Ningxiang Sun

PhD Student

Culture Digital sociology Science, technology and innovation Social Studies of Information and Communication Technologies Technology and material culture

An undisciplined sociologist. Learning from things and occasionally making things up.

2026. Towards an Ecology of Time: Revisiting Simondon’s Genetic Method. Theory, Culture & Society.

2020. 'Affordance: Translation, Transdisciplinary Use and Paradigm Shift'. Chinese Journal of Journalism & Communication 42(09):122-141.

2018. 'Character Education: Discourse Analysis of China's Education Reforming.' Cultural Review (04):116-125.

2025. Review of Eli Revelle Yano Wilson. Handcrafted Careers: Working the Artisan Economy of Craft Beer. Cultural Sociology.

2025. Review of Charlotte Bates & Kate Moles. Living with Water. The Sociological Review Magazine.

2024. Review of Jenny L. Davis. How Artifacts Afford. Shanghai Review of Books.

2021. Review of Wei He (eds). Digital Game Studies Reader. Shanghai Review of Books.

2017. Review of N. K. Hayles. How We Became Posthuman. Beijing News: Book Review.

Tom Boellstorff et al. Ethnography and Virtual Worlds. Princeton University Press, 2012. Translated 2025.

Ian Bogost. Alien Phenomenology. Univ Of Minnesota Press, 2012. Translated 2021.

J.J. Gibson. The Ecological Approach to Visual Perception. Psychology Press, 1979. Translated 2021.

Vilém Flusser. The Shape of Things: A Philosophy of Design.Reaktion Books, 1999. Translated 2020.

M.A. in Sociology, Peking University

B.A. in Sociology, Peking University