His articles "WeChat as infrastructure: The techno-nationalist shaping of Chinese digital platforms" (with Jean-Christophe Plantin) and "Through the looking glass: Twenty years of Chinese Internet research" (with David Kurt Herold) present broad analyses of the Chinese internet, while he in other articles analyses specific cultural phenomena such as biaoqing (visual forms of expression like emoji, digital stickers etc.), trolling in social media globally and in a Chinese context, and digital folklore more broadly, including how Pepe the Frog became embroiled in the Hong Kong pro-democracy movement.
