2019 | Ph.D. in Sociology, EHESS – École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, France

2016 | M.A. in Cultural Mediation, Université Paris 3 – Sorbonne Nouvelle, France

2013 | M.A. in Journalism, National Chengchi University, Taiwan

2011 | B.A. in Communication and Technology, National Chiaotung University, Taiwan

📍Below is a list of my publications, grants, fellowships & awards, and invited talks—regularly updated to reflect my ongoing professional development. For an overview of my research interests and current projects, please visit the Project page.

(Last updated: July 1, 2025)

PUBLICATIONS

❶ Chen, W. P. (Ed.) (2023). Keywords in emotion and gender culture for generation Z. NYCU Press.【Original title: 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。】【博客來】【誠品】【TAAZE】【MOMO】

This book offers a structured approach with six in-depth lessons focusing on critical themes related to the nuanced landscape of emotion and gender culture among Generation Z in Taiwan.

❹ Chen, W. P.* & Ku, C. C. (in press). Platformed femininities: Dual authenticity labor of women game streamers. Journal of Femininities.

❸ Lai, K. L. & Chen, W. P.* (2024). Aspirational labor and the construction of intimacy in the lesbian livestream community. The Journal of Information Society, 47, 29-68. DOI: 10.29843/JCCIS.202407_(47).0002【Original title: 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。】[ISSN 1680-8428]【Airiti】

❷ Kuo, T. Y. & Chen, W. P.* (2024). Justifying mediated sexiness: The voices behind young women’s intimate images. Cultural Studies Quarterly, 185, 1-18.【Original title: 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。】[ISSN 2076-2755]【Airiti】

❶ 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]

❷ Chen, W. P. (2023). Online sociality: Crafting the perfect match through technology-mediated love? In W. P. Chen (Ed.), Keywords for emotion and gender culture among generation Z (pp.85-118). NYCU Press.【Original title: 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。】

❶ Chang, Y. P. & Chen, W. P. (2022). The gender trap in smart technologies. In W. C. Wang, Y. P. Lin, & L. R. Lin (Eds.), Digital literacy in the age of AI (pp.273-292). Wunan.【Original title: 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。】

❼ Chen, W. P. (in press). Review of Data rules: Reinventing the market economy by Cristina Alaimo and Jannis Kallinikos. Mobile Media & Communication. [SSCI] 

❻ 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. OnlineFirst. DOI: 10.1080/1369118X.2024.2396626 [SSCI] 

❺ 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] 

❹ Casilli, A. & Chen, W. P.* (2022). Platform labor: Who makes algorithmic culture possible? The Journal of Information Society, 43, 1-18. DOI: 10.29843/JCCIS.202207_(43).0001 [ISSN 1680-8428]【Airiti】

❸ 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 (First published online in 2019) [SSCI] 

❷ Chen, W. P. (2020). Belabored postfeminist wifedom [Review of Wife, Inc.: The business of marriage in the twenty-first century by Suzanne Leonard]. Cultural Studies, 34(3), 492-494. DOI: 10.1080/09502386.2019.1618357 [SSCI] 

❶ 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] 

GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS & AWARDS

❻ 2024 – 2027: 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]【Original title: 一同作網紅：探索演算法能見度的價值系統／113年國科會專題研究計畫】

❺ 2024: Emotional publics in the age of platform algorithms: Gender and diversity perspectives (Higher Education SPROUT Project-NYCU-RCHSS), Ministry of Education, Taiwan [PI]【Original title: 平台演算法下的情感公眾：性別與多元性的觀點／國立陽明交通大學人文與社會科學研究中心「以人為本的高科技生態圈：人文社會觀點的整合研究計畫」】

❹ 2023: Incubation Program for Early Career Faculty (Higher Education SPROUT Project-NYCU), Ministry of Education, Taiwan [PI]

❸ 2022 – 2024: 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]【Original title: 演算法作為情感文化的黑盒子：一個科技女性主義分析／111年科技部專題研究計畫】

❷ 2020 – 2022: 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]【Original title: 手機交友、性別與消費文化：從情感商品到情感主體／109年科技部專題研究計畫】

❶ 2010 – 2011: Alternative Media and Diaspora Identity: Vietnamese Bao Bon Phuong and Female Immigration in Taiwan. National Science Council Taiwan, NSC 99-2815-C-009-031-H [PI-Research scholarship for undergraduates]

❻ 2025: Incentive Program for Faculty and Research Fellows in International Research Excellence (113年教師及研究人員國際化研究成果獎勵), National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan

❺ 2020 – 2023: Reward Program for Recruiting Outstanding Scholars for Taiwanese Universities (109-111年延攬及留住特殊優秀人才獎勵), Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan

❹ 2019: Fellowship for the Leaders in Future Trends (LIFT) Program (Discipline: Culture and Technology), Ministry of Science and Technology, Taiwan (competitive)

❸ 2019: Fellowship for YSW, European Research Center on Contemporary Taiwan, University of Tübingen, Germany (competitive)

❷ 2018: Fellowship for the European Sociological Association PhD summer school, Fondation Maison de Science de l’Homme, France (competitive)

❶ 2017 – 2019: Doctoral excellence scholarship GSSA (Discipline: Sociology) (106年教育部留學獎學金-社會學門), Ministry of Education, Taiwan

❼ 2025: Gender Equity Course Incentive Award, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan – Awarded for developing and teaching the course “Technologies, Emotions, and Gender”

❻ 2024: Teaching Excellence Award (112年優良教學獎), National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan

❺ 2024: Grants offered to Courses That Inspire Students, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan – Awarded for developing and teaching the course “Audiences and Popular Culture”

❹ 2023: Teachers Communities: Innovative teaching group: Communication technologies and media literacy (Members: Y. S. Chen, T. Y. Wu, W. P. Chen), National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan

❸ 2023: Teaching Excellence Award in Service-Learning Course (111年優良服務學習教師獎), National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan

❷ 2022: Outstanding Mentor Award (110年績優導師獎), National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, Taiwan

❶ 2021: Fellow of the Higher Education Academy, Advance HE, UK

INVITED TALKS

2025

• September 13 – “AI and intimate relationships”  – Guest lecture delivered as part of the AI Popular Science Outreach Project Lecture Series – Being Human: The Day We Coexist with AI hosted by the Center for the Advancement of Science Education (CASE), National Taiwan University.
  【Original title: 〈AI與親密關係〉，臺灣大學科學教育發展中心AI科普論述計畫系列講座「Being Human：AI與人共生的那一天」，臺灣大學，思亮館國際會議廳。】
• May 14 – “Post-screening Talk on The Favourite: Who’s in Charge Here? Power Games, Female Gaze, and Queer Desires”  – Guest talk delivered as part of the 2025 NYCU Gender-Friendly Week: Don’t Trick Me Out of the Cave!, hosted by the Student Union (Chiaotung Branch), National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University.
  【Original title: 〈誰說了算？權力遊戲、女性凝視與酷兒慾望：電影《真寵》映後座談〉，2025交大性別友善週「不要騙我出山洞！」，陽明交通大學學生會交通分會，光復校區人社二館人文電影館。】
• April 30 – “Reflections on Gender and Intimacy in a Tech-Mediated World”  – Guest lecture delivered as part of the core course Arete To-be, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University.
  【Original title: 〈那些我所在意的事：科技中的性別和親密日常〉，百川學士學位學程核心必修課「百川學堂」，陽明交通大學，光復校區綜合一館212教室。】
• April 26 – “Freedom in Relationships”  – Guest lecture delivered as part of the Inter-University Reading Series on the stage play Bubbly Sunkeen Place, hosted by The Gluttons Assemblage, online.
  【Original title: 〈關係中的自由〉，饕餮劇集《泡泡色地帶》校園計畫 – 跨校共讀會，線上。】
• April 19 – “Revisiting mediated intimacy: How technology and consumption shape emotional experiences”  – NSTC-RIHSS Interdisciplinary Forum – From Materiality to Sociality: Technology, Practice, and Mediation, Tunghai University.
  【Original title: 〈再探中介的親密關係：科技與消費如何共構情感體驗？〉，國科會人社中心跨領域論壇「從物質性到社會性: 科技、實踐、媒介」，東海大學，語文館208室。】
  
• April 16–17 – “How did the ‘love-struck’ mindset take shape?”  – Lecture delivered as part of the Exploring Humanities and Social Sciences through Online Elective Courses, supported by the Ministry of Education’s K-12 Education Administration, National Taipei University, online.
  【Original title: 〈戀愛腦是怎麼來的？〉，教育部國民及學前教育署「高中人文及社會科學多元選修線上課程計畫：平凡生活的我，意外轉生成社會觀察員」，臺北大學，線上。】【Live-20250416】【Live-20250417】
• April 13 – “Keywords in emotion and gender culture for Generation Z”  – TASC Professional Development Course, Taiwan Association of Sex Counseling.
  【Original title: 〈Z世代的情感和性別關鍵字〉，台灣性諮商學會推廣課程，台灣性諮商學會，線上。】
  
• April 11 – “Exploring intimacy and gender among Generation Z: Understanding and dialogue”  – Faculty Development Seminar by the CJCU Counseling Center, Chang Jung Christian University.
  【Original title: 〈Z世代的親密關係與性別：如何理解，如何對話？〉，長榮大學諮商中心教職員輔導知能研習，長榮大學，第二教學大樓T20523。】
  

2024

• March 18 – “Philogyny and Mediated Intimacies”  – Lecture delivered as part of the NCKU General Education Course: Gender and Society, National Cheng Kung University.
  【Original title: 〈愛女與網路交友〉，成功大學通識中心「性別與社會」課程，成功大學，企業管理學系系館62229教室。】
  

2023

• May 17 – “Portrait de la jeune fille en feu: Love beyond boundaries”  – NYCU-Yiyi Film Festival, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University.
  【Original title: 〈燃燒女子的畫像：跨越制度的愛情〉，2023一一電影節，陽明交通大學一一電影俱樂部，浩然圖書館六樓討論室。】
  
• May 7 – “Data culture: The interplay of technology and emotion”  – TFSA 30th Anniversary Online Forum: Mediated Intimacy, Taiwanese Feminist Scholars Association.
  【Original title: 〈數據文化：科技與情感的交織〉，女學30 線上論壇＿數位中介下親密關係的結／解，台灣女性學學會，線上。】
  
• April 4 – “Online dating: Navigating complex emotional situations”  – GisneyLand Peer Support Workshop, Northern Taiwan LGBTQ+ Service Center.
  【Original title: 〈網路交友：常常暈船怎麼辦？〉，GisneyLand風城部屋同儕講座，台灣北區同志服務中心。】
  

2022

• November 25 – “Gender and media literacy”  – TAIS Annual Conference Special Forum: Media Literacy in Contemporary Civic Education, National Chengchi University.
  【Original title: 〈性別與媒體素養〉，台灣資訊社會研究學會年會暨論文研討會：專題論壇－媒體素養在當代公民教育中的角色與實踐，政治大學，大勇樓417演講廳。】
  
• March 22 – “Exploring media and consumer cultures in the digital age”  – Lecture delivered as part of the Interdisciplinary Lecture Series, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University.
  【Original title: 〈媒介消費文化〉，陽明交通大學音樂研究所跨域系列講座，陽明交通大學，中正堂B1音樂論壇空間。】
  

2021

• April 26 – “Contemporary imaginaries of intimate relationships”  – Lecture delivered as part of the Humanities, Society, and Technology Lecture Series, supported by the Ministry of Education’s UFO Program, Kaohsiung Medical University.
  【Original title: 〈當代親密關係的想像〉，教育部人文社會與科技前瞻人才培育計畫系列講座，高雄醫學大學，勵學大樓4樓會議室。】