Chuncheng Liu
@cliu.bsky.social
Sociologist interested in STS, data, and the state. Assistant Professor of Communication and Sociology at Northeastern University. chunchengliu.com
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We are looking for advanced PhD student interns! Spend 12 weeks scratching a research itch in our Cambridge Massachusetts lab. Closes January 17.
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Research Interns put inquiry and theory into practice. Alongside fellow doctoral candidates and some of the world's best researchers, Research Interns learn, collaborate, and network for life. Researc...
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December 22, 2025 at 9:32 PM
We are looking for advanced PhD student interns! Spend 12 weeks scratching a research itch in our Cambridge Massachusetts lab. Closes January 17.
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*Ahmed Al Ahmed
December 14, 2025 at 5:42 PM
*Ahmed Al Ahmed
Encountering a misinformation campaign in real time. The bystander who tackled the gunman at Bondi was identified as Ahmed el Ahmed (link below). But in almost every tweet I saw, there are people claiming the real person is "Edward Crabtree," referencing a website called "The Daily."
Hero bystander who tackled gunman in incredible footage identified
In the aftermath of the devastation at Bondi, a deluge of footage poured onto social media. One video of an act of incredible bravery stood out.
www.smh.com.au
December 14, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Encountering a misinformation campaign in real time. The bystander who tackled the gunman at Bondi was identified as Ahmed el Ahmed (link below). But in almost every tweet I saw, there are people claiming the real person is "Edward Crabtree," referencing a website called "The Daily."
What a sad story
The Married Scientists Torn Apart by a Covid Bioweapon Theory
www.nytimes.com
December 7, 2025 at 10:24 PM
What a sad story
I still get physically ill whenever open a reviewer report with a rejection in it
December 2, 2025 at 8:15 PM
I still get physically ill whenever open a reviewer report with a rejection in it
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FYI: law and science, political science, and sociology all still have DDRIG programs run outside of the NSF but funded by NSF. The rest of these programs unfortunately do not.
I run the political science DDRIG.
I run the political science DDRIG.
NEW from me - NSF cancels grant scheme for social science research.
Seems the NSF quietly archived ALL calls for DDRIG grants in the SBE directorate. This is a massive blow for PhD students wanting to do cutting-edge social science research. 🏺🧪
Seems the NSF quietly archived ALL calls for DDRIG grants in the SBE directorate. This is a massive blow for PhD students wanting to do cutting-edge social science research. 🏺🧪
Today's biggest science news: Doomed comet explodes | Comet 3I/ATLAS course alteration | Dark matter detected?
Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2025: Your daily feed of the biggest discoveries and breakthroughs making headlines.
www.livescience.com
November 27, 2025 at 3:25 PM
FYI: law and science, political science, and sociology all still have DDRIG programs run outside of the NSF but funded by NSF. The rest of these programs unfortunately do not.
I run the political science DDRIG.
I run the political science DDRIG.
Oh, this is really bad. Without my DDRIG, I simply cannot conduct my fieldwork. This would be especially devastating for international students doing qualitative research, since there really aren’t many grants available to support us.
NEW from me - NSF cancels grant scheme for social science research.
Seems the NSF quietly archived ALL calls for DDRIG grants in the SBE directorate. This is a massive blow for PhD students wanting to do cutting-edge social science research. 🏺🧪
Seems the NSF quietly archived ALL calls for DDRIG grants in the SBE directorate. This is a massive blow for PhD students wanting to do cutting-edge social science research. 🏺🧪
Today's biggest science news: Doomed comet explodes | Comet 3I/ATLAS course alteration | Dark matter detected?
Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2025: Your daily feed of the biggest discoveries and breakthroughs making headlines.
www.livescience.com
November 27, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Oh, this is really bad. Without my DDRIG, I simply cannot conduct my fieldwork. This would be especially devastating for international students doing qualitative research, since there really aren’t many grants available to support us.
Northeastern University is hiring an Assistant Professor in AI Policy and Media. The tenure home would be either Communication Studies or Journalism, with a joint appointment with the policy school. Please apply and be my colleague :)
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Assistant Professor in AI Policy and Media
About the Opportunity About the Opportunity The College of Arts, Media and Design (CAMD) at Northeastern University invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor in AI Policy and Media, ...
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November 24, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Northeastern University is hiring an Assistant Professor in AI Policy and Media. The tenure home would be either Communication Studies or Journalism, with a joint appointment with the policy school. Please apply and be my colleague :)
northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/careers/job/...
northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/careers/job/...
Always love Critics at Large but this episode is particularly superb. LOVE the ending discussion on imagination of the future.
In "Pluribus," Utopia Is...!l It's Cracked Up to Be
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In "Pluribus," Utopia Is...!l It's Cracked Up to Be
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November 20, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Always love Critics at Large but this episode is particularly superb. LOVE the ending discussion on imagination of the future.
In "Pluribus," Utopia Is...!l It's Cracked Up to Be
open.spotify.com/episode/4Pkp...
In "Pluribus," Utopia Is...!l It's Cracked Up to Be
open.spotify.com/episode/4Pkp...
Is Pluribus an AI ethics show…?
November 15, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Is Pluribus an AI ethics show…?
Bad bad very bad.
A ‘Steep Decline’ in Students’ Academic Preparation at UC-San Diego Struck a Nerve www.chronicle.com/article/peop...
A ‘Steep Decline’ in Students’ Academic Preparation at UC-San Diego Struck a Nerve www.chronicle.com/article/peop...
November 14, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Bad bad very bad.
A ‘Steep Decline’ in Students’ Academic Preparation at UC-San Diego Struck a Nerve www.chronicle.com/article/peop...
A ‘Steep Decline’ in Students’ Academic Preparation at UC-San Diego Struck a Nerve www.chronicle.com/article/peop...
I will workshop my book project - an ethnography of a social credit system in China - at Harvard History, Culture, and Society Workshop 12:00 - 1:30 pm next Friday (11/21) at William James Hall 1550. Join me if you are around. Lunch will be provided!
Chuncheng Liu (Northeastern University) | Harvard History, Culture, and Society Workshop
history-culture-society-workshop.sociology.fas.harvard.edu
November 12, 2025 at 8:08 PM
I will workshop my book project - an ethnography of a social credit system in China - at Harvard History, Culture, and Society Workshop 12:00 - 1:30 pm next Friday (11/21) at William James Hall 1550. Join me if you are around. Lunch will be provided!
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Congratulations to the winner of 2025 @saw-anthroofwork.bsky.social Book Prize
Hector Beltran's
@teflonbeltran.bsky.social
Code Work: Hacking Across US-Mexico Techno Borderlands!
@princetonupress.bsky.social press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
Hector Beltran's
@teflonbeltran.bsky.social
Code Work: Hacking Across US-Mexico Techno Borderlands!
@princetonupress.bsky.social press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
Code Work
How Mexican and Latinx hackers apply concepts from coding to their lived experiences
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October 27, 2025 at 5:08 PM
Congratulations to the winner of 2025 @saw-anthroofwork.bsky.social Book Prize
Hector Beltran's
@teflonbeltran.bsky.social
Code Work: Hacking Across US-Mexico Techno Borderlands!
@princetonupress.bsky.social press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
Hector Beltran's
@teflonbeltran.bsky.social
Code Work: Hacking Across US-Mexico Techno Borderlands!
@princetonupress.bsky.social press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
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🚨 New in Big Data & Society 🚨
"China as an analytical lens for AI and society" by Chuncheng Liu & Zhifan Luo doi.org/10.1177/2053...
Offers a four-part framework using “China” to rethink AI, political economy, and global entanglements in critical AI studies.
"China as an analytical lens for AI and society" by Chuncheng Liu & Zhifan Luo doi.org/10.1177/2053...
Offers a four-part framework using “China” to rethink AI, political economy, and global entanglements in critical AI studies.
October 22, 2025 at 7:04 PM
🚨 New in Big Data & Society 🚨
"China as an analytical lens for AI and society" by Chuncheng Liu & Zhifan Luo doi.org/10.1177/2053...
Offers a four-part framework using “China” to rethink AI, political economy, and global entanglements in critical AI studies.
"China as an analytical lens for AI and society" by Chuncheng Liu & Zhifan Luo doi.org/10.1177/2053...
Offers a four-part framework using “China” to rethink AI, political economy, and global entanglements in critical AI studies.
Happy to share our commentary is published on Big Data & Society today! Instead of seeing China as AI’s dystopian specter, what if we use it as a generative lens to rethink global AI?
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
October 17, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Happy to share our commentary is published on Big Data & Society today! Instead of seeing China as AI’s dystopian specter, what if we use it as a generative lens to rethink global AI?
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
Teaching technology and society this semester. I found it’s interesting that their default mode is “tech is bad.” Other than helping them to see how the system works beyond the statement, I need to do a lot more to help them to see the early excitement and promises of the Internet!
October 15, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Teaching technology and society this semester. I found it’s interesting that their default mode is “tech is bad.” Other than helping them to see how the system works beyond the statement, I need to do a lot more to help them to see the early excitement and promises of the Internet!
am i going to introduce students what neoliberalism is in one slide? challenge accepted.
October 6, 2025 at 2:37 PM
am i going to introduce students what neoliberalism is in one slide? challenge accepted.
I want to apologize to all the professors i secretly cursed for not responding to my emails and to apologize to everyone whose emails i'm not responding to but jesus why are there so many emails and people and things and we're in the middle of so many layers of crisis
October 3, 2025 at 6:54 PM
I want to apologize to all the professors i secretly cursed for not responding to my emails and to apologize to everyone whose emails i'm not responding to but jesus why are there so many emails and people and things and we're in the middle of so many layers of crisis
I will talk about my book project on a Chinese social credit system tomorrow noon in New Haven. Join me if you are around (I think they provide free lunch...)!
Tomorrow! Join us for Prof. @cliu.bsky.social's (@northeasternu.bsky.social) talk about:
"Metricocracy: The Data and Symbolic Politics of a Chinese Social Credit System"
📅 Thu., Oct. 2, 2025
⏰ 12:00-1:30 PM
📍Baker Hall 405
DM for Zoom details (ISP fellows only)
"Metricocracy: The Data and Symbolic Politics of a Chinese Social Credit System"
📅 Thu., Oct. 2, 2025
⏰ 12:00-1:30 PM
📍Baker Hall 405
DM for Zoom details (ISP fellows only)
October 1, 2025 at 5:48 PM
I will talk about my book project on a Chinese social credit system tomorrow noon in New Haven. Join me if you are around (I think they provide free lunch...)!
The printed version is out today! Here we discussed how social credit system, an Orwellian Chinese Other, becomes a stand-in for Western anxieties about authoritarianism, technology goes wrong, quantification of everyday life, and shifting global power.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
October 1, 2025 at 5:24 PM
The printed version is out today! Here we discussed how social credit system, an Orwellian Chinese Other, becomes a stand-in for Western anxieties about authoritarianism, technology goes wrong, quantification of everyday life, and shifting global power.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
I'm not an anthropologist but can we stop calling a two-week field visit ethnography
October 1, 2025 at 12:12 PM
I'm not an anthropologist but can we stop calling a two-week field visit ethnography
Wow undergrads really love Winner’s paper and hate SCOT…
September 26, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Wow undergrads really love Winner’s paper and hate SCOT…
I spent a year in several Chinese government bureaucracies studying bureaucratic politics, but I never felt as though I were living in a Kafkaesque world as much as I have during just three months at my university.
September 25, 2025 at 1:04 PM
I spent a year in several Chinese government bureaucracies studying bureaucratic politics, but I never felt as though I were living in a Kafkaesque world as much as I have during just three months at my university.
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It's here! @cliu.bsky.social and I found Techno-orientalism in the public media debate. Turns out the imaginary Chinese Social Credit System is useful for U.S. audiences to come to terms with domestic fears of tech development, state surveillance, and China's rise
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
Techno-Orientalism in the U.S. Media: The Case of "China's Social Credit System"
The portrayal of China's Social Credit System (SCS) as an Orwellian scoring scheme through which the Communist Party controls citizens' every step proliferates
papers.ssrn.com
September 24, 2025 at 12:42 PM
It's here! @cliu.bsky.social and I found Techno-orientalism in the public media debate. Turns out the imaginary Chinese Social Credit System is useful for U.S. audiences to come to terms with domestic fears of tech development, state surveillance, and China's rise
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Reading this unfortunately timely paper right now. Every sentence makes me want to cry.
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
Impacts of Immigration Policies on Families | Annual Reviews
US immigration policies have profound impacts on immigrant families. In a robust field of study across disciplines, scholars have documented how the multi-layered, complex immigration regime opens and...
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September 20, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Reading this unfortunately timely paper right now. Every sentence makes me want to cry.
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...
www.annualreviews.org/content/jour...