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Liang Ge (they/them) is a Lecturer of Digital Sociology at the University of Manchester, where Liang is a member of the Morgan Centre for Research into Everyday Life. Liang is also an Honorary Research Fellow at the Thomas Coram Research Unit, UCL. Liang is a queer feminist sociologist, and their work lies in the intersection of intimacy, 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 Manchester, Liang taught and researched at University College London, 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 and Wellbeing: 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.
Their recent publications can be found in Big Data & Society, Information, Communication & Society, New Media & Society, Media, Culture & Society, European Journal of Cultural Studies, International Journal of Cultural Studies, and Feminist Theory, among others.
Liang's research on digital media and technologies, young people, gender&sexuality, digital platforms and popular cultures has been featured in BBC News; New York Times; AFP; South China Morning Post, Vice News and ARD German TV.
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Plz Check My New Publications here:
Ge, L. (2025). Spectral imaginings and sympoietic creativity: AI hallucinations and the ethics of posthuman creativity. Big Data & Society, 12(4). https://doi.org/10.1177/20539517251400696
Ge, L., Hu, T., & Ouyang, M. (2025). Digital literacies of intimacy: women’s engagement and learning in otome video games. Information, Communication & Society, 1–23. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2025.2587132
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
Hu, T., & Ge, L. (2025). Affective liquidity, synthetic bonds: VTubers as posthuman mediators of digital intimacies. New Media & Society, 1–25. https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448251403091
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
Forthcoming News and Activities
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5 May, Convenor, Asian Queer Knowledge and Politics Workshop, Bristol University
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7 May, Organiser, Queer Asia as Method Special Issue Launch, King's College London
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16-17 May, Speaker, 7th International Symposium on Media Materiality: Unfolding Media Infrastructure, Beijing
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23-26 June, Speaker, Digital Humanities Today, King's College London
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28 June-2 July, Speaker, IAMCR 2026, Galway
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25-28 August, Speaker, 17th European Sociological Association Conference, Warsaw
