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Personal profile
Research interests
Yuwei Lin is a sociologist specialised in science and technology studies. Her work endeavours to understand digital co-production cultures, socio-technical dynamics within and across these open, distributed, de-centralised, crowd-sourced, audience-led, user-participatory, community-based innovation systems.
Her recent research interests concentrate on critical data studies, observing the big data, open data, algorithmic cultural phenomenon and related issues such as privacy, surveillance, automated discriminations by artificial intelligence (AI).
Additionally, she continues to develop her research avenue into socio-technical practices around hacking and co-production, and 'prosumption'. Queering hacker studies is one of the tasks on the agenda.
Yuwei is experienced in conducting qualitative research online and offline. She is also exploring and experimenting how performance-led / art-led, sensory / experiential, creative methods can serve the purpose of gather good-quality data that can reflect the sophisticated interactions and relationships in increasingly ubiquitous digital environments.
Education/Academic qualification
University of York
Oct 2000 → Jul 2005
Award Date: 1 Jul 2005
National Taiwan University
Sep 1995 → Jun 1999
Award Date: 30 Jun 1999
Keywords
- HM Sociology
- science and technology studies (STS)
- Free/Open Source Software
- critical data studies
- Gender and ICT
- co-production
- community-based co-production
- critical innovation studies
- data practices
- privacy
- surveillance
- digital media
- digital society
- digital cultures
- AI faireness
- algorithmic governance
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Surveillance Practices, Risks and Responses in the Post Pandemic University
Beetham, H., Collier, A., Czerniewicz, L., Lamb, B., Lin, Y., Ross, J., Scott, A-M. & Wilson, A., 3 Feb 2022, In: Digital Culture & Education.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Book Review: Amit S. Rai, Jugaad Time: Ecologies of Everyday Hacking in India. London: Duke University Press. 2019.
Lin, Y., May 2021, In: Mobile Media and Communication .Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review › peer-review
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Assembling an infrastructure for historic climate data recovery: data friction in practice
Bates, J., Goodale, P., Lin, Y. & Andrews, P., 8 Jul 2019, In: Journal of Documentation. 75, 4, p. 791-806Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Gendered work culture in free/libre open source software development
Lin, Y. & den Besten, M., 1 Jul 2019, In: Gender, Work and Organization. 26, 7, p. 1017-1031Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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#DeleteFacebook is still feeding the beast – but there are ways to overcome surveillance capitalism
Lin, Y., 26 Mar 2018, The Conversation Media Group.Research output: Other contribution
Open Access
Activities
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The Datafied Family
Yuwei Lin (Keynote/plenary speaker)
28 Jun 2023Activity: Participating in or organising an academic event › Participation in academic conference
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The 11th World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies (Event)
Yuwei Lin (Member)
4 Apr 2023 → 6 Apr 2023Activity: Membership › Membership of committee
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An Intelligent (AI) Game Jam at MozFest 2023
Yuwei Lin (Advisor)
23 Mar 2023Activity: Public engagement and outreach › Workshop and other training
Press/Media
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#DeleteFacebook is still feeding the beast – but there are ways to overcome surveillance capitalism
26/03/18
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Press / Media
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Digital tech companies need to be more open to protect our privacy and online data
20/03/18
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Press / Media