UMass Boston

Suisui Wang

Department:
Women's Gender Sexuality Studies
Title:
Lecturer
Assistant Professor

Area of Expertise

Gender and Sexuality Studies, Science and Technology Studies (STS), Sound and Sensory studies

Degrees

BA, Sociology, East China Normal University

MA, Gender Studies, Indiana University Bloomington

PhD candidate, Gender Studies, Indiana University Bloomington

Professional Publications & Contributions

Wang, Suisui. 2024. “Situated Indications: Queer STS Experiments on Global Datafication.” In Queer Data Studies, 253–86. Feminist Technosciences. Seattle: University of Washington Press. (Winner of the 2024 Nicholas C. Mullins Prize from Society for Social Studies of Science)

Additional Information

An interdisciplinary scholar of feminist and queer STS, Suisui’s work situates health, technology, and data in nexuses of activism and governance and as sites of community-based analysis, participation, and action. His book-length project Just Listening: Hotline Activisms and Technopolitics of Crisis offers a media genealogy of “hotline” as a traveling technology of care and statecraft. Examining the activist mobilization and state coordination of hotlines around youth alienation, gay isolation, gendered violence, and suicide prevention, Just Listening historicizes the optimist yet elusive promise of “someone to talk to” invested in hotline technologies and theorizes the work of crisis listening—as communicative proxies, affective commons, epistemic positionalities, and performative acts—in contemporary psychosocial lives and technopolitical projects.