Ruoqian Li

Thesis title: ‘The Survival of the Marginalized Queer Identity on Social Media: Multimodal Narratives as Practices Across Chinese Queer Community’

My doctoral research explores the interaction of Chinese queer people on social media platforms through their multimodal storytelling and further investigate the identity construction of queer community, the culture of the community, as well as the social environment and platform limitations.

Research interests:

• Digital humanities on social media
• Gender and sexuality, especially Queer theory
• Queer media
• Cultural studies
• Linguistics (Sociolinguistics) and semiotics
• Multimodality and Multimodal discourse analysis