Yu Sun
yu-ys.bsky.social
Yu Sun
@yu-ys.bsky.social
Lecturer in Media and Sociology at University of Glasgow. I started my academic journey in media studies from University of Groningen in the Netherlands during 2013 to 2018, now doing research in digital politics and Chinese media industries, etc.
All welcome to drop by the final last talk on datafied civil society and environmental action in China as we’re wrapping up for the year. This seminar is in hybrid format. See the zoom link in the comment section below.
December 8, 2025 at 11:30 PM
This is still an ongoing project with Dr Wilfred Yang Wang @ichbinwill.bsky.social We try to conceptualize techno-moral governance in digital China. It’s exciting work but find theorizing empirical evidence is so challenging! Hopefully, will get there gradually! Welcome to attend if you are around🥂
Scottish Centre for China Studies autumn seminar series starts next week

Dr Yu Sun (Uni of Glasgow)

Rating villagers’ morality via data scoring systems: everyday surveillance and techno-moral governance in rural China

Wed 24 Sept, 4–5.30pm
Register online: uofglasgow.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: SCCR Seminar 24 September 2025. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
Speaker: Yu Sun, Lecturer in Sociology, University of Glasgow
uofglasgow.zoom.us
September 20, 2025 at 11:20 PM
Following the fruitful discussions at ICA, another VoC seminar with senior colleagues sharing experiences and offering advice on navigating early academic life is upcoming on 25 June. Registration is still open, see below.
Join #VoC# ECRs & Emerging Scholars session June 25, 10:00-11:30 (CET) via Zoom, w. keynotes @profweiyu.bsky.social + @pauljreilly.bsky.social on navigating challenges of early academic life
w. @yu-ys.bsky.social @icahdq.bsky.social @ecreacomdem.bsky.social

Registration: cts.ku.dk/tim-talks/20...
June 21, 2025 at 11:49 PM
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great PhD opportunity - Migration, Border Securitization, and Citizenship in the Global South. at Dublin City University www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMJ996/d...
DCU PhD Scholarship - Migration, Border Securitization, and Citizenship in the Global South. at Dublin City University
At jobs.ac.uk, you can apply for a DCU PhD Scholarship - Migration, Border Securitization, and Citizenship in the Global South.. Explore our diverse range of PhD opportunities today.
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March 24, 2025 at 8:50 AM
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The ACSJ interest group of the ICA has now joined this bright place and abandoned what we felt was no longer a good environment for research into social justice and activism. Let’s make this site a lively forum for exchange together. ACSJ members and friends - please follow us here
February 17, 2025 at 8:28 AM
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The ACSJ Interest Group Call for award nominations is open until February 20
Outstanding Dissertation Award:
Open to dissertations completed in the past two years

Outstanding Book Award: Honoring the best book (sole or co-authored) on themes central to ACSJ, published within the past two years.
Awards 2025
The ICA Interest Group on Activism, Communication, and Social Justice (ACSJ) invites nominations for the Outstanding Dissertation Award and Outstanding Book Award to be given at the ACSJ business meeting at the 2025 ICA Conference in Denver.
www.icahdq.org
February 17, 2025 at 8:36 AM
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You can’t post your way out of fascism

Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them

🔗 www.404media.co/you-cant-pos...
You Can’t Post Your Way Out of Fascism
Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them, Janus Rose writes.
www.404media.co
February 5, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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The symposium 'The Politics of Governance by Quantification Infrastructure,' co-edited by @jliu2024.bsky.social and me, is now out in Critical Sociology, featuring 4 articles exploring the middle ground between subjects and systems of quantification globally.

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December 12, 2024 at 3:12 PM
Voice of Change second webinar is coming on 19 February, featuring on effective climate communication.
✨thrilled for the second webinar of the "Voices of Change" talk series, co-organized by ICA Activism, Communication & Social Justice & @ecreacomdem.bsky.social!
@ipostas.bsky.social on “Effective climate communication: from eco-anxiety to eco-action”
👉Please register at eur.nl/en/eshcc/eve...
January 25, 2025 at 2:30 PM