About · 關於
Fen Lin林芬
An interdisciplinary scholar and bilingual storyteller who moves between sociology, media, technology, documentary film and the mountains — examining how power, information, culture and emerging technologies shape human experience in China and beyond.
Trained in economics, statistics and sociology, Fen Lin studies media as a social institution: how news is made, how information is governed, and how publics form, fracture and reassemble around what they are able to know.
Alongside her scholarship she works as a documentary filmmaker and bilingual non-fiction writer, and directs ArtX Hong Kong, an institute dedicated to art trading, cultural exchange and art technology. The two practices inform each other — fieldwork sharpens the camera, and the camera slows down the analysis.
She lives in Hong Kong and walks in the mountains whenever the weather allows.
Identities · 身份
- Interdisciplinary Scholar
- Bilingual Writer
- Humble Documentary Film-Maker
- Slow Mountaineer
- Curious Soul
Roles · 職務
Associate Vice-President (Global Strategies)
City University of Hong Kong
Professor, Department of Media and Communication
City University of Hong Kong
Director, ArtX Hong Kong
Institute for Art Trading and Cultural Exchange
Education · 學歷
PhD, Sociology
University of Chicago
MS, Statistics
University of Chicago
BA, Economics
Peking University
Contact · 聯絡
Department of Media and Communication, City University of Hong Kong, Tat Chee Avenue, Kowloon, Hong Kong.
fenlin@cityu.edu.hk+852 3442 8691
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