Welcome! I am a Ph.D. candidate in Sociology at Indiana University – Bloomington. My research centers on the intersection of the sociology of media and information technologies, political sociology, inequality, and gender. I am particularly interested in how digital technologies mediate, shape, or challenge social control and inequalities. I examine this question by focusing on key sites of struggle and control, from moments of heightened public contention to the everyday governance of online spaces that structures public participation and produces new forms of inequality. In both democratic and authoritarian contexts, my work examines who gets to speak, who is heard, how these processes are controlled and contested, and with what consequences for social and political life. Methodologically, I use a range of tools, including computational methods, advanced statistical techniques, survey experiments, and in-depth interviews.

 

My dissertation, supported by the American Sociological Association Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant (DDRIG) and the Indiana University COAS Dissertation Research Fellowship, investigates the dynamics of online (in)visibility in the context of violence against women (VAW) in China. Using a mixed-method approach, I explore the conditions under which VAW incidents, once disclosed ed online, garner widespread attention; and how public discourse on VAW evolves through the contestation of attention.

 

My work has been published on journals including Socius, The Information Society, and the Journal of Quantitative Description: Digital Media.