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Jun Liu

Jun Liu

 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6066-4130

  • Karen Blixens Plads 8, 2300 København S, 14 Bygning 14 (Afsnit 2), 14-3-24

  • Karen Blixens Plads 8

    2300 København S

Personal profile

CV

  • Ph.D., Media, Cognition and Communication, University of Copenhagen, 2013

 

  • Visiting Researcher, The Human-Sciences and Technologies Advanced Research Institute (H-STAR) & The Department of Communication, Stanford University, 2012
  • Postdoctoral Fellow, the Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies, Lund University, 2013/2-7
  • Visiting scholar, Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford, 2018
  • Visiting scholar, the Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge, 2022
  • Visiting scholar, The ARC Centre of Excellence for Automated Decision-Making and Society (ADM+S), RIMT, 2024


    Selected Research Affiliations

  • Research Affiliate, Center on Digital Culture and Society, the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania, (https://cdcs.asc.upenn.edu/people/#researchaffiliates), 2019-
  • Affiliated Researcher, The Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies, Lund University 2013-

Short presentation

My research stands at the intersection of communication, technology, politics, and society with particular attention to the social, cultural, and political implications of digital communication. Drawing upon theories from communication, sociology, and political science, my research focuses on how digital technology interacts with socio-cultural forms and settings and generates new power dynamics in politics from a comparative perspective.
 
 
Selected Awards:
  • Top Papers in Mobile Communication Mobile Communication Interest Group, The International Communication Association, 2019
  • Best Dissertation Award, The Information Technology and Politics Section of American Political Science Association, 2014
  • Best Paper Award, The 2014 International Communication Association Mobile Preconference, 2014

Research managements: 

PI, The Danish Independent Research Fund’s Research Leader 2021 "To Use or Not to Use? A Relational Approach to ICTs as Repertoire of Contention" (2022-2025)

Co-PI, Research Network “Ruling through Division: Categorizing People and Resources in Contemporary China,” Independent Research Fund Denmark, 2021-2024.

Co-PI, the International Network Programme “Content Moderation Assemblages: Filtering Glocal Communities (FILTER),” Danish Agency for Higher Education and Science, 2021-2022.

Primary fields of research

  • Information and communication technologies
  • Political communication
  • Political sociology
  • Comparative politics
  • Computational methods
  • Collective action

Current research

  • Communication and contention in the digital age, with a synthetic, communication-centered framework
  • Mundane, everyday politics that looks beyond contentious moments
  • Visual communication and contention that explores images as a kind of "hidden transcript" in authoritarian regimes

Fields of interest

  • Political Communication
  • Political Sociology
  • Social Theory
  • Qualitative and Quantitative Methodologies
  • Comparative Study
  • Sociology of China

Knowledge of languages

  • English: Full professional proficiency
  • Chinese: Native proficiency
  • Danish: Limited working proficiency

Teaching

  • Communication and IT
  • Digital media
  • Media sociology
  • China politics & media system

Education/Academic qualification

Media and Communication, Ph.D., Mobilized by Mobile Media - How Chinese people use mobile phones to change politics and democracy, Royal Veterinary and Agricultural University

1 Sept 2009 → 31 Aug 2012

Award Date: 28 Feb 2013

Journalism, M.A. (Cum Laude), Cellphone: The new media and its impact on people, communication order and social structure, Xiamen University

Sept 2003 → Jun 2006

Award Date: 22 Jun 2006

External positions

Research Affiliate, University of Pennsylvania

2019 → …

Affilicated Researcher, The Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies, Lund University

2013 → …

Keywords

  • Faculty of Humanities
  • Information and Communication Technologies
  • Political Sociology
  • Political Communication
  • Digital Media and Aesthetics
  • China Politics
  • Communication Theory
  • Contentious Politics
  • Social Movement

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