NAME:ZiyinLi
Ph.D.full-time lecturer, Shenzhen University.
EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND
2019. 09 –2024.07Ph.D., Zhejiang University
2017. 09 -2019.06 Master of Software Engineering, Zhejiang University
2013. 09 -2017. 07 Bachelor of Digital Media Technology, Yunnan University
ACADEMIC VISIT
2022.09-2023.10 Center for tracking and society, department of communication, University of Copenhagen
INDUSTRIAL EXPERIENCE
2018-2021. Product Assistant, Beijing Data Visualization Technology Ltd.
▪ Invited author, Paike, ThePaper.cn.(2019).
▪ Editor TencentNews&Beijing Data Visualisation Technology Ltd.(2019)
2018．BlockchainProduct Operations & Overseas Business Development, Hangzhou Feiba Network Technology Co., Ltd.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2024-2025 Spring: Data Theory and Data Literacy
Data Journalism and Visualization
Introduction to Machine Learning and NLP
HTML+CSS+Javascript Web Design
Data Processing and SPSS.
2024-2025 Autumn: Internet Programming: Based on Python
Human-Computer Interaction Design’.
2023.03-09. Studiementor i Studenterrådgivnin- gens SPS-afdeling, Copenhagen,Denmark, 2023.
2021-2022.Data Journalism,Data Mining and Visualization, Undergraduate Course, Teacher, Ningbo University of Finance & Economics.
2020 Fall. Data Mining and Visualization,Undergraduate CourseTA, Zhejiang University.
PARTIAL RESEARCH OUTPUTS
Publications:
Li, Z., & Wiehn, T. (2025.03). The disappearing of matchmaking work? Sign up as dating apps user. (Accepted/). Lateral (Journal of the Cultural Studies Association).
Li, Z. (2025). Moral Misbehavior Versus Feminist Sexuality: Text Analysis on How Chinese Youth See Dating Apps. Sexuality & Culture. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12119-024-10304-1.
ZHOU, R., &Li, Z. (2023). Data Ideology of Chinese Data Journalism Practitioners. Journalism Research, 2, 55-67+119. (CSSCI IF:3.190)
Li, Z. (2022). Approaching “Data Feminism”: Visualizations to Shed Light on Inequality.Journal of Communication Inquiry, OnlineFirst. https://- doi.org/10.1177/01968599221139488
ZHOU, R., &Li, Z. (2022). From Data Journalism To Data Content: A Content Analysis On International Data Awards.Future Communication(In Print, CSSCI IF:0.542).
Li, Z. (2020). China Data Content Development Report (Zhou R, Ed.).
Li, Z.,& Han, W.(2016). Image Database Based on Big Data, Engineering and Technology (ISSN1671-5519), 05, 260-261.
Han, W., & Li, Z.(2016).Transformation from Unstructured Database to Structured, Scientific Research(ISSN 1671-5780), 05.
PATENT(China): “Robot Platform”, Carrying and transporting multi-jointed robots and other production tools.
ResearchProjects
2020. 09 - 2024. 06 News innovation and Algorithmic curation.NationalSocialSciences Foundation.(participate)
2018. 03 - 2022. 12 Journalistic Innovation and Social Transformation in China: A News Ethnography Study. MOE (Ministry of Education, China) Project of Humanities and Social Sciences. (participate)
2019. 11 - 2020. 11 Zhejiang University Higher Education Teaching ReformData visualization teaching for convergent media talents (participate)
2020. ZJU Convergent Media Center Annual Report
2020.China Data Content Development Report, Zhejiang University &Beijing Data Visualisation Technology Ltd.
Conference：
Li, Z., &ZHOU, R.(2024). From Rights to Governance: Critiquing How Data Literacy Fits into China’s Data Society, 7th International Conference on Information Literacy, Beijing: Communication University of China, 22-23 September.
Li, Z. (2024). Reviewer for 2024 ECREA, 10th European Communication Conference.
Li, Z.& Wiehn,T. (2024). A New Matchmaking Labor: What Do Prosumers Do in Dating Apps. Global Digital Intimacies.The University of Amsterdam. Amsterdam(hybrid):27th- 28th June.
Li, Z.(2023). Digimeet 2023, by Weizenbaum Institute, the Bavarian Research Institute for Digital Transformation (bidt) and the Center for Advanced Internet Studies (CAIS). 28th, November.
Li, Z.(2023). “Moral Corruption” or New Feminist Possibilities? Public Discourse around Mobile Dating Apps in China(Oral Presentation). Contested Visibilities: Everyday politics and online imaginaries of the body, ECREA(European Communication Researchand Education Association). Lisbon:6th-8th, September.
Li, Z.(2023).TheResearchChallengeofDigitalAnthropologyaroundChineseIntimacy(Based on the article--Public Discourse around Mobile Dating Apps in China).YECREAContestedVisibilityworkshop, Lisbon(online): 4th, September.
Li, Z.(2023). Self-made Surveillance: The SWM Livestreaming and Digital Monitored Performance(Oral Presentation).Interdisziplinärer Workshop:Privacy, Datenschutz & Surveillance, Alexander von Humboldt Institut für Internet und Gesellschaft. Berlin: 18th, July, 2023.
Li, Z.（2023）. “Seeing Someone” 3.0: Chinese Intimacy in the Age of Deep Mediatization(Oral Presentation).Department of Arts and Cultural Studies/Center for Tracking and Society, University of Copenhagen. Copenhagen: 13th, June/ 31st, January.
ZHOU, R., &Li, Z.(2022).Deciding what the data is: Data Ideology as the practicing philosophy-- an in-depthInterviewfor data journalism practitioners(OralPresentation).15th China Young Communication Scholars Forum, Fudan University. Shanghai: 12 November 2022.
Li, Z.(2022). The Intimacy in the Age of Deep Mediatization(Oral Presentation), Digital Equality in Global, 2022/3rd ZJU-NTU Postgraduates Symposium. Hangzhou(online):November 13th 2022.
Li, Z.(2020). Visualization as a Narrative Mode: Logical Connections between Interaction Design and Information Transmission(Oral Pre).SMP2020, 9th National Conference on Social Media Processing, Zhejiang University. Hangzhou:4-6 September 2020.
