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Liang Ge (they/them, PhD, FHEA) is a Lecturer of Digital Sociology in University College London, Social Research Institute, where Liang is a member of the Thomas Coram Research Unit. Liang's work lies in the intersection of cultural sociology, digital media and technologies, digital methods, gender, sexuality, youth and East and Southeast Asian popular cultures and creative industries. Liang's research seeks to elucidate how digital media and technologies function as terrains of struggle, and to explore how queerness and feminism in digital cultures act as the very creative drive that generates transgressive and transformative potentials. 

 

Prior to joining TCRU, Liang taught and researched at King’s College London and City, University of London. Liang is the founder and Co-Chair of the Transcultural Digital Intimacies Research Network (TransDI). Their current research project is Posthuman Digital Intimacy: Affects, Women and Digital Technologies, which explores the affective experiences of women who play women-oriented video games and intensively use AI-generated social robots in East and Southeast Asia and examine the multi-facets of such more-than-human digital intimacies with virtual characters.

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Their recent publications can be found in European Journal of Cultural Studies, Media, Culture & Society, International Journal of Cultural Studies, Feminist Theory, Continuum, and Asian Studies Review, among others.

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Plz Check My New Publications here:

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​Ge, L. (2025). Ambivalent desiring subjects: young women, agency and post-(socialist-)feminist sensibilities in China. Feminist Theory, Online First. https://doi.org/10.1177/14647001251334949

 

Ge, L., & Hu, T. (2025). Gamifying intimacy: AI-driven affective engagement and human-virtual human relationships. Media, Culture & Society, Online First. https://doi.org/10.1177/01634437251337239

 

​Ge, L., Luther, J. D., & Li, E. C.-Y. (2025). Editorial introduction: Queer Asia as Method. Media, Culture & Society, Online First. https://doi.org/10.1177/01634437251351143

 

Hu, T., & Ge, L. (2025). Datafication of Digital Intimacy: The Dual Logic of Empowerment and Commodification. Games and Culture, Online First. https://doi.org/10.1177/15554120251358522

 

Ge, L. (2025). Feminization of labor: Over-representation, invisibility and vulnerability of women workers in the digital audio drama industry. Convergence, Online First. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13548565251325531

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Ge, L. (2025). The Haitang Incident 2024 and the ugliness of danmei culture/industry. European Journal of Cultural Studies, Online First https://doi.org/10.1177/13675494251326775

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Yang, Z., Liu, L. and Ge, L. (2025) ‘Claiming queerness on Weibo: Public interaction discourse towards Chinese queer women athletes and their chugui’, Women’s Studies International Forum, 110, p. 103082. Available at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wsif.2025.103082.

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Ge, L. (2024). Ambivalent affective labor: The datafication of qing and danmei writers in the cultural industry. European Journal of Cultural Studies, Online First. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/13675494241270468

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News and Activities

​Future​​​​

  • ​16-18 Dec 2025: Speaker, GenAI & Creative Practices, University of Amsterdam

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Recent Past​​​

  • 23-25 July 2025: Speaker, Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Society, Walailak, Thailand
  • 13-17 July 2025: Presenter, International Association for Media and Communication Research, Singapore

  • 7-9 July 2025: Speaker, The Future of Chinese Internet in the Era of AI, 22nd Chinese Internet Research Conference (CIRC), Peking University, Beijing

  • 17 June 2025: Invited Keynote Panel Speaker: Transnational literary production and consumption in the digital age, University of Exeter

  • 3 April 2025: Keynote Speaker, Fandom and Home Symposium, Cardiff University

  • 13 Mar 2025: Presenter, AAS Annual Conference, Columbus, OH

  • 28 Jan 2025: Speaker, Social Research Institute, University College London: Chinese Young Women as Ambivalent Desiring Subjects

  • 24 Jan 2025: Chair, Book Launch: Queer Literature in the Sinosphere.

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