About Cecilia Wong
I am a digital media and cultural studies researcher based in Hong Kong.
I grew up online. Like many children of the dial-up era, I was that curious kid, who jammed the family phone line for hours. Years later, I trained as a journalist. Journalism taught me how stories are made, whose voices get heard, and how power travels through media. After that, I became a social media savvy who built digital campaigns for international environmental movements as part of a global team. Along the way, I was also figuring out what it means to be a girl, a woman, queer, and feminist in a postcolonial city. This is where my academic story begins.
Today, I study digital media, technology, and culture through a queer, feminist, and postcolonial perspective. I am interested in the ways people are shaped by the digital and the ways people, in turn, shape the digital. The questions that drove me as an internet-obsessed kid, a journalist, a social media campaigner and a queer feminist still drive my research today.
The internet first made me curious. Research gave me a way to follow that curiosity.
Official Bio:
Cecilia Ka Hei Wong is a digital media studies and cultural studies scholar. She received her Ph.D. in Cultural Studies from the Department of Cultural and Religious Studies, the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her doctoral research examines digital feminism and queer media cultures in Hong Kong. Her research focuses on the intersections of digital media culture, creative practices, queer studies, and feminism in contemporary Hong Kong. She has developed expertise in creator cultures, algorithmic platform governance, generative AI, synthetic media arts, and postcolonial studies. Her research has been published in Communication, Culture & Critique, Journal of Digital Social Research, and Global South Creator Cultures. She was invited to be a guest researcher at Center for Digital Narratives, University of Bergen, Norway in April 2026. She is currently researching generative AI and creativity in queer and feminist Global Asia. Beyond academic research and teaching, she also engages in public-facing cultural work through writing, publishing, curating, and collaborative creative projects.
