November 15, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Is Pluribus an AI ethics show…?
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...
I will workshop my book project - an ethnography of a social credit system in China - at Harvard History, Culture, and Society Workshop 12:00 - 1:30 pm next Friday (11/21) at William James Hall 1550. Join me if you are around. Lunch will be provided!
Chuncheng Liu (Northeastern University) | Harvard History, Culture, and Society Workshop
history-culture-society-workshop.sociology.fas.harvard.edu
November 12, 2025 at 8:08 PM
I will workshop my book project - an ethnography of a social credit system in China - at Harvard History, Culture, and Society Workshop 12:00 - 1:30 pm next Friday (11/21) at William James Hall 1550. Join me if you are around. Lunch will be provided!
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Congratulations to the winner of 2025 @saw-anthroofwork.bsky.social Book Prize
Hector Beltran's
@teflonbeltran.bsky.social
Code Work: Hacking Across US-Mexico Techno Borderlands!
@princetonupress.bsky.social press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
Hector Beltran's
@teflonbeltran.bsky.social
Code Work: Hacking Across US-Mexico Techno Borderlands!
@princetonupress.bsky.social press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
Code Work
How Mexican and Latinx hackers apply concepts from coding to their lived experiences
press.princeton.edu
October 27, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Congratulations to the winner of 2025 @saw-anthroofwork.bsky.social Book Prize
Hector Beltran's
@teflonbeltran.bsky.social
Code Work: Hacking Across US-Mexico Techno Borderlands!
@princetonupress.bsky.social press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
Hector Beltran's
@teflonbeltran.bsky.social
Code Work: Hacking Across US-Mexico Techno Borderlands!
@princetonupress.bsky.social press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
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🚨 New in Big Data & Society 🚨
"China as an analytical lens for AI and society" by Chuncheng Liu & Zhifan Luo doi.org/10.1177/2053...
Offers a four-part framework using “China” to rethink AI, political economy, and global entanglements in critical AI studies.
"China as an analytical lens for AI and society" by Chuncheng Liu & Zhifan Luo doi.org/10.1177/2053...
Offers a four-part framework using “China” to rethink AI, political economy, and global entanglements in critical AI studies.
October 22, 2025 at 7:04 PM
🚨 New in Big Data & Society 🚨
"China as an analytical lens for AI and society" by Chuncheng Liu & Zhifan Luo doi.org/10.1177/2053...
Offers a four-part framework using “China” to rethink AI, political economy, and global entanglements in critical AI studies.
"China as an analytical lens for AI and society" by Chuncheng Liu & Zhifan Luo doi.org/10.1177/2053...
Offers a four-part framework using “China” to rethink AI, political economy, and global entanglements in critical AI studies.
Happy to share our commentary is published on Big Data & Society today! Instead of seeing China as AI’s dystopian specter, what if we use it as a generative lens to rethink global AI?
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
October 17, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Happy to share our commentary is published on Big Data & Society today! Instead of seeing China as AI’s dystopian specter, what if we use it as a generative lens to rethink global AI?
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Teaching technology and society this semester. I found it’s interesting that their default mode is “tech is bad.” Other than helping them to see how the system works beyond the statement, I need to do a lot more to help them to see the early excitement and promises of the Internet!
October 15, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Teaching technology and society this semester. I found it’s interesting that their default mode is “tech is bad.” Other than helping them to see how the system works beyond the statement, I need to do a lot more to help them to see the early excitement and promises of the Internet!
am i going to introduce students what neoliberalism is in one slide? challenge accepted.
October 6, 2025 at 2:37 PM
am i going to introduce students what neoliberalism is in one slide? challenge accepted.
I want to apologize to all the professors i secretly cursed for not responding to my emails and to apologize to everyone whose emails i'm not responding to but jesus why are there so many emails and people and things and we're in the middle of so many layers of crisis
October 3, 2025 at 6:54 PM
I want to apologize to all the professors i secretly cursed for not responding to my emails and to apologize to everyone whose emails i'm not responding to but jesus why are there so many emails and people and things and we're in the middle of so many layers of crisis
I will talk about my book project on a Chinese social credit system tomorrow noon in New Haven. Join me if you are around (I think they provide free lunch...)!
Tomorrow! Join us for Prof. @cliu.bsky.social's (@northeasternu.bsky.social) talk about:
"Metricocracy: The Data and Symbolic Politics of a Chinese Social Credit System"
📅 Thu., Oct. 2, 2025
⏰ 12:00-1:30 PM
📍Baker Hall 405
DM for Zoom details (ISP fellows only)
"Metricocracy: The Data and Symbolic Politics of a Chinese Social Credit System"
📅 Thu., Oct. 2, 2025
⏰ 12:00-1:30 PM
📍Baker Hall 405
DM for Zoom details (ISP fellows only)
October 1, 2025 at 5:48 PM
I will talk about my book project on a Chinese social credit system tomorrow noon in New Haven. Join me if you are around (I think they provide free lunch...)!
The printed version is out today! Here we discussed how social credit system, an Orwellian Chinese Other, becomes a stand-in for Western anxieties about authoritarianism, technology goes wrong, quantification of everyday life, and shifting global power.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
October 1, 2025 at 5:24 PM
The printed version is out today! Here we discussed how social credit system, an Orwellian Chinese Other, becomes a stand-in for Western anxieties about authoritarianism, technology goes wrong, quantification of everyday life, and shifting global power.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
I'm not an anthropologist but can we stop calling a two-week field visit ethnography
October 1, 2025 at 12:12 PM
I'm not an anthropologist but can we stop calling a two-week field visit ethnography
Wow undergrads really love Winner’s paper and hate SCOT…
September 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Wow undergrads really love Winner’s paper and hate SCOT…
I spent a year in several Chinese government bureaucracies studying bureaucratic politics, but I never felt as though I were living in a Kafkaesque world as much as I have during just three months at my university.
September 25, 2025 at 1:04 PM
I spent a year in several Chinese government bureaucracies studying bureaucratic politics, but I never felt as though I were living in a Kafkaesque world as much as I have during just three months at my university.
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It's here! @cliu.bsky.social and I found Techno-orientalism in the public media debate. Turns out the imaginary Chinese Social Credit System is useful for U.S. audiences to come to terms with domestic fears of tech development, state surveillance, and China's rise
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Techno-Orientalism in the U.S. Media: The Case of "China's Social Credit System"
The portrayal of China's Social Credit System (SCS) as an Orwellian scoring scheme through which the Communist Party controls citizens' every step proliferates
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September 24, 2025 at 12:42 PM
It's here! @cliu.bsky.social and I found Techno-orientalism in the public media debate. Turns out the imaginary Chinese Social Credit System is useful for U.S. audiences to come to terms with domestic fears of tech development, state surveillance, and China's rise
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Reading this unfortunately timely paper right now. Every sentence makes me want to cry.
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
Impacts of Immigration Policies on Families | Annual Reviews
US immigration policies have profound impacts on immigrant families. In a robust field of study across disciplines, scholars have documented how the multi-layered, complex immigration regime opens and...
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September 20, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Reading this unfortunately timely paper right now. Every sentence makes me want to cry.
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
How should we think about China in today’s debates on AI and society, and how might China serve as a productive analytical lens? In this commentary, @zhifan-luo.bsky.social and I offer a typology to see China as mirror, prototype, counterpoint, and global actor.
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
China as an Analytical Lens for AI and Society
How can "China" serve as a productive analytical tool for understanding the relationship between artificial intelligence's and society? This commentar
papers.ssrn.com
September 17, 2025 at 6:22 PM
How should we think about China in today’s debates on AI and society, and how might China serve as a productive analytical lens? In this commentary, @zhifan-luo.bsky.social and I offer a typology to see China as mirror, prototype, counterpoint, and global actor.
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Next week, @fuzheng.bsky.social and I will workshop our paper on public perception of AI evaluation in China based on a national survey. If you are at NYC - come and say hi!
🗞️ NYC-area researchers, come join us for the TASKS (Theory and Analysis in Science, Knowledge, and Society) Workshop this Fall. Papers on AI governance, self-tracking devices, air pollution and climate change, and Chinese investment capital in the US.
🔗 More info: tasks.commons.gc.cuny.edu
🔗 More info: tasks.commons.gc.cuny.edu
September 12, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Next week, @fuzheng.bsky.social and I will workshop our paper on public perception of AI evaluation in China based on a national survey. If you are at NYC - come and say hi!
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!
This is horrible, horrible, horrible.
Update on the Texas A&M professor / cell phone video situation: the professor has been fired by the A&M president
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September 10, 2025 at 2:22 AM
This is horrible, horrible, horrible.
Weird way to bond with new colleagues: getting complaints about Microsoft products. (But I really really don’t know who to contact to fix Teams or Bookings—sorry!)
September 9, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Weird way to bond with new colleagues: getting complaints about Microsoft products. (But I really really don’t know who to contact to fix Teams or Bookings—sorry!)
Reposted by Chuncheng Liu
Texas A&M’s President just removed a dean and department head from their positions after they supported a professor whose lesson on gender was challenged by a student. www.kbtx.com/2025/09/09/a...
A&M Dean removed following student complaints over curriculum
The Department of Justice has also acknowledged the situation and said it would be investigating.
www.kbtx.com
September 9, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Texas A&M’s President just removed a dean and department head from their positions after they supported a professor whose lesson on gender was challenged by a student. www.kbtx.com/2025/09/09/a...