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Office: HK233
Email: pingerc@nycu.edu.tw
Website: https://pingerc.lab.nycu.edu.tw

• Ph.D. École des hautes études en sciences sociales (EHESS), France, Sociology
• M.S. Université Sorbonne Nouvelle – Paris 3, France, Cultural Mediation
• M.S. National Chengchi University (NCCU), Taiwan,  Journalism
• B.A. National Chiao Tung University (NCTU), Taiwan, Communication & Technology

• Associate Managing Editor, The Journal of Information Society (2025-)
• Docteure associée, European Center of Sociology and Political Science, EHESS, France (2020-)
• Visiting doctoral researcher, Department of Sociology, University of Virginia, USA (2018)

Research Awards & Fellowships

• Incentive Program for Faculty and Research Fellows in International Research Excellence, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan (2025, 2026)
• Reward Program for Recruiting Outstanding Scholars for Taiwanese Universities, Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan (2020-2023)
• Fellowship for the Leaders in Future Trends (LIFT) Program (Discipline: Culture and Technology), Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan (2019)
• Fellowship for YSW, European Research Center on Contemporary Taiwan, University of Tübingen, Germany (2019)
• Fellowship for the European Sociological Association PhD summer school, Fondation Maison de Science de l’Homme, France (2018)
• Doctoral Excellence Scholarship GSSA (Discipline: Sociology), Ministry of Education, Taiwan (2017-2019)

Teaching Awards

• Gender Equity Course Incentive Award, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan (2025)
• Teaching Excellence Award, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan (2024)
• Teaching Excellence Award in Service-Learning Course, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan (2023)
• Outstanding Mentor Award, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan (2022)
• Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, Advance HE, UK (2021)

Publications

【Books】

• 陳維平（主編）（2023）。《愛情必修學分：Z世代的情感和性別關鍵字》。陽明交通大學出版社。

【Journal articles】

• Chen, W. P.* & Lai, K. L. (2026). Gifting, gamification, and queer digital intimacy: Understanding live streaming affordances on Lespark. Information, Communication & Society, 29(5), 1633-1655. DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2025.2570736 [SSCI]
• Chen, W. P. * & Chung, H. C. (2026). Making “her” taste: Algorithmic genres and women’s viewing practices in Taiwan. First Monday, 31(4), 1-9. DOI: 10.5210/fm.v31i4.14462
  陳維平（2025）。〈數位親密的多重糾葛：交友軟體的演算法、性別與消費文化〉，《新聞學研究》，165，143-206。DOI: 10.30386/MCR.202510.0019 [TSSCI]
• Chen, W. P.* & Ku, C. C. (2025). Platformed femininities: Dual authenticity labor of women game streamers. Journal of Femininities, 3(1), 113-141. DOI: 10.1163/29501229-bja10025
• 賴冠伶、陳維平*（2024）。〈女同志直播社群的想望型勞動與親密關係建構〉，《資訊社會研究》，47，29-68。DOI: 10.29843/JCCIS.202407_(47).0002
• 郭姿妤、陳維平*（2024）。〈性感無罪、裸拍有理？私密影像下女性的聲音〉，《文化研究季刊》，185，1-18。
• Chen, W. P. (2024). Mediating gender norms through the ‘foodies’ culture as romantic emotions. Sociological Research Online, 29(4), 1036-1053. DOI: 10.1177/13607804241227113 [SSCI]

【Book chapters】

• Chen, W. P. (2026). From swipe to follow: Algorithmic romance work in Taiwan’s digital dating culture. In P. H. Lee, A. Martinez-Lacabe, & Y. C. Tseng (Eds.), Feeling Taiwan: Emotions in everyday politics, social movements, and research practices (pp.159-172). Routledge. DOI: 10.4324/9781003661719-14
• 陳維平（2023）。「網路交友：訂製完美情人？科技中介下的愛情」。載於陳維平（主編）《愛情必修學分：Z世代的情感和性別關鍵字》，頁85-118。陽明交通大學出版社。
• 張玉佩、陳維平（2022）。「智慧科技下的性別陷阱」。載於王維菁、林玉鵬、王俐容（主編）《AI時代的數位傳播素養教育》，頁273-292。五南。

【Editorial and review articles】

• 陳維平（2025）。〈評介黃應貴、林開世（主編）《性別、主體性、與重構生命世界》〉，《女學學誌：婦女與性別研究》，57，151-162。DOI: 10.6255/JWGS.202512_(57).04 [TSSCI]
• Chen, W. P. (2025). Data rules [Review of Data rules: Reinventing the market economy by Cristina Alaimo and Jannis Kallinikos]. Mobile Media & Communication, 13(3), 528-529. DOI: 10.1177/20501579251317645 [SSCI]
• Chen, W. P. (2025). Queer data studies [Review of Queer Data Studies by Patrick Keilty (Ed.)]. Journal of Gender Studies, 34(3), 459-464. DOI: 10.1080/09589236.2024.2372921 (First published online in 2024) [SSCI]
• Chen, W. P. (2024). Personal but not private [Review of Personal but not private: queer women, sexuality, and identity modulation on digital platforms by Stefanie Duguay]. Information, Communication & Society, 28(12), 2229-2230. DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2024.2396626 [SSCI]
• Casilli, A. & Chen, W. P*. (2022). Platform labor: Who makes algorithmic culture possible? The Journal of Information Society, 43, 1-18. [ISSN 1680-8468]
• Chen, W. P. (2020). Belabored postfeminist wifedom. Cultural Studies, 34(3), 492-494. DOI: 10.1080/09502386.2019.1618357 [SSCI]
• Chen, W. P. (2020). Review of Heading home: Motherhood, work, and the failed promise of equality by Shani Orgad. Sociological Research Online, 25(3), 529-530. DOI: 10.1177/1360780419888922 [SSCI]
• Chen, W. P. (2019). Review of Rated Agency: Investee Politics in a Speculative Age, by Michel Feher. Lateral: Journal of the Cultural Studies Association, 8(1). DOI: 10.25158/L8.1.17 [EBSCO; Online ISSN 2469–4053]

【 Conference presentations and papers 】(Recent 5 years)

• Chen, W. P. (2026, August). Fieldwork in the feed: Researcher visibility as method in creator culture ethnography. Paper presented at Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR) Flashpoint Symposium: Imagining and Co-creating Methods for Internet Research, Malmö University, Sweden.
• Chen, W. P. (2025, December). Algorithmic deception and gendered victimhood: Reconstructing intimate trust in Taiwan’s dating app scam narratives. Paper presented at Digital Intimacies 11: The Love of Machines [Organized by University of Sydney], Online.
• Chen, W. P. (2025, September). Resigned yet anticipating: Emotional algorithm calibration in digital intimacy. Paper presented at International Conference on Digital Intimacies, Young People and Everyday Life [Organized by Di.G.I.T (University of Padova, University of Milan, and Sapienza University of Rome)], University of Padova, Italy.
• Chen, W. P. (2025, July). Calculated authenticity: Algorithmic visibility and gender politics in Taiwan’s influencer management platforms. Paper presented at International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) Annual Conference –Communicating Environmental Justice: Many Voices, One Planet [Gender and Communication Section-Panel 15: Celebrities and Self-presentation, Gendered Digital Labour, and Social Media Influencers], Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.
• Chen, W. P. (2025, June). Gaming, branding, and intimacy: Dual-authenticity labor of streamer-influencers in Taiwan. Paper presented at International Communication Association (ICA) Annual Conference–Disrupting and Consolidating Communication Research [Joint Post-conference on Labor and Play in Platform Society, Game Studies & Media Industry Studies Division], Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic.
• Chen, W. P. (2025, May). Flow authenticity: Taiwanese women influencers’ postfeminist entrepreneurial narratives in Southeast Asia. Paper presented at Influencers and Gender Politics in South East Asia Symposium [Organized by Influencer Ethnography Research Lab (Curtin University) and Asian Cultural Research Hub (University of Melbourne)], Online.
• Chen, W. P. (2024, June). Gendering algorithmic self-care in the contemporary appscape. Paper presented at International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) Annual Conference – Weaving People Together: Communicative Projects of Decolonising, Engaging, and Listening [Gender and Communication Section-Panel 4: Humanitarianism: Algorithmic Infantilisation, Self-Care, or Disability], Christchurch, New Zealand.
• Chen, W. P. (2024, June). Emotionomics: Navigating emotional visibility in Taiwanese mobile dating culture. Paper presented at Global Digital Intimacies [Panel Session 3: C0.23 Affects and Emotions in Digital Dating], University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands. [Online presentation]
• Chen, W. P. (2023, July). Unpacking the black box of algorithmic emotions in Taiwan: A techno-feminist analysis. Paper presented at International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) Annual Conference –Inhabiting the Planet: Challenges for Media, Communication and Beyond [Gender and Communication Section], Lyon, France. [OCP23 Only-Online presentation]
• Chen, W. P. (2022, May). Gender, embodiment, and mobile dating culture. Paper presented at International Communication Association (ICA) Annual Conference–One World, One Network? [Feminist Scholarship Division], Paris, France. [Online presentation]

Research Grants & Projects (NSTC)

• The co-making of influencers: Exploring the value system of algorithmic visibility. National Science and Technology Council Taiwan, NSTC 113-2410-H-A49-078-MY3 [PI] (2024-2027)
• Unpacking the black box of algorithmic emotions: A techno-feminist analysis. Ministry of Science and Technology Taiwan, MOST 111-2410-H-A49-045-MY2 [PI] (2022-2024)
• Mobile dating, gender, and consumer culture: From emotional commodities to emotional subjectivities. Ministry of Science and Technology Taiwan, MOST 109-2410-H-009-058-MY2 [PI] (2020-2022)