About
Diyi is a DPhil candidate in Information, Communication, and the Social Sciences at the OII. Her doctoral research examines algorithmic content moderation and the legitimacy of platformized speech governance in South and Southeast Asian contexts. It seeks to understand how on-the-ground user insights might inform policymaking around digital platforms and borderline content moderation.
Her latest work has appeared in peer-reviewed journals such as Policy & Internet, New Media & Society, Journal of Medical Internet Research, and media outlets such as The Diplomat. Previously, she interned with UNESCO’s Communication and Information Unit, contributing to pilot research applying the Internet Universality Indicators framework in Thailand, and has recently been communicating around current initiatives regarding the Guidelines for the Governance of Digital Platforms. Currently a DPhil candidate at the OII, Diyi is also a visiting researcher at the Department of Communications and New Media at the National University of Singapore (Fall 2023), an Open Research Fellow at the Weizenbaum Institute in Germany (Spring 2024), a research fellow at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) Jakarta (Fall 2024), and a Tech Policy Fellow at the Tech Global Institute (2024-2025). She earned her BA and MA in International Journalism and Communication in China prior to commencing my DPhil, which is generously funded by the Clarendon Scholarship.
Research Interests
Platform governance, human-centred computing, communication law and policy, political communication, computational methods.
