Expertise
- Queer Asian Studies
- Queer of Color Critique
- Critical Cultural Studies
- Critical Platform Studies
- Digital Activism
- Global Media
Education
- BA in Journalism, Jinan University
- MA in Communication, Renmin University of China
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Biography
Jiacheng Liu is a Ph.D. candidate in Mass Communications, dual-titled with Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies. He is interested in studying (a) the mutual shaping of queer culture/politics and digital media in China, and (b) the transnational circulation of queer culture in/across East Asia.
His previous work, which examines LGBTQ+ social media production, gay men dating apps and Chinese digital feminism, has been published in Information, Communication & Society, Feminist Media Studies, and International Journal of Communication.
Prior to this PhD, he worked at a gay social app company in Beijing and volunteered for a Guangzhou-based NGO focusing on elderly gay men. Born and raised in South China, he has a biased love for Cantonese food.
Publications
- Miao, W., Liu, J. & Wu, S. (2022). Embedded symbiosis: An institutional approach to government-business relationship in the Chinese internet industry, Information, Communication & Society, DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2022.2128600
- Zhao, L., Liu, J. & Li, Z. (2022). Online dating beyond dating apps: An examination of self-presentation of Chinese gay men dating on Zhihu, International Journal of Communication
- Liu, J. (2021). Empathy as exoneration or resistance? The politics of male empathy in the Chinese #MeToo movement, Feminist Media Studies, DOI: 10.1080/14680777.2021.1986092
- Liu, J. (2022). Review of "Asians Loving Asians: Sticky Rice Homoeroticism and Queer Politics by Shinsuke Eguchi," Men & Masculinities, DOI: 10.1177/1097184X221123791.