CSSG Talk: Hui Yan

Visiting Scholar Hui Yan will give the presentation, "Digitally Marginalized Communities: A Field Report from China."

Hui Yan, associate professor of library and information science in the School of Information Resource Management at Renmin University in China, earned his PhD from Peking University and was a visiting doctoral student at the iSchool at Illinois from September 2008 to August 2009. He published the first Chinese paper and field report paper in community informatics in 2010 and won two Chinese national social science grants in the field study of digitally marginalized communities. In his talk, he will report on the findings from a field study in seven provinces and municipalities lasting eight years.

This event will be in Mandarin Chinese.