Platform Governance and Practices

I study platform governance and practices, with a specific focus on platforms' privacy and data practices in post-socialist China, as well as how China develops its digital strategy as a global initiative to build global platforms.

Privacy and Data Practices

Chen, Y., Liu, L. & Deng, J. (2025). Governing data through privacy after China’s PIPL: Discursive strategies, layered compliance and power dynamics in digital platform policies. Telecommunications Policy. 103147. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.telpol.2025.103147

Liu, L., & Chen, Y. (2025). Contextualizing privacy visibility dialectic in the post-PIPL era: Users’ everyday privacy negotiations of (in-)visibility on digital platforms. International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction. 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1080/10447318.2025.2573044

Liu, L., & Chen, Y. (2024). A Triple-Layered Comparative Approach to Understanding New Privacy Policy Practices of Digital Platforms and Users in China After Implementation of the PIPL. Social Media + Society, 10(4). https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051241301265

China's Global Platform

Liu, L. & Xiao, Y. (In press). From China to the world: A postcolonial technoscience analysis of TikTok’s global growth. Global Perspectives in Communication.

Jiang, X., Liu, L., Wu-Ouyang, B., Chen, L. & Lin H. (2024) Which Storytelling People Prefer? Mapping News Narrative and News Engagement in Social Media. Computers in Human Behavior. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2024.108248

Best Student Paper Award (runner-up), Global Communication and Social Change Division, International Communication Association (ICA)

Representation and (Digital) Media

Yang, Z., Liu, L. & Ge, L. (2025). Claiming queerness on Weibo: Public interaction discourse towards Chinese queer women athletes and their Chugui. Women’s Studies International Forum. 110, 103082. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wsif.2025.103082

Liu, L., & He, Y. (2025). Tactical queer identity in China. In G. Bollmer, K. Guinness, & Y. Soncul (Eds.), The De Gruyter handbook of digital cultures (pp. 255-262). De Gruyter.

He, Y., & Liu, L. (2025). “You smell the same as mum”: Representing the intersection of (brother/)sisterhood and motherhood in the Chinese movie Sister. In S. Liddy & D. Flynn (Eds.), The Routledge handbook of motherhood on screen (pp. 79-92). Routledge.

He, Y. & Liu, L. (2024) To fight, to confront, and to resist: Exploring the media representation of Chinese Zhangjie in Sister. Feminist Media Studies. https://doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2024.2346764