NARRATIVE ENGAGEMENTS
The poly-crisis we live in requires polyvocal narrative strategies. We collaborate with Majority World movements and collectives working to repair the fractures of our digital worlds—especially for those most vulnerable to technology-facilitated harms. We build intersectional collaborations and shared tools for advocacy, policy change, and community organizing. Our work translates research into feminist and decolonial practices of knowledge-building, resulting in training institutes, online learning journeys, community adoption strategies, and capacity-building toolkits. These are designed to strengthen narrative power and foster transformative engagements with digital technologies across multiple geographies and struggles.
Technological Pandemic
Really Fake takes up story, poetry, and other human logics of care, intelligence, and dignity to explore sociotechnological and politico-aesthetic emergences in a world where information overload has become a new ontology of not-knowing.
The Present, Past, and Future of Coming Together
Technical Pandemic Workshop #1
2024
In this performative lecture, AIDS activist videomaker and scholar, Alexandra Juhasz, will mine her own archives of movement-based media—of many times, aims, and their techno-formats—to display and discuss how humans have used media to better know, heal, make art, and community, together, across a range of pandemics including AIDS, Covid-19, and fake news.
What the pandemic taught us about Technologies, and vice-versa
Technical Pandemic Workshop #2
2025
This talk draws from collaborative community workshops in Hong Kong and New Delhi to combine story-telling, contextualization, and re-mediation of the global experiences of the COVID19 pandemic.
The Present and Future of Coming Together
Technical Pandemic Workshop #3
2025
The workshop engages in feminist and queer speculative design and futurism to invite participants to co-create, produce, and build elements of the technological pandemic that we can collectively name and understand experiences, memories, and collective understanding of these technological shifts that have proliferated and been naturalized with and through the local experience of the global COVID19 pandemic.
Building a critical inquiry framework
Technical Pandemic Series #1
2024
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In our first blog entry of “Technological Pandemic” series, Nishant Shah makes an attempt to map the emergence, origin, and continuation of pandemic technologies and subjectivities, as they inform the present and future of coming together.
Continuing to Build a Critical Inquiry Framework
Technical Pandemic Series #2
2024
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In the second blog entry of “Technological Pandemic” series, Alexandra Juhasz starts from the continuty of pandemic to suggest technologies are time and travel machines arming us with what and where was before us and what and where we will be.
Coming together when nothing is back to normal
Technical Pandemic Series #3
2024
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In the third blog entry of “Technological Pandemic” series, Dr. Sonia Wong focuses on connections, and the process of coming together, or putting people, ourselves, and our communities back together again.
Narrative Practice-JRF 2023-2024
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The Digital Narrative Studio aims to explore new approaches to (digital) narrative change, which involves changing of the narrative, the changes produced by narratives, and how the practice of narrative change can eventually lead to a re-engineering of hope.
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The Last Mile Problem is familiar to most people. In recent coverage, it refers to the "last mile" that exists in reality within telecommunication, public transportation, and logistics. In logistics, it refers to the final stage of the delivery process, where goods are transported from a distribution center to the customer’s doorstep. In telecommunications, the “last mile” problem refers to the final connection between a local telecommunications network and the end-user’s premises. It becomes a problem for the cost, infrastructure, and logistics in both industries…
The Last Mile as Space? A Review of Ashish Rajadyahksha’s Inquiry into Technology and Governance in India
2024
A screenshot of the cover of Dr. Ashish Rajadhyaksha’s report The Last Cultural Mile: An Inquiry into Technology and Governance in India.
This blog series aims to breathe life into the term "last mile," which originally stemmed from the telecommunication and logistics industry, and to unpack this term's metaphorical meaning and academic potential…
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This blog unpacks the term “last mile problem” with the concept of "ambiguity". In Fangyu’s understanding, such ambiguity can be seen as the cause of a "last mile space".
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In the final entry of the #LastMile blog series, Fangyu makes a recap and highlights three these of the Last Mile under the context of mainland China, where the long history of granting local discretion has enhanced its pragmatic problem-solving approach and multi-layered governance structure.
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In April 2022, the Chinese government permanently shut down an online celebrity gossip community. While accumulating almost 700,000 female members over 10 years, this community transitioned from a celebrity gossip forum to a feminist space. Its original purpose notwithstanding, it gradually embraced feminist agitations, raised feminist awareness, and launched feminist actions…
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In 2010, several fans of the Taiwanese Talk show Kangsi Coming (康熙來了) formed a group on China’s Douban App to discuss the marriage of show host Dee Hsu. This group was named Gossip Coming (八卦來了), which was later renamed Douban Goose Group (豆瓣鵝組)…
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In this blog, Xiaoyun explores how members of the community address each other. Examining the discourse practices can shed light on the formation of the members’ collective identity and the feminist awakening within the community.
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A research project about online nonfiction narratives and authorship will investigate the Chinese WeChat platform to explore the role of representative authorship, and how it can be used to represent different groups of marginalized people...
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The use of medical terms to describe the human body on Xiaohongshu is an example of how social media is distorting our engagement with our bodies. We explore the ways in which language is employed on this particular site and question its motives: is it to further scientific engagement or does the beauty industry stand to profit?
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In this blog, Cassie locates nonfiction writing in the context of China and offers a historical review of Chinese nonfication, unpacking the complicated intricacy of the Chinese nonfiction authenticity in new era.
Knitting a Cocoon for Myself: Exploring Digital Authorship on Social Media
Ruiwen Zhou
2024
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In this article, we will delve into the questions around the digital influencer culture: how this functions as one of the ‘egos’ of the Author; how the discourse exists, operates, and circulates in the digital space; and lastly, who controls the discourse and who is held accountable for the impact of the discourse.
Hum-powerment
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Remake Regenerate
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