Yuchen Chen

Education

Ph.D., Communication and Media, University of Michigan

M.A., Media, Culture, and Communication, New York University

Books

Chen, Y. Brokering New York City: An Ethnography of Global China’s (Im)Mobilities. In Progress.

Journal Articles

(2023). China as a "Black Box?" Rethinking methods through a sociotechnical perspective. Information, Communication & Society, 26(2). 253--269.

(2022). The making of “good” citizens: China's Social Credit Systems and infrastructures of social quantification. Policy & Internet, 1--22.

(2021). The platformization of propaganda: How Xuexi Qiangguo expands persuasion and assesses citizens in China. International Journal of Communication, 15. 20.

(2021). Engineering care in pandemic technogovernance: The politics of care in China and South Korea’s COVID-19 tracking apps. New media & society, 25(6). 1432--1450.

Book Chapters

Chen, Y., & Lu, A. (2028). Disinformation as a Geopolitical Practice: on China as a Surveillance State. Across Oceans and Waves: Asian Diasporic History, Politics, and Disinformation In Progress.

(2022). The Myth of Data-Driven Authoritarianism. (pp. 92--111). Digital Futures Lab; Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung..

Conference Proceedings

Sun, Y., Ankenbauer, S., Guo, Z., Chen, Y., Ma, X., & He, L. (2025). Rethinking Technological Solutions for Community-Based Older Adult Care: Insights from `Older Partners' in China. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction 9 (2).

Chen, Y., & Lu, A. J. (2025). Immigrant Tech Workers for, in, and as Crisis: The Pursuit of Global Computing Leadership. AAR '25: Proceedings of the sixth decennial Aarhus conference: Computing X Crisis.

Chen, Y., Lindtner, S., & Sun, Y. (2025). The Moral Economy of AI. AAR '25: Proceedings of the sixth decennial Aarhus conference: Computing X Crisis.

Chen, Y., Sun, Y., & Lindtner, S. (2023). Maintainers of Stability: The Labor of China’s Data-Driven Governance and Dynamic Zero-COVID. Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.

Kuo, R., Chen, Y., Lin, C. K., & Avle, S. (2022). Triangulating Race, Capital, and Technology. CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended Abstracts.

Presentations

Chen, Y. Grounding Platform Capitalisms: Liuliang and the (Market)Placemaking of Global China. Association of Asian Studies.

Chen, Y. (2025, March 10). Affective economies of investment-for-immigration between China and the U.S.. Penn Cinema & Media Studies Annual Conference. University of Pennsylvania: Penn Cinema & Media Studies Annual Conference.

Morris, C., & Chen, Y. Wanghong as Method. Researching Global China Conference – Innovation and Challenges. Hub Theatre, The Open University, Walton Hall, Milton Keynes MK7 6AA: The Open University.

Chen, Y., & Morris, C. Xiaohongshu (RED) as a Digital Infrastructure of Global China. The 22nd Chinese Internet Research Conference (CIRC).

Chen, Y. (2025, March 10). Grouding Chinese Platform Capitalisms. Association for Asian Studies. Columbus, Ohio

Chen, Y., & Lindtner, S. Mapping Geographies of Anxiety: Data Tales from Yunnan and New York City.. Association of Asian Studies. Seattle, Washington

Chen, Y. Brokering Long Island City: The Sociotechnical Production of the "new Chinatown". Society for Social Studies of Science Annual Meeting (4S).

Chen, Y. Sociotechnical Practices of Brokearge and the Emerging Geographies of Chinese Alienness. Postconference: ”Reimagining Urban Communication: Methods, Ethics, and Praxis in a Digital Age". ICA

Chen, Y. A Broker(age) Viewpoint of Scale: Transnational Chinese Platforms and the Sociotechnical Production of (Dis)Placements.. Global Fusion.

Chen, Y. Circulating and Placing Chinese Alienness. Society for Social Studies of Science Annual Meeting (4S)..

Kim, Y., Chen, Y., & Liang, F. The politics and practices of care in China and South Korea’s quarantine enforcement apps for COVID-19 response. International Communication Association.

Chen, Y. Techniques of Repair in Post-pandemic China. Biennial CARGC Fellows Conference “No Go- ing Back: Global Communication and Post-Pandemic Politics. : UPenn.

Chen, Y., & Lu, A. China as a Dystopian Future in American Surveillance Imaginaries: A Techno-orientalist Perspective.. Society for Social Studies of Science Annual Meeting (4S)..

Kim, Y., Chen, Y., & Liang, F. Surveillance infrastructures in and for crises: China and South Korea’s data-driven quarantine measures in the 2020 Coronavirus outbreak.. Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR).

Lu, A., Chen, Y., & Kim, Y. Science and Rumor of Virus: the Politics of Information Legitimacy of Coronavirus in China.. Society for Social Studies of Science (4S).

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