Liming Liu

Liming Liu (he/him/his) is a second-year doctoral student at the Hugh Downs School of Human Communication. He focuses on the socio-cultural implications of emerging technologies and digital platforms. His research interests lie in AI, data and privacy practices in both intercultural and international contexts.

His work has published in several international peer-reviewed journals, including Social Media + Society, Computers in Human Behavior, and Religions. He received the Best Student Paper Award (runner-up) from the Global Communication and Social Change Division of the International Communication Association (ICA) 2024 for his co-authored paper "Which Storytelling People Prefer? Mapping News Topic and News Engagement in Social Media" published in Computers in Human Behavior. He was elected as a 2024-25 Graduate Fellow at ASU Global Human Rights Hub to engage in public scholarship for his research on data rights and practices in China. 

Before embarking on his PhD studies, he served as an Instructor in the Department of Communication at Hong Kong Baptist University Mainland campus (UIC), and obtained a research master's degree from Uppsala University, Sweden. Prior to his academic career, he gained valuable industry experience working as an editor at ByteDance and a senior product operator at Douyu Live Streaming for four years.