Digital Religion
Cheong, P. H., & Liu, L. (2025). Generative artificial intelligence and collaboration: Exploring religious human-machine communication and tensions in leadership practices. Human-Machine Communication. 11, 171–190. https://doi.org/10.30658/hmc.11.9
Cheong, P. H., & Liu, L. (2025). Faithful Innovation: Negotiating Institutional Logics for AI Value Alignment Among Christian Churches in America. Religions, 16(3), 302. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel16030302
Liu, L. (2021) Mediatization, digital space, online support: Exploring the transformational practices of the Swedish Church during the COVID-19 pandemic. In M. Dudžáková, M. Bílik, A. Telepčáková, & D. Cséfalvay (Eds.), The World After the Pandemic (pp. 13–23). Kritika & Kontext.
China's (Global) Platform Practices
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
Yang, Z., Liu, L. & Ge, L. (2025). Claiming queerness on Weibo: Public interaction discourse towards Chinese queer women athletes and their Chugui. Submitted for the 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.
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
Liu, L., Lim, C. L., Yao, C. & Liao, Z. (2023) Understanding Sweden’s COVID-19 pandemic on Chinese Social Media: Public perceptions comparison between Chinese residing in Sweden and China. In SX. Zhao., et al. (Eds.), Comparative Studies on Pandemic Control Policies and the Resilience of Society (pp. 201-225). Springer Nature.
AI practices in Chinese Newsrooms
Liu, L., Ge, Y. & Chen, Y. (2025). Constructing the Bodies of the Female AI News Presenters: Biometric Replication, Gendered Standardization, and Subjectivity Reconstruction. Journalism Studies. 1–21. https://doi.org/10.1080/1461670X.2025.2585296
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
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Best Student Paper Award (runner-up), Global Communication and Social Change Division, International Communication Association (ICA)
Cultural Representations in Chinese Media
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