Projects —

2022–
    Sinophone Studies And Design Pedagogy in Transregional, Transnational, Transcultural, Translingual Contexts   

2019–   
    Platform Education

2020–
    Post-Radical Pedagogy

2021
    Tactic as Art: Everyday Digital Resistance and Covid-19 in China

2020
    Teacher’s Project
Emergency Remote Teaching: 
Diagrammatic Field Notes

2019
    Data Beyond Vision

2018
    Textual Analysis of Graphic Design Program Descriptions

2017
    Cultral Probes / Design Research for Health Care

2016
Weighing Lightness 



Digital Humanities — 

            2016-2018



Mark

Tactic as Art 

Everyday Digital Resistance and Covid-19 in China  2021



This project uses cases from the early days of the pandemic to frame the concept of everyday digital resistance, unpacking the factors that contributed to its domination. While capitalism prioritizes digital platforms’ marketing values, online platforms are also venues for activism across borders. Everyday digital resistance is characterized as tactics of micro-interventions integrated into life, standing opposite from radical confrontations on the continuum of activism. Often spontaneous and unorganized, the actions collectively create impact and the potential to undermine power, while individuals can remain relatively disguised and unnoticed, which is especially valuable for actors in high-risk contexts.



Li, Xinyi. “Framing Everyday Digital Resistance” Message Journal: Covid-19 Special Edition, edited by Colm, Dunne, Åse Huus, Dóra Ísleifsdóttir, Lynda Cooper, Mark James, Peter Jones, and Victoria Squire (2021). University of Plymouth Press, https://pearl.plymouth.ac.uk/handle/10026.1/18929, February  2022. 

Li, Xinyi. “Tactic as art: everyday digital resistance and COVID-19 in China.” in Jilly Traganou (Chair), Panel “Affective and Generative Dimensions in Covid 19 Activism.” presented at the College Art Association (CAA) Annual Conference, Online, February 10–13, 2021.