Dr Yuwei Lin

Office Times

By appointment

Biography

I joined the University on 1st October 2009 as Lecturer in Future Media, having previously worked at the Coordinating Hub of the ESRC National Centre for e-Social Science (NCeSS) at the University of Manchester (2006-9), and the Department of Information Systems at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
(2005-6) after completing my PhD in Sociology at the University of York
investigating hacker culture(s), hacking practices and the socio-technical
dynamics within and across Free/Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) communities.

Teaching

Level 4 (Year 1), BA in TV & Radio, Creative Media Analysis (shared with BA in Animation, BSc in Computer & Video Games, HND Media Production)

Level 5 (Year 2), BSc in Computer & Video Games, Agile Production Management

Level 7 (MA), MA in Social Media, Creative Networking

Level 7 (MA), MA in Social Media, Community Projects

Level 7 (MA), MA in Social Media, Major projects or Dissertation

Research Interests

  • Free/Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS)
  • Digital culture (especially in relation to hacker culture and user-participatory culture)
  • Gender and ICTs
  • Cultural and socio-technical dynamics in community-based innovation systems
  • Innovative research methods and new kinds of data

Qualifications and Memberships

PhD in Sociology

For more info please see my webpage http://www.ylin.org or my seek profile http://www.seek.salford.ac.uk/profiles/YLIN.jsp

I also keep a blog documenting my teaching and research activities at Salford http://hiyashi.wordpress.com

Publications

For more info please see my webpage http://www.ylin.org or my seek profile http://www.seek.salford.ac.uk/profiles/YLIN.jsp

I also keep a blog documenting my teaching and research activities at Salford http://hiyashi.wordpress.com