Research Topic
Jun’s research explores how AI-driven parenting tools and digital surveillance technologies mediate family relationships, caregiving practices, and children’s development of autonomy in urban China. The project aims to examine how parents and children negotiate issues of privacy, responsibility, and power, and how these negotiations reflect wider social and political frameworks.
This project is funded by the London Arts & Humanities Partnership (LAHP) studentship.
Biography
Jun holds an MSc in Strategic Communications from LSE, where her explored the commercialisation of postpartum care in China and how mothers negotiate expert advice, digital health tools, and traditional practices. She also holds an MA and BA in Spanish and Latin American Studies from Beijing Foreign Studies University.
Her professional background includes several years as a journalist for a state news agency, covering stories across China and Latin America, followed by work in the internet industry, focusing on Chinese tech companies’ global operations in Southeast Asia. She later served as a communication and policy officer for a national sports governing body, where she supported the development of women’s football from grassroots to elite levels.
These diverse experiences have shaped her research interests, leading her to investigate how digital technologies, platform governance, and communication practices mediate caregiving, family relationships, and young people’s autonomy in China.
Jun also produces a that engages with issues of local culture, technology, and gender and shares professional updates on LinkedIn.
Supervisors
Professor Lee Edwards and Professor Sonia Livingstone