Mian "Gloria" Wei

Mian “Gloria” Wei (She/They) is a Research MA student in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication at UW-Madison. Her research explores how power is reproduced and resisted through digital media, with a focus on gender, race, identity, and popular culture. Gloria’s Master’s thesis examines the performance and commodification of interracial romantic relationships on Chinese social media Little Red Book. A co-authored article published in theJournal of Computer-Mediated Communication investigates the representational and presentational gender bias in image-generative AI. Her research presentations include the International Communication Association, the International Conference on Social Media & Society, and the Chinese Internet Research Conference.