Grateful to all organisers, speakers, and new connections. Bonus: a JD.com visit + Beijing duck overload 🤗
#AI #DigitalChina #AcademicLife
Just spotted that our #ICA25 panel was featured by the @reutersinstitute — a bit late, but still a lovely surprise! 🎉
Really appreciate this kind of infrastructure to make journalism + AI research more visible beyond the academic bubble.
📰 Panel feature: https://reutersinstitute.politics.ox.ac.uk/news/here-are-panels-presentations-and-posters-ica-2025-featuring-researchers-reuters-institute
Also, the article I presented is now out in Digital Journalism:
🧠 https://doi.org/10.1080/21670811.2025.2502851
#JournalismStudies #AIandJournalism #DigitalChina #ICA2025 #AcademicResearch #ReutersInstitute #GenerativeAI #NewsInnovation
So honored to have my PhD research featured by Karlstad University! 🎓
📰 “Journalism Rewired: How AI Is Reshaping News in China and Beyond”
What happens when AI meets journalism in China’s tightly controlled media environment? And what can it tell us about the future of news everywhere?
Read the full story 👉 https://www.kau.se/en/news/journalism-rewired-how-ai-reshaping-news-china-and-beyond
#AI #Journalism #DigitalChina #MediaStudies #PhDLife #AIethics #NewsInnovation #PlatformPower #AcademicResearch
What happens when AI meets journalism in one of the world’s most tightly controlled media environments? Joanne Kuai, newly graduated PhD in Media and Communication Studies at Karlstad University, dives into China’s AI-powered newsrooms - and what they reveal about the future of journalism everywhere.
China's digital transformation is accelerating fast. Its Digital China index climbed over 10% in 2024, boosted by huge gains in infrastructure (+17.5%) and tech (+13.5%). Data generation also soared 25% to 41 zettabytes.
Recent #ChinaStudies #DigitalChina #DigitalGeography and Open Access scholarship:
- Wanghong urbanism https://mediapolisjournal.com/2022/11/wanghong-urbanism/
- Spatial Governance in Beijing https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305741022000868
- Digital displacement https://doi.org/10.1111/tran.12559
- Moving to keep still https://doi.org/10.1080/17450101.2021.1928539
- Covid Conspiracies https://taylorfrancis.com/chapters/oa-edit/10.4324/9781003330769-7/covid-origins-nationalism-diasporic-heterogeneity-carwyn-morris-andy-hanlun-li-lotus-ruan
@chinastudies
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What happens when a place achieves celebrity status on social media? Amy Y. Zhang, Asa Roast and Carwyn Morris introduce the term “wanghong urbanism” to theorize the construction of urban-digital spectacle and discuss the implications of the phenomenon for cities in China and beyond.