Yuchen Chen

Yuchen Chen is an assistant professor of Communication Studies at Baruch College, CUNY and a faculty affiliate in China at CUNY Initiative. She is an ethnographer of digital cultures and contemporary China. Situated at the intersections of science and technology studies, digital studies, and China studies, her work looks into two main themes: China’s data-driven governance and China's global outreach via digital platforms. She holds a Ph.D. in Communication and Media from the University of Michigan, where she received the Barbour Scholarship. Her work has appeared in communication and media studies venues such as New Media & Society, Information, Communication & Society, as well as social computing venues such as ACM CHI and CSCW. For more information, please visit: https://yuchen.info/