Ziyu Deng
DPhil Student
Ziyu Deng
DPhil Student
Ziyu Deng is a DPhil student in Information, Communication, and Social Sciences. Sitting at the intersection between sociology and communications, her doctoral research studies the communication of online misogyny on the Chinese Internet. She also studies gendered digital participation, online contentious politics, digital intimacy and AI companions, as well as digital youth culture. Her work has an East Asian regional focus, particularly on contemporary China. She received a Master in Public Policy at Sciences Po Paris, and a Master of Arts at the Weatherhead East Asian Institute at Columbia University.
Online misogyny, digital and virtual intimacy, AI companions, political communication, digital youth culture.
Deng, Z. (2024). “They don’t mean to hurt”: Female gamers’ reluctance in recognizing and confronting sexism in gaming as an online-offline juxtaposition. New Media & Society, 28(1), 270-288.
16 December 2024
Ten Oxford Internet Institute (OII) DPhil students have received Dieter Schwarz Foundation (DSF) funding to enable them to begin 12-month AI- related research projects during the course of their studies.
