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Dr Yu-Shan Tseng

Senior Research Fellow

Research interests

  • AI and democracy
  • Platforms and cities 
  • Platforms and wellbeing 

More research

Accepting applications from PhD students.

Connect with Yu-Shan

Profile photo 
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Name 
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Job title 
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Research interests (for researchers only) 
Add up to 5 research interests. The first 3 will appear in your staff profile next to your name. The full list will appear on your research page. Keep these brief and focus on the keywords people may use when searching for your work. Use a different line for each one.

In Pure (opens in a new tab), select ‘Edit profile’. Under the heading 'Curriculum and research description', select 'Add profile information'. In the dropdown menu, select 'Research interests: use separate lines'.

Contact details 
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ORCID ID 
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Accepting PhD applicants (for researchers only) 
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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, Urban Studies, Urban Affairs, 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.

You can update this in Pure (opens in a new tab). Select ‘Edit profile’. Under the heading and then ‘Curriculum and research description’, select ‘Add profile information’. In the dropdown menu, select - ‘About’.

Write about yourself in the third person. Aim for 100 to 150 words covering the main points about who you are and what you currently do. Clear, simple language is best. You can include specialist or technical terms.

You’ll be able to add details about your research, publications, career and academic history to other sections of your staff profile.