Research

Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles

Miao, W., Liu, J. & Wu, S. (2022). Embedded symbiosis: An institutional approach to government-business relationship in the Chinese internet industry, Information, Communication & Society, DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2022.2128600

Zhao, L., Liu, J. & Li, Z. (2022). Online dating beyond dating apps: An examination of self-presentation of Chinese gay men dating on Zhihu, International Journal of Communication

Liu, J. (2021). Empathy as exoneration or resistance? The politics of male empathy in the Chinese #MeToo movement, Feminist Media Studies, DOI: 10.1080/14680777.2021.1986092

Book Reviews

Liu, J. (2022). Review of "Asians Loving Asians: Sticky Rice Homoeroticism and Queer Politics by Shinsuke Eguchi," Men & Masculinities, DOI: 10.1177/1097184X221123791.

Conference Presentations

Liu, J. (2024, June). Disposable counterpublics: Women, Queers, and Uyghurs in the White Paper Movement. International Communication Association (ICA), Gold Coast, Australia.

Liu, J. (2024, March). Navigating queer disability: Social lives of queer men with visual impairment in China. Association for Asian Studies (AAS), Seattle.

Liu, J. (2023, November). Emigration as political resistance? An intersectional analysis of run philosophy rhetoric. National Communication Association (NCA), National Harbor.

Liu, J. (2023, October). The politics of platform exceptionalism(s): How food-delivery platforms conceal their control over workers in China and the United States. Association for Internet Research (AoIR), Philadelphia.

Liu, J. (2023, March). From “husband-husband” to “roommates”: The cultural politics of social media content moderation on homosexuality in China. Association for Asian Studies (AAS), Boston.

Liu, J. & Miao, W. (2022, May). Platformized production of homonationalism: An ethnography of queer media production in China. Paper presented at the annual conference of the International Communication Association (ICA), Virtual.

Liu, J., Sou, C. & Xiong J. (2020, July). “Buy food or grow them yourself”: Comparing affordances of Chinese gay men dating apps Blued and Aloha. Paper presented at the annual conference of the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR), Virtual.

Liu, J. (2020, May). Challenging or obscuring patriarchy? An examination of male empathy in the Chinese #MeToo movement. Paper presented at ICA, Virtual. (Top Student Paper at the Chinese Communication Association Panel)

Invited Panels & Roundtables

"Pedagogy, Academic Freedom, and Academic Labor," Union for Democratic Communications (UDC) 2023 conference, Philadelphia.