Tin-Yuet Ting is Assistant Professor of Sociology in the Department of Applied Social Sciences at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. He received his PhD in Sociology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA, and his BA and MPhil from The University of Hong Kong. Dr. Ting’s research lies at the intersections of mobile social media, data technology, platform creative economy, and techno-politics. Funded by the Research Grants Council (RGC) of Hong Kong SAR, among others, his major projects examine the (trans)formation of networked public and connective action in contemporary mobile and datafied settings. His other research, also funded by RGC, investigates the uneven and unequal pathways to digital careers amidst platform precarity and uncertainty.

 

Dr. Ting received the Joshua Feigenbaum Award from the Horowitz Foundation for Social Policy, USA, the Early Career Grant Award from RGC, Hong Kong SAR, and the Advance HE Fellowship from the Higher Education Academy, United Kingdom. At The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, he was a recipient of the Best Teaching Award from the Department of Applied Social Sciences and the Faculty Prize in Teaching from the Faculty of Health and Social Sciences. Dr. Ting currently sits on the Editorial Board of Journal of Information Society and is a Board Member of the Research Committee on Futures Research of the International Sociological Association. He was also the Secretary-Treasurer to the Research Committee on Futures Research of the International Sociological Association in 2018-2023, and the Secretary to the Hong Kong Sociology Association at the 11th Council in 2018-2020 and the 12th Council in 2020-2022, and have served as peer reviewers for over a dozen Scopus and Web of Sciences indexed Q1 journals.