Dr Haili Li
Lecturer in Media and Communications
Overview
Haili Li is a lecturer in Media and Communications at the Department of Communications, Drama and Film, University of Exeter. Prior to joining Exeter in July 2023, she worked as a postdoc for the ERC project Digital Governance in China at Freie Universität Berlin (2021-2023). Haili obtained her PhD degree from the Digital Media Research Centre, Queensland University of Technology in September, 2021. Her research has been primarily focused on digital media and cultures, digital technologies and public engagement, digital inequalities, migration, and the intersections between race, ethnicity, gender, and sexuality. Haili Li has been endorsed as a global talent by the British Academy starting from June 2023.
Email: h.li5@exeter.ac.uk
Office: White House, Thornlea, Exeter, EX4 4LA, UK
Office Hours: 10.30 am-12.30 pm, Wednesday (Please email to book an appointment).
Research
Digital Media and cultures
Race, ethnicity, and migration
Intercultural studies
Digital technologies
Digital participation
Digital inequalities
Gender and sexuality
Supervision
Haili Li welcomes research proposals/projects from a diverse array of domains, encompassing but not limited to digital media and cultures, intercultural communication, digital technologies and public engagement, digital inequalities, unfairness and inclusion, migration, as well as race, gender, and sexuality studies.
PhD supervision
September 2023- Ziyi Song, Project title: Perception, Negotiation and Representation: Cultural Identities of Young British Chinese on Social Media, University of Exeter (second supervisor)
Publications
Copyright Notice: Any articles made available for download are for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and the copyright holder.
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2024
- Li H, Kostka G. (2024) Navigating the digital age: The gray digital divide and digital inclusion in China, Media, Culture & Society, DOI:10.1177/01634437241229382. [PDF]
2022
- Li H, Kostka G. (2022) Accepting but not engaging with it: Digital participation in local government‐run social credit systems in China, Policy & Internet, volume 14, no. 4, pages 845-874, DOI:10.1002/poi3.316. [PDF]
- Li H. (2022) Stringent censorship and relaxed co-governance: understanding platform governance and user practices of queer social and dating apps, Asian Journal of Communication, volume 32, no. 5, pages 434-447, DOI:10.1080/01292986.2022.2063912. [PDF]
2021
- Li H, Chen X. (2021) From “Oh, you’re Chinese . . . ” to “No bats, thx!”: Racialized Experiences of Australian-Based Chinese Queer Women in the Mobile Dating Context, Social Media + Society, volume 7, no. 3, pages 205630512110353-205630512110353, DOI:10.1177/20563051211035352. [PDF]
2020
- Li H. (2020) Negotiating Privacy and Mobile Socializing: Chinese University Students’ Concerns and Strategies for Using Geosocial Networking Applications, Social Media + Society, volume 6, no. 1, pages 205630512091388-205630512091388, DOI:10.1177/2056305120913887. [PDF]
- Li H. (2020) Book review: Robert J. Foster and Heather A. Horst (Eds.), The moral economy of mobile phones: Pacific Islands perspectives, Mobile Media & Communication, volume 8, no. 2, pages 295-296, DOI:10.1177/2050157920902854b. [PDF]
- Li H. (2020) Transnational togetherness through Rela: Chinese queer women’s practices for maintaining ties with the homeland, International Journal of Cultural Studies, volume 23, no. 5, pages 692-708, DOI:10.1177/1367877920923357. [PDF]
2019
- Li H. (2019) Representations and public discourse of Chinese family cultures across media platforms, International Journal of Media & Cultural Politics, volume 15, no. 2, pages 239-247, DOI:10.1386/macp.15.2.239_7. [PDF]
