Projects & Research
Who gets to speak, be seen, be believed, and act when technology enters human life?
VOICE · First Author · ICA 2026 / NCA 2026
AIGC × Rural Left-Behind Children
- Question Can emerging technologies expand the expressive capacity of those who are often unheard?
- Intervention AIGC-assisted musical creation across six rural primary schools.
- Method Participatory fieldwork · Semi-structured interviews · Content analysis · Scale measurement.
- Finding AI can lower audiovisual barriers and enrich self-narrative, while its feedback and parameters can also discipline expression.
VISIBILITY · Co-authored · SSCI Journal Under Review
On the Board, In the Gaze
- Question Who owns visibility when bodies and sporting performances become data?
- Field Leading Chinese skiing apps and ski resorts.
- Method App Walkthrough · In-depth interviews · Digital fieldwork.
- Finding Users negotiate gendered, technological, self, media, and counter-gazes through self-presentation and privacy strategies.
TRUST · Second Author · IAMCR 2025, Singapore
AI × Religious Communication
- Question When generative AI speaks in the voice of authority, where does mediation end and symbolic authority begin?
- Corpus 57,960 user questions, AI responses, and livestream comments from Ask_Jesus.
- Method Discourse analysis · Manual coding · DeepSeek-assisted labeling · NLP classification.
- Finding Anthropomorphic, real-time interaction increases access while blurring sacred authority and algorithmic generation.
