Rolien Hoyng


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Name: Rolien Hoyng
Title: Dr.
Position: Assistant Professor (Visiting)
Organisation: Department of Cultural Studies, Lingnan University

Brief profile:

  • Faculty member at the Department of Cultural Studies at Lingnan University, Hong Kong
  • MA from the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands
  • PhD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
  • Her work is primarily situated in Istanbul and Hong Kong. It explores digital information technologies in relation to urban governance as well as practices of resistance. Topics she writes about include information infrastructures and digital environmental governmentality, e-waste, digital labor, and the socio- technical networks of emerging forms of activism and dissent
  • Profile page on academia.edu : https://ln.academia.edu/rolienhoyng

She also shares her work through her featured-author page on Global University on Sustainability.

Rolien Hoyng is Assistant Professor at the School of Journalism and Communication of The Chinese University of Hong Kong and director of the Master in Global Communication. Her research addresses digital infrastructures and data-centric technologies in particular contexts of practice, including urban politics and dissent as well as ecological politics and electronic waste. Moreover, her multi-sited research encompasses Turkey, Hong Kong, and Europe, which prompts her interest in comparative possibilities. Recently published work has appeared in AntipodeTelevision and New Media, and International Journal of Cultural Studies. She is the editor of a special issue entitled “Digital infrastructure, liminality and world-making via Asia,” published with the International Journal of Communication. She is the editor of a book (with Gladys Pak Lei Chong) entitled Communication Innovation and Digital Technology: A Critique of the New in a Multipolar World, published by Michigan State University Press.