C J WALLIS
Biographic Data
| ID | 4983018 |
|---|---|
| NAME | C J WALLIS |
| GIVEN NAMES | C J |
| FAMILY NAME | WALLIS |
| SIGNATURE | WALLIS C J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Texas A&M University |
| ORCID | 0009-0003-5476-9085 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 118 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Fansubbing as Feminist Disruption in China
This paper examines how young feminists dispersed across China engage in fansubbing, or translating and subtitling digital content, as a mode of feminist praxis. Feminist fansubbing shares similarities with other fansubbing practices in that its content can be entertaining and the act of fansubbing can create community among its practitioners. However, it also differs in that the motivation does not necessarily derive from actual fandom. Based on…
“My Body is Betraying Me”
Female infertility remains a taboo and carries stigma across various ethnic/racial communities. Infertility-related stigma impairs women's mental well-being, strains their family relationships, and deters them from seeking treatment. In this article, we seek to understand the perceived/self-stigma of infertility and stigma management through in-depth interviews with 29 women (White, African American, and Hispanic) who were facing fertility challe…
Social media and the ordinary
Thirty years into China’s internet development, much recent scholarship has focused on rather daunting forces—big data, algorithmic control, surveillance, and platformization, to name a few. This article centers the “small,” or how social media is articulated to the ordinary practices, pursuits, feelings, passions, ethical decisions, and struggles for voice of people who are socially, economically, and/or politically marginalized. I focus on thes…
Mobile Media During the Pandemic
Together, our projects pose the question of what else can be possible as a way to rearrange the power relations that have contributed to the asymmetric flows of information and resources to some instead of others. We are inspired by indigenous scholars’ claim that “decolonization is not a metaphor” because liberation should not be a metaphor: it should be a possibility. We, panelists, hope to engage conversations that address the future of the in…
Why do They Want Others to Suffer the Same Pain They Have Endured?” Weibo Debates about Pain Relief during Childbirth in Neo/Non-Liberal China
In this article, we examine the cultural and gendered understandings of labor pain and the underlying obstacles that prevent Chinese women from seeking pain relief during labor and exercising their own autonomy. We conducted a critical discourse analysis of 178 posts containing the phrase wutong fenmian (literally “painless labor”) on Weibo, a popular Chinese microblogging platform. By situating our analysis in the contemporary context we call “n…
Technomobility in China
"As unprecedented waves of young, rural women journey to cities in China, not only to work, but also to "see the world"and gain some autonomy, they regularly face significant institutional obstacles as well as deep-seated anti-rural prejudices. Based on immersive fieldwork, Cara Wallis provides an intimate portrait of the social, cultural, and economic implications of mobile communication for a group of young women engaged in unskilled service wo…
Intersectionality, (Dis)unity, and Processes of Becoming at the 2017 Women's March
This article engages with theories of intersectionality, affect, and emotion, which often have been separated in scholarship on social movements, to understand the participation of diverse voices in the Women’s March on Washington and sister marches in Austin and Dallas, Texas. Based on interviews and participant observation, we argue that people’s multiple entry points to these marches—often articulated in terms of gender, ethnicity, sexuality, …
Domestic Workers and the Affective Dimensions of Communicative Empowerment
This article analyzes how affect and emotion are linked to processes of voice, empowerment, and agency among a group of female domestic workers in Beijing. I explore such processes through analyzing the women’s participation in an NGO-sponsored drama club and putting this in conversation with their social media use. I argue that although such programs provide limited forms of communicative empowerment, public performances of pain present a singul…
Chinese Women in the Official Chinese Press
Theories of gender and the nation posit that women are prescribed certain roles according to the needs of the state at a particular historical moment and that such roles are frequently articulated in media discourses. In China, the government has a long-standing tradition of using the state-run media to convey a national vision and mould its citizens. Hence, the mediated representation of Chinese women has ebbed and flowed according to radical sh…
Public interactives, soft power, and China’s future at and beyond the 2010 Shanghai World Expo
This article uses the Shanghai World Expo as a case study to examine how soft power and processes of nation branding are articulated to public interactives, defined as a range of technological devices and applications that serve as the stage for digitally mediated communication with audiences in communal spaces. We focus on three Expo pavilions—those of Saudi Arabia, the United States, and China—and show how their public interactives augmented th…
Gender and China's Online Censorship Protest Culture
This article offers a feminist critique of three user-generated texts designed to protest Internet censorship in China: the “Song of the Grass-Mud Horse,” the “Green Dam Girl,” and “My Elder Brother Works for SARFT.” These have been widely celebrated as offering democratic potential in a highly regulated political environment, yet what has been overlooked is how all three deploy a masculinist discourse and visual style that position the female bo…
Technology and/as Governmentality
This article presents an ethnography of a group of young women from rural China who attended a three-month computer-training course and then were placed in a data input company in China. Building upon scholarship on “Chinese governmentality,” I argue that although the training emphasized individual “quality” (suzhi) and the attainment of “useful” skills, once the women were employed their choices as autonomous individuals were severely limited th…
Mobile Handsets From The Bottom Up
This chapter provides a general mapping of grassroots practices associated with an alternative mobile handset culture that has emerged from the bottom up in the Global South. The authors highlight the social, economic, and institutional factors – in local as well as transnational contexts – that have contributed to “flexible” handsets and grassroots practices within this alternative model of social innovation. Drawing upon theories of user approp…
Mobile phones without guarantees
The mobile phone’s global diffusion has generated hope in its ability to enable individuals in developing countries to increase their income and life opportunities. However, numerous socio-cultural factors contribute to the outcomes of technology in diverse contexts. This article uses Alcoff’s (2006) theory of positionality and the notion of socio-techno practices to examine mobile phones and the labor relations of young rural-to-urban migrant wo…
Performing Gender
Accurate English
1 Introduction 1.1 The Speech Process 1.2 Language Variation 1.3 Self-Analysis 1.4 Diagnostic Speech Sample 1.5 Analysis of Problems 2 The Phonetic Alphabet 2.1 English Spelling 2.2 The Phonetic Alphabet 3 Vowel Overview 3.1 Production of Vowels 3.2 American English Vowel Sounds 3.3 American English Vowel Sounds in Sentences 4 Vowels in Detail 4.1 Vowels 1-4 4.2 Vowels 5-8 4.3 Vowels 9-11 4.4 Vowels 13-15 4.5 Same Spelling, Different Pronunciatio…
Performing Gender
Mobile phones without guarantees
The mobile phone’s global diffusion has generated hope in its ability to enable individuals in developing countries to increase their income and life opportunities. However, numerous socio-cultural factors contribute to the outcomes of technology in diverse contexts. This article uses Alcoff’s (2006) theory of positionality and the notion of socio-techno practices to examine mobile phones and the labor relations of young rural-to-urban migrant wo…
Gender and China's Online Censorship Protest Culture
This article offers a feminist critique of three user-generated texts designed to protest Internet censorship in China: the “Song of the Grass-Mud Horse,” the “Green Dam Girl,” and “My Elder Brother Works for SARFT.” These have been widely celebrated as offering democratic potential in a highly regulated political environment, yet what has been overlooked is how all three deploy a masculinist discourse and visual style that position the female bo…
Chinese Women in the Official Chinese Press
Theories of gender and the nation posit that women are prescribed certain roles according to the needs of the state at a particular historical moment and that such roles are frequently articulated in media discourses. In China, the government has a long-standing tradition of using the state-run media to convey a national vision and mould its citizens. Hence, the mediated representation of Chinese women has ebbed and flowed according to radical sh…
Domestic Workers and the Affective Dimensions of Communicative Empowerment
This article analyzes how affect and emotion are linked to processes of voice, empowerment, and agency among a group of female domestic workers in Beijing. I explore such processes through analyzing the women’s participation in an NGO-sponsored drama club and putting this in conversation with their social media use. I argue that although such programs provide limited forms of communicative empowerment, public performances of pain present a singul…
Why do They Want Others to Suffer the Same Pain They Have Endured?” Weibo Debates about Pain Relief during Childbirth in Neo/Non-Liberal China
In this article, we examine the cultural and gendered understandings of labor pain and the underlying obstacles that prevent Chinese women from seeking pain relief during labor and exercising their own autonomy. We conducted a critical discourse analysis of 178 posts containing the phrase wutong fenmian (literally “painless labor”) on Weibo, a popular Chinese microblogging platform. By situating our analysis in the contemporary context we call “n…
Intersectionality, (Dis)unity, and Processes of Becoming at the 2017 Women's March
This article engages with theories of intersectionality, affect, and emotion, which often have been separated in scholarship on social movements, to understand the participation of diverse voices in the Women’s March on Washington and sister marches in Austin and Dallas, Texas. Based on interviews and participant observation, we argue that people’s multiple entry points to these marches—often articulated in terms of gender, ethnicity, sexuality, …
Social media and the ordinary
Thirty years into China’s internet development, much recent scholarship has focused on rather daunting forces—big data, algorithmic control, surveillance, and platformization, to name a few. This article centers the “small,” or how social media is articulated to the ordinary practices, pursuits, feelings, passions, ethical decisions, and struggles for voice of people who are socially, economically, and/or politically marginalized. I focus on thes…
Technology and/as Governmentality
This article presents an ethnography of a group of young women from rural China who attended a three-month computer-training course and then were placed in a data input company in China. Building upon scholarship on “Chinese governmentality,” I argue that although the training emphasized individual “quality” (suzhi) and the attainment of “useful” skills, once the women were employed their choices as autonomous individuals were severely limited th…
Accurate English
1 Introduction 1.1 The Speech Process 1.2 Language Variation 1.3 Self-Analysis 1.4 Diagnostic Speech Sample 1.5 Analysis of Problems 2 The Phonetic Alphabet 2.1 English Spelling 2.2 The Phonetic Alphabet 3 Vowel Overview 3.1 Production of Vowels 3.2 American English Vowel Sounds 3.3 American English Vowel Sounds in Sentences 4 Vowels in Detail 4.1 Vowels 1-4 4.2 Vowels 5-8 4.3 Vowels 9-11 4.4 Vowels 13-15 4.5 Same Spelling, Different Pronunciatio…
Performing Gender
Mobile phones without guarantees
The mobile phone’s global diffusion has generated hope in its ability to enable individuals in developing countries to increase their income and life opportunities. However, numerous socio-cultural factors contribute to the outcomes of technology in diverse contexts. This article uses Alcoff’s (2006) theory of positionality and the notion of socio-techno practices to examine mobile phones and the labor relations of young rural-to-urban migrant wo…
Mobile Handsets From The Bottom Up
This chapter provides a general mapping of grassroots practices associated with an alternative mobile handset culture that has emerged from the bottom up in the Global South. The authors highlight the social, economic, and institutional factors – in local as well as transnational contexts – that have contributed to “flexible” handsets and grassroots practices within this alternative model of social innovation. Drawing upon theories of user approp…
Technology and/as Governmentality
This article presents an ethnography of a group of young women from rural China who attended a three-month computer-training course and then were placed in a data input company in China. Building upon scholarship on “Chinese governmentality,” I argue that although the training emphasized individual “quality” (suzhi) and the attainment of “useful” skills, once the women were employed their choices as autonomous individuals were severely limited th…
Gender and China's Online Censorship Protest Culture
This article offers a feminist critique of three user-generated texts designed to protest Internet censorship in China: the “Song of the Grass-Mud Horse,” the “Green Dam Girl,” and “My Elder Brother Works for SARFT.” These have been widely celebrated as offering democratic potential in a highly regulated political environment, yet what has been overlooked is how all three deploy a masculinist discourse and visual style that position the female bo…
Public interactives, soft power, and China’s future at and beyond the 2010 Shanghai World Expo
This article uses the Shanghai World Expo as a case study to examine how soft power and processes of nation branding are articulated to public interactives, defined as a range of technological devices and applications that serve as the stage for digitally mediated communication with audiences in communal spaces. We focus on three Expo pavilions—those of Saudi Arabia, the United States, and China—and show how their public interactives augmented th…
Chinese Women in the Official Chinese Press
Theories of gender and the nation posit that women are prescribed certain roles according to the needs of the state at a particular historical moment and that such roles are frequently articulated in media discourses. In China, the government has a long-standing tradition of using the state-run media to convey a national vision and mould its citizens. Hence, the mediated representation of Chinese women has ebbed and flowed according to radical sh…
Domestic Workers and the Affective Dimensions of Communicative Empowerment
This article analyzes how affect and emotion are linked to processes of voice, empowerment, and agency among a group of female domestic workers in Beijing. I explore such processes through analyzing the women’s participation in an NGO-sponsored drama club and putting this in conversation with their social media use. I argue that although such programs provide limited forms of communicative empowerment, public performances of pain present a singul…
Intersectionality, (Dis)unity, and Processes of Becoming at the 2017 Women's March
This article engages with theories of intersectionality, affect, and emotion, which often have been separated in scholarship on social movements, to understand the participation of diverse voices in the Women’s March on Washington and sister marches in Austin and Dallas, Texas. Based on interviews and participant observation, we argue that people’s multiple entry points to these marches—often articulated in terms of gender, ethnicity, sexuality, …
Technomobility in China
"As unprecedented waves of young, rural women journey to cities in China, not only to work, but also to "see the world"and gain some autonomy, they regularly face significant institutional obstacles as well as deep-seated anti-rural prejudices. Based on immersive fieldwork, Cara Wallis provides an intimate portrait of the social, cultural, and economic implications of mobile communication for a group of young women engaged in unskilled service wo…
Why do They Want Others to Suffer the Same Pain They Have Endured?” Weibo Debates about Pain Relief during Childbirth in Neo/Non-Liberal China
In this article, we examine the cultural and gendered understandings of labor pain and the underlying obstacles that prevent Chinese women from seeking pain relief during labor and exercising their own autonomy. We conducted a critical discourse analysis of 178 posts containing the phrase wutong fenmian (literally “painless labor”) on Weibo, a popular Chinese microblogging platform. By situating our analysis in the contemporary context we call “n…
Mobile Media During the Pandemic
Together, our projects pose the question of what else can be possible as a way to rearrange the power relations that have contributed to the asymmetric flows of information and resources to some instead of others. We are inspired by indigenous scholars’ claim that “decolonization is not a metaphor” because liberation should not be a metaphor: it should be a possibility. We, panelists, hope to engage conversations that address the future of the in…
Social media and the ordinary
Thirty years into China’s internet development, much recent scholarship has focused on rather daunting forces—big data, algorithmic control, surveillance, and platformization, to name a few. This article centers the “small,” or how social media is articulated to the ordinary practices, pursuits, feelings, passions, ethical decisions, and struggles for voice of people who are socially, economically, and/or politically marginalized. I focus on thes…
“My Body is Betraying Me”
Female infertility remains a taboo and carries stigma across various ethnic/racial communities. Infertility-related stigma impairs women's mental well-being, strains their family relationships, and deters them from seeking treatment. In this article, we seek to understand the perceived/self-stigma of infertility and stigma management through in-depth interviews with 29 women (White, African American, and Hispanic) who were facing fertility challe…
Fansubbing as Feminist Disruption in China
This paper examines how young feminists dispersed across China engage in fansubbing, or translating and subtitling digital content, as a mode of feminist praxis. Feminist fansubbing shares similarities with other fansubbing practices in that its content can be entertaining and the act of fansubbing can create community among its practitioners. However, it also differs in that the motivation does not necessarily derive from actual fandom. Based on…
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