Muyang Li

Dr. Muyang Li is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at York University, with research interests spanning digitalization, public sphere, authoritarianism, and gender. Her scholarship is grounded in a central question: how does digitalization interact with power and knowledge production? Through this lens, she examines how artificial intelligence and social automation reshape politics, platforms, publics, and the press.

Using mixed methods, she studies how states and publics negotiate the social meaning, regulation, and everyday experience of digital infrastructures, including how digital authoritarianism operates through participatory surveillance and censorship, how epistemic inequalities emerge in global AI knowledge production, and how conspiratorial narratives form around social automation. Her research has been funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, the U.S. National Science Foundation, and the Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation. Her work has appeared in New Media & Society, Information, Communication & Society, The SAGE Handbook of Social Media Research Methods, and other outlets.

Website:https://profiles.laps.yorku.ca/profiles/muyangli