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Transcultural Digital Intimacy Research Network @transdi.bsky.social · 24d

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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Transcultural Digital Intimacy Research Network @transdi.bsky.social · 28d

Big congrats! Folks! Do check this out for the fascinating documentary on falling in love with AI and women video game players! 🥳🥰🤩!!!

Liang Ge (they/them) @liangge11.bsky.social · 28d

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...

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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Transcultural Digital Intimacy Research Network @transdi.bsky.social · Jul 28

It's Open Access! Please do have a look if you are interested in women and (women-oriented) video games and the very datafication process of digital intimacies!

Transcultural Digital Intimacy Research Network @transdi.bsky.social · Jul 28

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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Transcultural Digital Intimacy Research Network @transdi.bsky.social · Jul 28

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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Liang Ge (they/them) @liangge11.bsky.social · Jul 9

We argue for examining how media technologies and transnational cultural flows across diverse Asian contexts shape, circulate and contest queernesses and Asian-nesses, offering rich ground for epistemological and methodological innovation❤️

Liang Ge (they/them) @liangge11.bsky.social · Jul 9

✨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...

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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Liang Ge (they/them) @liangge11.bsky.social · Jul 9

✨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...

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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Liang Ge (they/them) @liangge11.bsky.social · Jul 9

❤️Our Queer Asia as Method framework challenges the Euro-American dominance often found within queer studies by centring the intricate, fluid intersections of ‘queernesses’ and ‘Asias’

Liang Ge (they/them) @liangge11.bsky.social · Jul 9

✨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...

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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Mae 美妍 @atfruitbat.bsky.social · Jun 30

I'll make a thread about danmei censorship in China, shall I? Because I've been dropping articles about this on-and-off for months now, so I might as well repeat or consolidate some of that here.

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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Liang Ge (they/them) @liangge11.bsky.social · Jun 30

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.

www.bbc.co.uk

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David Gunkel @davidgunkel.bsky.social · May 28

"Communicative #AI" @politybooks.bsky.social
My copy of the book that was recently co-authored with @coeckelbergh.bsky.social finally showed up in today's post.
www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...

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TCRU at UCL IOE @tcru-ucl.bsky.social · Jun 23

🎉 Announcing a new #ArtsBasedResearch toolkit!
Co-created by researchers @ucl.ac.uk & Wits University, it explores how creativity & the arts empower underserved communities.
A practical guide for researchers & practitioners.
📅 Coming 26 Jun.
@humeraiqbal.bsky.social @uclpophealthsci.bsky.social

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⚰️ samcula 🧛‍♂️ @lunarriviera.info · Jun 3

(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...

The Haitang Incident of 2024 exposed the precariousness of danmei (boys’ love)
culture and its creators in China under the dual pressures of state surveillance and
platform capitalism. I critically interrogate the Chinese danmei cultural ecology
through ugliness – not as a state-imposed stigma but as a critical lens and a
generative conceptual tool. Departing from previous scholarship’s binary framings
of danmei as either resistance or escapism, ugliness reveals danmei as a site of
struggles, where censorship, commercialisation and danmei creators and fans
as affective communities entangle in unstable yet persistent ways. I interrogate
the precarious position of Haitang Literature City authors, and reveal the ugly
convergence of digital governance and economic exploitation. Furthermore, I
explore the fragmentation of trust within the danmei community, where fear,
survival and mistrust complicate solidarity. Centring ugliness as a productive
analytic can move beyond the limitations of binary resistance narratives to better
account for danmei culture’s messiness, contradictions and ambivalences.

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Transcultural Digital Intimacy Research Network @transdi.bsky.social · May 2

We investigate everything from AI companions to online communities, considering cultural nuances. Let's connect! #DigitalIntimacies #Transcultural #DigitalMedia #EmbodiedTech #PostDigital #PostHuman #Sociology #AI #MoreThanHuman

Transcultural Digital Intimacy Research Network @transdi.bsky.social · May 2

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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Transcultural Digital Intimacy Research Network @transdi.bsky.social · May 2

How is intimacy changing in our hyper-connected world? The Transcultural Digital Intimacies Research Network brings together global researchers to explore diverse experiences of connection, affect, and sociality mediated by digital tech.

Transcultural Digital Intimacy Research Network @transdi.bsky.social · May 2

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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Transcultural Digital Intimacy Research Network @transdi.bsky.social · May 2

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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Liang Ge (they/them) @liangge11.bsky.social · Apr 29

Drawing on 9-month autoethnographic engagement with the AI companion XingYe, we explore the very gamification of intimacy – a design paradigm that commodifies emotional labour by rendering affection efficient, quantifiable and achievement-oriented. @TransDINetwork

Liang Ge (they/them) @liangge11.bsky.social · Apr 29

🥳🥳🥳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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Liang Ge (they/them) @liangge11.bsky.social · Apr 29

🥳🥳🥳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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Liang Ge (they/them) @liangge11.bsky.social · May 2

✨Post-(socialist-)feminist sensibilities denote women's recognition of and response to the gendered culture and regulations of heteropatriarchy in post-socialist China and transnational post-feminism.... 3/3

Liang Ge (they/them) @liangge11.bsky.social · May 2

✨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...

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Liang Ge (they/them) @liangge11.bsky.social · May 2

✨I propose the novel concept of ‘post-(socialist-)feminist sensibilities’, which is embodied in the experiences of the one-child generation of Chinese urban young women who live as ambivalent desiring subjects. 2/3

Liang Ge (they/them) @liangge11.bsky.social · May 2

✨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...

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Liang Ge (they/them) @liangge11.bsky.social · May 2

✨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...

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