Conferences

Global Information/Knowledge Infrastructure

Zhou,L.(2024) Inscription as Repair: Discursive Maintenance of a Transnational Hydropower Station🔋, The Joint International Committee for the History of Technology & Society for the History of Technology (ICOHTEC-SHOT) Conference, Chile
Zhou,L.(2024) Beneath the Tower of Babel: Techno-Politics, Borders, and Pragmatics of Internationalized Domain Names💻 in the Asia-Pacific Region.The Third Global STS Conference, Singapore
Zhou,L.,Chen,P.,Man,Y.(2023) One Spectrum, Various Voices: Techno-populism in Transnational Network Agenda Setting of 5G🛜 Issues. The International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR), France
Zhou,L.,Zhao,X.(2023) From "Modification" to "Editing": Multispecies Discourse in the Renaming of Genetic Engineering🧬. The Society for Social Studies of Science (4S Meeting), USA

History of Computing

Zhou,L.(2024) Bugs on the Great Wall: Computer Viruses🦠, Artificial Life, and Cybersecurity During the Cold War, Annual Meeting of the History of Science Society (HSS), Mexico
Zhou,L.(2023) Inventing Cash Registers💰: Emerging Computing Infrastructure and Alternative Origins of Surveillance Capitalism. The Society for Social Studies of Science (4S Meeting), USA

Human-computer Interaction/Online behavior

Zhou,L.(2023) "Cartographies" in the Chat Box📱: Mapping Image-text Relation in the Age of Human-machine Communication. International Communication Association (ICA), Beijing Hub
Zhao,X., Zhou,L.(2023) Virtual Casket of “Passion Leads Army”: Material Assemblage, Affective Space, and Melancholic Cyborg in Digital Ruins 🎮. The Society for Social Studies of Science (4S Meeting), USA
Guo,Y.,Zhou,L.(2024) (Trans) locality in Social Media News Engagement⌨️: Geographic Effects on the Quality of Online Discussion (under review)

Projects

World Health Organization (WHO)

Research Assistant (2023-2024)

Authored The Framing Analysis of the Tobacco Tax Issue in Chinese News Reporting and Strategic Suggestions

Conducted comprehensive data collection, systematic content coding, and framework analysis

Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)

Sole Representative from China, Asia Pacific Internet Governance Academy (2023)

Participated in a capacity-development program on Internet governance, co-hosted by ICANN and KISA, with collaboration from APNIC, DotAsia Organisation, ISOC, and APTLD

China International Communications Group (CICG)

Researcher, (2023-2024)

Led the project Application of Algorithmic Journalism in International Communication

Authored the report Journalism in the Age of the AI Wave

Ministry of Education (China)

Research Assistant, Project of Humanities and Social Sciences (2021)

Conducted extensive literature review on the Political Economy of ICTs, and collected and analyzed reports and data from government and technology companies

Contributed two chapters to the forthcoming book New Media and Public Diplomacy

Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC)

Research Group Leader, Consultation Project in WuZhong City (2019)

Authored the report Investigation on Social Adaptation of Environmental Migrants in the Hongsibu Area of Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, accepted by CPPCC, Wuzhong Office

Conducted fieldwork in 12 villages using qualitative research methods

Computer Skills

Software Copyright

Independent Author of source code and user manuals for White Box: Intelligent News Recommendation Platform V1.0 (2021)

Certified by the National Copyright Administration of China

Front-end development

Python, JAVA, D3.js, CSS, HTML, RAW

Multimedia

PS, PR, LR, DW