Dr Yu Sun
- Lecturer in Media, Culture & Society (Sociological & Cultural Studies)
telephone:
01413304541
email:
Yu.Sun@glasgow.ac.uk
pronouns:
She/her/hers
40 Bute Gardens, Glasgow, Glasgow City, Scotland, United Kingdom, G12 8RT
Biography
Before joining the university of glasgow in novemeber 2022, Dr Yu Sun worked as an assistant professor at college of media and international culture at zhejiang university (china). Yu was awared with a doctoral degree in media studies from university of groningen (nl) in 2018. Her PhD thesis was entitled ‘engaging in politics: everyday political talk in online china’, which explored the nature of political talk in chinese online spaces and its potentials to increase public deliberation and civic engagement.
Her research lies in digital media studies with research experise in political communication and digital governance: chinese digital media, political talk, online deliberation, social media activism, data activism, critical data studies, automation and social governance, and infrastructural publics in the age of datafication. She is specialized in the contemporary debates about the intersection between digital technologies and social transformations with an interest in environmental, gender and public health issues. Her current research focuses on the embeddedness of digital platforms in everyday life as social-technical infrastructures in the global context.
Research interests
. Digital Media
. Social Media Activism
. Data, Inequality and Resistance
. Platforms, Automation and Governance
. Political Talk and Online Public Sphere
. Digital Citizenship
. Feminist Media Studies
. Envrionmental Communication
Grants
. School of Social and Political Sciences Early Career Researcher Support Fund, 2022-2023
. Chinese National Philosophy and Social Science Project (Principal investigator, 2021-present)
. Zhejiang (China) Provincial Philosophy and Social Science Planning Project on Digital China (Co-principal investigator, 2021-2024)
. Zhejiang (China) Provincial Philosophy and Social Science Planning Project on the building of digital infrastructure and environmental governance in China (Principal Investigator, 2021-2024)
. Chinese National Postdoctoral Grant (2019-2020)
. The Postdoctoral International Exchange Program Fellowship (Zhejiang University, 2018)
. ECREA Travel Grant, 2016
Supervision
- Xu, Zixin
Social Media in Community-Based Crisis Management in China: A Case Study
Teaching
Postgraduate Course
SPS 5057 Media, Culture and Memory