Research

Publications

Journal Articles

Ding, L. (2023). Framework Breakthrough, Media Empowerment, and Practical Concerns: Museum Aesthetic Education Practice Based on Chinese TikTok PlatformNew Media Research(03), 21-25. (DOI)

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Research Projects

Global Communication of Chinese Science Fiction Art
National Social Science Post-Funding Project | Research Assistant | Spring 2023
School of Arts, Nanjing University
Instructor: Prof. Lin Qi
– Assisted literature review and cyber ethnography, crawled and collated online book reviews
and comments on the representative Chinese science fiction novel The Three-Body Problem based on Facebook and X (Twitter)

Research on the Technological Culture of Art
National Social Science Funding Art Project | Research Assistant | Fall 2023
School of Arts, Nanjing University
Instructor: Prof. Lin Qi
– Assisted literature review and Empirical Data Searching

Conference Presentations

• Ding, L. (2026 April). “Her Sounds” Across Time: Anti-Gaze Praxis of Asian American Women Musicians. Upcoming presentation at the 2026 Women’s & Gender Studies Spring Conference, UW System Women’s & Gender Studies Consortium, Madison, WI.

• Ding, L. (2026 March). Media Representations and Digital Labor: Female Singer-songwriters in Chinese Platform Genealogies. Upcoming presentation at the 2026 Annual Conference of the Society For Cinema and Media Studies (SCMS), Chicago, IL.

• Ding, L. & Zhang, X. (2024 July). Music Streaming Platform as a Symbolic Space: Research of Youth Aesthetic Taste Based on Digital Platforms. Presented at the 2024 Annual Conference of the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR), Christchurch, New Zealand.

• Ding, L. (2024 January). A Collision of Narratives: Museum Aesthetic Education on Chinese and International TikTok Platforms. Presented at the International Symposium “Transformations in Museums through Digital Initiatives,” The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.

• Ding, L. (2023 July). Narrative Breakthrough, Media Empowerment, and Dilemma Relief: Museum Aesthetic Education Based on the Douyin Platform.. Presented at the 2023 Annual Conference of the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR), Lyon, France.