Bibo Lin

Biographic Data

ID3935619
NAMEBibo Lin
GIVEN NAMESBibo
FAMILY NAMELin
SIGNATURELIN B
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of Oregon
ORCID0000-0002-2077-9248
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS8
TOTAL CITATIONS1
AUTHOR COUNT8
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX1

  • Imitating Masculinity in China: Understanding the Popularity of the ‘Cadre Style’ on Douyin

    Open AccessBibo Lin, Shenglan QingARTICLEAsian Studies Review2026

  • My love will be there forever: Ghostbots and the artificial continuing communication

    Open AccessBibo LinARTICLEConvergence The International…2026

    The advent of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, such as machine learning (ML) and large language models (LLMs), allows ordinary users to turn themselves or their loved ones into AI chatbots. Based on the analysis of media reporting on users’ experiences, the study identifies three major features that frequently appear in users’ interactions with ghostbots simulating their deceased loved ones: (1) the interactions often elicit intense emo…

  • State Interests, Global Platforms: How Chinese Journalists Use American Platforms at Work

    Open AccessTucker Wang-Hai, Bibo LinARTICLESocial Media + Society2025References: 54

    This study examines how a special subset of Chinese journalists (those who focus mostly on an overseas audience) navigate and utilize U.S.-owned social media platforms, which are banned in China, in their daily newsroom practices. While previous research has primarily focused on digital news production and platformization in Western contexts, this study offers a transnational and sociotechnical perspective on how Chinese journalists negotiate pla…

  • Beyond authoritarianism and liberal democracy: Understanding China’s artificial intelligence impact in Africa

    Bibo LinARTICLEInformation Communication & Society2024

    China is the largest foreign information and communications technology (ICT) investor in Africa, and Chinese telecommunication companies including Huawei, CloudWalk, and Transsion have brought a range of artificial intelligence (AI) technology to Africa, from face recognition to smart cities. Existing analysis of China’s AI impact in Africa, however, habitually falls into a Cold War-style narrative of ‘authoritarianism’ against the backdrop of ‘l…

  • The AI Chatbot Always Flirts With Me, Should I Flirt Back: From the McDonaldization of Friendship to the Robotization of Love

    Open AccessBibo LinARTICLESocial Media + Society2024Cited by: 1References: 49

    How is the use of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, such as machine learning (ML) algorithms and Large Language Models (LLMs), in social chatbots transforming friendship and love? This study investigates Replika, an app offering AI friends and/or lovers to users. Unlike most AI companion research grounded in Human-Machine Interaction (HMI) and interpersonal communication theories, this study employs the sociological concept of McDonaldiz…

  • From Wild East to Forbidden City: Mapping Algorithmic News Distribution in China through a Case Study of Jinri Toutiao

    Open AccessJoanne Kuai, Bibo Lin et al.ARTICLEDigital Journalism2023

    Digital platforms, with their ever-increasing reach and power, are reshaping many aspects of society. China is experiencing a platformization of society akin to what has occurred in the West. By mapping the algorithmic news distribution field in China, this study shows how the key players (including digital platforms, news organizations, and state regulators) compete, collaborate, and work symbiotically with each other in this changing ecology. W…

  • Commemorating as Criticizing: How Li Wenliang’s Weibo Homepage Becomes a Place for Questioning China’s Covid-19 Policies and a “Wailing Wall”

    Open AccessBibo LinARTICLEAoIR Selected Papers of Internet…2023

    Li Wenliang, an eye doctor at Wuhan Central hospital and one of the first to raise alarm about the outbreak of COVID-19, was summoned by the local police and forced to sign a statement reprimanding his message as a groundless rumor as well as a disturbance to the public order in late December 2019. Two months later, Li died after contracting COVID-19 at his workplace, aged 33 years. This caused shock and outrage across China and Li’s Weibo (China…

  • The One Thing Journalistic AI Just Might Do for Democracy

    Bibo Lin, Susan C LewisARTICLEDigital Journalism2022

    A recent wave of enthusiasm surrounding artificial intelligence (AI) has seen many observers focus on its potential to transform journalism, as with other forms of knowledge work. This conceptual essay, however, attempts to steer the conversation away from a technocentric emphasis on applications and instead pivot to the fundamental but overlooked issue of normativity: in this case, what should AI actually do to help fulfill journalism’s broader …