Liming Liu
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Mail code: 1205Campus: Tempe
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Student Information
Graduate StudentCommunication
The College of Lib Arts & Sci
Liming Liu (he/him/his) is a third-year doctoral student at the Hugh Downs School of Human Communication. He explores the socio-cultural and socio-technical implications of emerging technologies, focusing on the co-construction of communicative technology and cultural practices. His research interests lie in digital religion, digital privacy and data practices, and human-machine communication in both intercultural and international contexts.
His work has been published in several international peer-reviewed journals, including Social Media + Society, Human-Machine Communication, Journalism Studies, International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction, Telecommunications Policy, Religions, and others. 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 Beijing Normal - Hong Kong Baptist University, 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.
M.A. Social Sciences, specialising in Digital Media and Society, Uppsala University, Sweden
B.A. Journalism, Linyi University, China
digital religion; human-machine communication; privacy and data practices; platform
Chen, Y., Liu, L. & Deng, J. (2025). Governing data through privacy after China’s PIPL: Discursive strategies, layered compliance and power dynamics in digital platform policies. Telecommunication Policy. 103147. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.telpol.2025.103147
Liu, L., Ge, Y. & Chen, Y. (2025). Constructing the Bodies of the Female AI News Presenters: Biometric Replication, Gendered Standardization, and Subjectivity Reconstruction. Journalism Studies. 1–21. https://doi.org/10.1080/1461670X.2025.2585296
Liu, L., & Chen, Y. (2025). Understanding Privacy Visibility Dialectic in the Post-PIPL Era: Users’ Everyday Privacy Negotiations of (In-)Visibility on Digital Platforms. International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction, 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1080/10447318.2025.2573044
Cheong, P. H. & Liu, L. (2025). Generative Artificial Intelligence and collaboration: Exploring religious Human-Machine Communication and tensions in leadership practices. Human-Machine Communication, 11, 171–190. https://doi.org/10.30658/hmc.11.9
Cheong, P. H., & Liu, L. (2025). Faithful Innovation: Negotiating Institutional Logics for AI Value Alignment Among Christian Churches in America. Religions, 16(3), 302. https://doi.org/10.3390/rel16030302
Yang, Z., Liu, L., & Ge, L. (2025). Claiming queerness on Weibo: Public interaction discourse towards Chinese queer women athletes and their chugui. Women’s Studies International Forum, 110, 103082. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wsif.2025.103082
Liu, L., & Chen, Y. (2024). A Triple-Layered Comparative Approach to Understanding New Privacy Policy Practices of Digital Platforms and Users in China After Implementation of the PIPL. Social Media + Society, 10(4). https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051241301265
He, Y., & Liu, L. (2024). To fight, to confront, and to resist: Exploring the media representation of Chinese Zhangjie in Sister. Feminist Media Studies. https://doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2024.2346764
Jiang, X., Liu, L., Wu-Ouyang, B., Chen, L. & Lin H. (2024). Which storytelling people prefer? Mapping news narrative and news engagement in social media. Computers in Human Behavior. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2024.108248 Best Student Paper Award (runner-up), Global Communication and Social Change Division, ICA2024
Courses
2026 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| COM 263 | Cultures and Global Engagement |
2025 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| COM 263 | Cultures and Global Engagement |
| COM 407 | Qualitative Data Analysis Comm |
2025 Summer
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| COM 263 | Cultures and Global Engagement |
| COM 263 | Cultures and Global Engagement |
2025 Spring
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| COM 100 | Intro to Human Communication |
2024 Fall
| Course Number | Course Title |
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| COM 263 | Elements Intercultural Comm |