Transcultural Digital Intimacy Research Network. Chair: Dr Liang Ge (UCL) @liangge96
London; Shanghai; New York
Joined October 2024
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What makes a virtual relationship materially livable? Our article, "Materializing the Virtual? Post-digital intimacy and women players of otome video games in China," is now published in the Journal of Consumer Culture! doi.org/10.1177/146954052614…
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What makes a virtual relationship materially livable? Our article, "Materializing the Virtual? Post-digital intimacy and women players of otome video games in China," is now published in the Journal of Consumer Culture! doi.org/10.1177/146954052614…
In case you've missed it, the recording of Dr Liang Ge's @LiangGe96 talk at UPWomxn on Young Women, Ambivalent Desiring subjects and their theorisation of post-(socialist-)feminist-sensibilities, is now online! [Dr. Ge Liang] Ambivalent Desiring Subjects youtu.be/K6ID9zc22y4?si=maVP…
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The Global Asias Initiative is seeking papers for sponsored panels that will be submitted for the in-person Association of Asian Studies conference running March 18-21, 2027, in Boston, MA: sites.psu.edu/vergeglobalasi…
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"The concern is that while an AI is trained to give neutral-sounding answers, there are many places in this process to insert bias and shape the answers" @c_russl @oiioxford told @CarlottaDotto writing for @openDemocracy. Read the full piece: opendemocracy.net/ai-chatbot…
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6/ So the question is not whether humans are becoming 'too attached' to AI.
It is who designs these intimate relationships, whose interests they serve, and which forms of human connectivity and intimate practices they reshape or displace.
China is trying to regulate how people fall in love with AI.
I spoke to @newscientist about the new rules, and about why regulating individual usage may be the least effective place to intervene. 🧵newscientist.com/article/258…
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These apps are built to be hard to put down. That is not a side effect of the design. It is the design. Regulating the user, rather than the incentive, leaves the engine running.
China is trying to regulate how people fall in love with AI.
I spoke to @newscientist about the new rules, and about why regulating individual usage may be the least effective place to intervene. 🧵newscientist.com/article/258…
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Effective governance has to look past particular interactions to what produces them: commercial incentives, design choices, data practices, and the social conditions that make synthetic intimate practices so compelling in the first place.
China is trying to regulate how people fall in love with AI.
I spoke to @newscientist about the new rules, and about why regulating individual usage may be the least effective place to intervene. 🧵newscientist.com/article/258…
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3/But rules aimed at individual usage will only go so far. Users move to specialist services such as Xingye, Maoxiang. They reach foreign LLM platforms through VPNs. They run models locally. The relationship outlives the regulation.
China is trying to regulate how people fall in love with AI.
I spoke to @newscientist about the new rules, and about why regulating individual usage may be the least effective place to intervene. 🧵newscientist.com/article/258…
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2/The rules matter: China has recognised AI companions as more than technological products. These apps are becoming essential part of people's emotional and social lives, raising real questions about dependency, intimacy, childhood, and platform responsibility.
China is trying to regulate how people fall in love with AI.
I spoke to @newscientist about the new rules, and about why regulating individual usage may be the least effective place to intervene. 🧵newscientist.com/article/258…
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China is trying to regulate how people fall in love with AI.
I spoke to @newscientist about the new rules, and about why regulating individual usage may be the least effective place to intervene. 🧵newscientist.com/article/258…
Check out this new article by @LiangGe96! Ge, L. Sympoietic creativity and the boundaries of qing: digital romance writers negotiating generative AI. AI & Soc (2026). doi.org/10.1007/s00146-026-0…
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New research: UK adults are increasingly turning to AI not just for practical help, but emotional support, relationship advice, + companionship. A new report led by Dr Florence Enock surveyed 2,000 UK adults on their LLM use:
oii.ox.ac.uk/uk-adults-incre…
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"Archives of the Anthropocene" by Yuriko Furuhata @underground259 examines how visual inscriptions of geological strata, ice, clouds, and coral reefs mediate the extractive modes of seeing Earth’s depths and heights. Read the intro now for free: buff.ly/Xe022xa
ALT Cover of Archives of the Anthropocene: Visual Grammars of Deep Time by Yuriko Furuhata. The cover is a mixed media graphic featuring different textures and colors such as maps, photographs, text, and images. The top half of the cover features a black fuzzy image. The bottom half features tan paper with a diagram on it. The title is written in all caps in a sans serif font. The letters in ‘ARCHIVES’ show a map and text. The subtitle is written in a bright teal. The author’s name is in yellow.
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New Article by Liang Ge: “In the Name of Pro-Women”: Intra-Women Surveillance and Internalized Misogyny in Digital East Asia | Article | Media and Communication cogitatiopress.com/mediaandc… check it out! 😊
New Article by Liang Ge: “In the Name of Pro-Women”: Intra-Women Surveillance and Internalized Misogyny in Digital East Asia | Article | Media and Communication cogitatiopress.com/mediaandc… check it out! 😊
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🆕 New open-access article out in Media and Communication:
"In the Name of Pro-Women": Intra-Women Surveillance and Internalized Misogyny in Digital East Asia doi.org/10.17645/mac.i505
A short 🧵 on what's in it.
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Dear folks! I am sending the invitation and warmly invite you join us on 7 May 2026 for two events!!! 🥳 🥳 🥳
QUEER ASIA AS METHOD LAUNCH EVENT
⏰ Time: 13:00–15:00, 7 May 2026
📍 In person: Bush House (SE) 1.05 / Online: Microsoft Teams
Register here: tickettailor.com/events/quee…
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🎉I am extremely happy to share that our first research output on AI chatbot and gamifying digital intimacy, from our Posthuman Digital Intimacies project has now been published by Media Culture & Society! Please do check out here: doi.org/10.1177/016344372513…
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#OutNow in #iCS
In otome games, Chinese women craft rich emotional ties with virtual partners. This article argues that such play develops intimate literacies that mix pleasure, critique, and resistance to the ideologies embedded in these stories.
tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.…
