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Liang Ge is a Lecturer of 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, Continuum, and Asian Studies Review, among others.