About
I am a human geographer doing research on the topics of digital democracies (or political participations) and, more recently, on digital/AI wellbeing. I am familiar with interdisciplinary research in these topics and specialised in creative, comparative and mixed methods (in addition to more conventional ethnographic fieldwork). I have frequently been invited by leading journals (such as Nature Cities, Annals, Political Geography, and Big Data and Society) to review papers on AI governance and the digital everyday in Taiwan, China, India, Spain and some other countries in the Global North. Currently, I am co-editing a Special Issue with Scott Rogers on 'ordinary democracy in digital cities' for the Urban Studies Journal.
My recent interest is using Daoist thinking to develop a cosmology of feelings for rethinking subjectivity, empathy, and wellbeing as spiritual in online/urban spaces. Please find details about my research project 'Digital Wellbeing' at https://encounters.blog/about/
For potential PhD students, I am strongly interested in exploring Daoist philosophy (not as a religion) (or its Western 'equivalent' such as vitalism/phenomenology) as a non-authoritative way of conceptualising how 'life', 'feelings' and 'ethics' are experienced and governed in urban, health, and environmental crises or in digital spaces.