Johnny Hoang
@daytoy1005.bsky.social
Digital Media, Algorithms and Gen AI
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I feel like "academic hiring" discourse is always kind of downstream of the fact that in the 50s we started building a giant public system to make a college education almost universally available and in the 80s and 90s we started taking it apart to go back to the only-the-rich model
December 20, 2025 at 2:22 PM
I feel like "academic hiring" discourse is always kind of downstream of the fact that in the 50s we started building a giant public system to make a college education almost universally available and in the 80s and 90s we started taking it apart to go back to the only-the-rich model
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We often dismiss AI hallucinations as mere technical failures or epistemic risks. In this article,I propose a different perspective: these generative anomalies act as hermeneutic knots: sites where algorithmic noise and human agency entangle to produce new modes of meaning-making
🆕Publication Arrived!!! Are AI hallucinations bugs to be fixed, or the start of a new kind of creativity? My new paper, "Spectral imaginings and sympoietic creativity," explores how we might move beyond binary framings of AI errors. Check it out here: doi.org/10.1177/2053...
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December 18, 2025 at 10:07 AM
We often dismiss AI hallucinations as mere technical failures or epistemic risks. In this article,I propose a different perspective: these generative anomalies act as hermeneutic knots: sites where algorithmic noise and human agency entangle to produce new modes of meaning-making
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🔹I argue for sympoietic creativity:a collaborative practice where humans curate machine stochasticity rather than simply commanding a tool
This work challenges us to harness AI's disruptive potential for posthuman futures while maintaining strict ethical vigilance.
This work challenges us to harness AI's disruptive potential for posthuman futures while maintaining strict ethical vigilance.
We often dismiss AI hallucinations as mere technical failures or epistemic risks. In this article,I propose a different perspective: these generative anomalies act as hermeneutic knots: sites where algorithmic noise and human agency entangle to produce new modes of meaning-making
🆕Publication Arrived!!! Are AI hallucinations bugs to be fixed, or the start of a new kind of creativity? My new paper, "Spectral imaginings and sympoietic creativity," explores how we might move beyond binary framings of AI errors. Check it out here: doi.org/10.1177/2053...
December 18, 2025 at 10:07 AM
🔹I argue for sympoietic creativity:a collaborative practice where humans curate machine stochasticity rather than simply commanding a tool
This work challenges us to harness AI's disruptive potential for posthuman futures while maintaining strict ethical vigilance.
This work challenges us to harness AI's disruptive potential for posthuman futures while maintaining strict ethical vigilance.
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🔹 The Fluency Trade-off: I analyze why models like DeepSeek-R1 (with a higher hallucination rate) differ from factual optimizers like ChatGPT-o1. The paper examines how "Chain-of-Thought" reasoning enhances creativity but inherently amplifies "spectral" outputs.
We often dismiss AI hallucinations as mere technical failures or epistemic risks. In this article,I propose a different perspective: these generative anomalies act as hermeneutic knots: sites where algorithmic noise and human agency entangle to produce new modes of meaning-making
🆕Publication Arrived!!! Are AI hallucinations bugs to be fixed, or the start of a new kind of creativity? My new paper, "Spectral imaginings and sympoietic creativity," explores how we might move beyond binary framings of AI errors. Check it out here: doi.org/10.1177/2053...
December 18, 2025 at 10:08 AM
🔹 The Fluency Trade-off: I analyze why models like DeepSeek-R1 (with a higher hallucination rate) differ from factual optimizers like ChatGPT-o1. The paper examines how "Chain-of-Thought" reasoning enhances creativity but inherently amplifies "spectral" outputs.
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🆕Publication Arrived!!! Are AI hallucinations bugs to be fixed, or the start of a new kind of creativity? My new paper, "Spectral imaginings and sympoietic creativity," explores how we might move beyond binary framings of AI errors. Check it out here: doi.org/10.1177/2053...
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December 18, 2025 at 10:07 AM
🆕Publication Arrived!!! Are AI hallucinations bugs to be fixed, or the start of a new kind of creativity? My new paper, "Spectral imaginings and sympoietic creativity," explores how we might move beyond binary framings of AI errors. Check it out here: doi.org/10.1177/2053...
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✨Thrilled to share our new article published in Information, Communication & Society: “Digital literacies of intimacy: women’s engagement and learning in otome video games”！！！ 🥳 💥 🎉
Open access link: doi.org/10.1080/1369...
Open access link: doi.org/10.1080/1369...
Digital literacies of intimacy: women’s engagement and learning in otome video games
This article explores the concept of ‘digital intimacy literacies’ by analyzing how Chinese women gamers form deep emotional connections with virtual male characters in otome games. The study exami...
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November 17, 2025 at 3:35 PM
✨Thrilled to share our new article published in Information, Communication & Society: “Digital literacies of intimacy: women’s engagement and learning in otome video games”！！！ 🥳 💥 🎉
Open access link: doi.org/10.1080/1369...
Open access link: doi.org/10.1080/1369...
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We use the term “digital intimacy literacies” to describe the set of socio-technical, affective, sensory, and narrative competencies through which women players learn to interpret, negotiate, and cultivate intimate relationships in digital environments.
✨Thrilled to share our new article published in Information, Communication & Society: “Digital literacies of intimacy: women’s engagement and learning in otome video games”！！！ 🥳 💥 🎉
Open access link: doi.org/10.1080/1369...
Open access link: doi.org/10.1080/1369...
Digital literacies of intimacy: women’s engagement and learning in otome video games
This article explores the concept of ‘digital intimacy literacies’ by analyzing how Chinese women gamers form deep emotional connections with virtual male characters in otome games. The study exami...
doi.org
November 17, 2025 at 3:36 PM
We use the term “digital intimacy literacies” to describe the set of socio-technical, affective, sensory, and narrative competencies through which women players learn to interpret, negotiate, and cultivate intimate relationships in digital environments.
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This paper examines a rapidly expanding human–nonhuman digital intimacy. We explore how women players form deep affective attachments with virtual male characters in women-oriented otome games in their everyday life💫 A core contribution is our proposal of the concept “digital intimacy literacies.”
✨Thrilled to share our new article published in Information, Communication & Society: “Digital literacies of intimacy: women’s engagement and learning in otome video games”！！！ 🥳 💥 🎉
Open access link: doi.org/10.1080/1369...
Open access link: doi.org/10.1080/1369...
Digital literacies of intimacy: women’s engagement and learning in otome video games
This article explores the concept of ‘digital intimacy literacies’ by analyzing how Chinese women gamers form deep emotional connections with virtual male characters in otome games. The study exami...
doi.org
November 17, 2025 at 3:37 PM
This paper examines a rapidly expanding human–nonhuman digital intimacy. We explore how women players form deep affective attachments with virtual male characters in women-oriented otome games in their everyday life💫 A core contribution is our proposal of the concept “digital intimacy literacies.”
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Quota-Driven Crackdown: Stephen Miller’s Quota of 3,000 Daily Immigrant Arrests Likely Drove Korean Arrests In Immigration Raid www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...
Stephen Miller’s Quota Likely Drove Korean Arrests In Immigration Raid
When ICE agents arrested over 300 Korean workers at a Georgia battery plant, a daily immigrant arrest quota was likely on their minds.
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September 17, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Quota-Driven Crackdown: Stephen Miller’s Quota of 3,000 Daily Immigrant Arrests Likely Drove Korean Arrests In Immigration Raid www.forbes.com/sites/stuart...
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✨New Pub Day! Since our Queer Asia as Method roundtable in 2021, our special issue Queer Asia as Method has now been published online first by Media Culture & Society!
Our editorial piece is here: doi.org/10.1177/0163...
Our editorial piece is here: doi.org/10.1177/0163...
Editorial introduction: Queer Asia as Method - Liang Ge, J Daniel Luther, Eva Cheuk-Yin Li, 2025
This introduction outlines the theoretical and methodological interventions proposed by the Crosscurrent special section, Queer Asia as Method, which interrogat...
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July 9, 2025 at 4:09 PM
✨New Pub Day! Since our Queer Asia as Method roundtable in 2021, our special issue Queer Asia as Method has now been published online first by Media Culture & Society!
Our editorial piece is here: doi.org/10.1177/0163...
Our editorial piece is here: doi.org/10.1177/0163...
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Yay! Another output from our Posthuman digital intimacies project!!! This is our Women and Video Games block! Plz do check it out!
Check out Tingting and Liang's New Pub from their Posthuman Digital Intimacies project! This time, it's about otome games and the datafication of digital intimacies: Datafication of Digital Intimacy: The Dual Logic of Empowerment and Commodification. Games and Culture. doi.org/10.1177/1555...
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July 28, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Yay! Another output from our Posthuman digital intimacies project!!! This is our Women and Video Games block! Plz do check it out!
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It’s a very pleasant experience to work with Marie von Mallinckrodt and her team from ARD Germany on this mini-documentary project: In love with an AI 🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳!
Plz check it out here:
www.ardmediathek.de/video/weltsp...
Plz check it out here:
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Weltspiegel: China: Verliebt in eine KI - hier anschauen
Millionen Chinesinnen spielen sogenannte „Dating Games“: Sie verlieben sich in eine virtuelle Figur auf einer spielerischen Ebene. Sehr viel ernster: Manche unterhalten sich so intensiv mit dem Chatbo...
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September 11, 2025 at 11:38 AM
It’s a very pleasant experience to work with Marie von Mallinckrodt and her team from ARD Germany on this mini-documentary project: In love with an AI 🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳!
Plz check it out here:
www.ardmediathek.de/video/weltsp...
Plz check it out here:
www.ardmediathek.de/video/weltsp...
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Folks, please check out Liang's new mini documentary with the ARD German Media: In Love with An AI youtu.be/tIgXRkEPlZ8?...
China: Verliebt in eine KI (China: In Love with an AI)
YouTube video by Ryou L Ge
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September 15, 2025 at 9:28 AM
Folks, please check out Liang's new mini documentary with the ARD German Media: In Love with An AI youtu.be/tIgXRkEPlZ8?...
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I have been interviewed by BBC News concerning the recent Haitang Incident: after last year’s detention of over 50 women danmei writers who produce explicit male-male romances and erotica in China, more women writers have been summoned this spring for www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
China is cracking down on young women who write gay erotica
At least 30 writers have been arrested across the country since February, a lawyer tells the BBC.
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June 30, 2025 at 6:22 PM
I have been interviewed by BBC News concerning the recent Haitang Incident: after last year’s detention of over 50 women danmei writers who produce explicit male-male romances and erotica in China, more women writers have been summoned this spring for www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
The ugly academic job market…
June 13, 2025 at 11:11 AM
The ugly academic job market…
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(if you want to know more about the 2024 arrests, the rather brilliant scholar @liangge11.bsky.social, who teaches at UCL, published an article in March in EJCS: "The Haitang Incident 2024 and the ugliness of danmei culture/industry"—it's open access and they are VERY astute) doi.org/10.1177/1367...
June 3, 2025 at 7:57 PM
(if you want to know more about the 2024 arrests, the rather brilliant scholar @liangge11.bsky.social, who teaches at UCL, published an article in March in EJCS: "The Haitang Incident 2024 and the ugliness of danmei culture/industry"—it's open access and they are VERY astute) doi.org/10.1177/1367...
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Exploring digital intimacies across cultures!The Transcultural Digital Intimacies Research Network(TransDI)critically examines how technologies (AI, platforms, games, embodied technologies etc.) reshapes relationships, blurring online/offline lives and human/non-human connections! #DigitalIntimacies
May 2, 2025 at 10:56 AM
Exploring digital intimacies across cultures!The Transcultural Digital Intimacies Research Network(TransDI)critically examines how technologies (AI, platforms, games, embodied technologies etc.) reshapes relationships, blurring online/offline lives and human/non-human connections! #DigitalIntimacies
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✨I am so pleased to share that my article has been published in Feminist Theory today! This is the first piece for my exploration concerning China as Theory Generator and Danmei as a rich site for epistemic and methodological innovations.
Check out here⬇️ doi.org/10.1177/1464...
Check out here⬇️ doi.org/10.1177/1464...
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May 2, 2025 at 10:15 AM
✨I am so pleased to share that my article has been published in Feminist Theory today! This is the first piece for my exploration concerning China as Theory Generator and Danmei as a rich site for epistemic and methodological innovations.
Check out here⬇️ doi.org/10.1177/1464...
Check out here⬇️ doi.org/10.1177/1464...
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🥳🥳🥳I am extremely happy to share that our first research output on AI chatbot and gamifying digital intimacy, from our Posthuman Digital Intimacies project has now been published by Media Culture & Society! Please do check out here: doi.org/10.1177/0163...
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April 29, 2025 at 11:25 AM
🥳🥳🥳I am extremely happy to share that our first research output on AI chatbot and gamifying digital intimacy, from our Posthuman Digital Intimacies project has now been published by Media Culture & Society! Please do check out here: doi.org/10.1177/0163...
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The Weekly Read is “Exscription and Ecopoetics” by Martin Crowley. The article appears in Jean-Luc Nancy: The Urgency and Patience of Thought, a special issue of Cultural Politics (62:2), edited by Georgios Tsagdis and Paul Willemarck.
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April 19, 2025 at 1:01 PM
The Weekly Read is “Exscription and Ecopoetics” by Martin Crowley. The article appears in Jean-Luc Nancy: The Urgency and Patience of Thought, a special issue of Cultural Politics (62:2), edited by Georgios Tsagdis and Paul Willemarck.
Read it for free: buff.ly/vbJ80LD
Read it for free: buff.ly/vbJ80LD
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The banality of citizenship: Nationalism, labour and mobility controls
01 May 2025, 17:30 – 20:00
Prof. Bridget Anderson (University of Bristol) will explore how recognising the banality of citizenship can help to reframe debates on migration.
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01 May 2025, 17:30 – 20:00
Prof. Bridget Anderson (University of Bristol) will explore how recognising the banality of citizenship can help to reframe debates on migration.
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The banality of citizenship: Nationalism, labour and mobility controls
Bridget Anderson will argue that recognising the banality of citizenship can help to reframe debates on migration.
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April 22, 2025 at 3:17 PM
The banality of citizenship: Nationalism, labour and mobility controls
01 May 2025, 17:30 – 20:00
Prof. Bridget Anderson (University of Bristol) will explore how recognising the banality of citizenship can help to reframe debates on migration.
Sign up here:
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01 May 2025, 17:30 – 20:00
Prof. Bridget Anderson (University of Bristol) will explore how recognising the banality of citizenship can help to reframe debates on migration.
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Prof Ann Oakley and Dr Charlotte Faircloth from TCRU were featured on BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour on Friday talking about their new project! Check it out from 42 minutes in here! 🥳🥳🥳
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Woman's Hour - Stacey Dooley, Lily Gladstone, Ask for Angela, Motherhood - BBC Sounds
Why is being a young English Romany Gypsy woman growing up in the UK a balancing act?
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March 31, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Prof Ann Oakley and Dr Charlotte Faircloth from TCRU were featured on BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour on Friday talking about their new project! Check it out from 42 minutes in here! 🥳🥳🥳
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Open Access UCL Research: Liuli and the Soul-Spirit-Body Organism: The Fluid Body Imagination in the Dialogue between Posthuman Theory and the Concept of Soul and Flesh in Pre-Qin China // 《琉璃》与心魂 - 元神 - 肉身有机体： 后人类理论与中国先秦灵肉观对话中流动的身体想象 discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10...
Liuli and the Soul-Spirit-Body Organism: The Fluid Body Imagination in the Dialogue between Posthuman Theory and the Concept of Soul and Flesh in Pre-Qin China // 《琉璃》与心魂 - 元神 - 肉身有机体： 后人类理论与中...
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April 11, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Open Access UCL Research: Liuli and the Soul-Spirit-Body Organism: The Fluid Body Imagination in the Dialogue between Posthuman Theory and the Concept of Soul and Flesh in Pre-Qin China // 《琉璃》与心魂 - 元神 - 肉身有机体： 后人类理论与中国先秦灵肉观对话中流动的身体想象 discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10...
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✨In this 🆕 article, I examine the struggling lived experiences of women workers in the Chinese audio drama industry, and I reveal a pronounced process – the feminization of labor – within this burgeoning creative sector journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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April 22, 2025 at 9:29 AM
✨In this 🆕 article, I examine the struggling lived experiences of women workers in the Chinese audio drama industry, and I reveal a pronounced process – the feminization of labor – within this burgeoning creative sector journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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•Feminisation of labor• understood here as a constant process of invisibility and vulnerability. Within the Chinese audio drama industry, female workers are stuck in invisibility, frequently find themselves relegated to backstage roles, and subject to an inflexible flexibility
✨In this 🆕 article, I examine the struggling lived experiences of women workers in the Chinese audio drama industry, and I reveal a pronounced process – the feminization of labor – within this burgeoning creative sector journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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April 22, 2025 at 9:29 AM
•Feminisation of labor• understood here as a constant process of invisibility and vulnerability. Within the Chinese audio drama industry, female workers are stuck in invisibility, frequently find themselves relegated to backstage roles, and subject to an inflexible flexibility