Linjie Dai (They/He) is a Ph.D. candidate in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Their research interests include global communication, gender and sexuality, affect theory, and theories of (counter)publics. Linjie’s current research explores the mediated affective publics and counterpublics in China and the Chinese diaspora in the U.S. from a transnational and historical perspective, particularly focusing on power dynamics such as gender and race involved in these processes.
Linjie received their bachelor’s and master’s degrees in journalism and communication from Peking University in China.