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CDCS: Center on Digital Culture and Society @cdcspenn.bsky.social · Sep 5

🌟 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]

More information: www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/...

Call for Abstracts: 2026 CDCS Symposium

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Guobin Yang @guobin-yang.bsky.social · May 29

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

Guobin Yang's Blog

sociology, China, communication studies, journalism, digital activism, digital culture, technology, media studies

guobin-yang.blogspot.com

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Revista de la Universidad @revistaunam.bsky.social · May 8

Guobin Yang, especialista en cultura digital, nos explica el panorama del internet en China: desde su origen en los años 90 hasta la actualidad, ¿en qué consiste la plataformización y el activismo en línea?

www.revistadelauniversidad.mx/articles/923...

El internet y las redes sociales en China | Sandra Barba, Guobin Yang

www.revistadelauniversidad.mx

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Guobin Yang @guobin-yang.bsky.social · May 2

This beautiful magazine published an interview with me discussing the internet and social media in China. The best part is that it's in Spanish, though I wish it had an English edition as well:
www.revistadelauniversidad.mx/articles/923... @asc.upenn.edu @cdcspenn.bsky.social

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Jess Maddox @jessmaddox.bsky.social · Apr 25

I love how much focus on the autoethnographic is present today at @cdcspenn.bsky.social's symposium! We as scholars need to remember our own relationship to leisure and play as we navigate complicated and tension-filled online spaces of leisure and play.

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Altman Peng @altmanpeng.bsky.social · Apr 29

#NewTalkAlert I'm thrilled to share that Prof @guobin-yang.bsky.social will be visiting Warwick AL to give a talk on #SocialMedia and #SocialRhythm. Talk will be hybrid. Please join us in person (room A0.23) or via MS Teams. Scan QR code for more. #LanguageCultureMatters

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CDCS: Center on Digital Culture and Society @cdcspenn.bsky.social · Mar 3

Here is the program of our 4/25 Symposium on Reframing Leisure, Humor, and Play in Global Digital Culture www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/.... @annenbergcargc.bsky.social

CDCS Symposium: Reframing Leisure, Humor, and Play in Global Digital Culture

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CDCS: Center on Digital Culture and Society @cdcspenn.bsky.social · Apr 18

One week to go!

CDCS: Center on Digital Culture and Society @cdcspenn.bsky.social · Mar 31

Join us at the CDCS Colloquium for Professor Carolyn Biltoft's presentation on "Henri Bergson’s Turing Test for Humans." 🗓️ April 7, 12:15-1:30pm, 📍 Annenberg School, Room 300

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CDCS: Center on Digital Culture and Society @cdcspenn.bsky.social · Mar 24

Monday, 03/31 at 12:15pm, join us at the CDCS Colloquium for Professor Devon Powers' presentation on "What is a Trend? Towards a Keyword for Media and Communication." Discover the significance of trends in our media, cultural, and information environment. 📍 367 McNeil Building
@asc.upenn.edu

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CDCS: Center on Digital Culture and Society @cdcspenn.bsky.social · Mar 24

Monday, 03/31 at 12:15pm, join us at the CDCS Colloquium for Professor Devon Powers' presentation on "What is a Trend? Towards a Keyword for Media and Communication." Discover the significance of trends in our media, cultural, and information environment. 📍 367 McNeil Building
@asc.upenn.edu

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CDCS: Center on Digital Culture and Society @cdcspenn.bsky.social · Mar 12

This Satur 4pm at #aas2025, CDCS doctoral fellow Yingchuan Qu will be presenting her paper "Fishing for Poetry in the Digital Debris: Algorithmic Zombies and the Echoes of a Broken Language" on the panel "Apps, AI, and Bots: A New Era in Digital Technology." @asc.upenn.edu

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Guobin Yang @guobin-yang.bsky.social · Mar 12

On way to #aas2025, and a couple of talks I'll be giving before and after. Link to next week's UBC event here:
greencollege.ubc.ca/civicrm/even... @cdcspenn.bsky.social @asc.upenn.edu

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CDCS: Center on Digital Culture and Society @cdcspenn.bsky.social · Mar 3

Here is the program of our 4/25 Symposium on Reframing Leisure, Humor, and Play in Global Digital Culture www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/.... @annenbergcargc.bsky.social

CDCS Symposium: Reframing Leisure, Humor, and Play in Global Digital Culture

www.asc.upenn.edu

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Guobin Yang @guobin-yang.bsky.social · Feb 11

Applications for our @cdcspenn.bsky.social postdoctoral fellowship are due on Valentine’s Day, so no one will miss it for the love of it! www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/...

Center on Digital Culture and Society Call for Applications - Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2025-2026

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CDCS: Center on Digital Culture and Society @cdcspenn.bsky.social · Feb 5

Applications due in 10 days! www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/...

Center on Digital Culture and Society Call for Applications - Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2025-2026

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CDCS: Center on Digital Culture and Society @cdcspenn.bsky.social · Jan 10

We are inviting postdoctoral fellowship applications. Please apply by Feb 14 www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/...

Center on Digital Culture and Society Call for Applications - Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2025-2026

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CDCS: Center on Digital Culture and Society @cdcspenn.bsky.social · Jan 10

We are inviting postdoctoral fellowship applications. Please apply by Feb 14 www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/...

Center on Digital Culture and Society Call for Applications - Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2025-2026

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Media@Risk @ascmediarisk.org · Jan 10

Missed our annual symposium on academic speech and social media? Read the highlights in this Q&A for Penn Today with @guobin-yang.bsky.social and Barbie Zelizer @asc.upenn.edu @upenn.edu @cdcspenn.bsky.social bit.ly/3PwQ6Fu

Addressing the ‘catch-22’ academics face on social media | Penn Today

The Annenberg School for Communication’s Center for Media at Risk and Center for Digital Culture and Society brought together scholars to analyze the interconnected benefits and risks that academics f...

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CDCS: Center on Digital Culture and Society @cdcspenn.bsky.social · Dec 17

CDCS postdoc @lumarch.bsky.social recently spoke to @teenvogue.bsky.social about the social media reactions to the UnitedHealthcare CEO shooting:

What the UnitedHealthcare CEO Shooting Memes Tell Us

The internet has been completely obsessed with this case.

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CDCS: Center on Digital Culture and Society @cdcspenn.bsky.social · Dec 5

Our symposium "Academe in the Age of Social Media: Scholarly Inquiry at Risk?" opens later today. Details here: www.asc.upenn.edu/news-events/... @ascmediarisk.bsky.social

Academe in the Age of Social Media: Scholarly Inquiry at Risk?

Join the Center for Media at Risk and the Center on Digital Culture and Society for a symposium examining the relationship between social media and the academy.

www.asc.upenn.edu

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Guobin Yang @guobin-yang.bsky.social · Dec 4

Part 1 of our special issue "Thirty Years of the Internet in China" is out, open-access, with 10 articles & an Introduction
journals.sagepub.com/toc/ctpa/9/4. The remaining 14 pieces are out OnlineFirst. Thank you to our contributors! @annenbergpenn.bsky.social @cdcspenn.bsky.social

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Media@Risk @ascmediarisk.org · Dec 4

Starting tomorrow! How does social media surveillance impact scholarship? How should future scholars think about their social media presence? We explore these questions and more at our annual symposium at @annenbergpenn.bsky.social c-sponsored with @cdcspenn.bsky.social https://buff.ly/410HcHh

Academe in the Age of Social Media: Scholarly Inquiry at Risk?

Center for Media at Risk and the Center on Digital Culture and Society's symposium on the relationship between social media and the academy.

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Annenberg School at Penn @asc.upenn.edu · Dec 2

This Thursday and Friday (Dec. 5-6), join @ascmediarisk.bsky.social & @cdcspenn.bsky.social for a symposium exploring how social media impacts academic speech. Learn more and register: www.eventbrite.com/e/academe-in...

Academe in the Age of Social Media: Scholarly Inquiry at Risk?

Center for Media at Risk and the Center on Digital Culture and Society's symposium on the relationship between social media and the academy.

www.eventbrite.com

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CDCS: Center on Digital Culture and Society @cdcspenn.bsky.social · Nov 22

Congratulations to former CDCS doctoral fellow
@zoezhao.bsky.social
on receiving the Outstanding Dissertation Award from the Association of Chinese Communication Studies at #nca2024
for her dissertation "The Rise of Platform Game Work in China "

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