Zhang Kailan (hip hop feminism); Yin Siliang (WeChat); Chen Linfei (pop idol); Dong Ruolin (affective labor); Zhang Yue (female fandom); Zhang Kailan (hip hop feminism);He Hongzhu (androgyny); Yang Zhuxin (independent documentary); Liu Tianyu (overseas students and short-video platform); Wang Yusa (new immigrants and social media); Helen Wong (cultural activism in Hong Kong); Zheng Qi (crowdfunding); Wan Zhenxia (Hong Kong protests); Sherry Xiao (emotional labor); Renee Chan (online cultural resistance); Xia Bingqing (internet labor); Ivy Lou (cyberculture); Qiang Wen (online cultural resistance); Hao Wan Lei (television); Ge Shuai (human flesh search); Xiao Han (online community); Angela Cheong (Disney representation)

Academic Service

Faculty services

Since 2022

Chair of Ph.D. thesis defense committees for the Faculty of Social Sciences

Fall 2023

Coordinator in GE Global Awareness

Summer 2022

FSS Representative in GE Program Reform Committee

2020-2022

FSS Representative in the Scholarship Committee of the Senate

2018-2019

Representative of Dean of Faculty of Social Sciences at the Senate

2017-18

Member of Faculty Executive Committee

2015-18

Member of Undergraduate Studies Committee

2014-2015

Coordinator of Taiwan Research Project for FSS

Member of faculty search committee

2004-present

Examiner of various PhD and Master Thesis committees for Communication, History, Government and Sociology. Member of various Job Search committees.

2011

Member of FSH Undergraduate Studies Committee

2009

Member of UM General Education Course Development Team: World History, Civilization and Cultures

2004-2005

FSH representative on Library Committee

Departmental services

2018 – Summer 2022

Associate Head of Department

2017

Acting Head of Department (Spring)

2013-present

Coordinator, Undergraduate Program

Chair, Undergraduate Steering committee 

2006

Speaker series coordinator, UM Jubilee Celebration

2003-present

Examiner of various Ph.D. and MA qualifying exams, advisory and oral defense committees, for History, Sociology and Communication Departments.

Residential College Affiliation

From 2019: Cheng Yu Tong Residential College

I have been the leader of the CYTC basketball team since March 2021. I participated in the training and coaching of the team.

I have been affiliated with Stanley Ho East Asia Residential College from 2016 to 2019. I have attended SHEAC’s activities including the Master’s meeting with fellows (late 2016) and Master’s dinner with residential students (April 2017), and coordinated a guest talk by Prof. Jan Nederveen Pieterse (March 2017).

External activities

Advisory Board Membership

Chinese Journal of Communication

Academic manuscript reviewers for the following journals/publishers:

Founding participant of Co-Lab, a transnational research network for Artistic Activism (https://c4aa.org/2022/07/towards-an-international-research-co-lab-on-artistic-activism )

Reviewer of Academic Promotion, HKBU (November 2021)

Interview with The Economist on Chinese youth culture (November 2020)

Reviewer of Research Grant and Academic Promotion, United International College, Beijing Normal University-Hong Kong Baptist University

Examiner for Institute of Social and Cultural Research, National Chiao-Tung University (Taiwan)

Reviewer for International Program in Inter-Asia Cultural Studies (UST), Institute of Social Research and Cultural Studies, National Chiao Tung University

Examiner for MA in Geography, NTU (Taiwan)

Reviewer for PhD thesis, University of Seville (Spain)

Examiner for MPhil thesis, CUHK

Member of Association for Cultural Studies (from 2005-2012)

Member of Cultural Studies Association (from 2006-2012)

Grants received

2023-2024

Social Media, Emotion, China (multiple-year project funded by UMAC, MOP120000)

2022-2023

The aestheticization of emotional politics: Thinking through Shouzuyuan (multiple-year project funded by UMAC, MOP125000)

2020-2021

Configuring Macau’s Cultural Imaginaries (multiple-year project funded by UMAC, MOP130000)

2018-2020

Embodied acts of citizenship (multiple-year project funded by UMAC, approx. MOP 80000 per year)

2014-2017

Politics against the state (multiple-year project funded by UMAC, approx. MOP 225K per year)

2012

Macau’s Cyber Culture (1995-2011) (funded by the Cultural Bureau, MOP 160K)

2011-2014

Agonistic public spheres (multiple-year project funded by UMAC, approx. MOP 280K per year); work with Dr. Shi Wei

Ambiguous identities (multiple-year project funded by UMAC, approx. MOP 280K per year); work with Dr. Shi Wei

2009-2011

Theorizing China’s netizen struggle (UMAC, approx. MOP 38K per year)

2009

Network cultures in China: Affective labor and social struggle in the information age (UMAC, approx. MOP 33K)

2006-2008

Comparative Colonialities in China (UMAC, approx. MOP 27.5K per year)

Invited talks and presentations

2022

‘Affective News Stream’, Digitized Migrants. February 7-8. Vienna, Austria.

2021

“Rethinking China’s Algorithmic Governance: The Case of the Health Code”. Governmentality and the Neoliberal “Order” in China*. 11 October. Taipei.

“Intimate Strangers: Nei Di Sheng as Emotional Subjects in Recent Hong Kong Protests”. Re-Worlding Chinese Transnationalisms”. 26-27 August. Melbourne, Australia

Affect, Society, Culture. Graduate Studies Lecture Series for the School of Sociology and Anthropology, Xiamen University, 29 June – 15 July (5 sessions)

Guest Speaker: ‘What is the affective space?’, Social Identity and Adaptation Workshop, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 10 January.

2020

Guest Lecture Series: Emotion and Public Culture, Graduate Studies Lecture Series, School of Sociology and Anthropology, Xiamen University, 26 June to 24 July (5 sessions)

2019

‘Some thoughts on the visual’, 4^th Audiovisual Communication Summit Forum, Ningbo University, Ningbo, 19-21 April.

2018

Samir Amin and the critique of Eurocentrism, The Historical Context of Globalization and Lessons of the Third World: Reinventing the Intellectual Legacy of Samir Amin, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 7-8 December.

How can Little Pinks inspire Communication Studies?, Revisiting the Pathways: Open and Reform and the development of Chinese Communication Studies, East China Normal University, Shanghai, 1-2 December.

News and democracy: From small wishes to master narrative, 2018 Conference on the Development of Business Journalism and Corporate Communication Education in Mainland, Taiwan, Macau and Hong Kong, Hang Seng University, Hong Kong, 2-3 November.

Media and education in the digital age: A participatory culture perspective, International Media Education Summit, HKBU, Hong Kong, 1-2 November.

Little Pinks and the reinvention of cybernationalism, Spotlight Panel: Configurations of Hope: Youth Activism in Asia, Crossroads in Cultural Studies, Shanghai University, 12-15 August.

http://www.cul-studies.com/ACScrossroads2018/ACScrossroads2018/ConFigurationsofHope/index.htm

2015

Roundtable discussant, The defeat of a sovereign project, Association for Taiwan Studies Annual Convention, National Chengchi University, 3-4 October.

Chair and respondent, China and the World, Association for Taiwan Studies Forum, Wistaria Tea House, 17 January

2014

Politics against the state, Global Studies Conference, Shanghai University, 21 June

http://onglobalization.com/the-conference-2014/program-and-events/plenary-speakers

Occupy Central: Anti-capitalist experiment and the internal contradiction within the people, HONG KONG BETWIXT AND BETWEEN：香港社會與文化在理論的交叉, Academia Sinica, 1 June.

http://www.ioe.sinica.edu.tw/content/EventREg/content.aspx?SiteID=530167135246736660&MenuID=530413501167722713&MSID=617250037340050453

2012

TDM’s Macau Forum and the English-language talk show (on Taiwan’s presidential election), Macau, January.

http://www.macaudailytimes.com.mo/macau/33211-Liu-Shih-Ding-TDM-Talk-Show-Taiwan-not-ready-get-closer-China.html

2010

‘Macau as the nodal point in the PRD imaginary’, Department of Cultural Studies, Lingnan University, 7 July.

http://www.asc.upenn.edu/news/Calendar.aspx?id=653

Forum participant on Macau’s TDM, organized by Macau Youth Dynamics, Macau, 13 June.

http://macauyd.blogspot.com/2010/06/tdm_13.html

2009

‘Participatory cultures on the internet’, Chinese Wikimedia Conference, Institute for Tourism Studies, 26-27 December, Macau.

http://www.wikimedia.org.mo/wiki/index.php/2009%E4%B8%AD%E6%96%87%E7%B6%AD%E5%9F%BA%E5%B9%B4%E6%9C%83

Forum participant on Macau’s electronic media’, organized by City Action, 19 April, Macau.

http://cityactions.blogspot.com/2009/04/blog-post_7363.html

‘The depoliticization of Macau’s TV management’, An International Symposium on Political Culture and Civil Society in Macao, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Mainland China, University of Macau, 18-19 March.

https://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=124253490986405

2008

‘The emergence of internet biopolitics in China’, Culture and Politics in 20^th Century China History: May Fourth as a Site for Rethinking Symposium, Institute of Advanced Studies, Tsinghua University.

http://www.wyzxsx.com/Article/Class17/200906/88082.html

‘Las Vegas in China’, Asia Research Institute Cultural Studies Cluster, National University of Singapore, 22 July.

http://www.ari.nus.edu.sg/cluster/events_details.asp?clusterid=CS&eventid=815

‘Macau’s TV’, organized by City Connection, Macau.

http://umac.academia.edu/LiuShihDiing/Papers/623565/_The_depoliticization_of_Macaus_TV_management

Forum participant on ‘Media and democracy’, with Mr. Yang Jinlin, Lecture Hall of Times, University of Macau, 2 May.

http://umpa.org.mo/showlecture.php?id=15

2007

‘The affective space in Chinese cyberspace’, Trauma and New Media Workshop, University of Gothenburg, Sweden, 5-6 October.

http://umac.academia.edu/LiuShihDiing/Papers/620200/Undomesticated_Hostilities_The_Affective_Space_of_Internet_Chat_Rooms_across_the_Taiwan_Strait

2006

‘The internet as a site for cross-strait reconciliation?’, Thinking Common Problems: A Literary Critical Symposium, boundary 2 and HKU, 12-14 June.

http://umac.academia.edu/LiuShihDiing/Papers/620200/Undomesticated_Hostilities_The_Affective_Space_of_Internet_Chat_Rooms_across_the_Taiwan_Strait

Conference presentations

I served as panel organizer, moderator and respondent for international conferences including Rethinking Resistance (University of Macau, December 2012), Becoming Mobilized and Connected (National Taiwan Normal University, 2010), The Biannual Association for Cultural Studies Crossroads Conference, The Biannual Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Conference, and The Annual Conference for Cultural Studies Association (Taiwan).

2012

‘The network struggle in China’, presented at An International Conference on Communication and Global Power Shifts, Communication University of China, Beijing, October 12-13.
http://rirt.cuc.edu.cn/forum/

‘Reunification by neoliberalism? Taiwan’s dilemma’, presented at the Association for Cultural Studies Crossroads Conference, 4 July, Paris.
http://hufs.academia.edu/YounghanCho/Papers/1023662/The_Neoliberalism_Mutations_in_South_Korea_Taiwan_and_Hong_Kong

2011

‘Macau as the nodal point in PRD imaginary’, presented at the Annual Conference for Taiwan Social Studies, Shixin University, 25 September, Taipei.
http://umac.academia.edu/LiuShihDiing/Talks/43733/The_problem_of_governmentality_in_Hong_Kong_and_Macau_panel_proposal_

2010

‘Can Depoliticized Politics Explain Social Struggles?’, paper presented at the Association for Cultural Studies Crossroads Conference, Lingnan University, 18 June, Hong Kong.
http://cultstud.org/xr2010/crossroad/pdf/Can.pdf

‘The subject of neoliberalism: The contradictory experience of Macau’s casino dealers’, with Wei SHI, Annual Conference of the Cultural Studies Association of Taiwan, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, 9-10 January.
http://umac.academia.edu/LiuShihDiing/Papers/623587/_The_subject_of_neoliberalism

2008

‘The emergence of internet biopolitics in China’, Culture and Politics in 20th Century China History: May Fourth as a Site for Rethinking Symposium, Institute of Advanced Studies, Tsinghua University, Beijing.
http://umac.academia.edu/LiuShihDiing/Papers/620201/_The_emergence_of_internet_biopolitics_in_China

‘The politics of cyber-nationalism in the age of de-politicization’, Cross-Strait Communication Conference, University of Macau, 14-15 June.

2007

‘The web of passions’, Chinese Internet Studies Conference, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 12-13 October.
http://umac.academia.edu/LiuShihDiing/Papers/620200/Undomesticated_Hostilities_The_Affective_Space_of_Internet_Chat_Rooms_across_the_Taiwan_Strait

2006

‘Asia’s political subjectivity in the 60s: The insurrection of Macau’s 12-3 incident’, Cultural Studies Annual Conference, National Taiwan University, Taipei, 6-7 January.
http://umac.academia.edu/LiuShihDiing/Papers/1283418/_Macaus_neocolonialism

2005

‘Why hasn’t colonialism ended yet?’, Multitude Lives/ Bodies: The 7^th Annual Conference , National Central University, Zhongli, Taiwan, 7-8 January.
http://umac.academia.edu/LiuShihDiing/Papers/620200/Undomesticated_Hostilities_The_Affective_Space_of_Internet_Chat_Rooms_across_the_Taiwan_Strait

‘China’s Popular Nationalism on the Net’, The 2005 Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Conference, The National University of Arts, Seoul, 22-24 July.
http://umac.academia.edu/LiuShihDiing/Papers/620196/Chinas_popular_nationalism_on_the_internet._Report_on_the_2005_anti-Japan_network_struggles

‘Problematizing Asia’s pro-US subjectivity’, Cultural Studies Association Annual Conference, National Chiao-Tung University, Hsinchu, 8-9 January.
http://www.csat.org.tw/csa/CSA_2005/papers/0108_B1_1_Liu.pdf

2004

‘Taiwan and mainland China’s pro-US subjectivity as an alternative frame of reference’, National Identity and Cross-Strait Relations conference, University of Macau, 16-17 December,
http://www.csat.org.tw/csa/CSA_2005/papers/0108_B1_1_Liu.pdf

Panel and conference organizing

2011

Panel organizer (with Younghan Cho), ‘The neoliberal mutations in South Korea, Hong Kong and Taiwan’, The Biannual Association for Cultural Studies Crossroads Conference, Paris.

Co-moderator, Rethinking Resistance Conference, 16-8 December, University of Macau.

Panel organizer, ‘The problem of governmentality in Macau and Hong Kong’, The Annual Conference for Taiwan Social Studies, 25 September, Shixin University, Taipei.

2007

Panel organizer and chair, ‘New media and cultural industries in East Asia’, The 2007 Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Conference, Shanghai University

Panel organizer, ‘East Asia Memories’, The 2007 Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Conference, Shanghai University

Panel organizer, ‘East Asia as Community of Fate’, The 2007 Cultural Studies Association Annual Conference, National Taiwan University

2005

Respondent, Social Sciences in Macau Conference, organized by Macau Social Sciences Association, 6 October.

Other activities

I receive media interviews on various local and regional media outlets. I was also interviewed by the crew for Code Red, a documentary film that examines how the Internet is impacting politics and transforming Chinese society. Other informal academic activities include:

Digital Jambalaya and Cultural Industry groups (2008)

City Connection (2008)

Macau Club (2004-2005)