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I am a Hong Kong-Chinese researcher, writer, and a PhD student in the Department of Information Studies at UCL. I am interested in information politics, media activism, alternative media production, and youth political participation in authoritarian contexts. My thesis project, “The Production of Digital Materiality: Self-publishing for Social Changes,” explores how and why Hong Kong citizens use a wide variety of self-publishing practices for advancing social changes and explains the logic of media hybridity behind.
Prior to my PhD study, I have work experience in publishers and academic libraries. In addition, I was a teaching assistant and research assistant for the University of Hong Kong, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Baptist University, and the Education University of Hong Kong. Currently, I am also a regular contributor to CUP Media, Initium Media, and Hong Kong Economic Journals.
Supervisors: Timothy Jordan and Daniel Boswell
Publications:
Tong, Kin-long (forthcoming), Overcoming Fear: The Representation of State Violence in Hong Kong’s Protest Zines during the Anti-Extradition Law Amendment Bill Movement. In Darren Slade (ed.) Violence in Art. GCRR Press.
Tong, Kin-long (forthcoming), Radical Librarians in Queer Movement: The Case of Queer Reads Library in Hong Kong. In Epifania Amoo-Adare and Rapti Siriwardane-de Zoysa (eds). An Anthology of Non-Conformism. DIO Press.
Tong, Kin-long and Cheng, Edmund (forthcoming), Social Movements amidst Autocratization. In Amy Barrow and Sara Fuller (eds.). Activism and Authoritarian Governance in Asia. Routledge.
Yuen, Samson and Tong, Kin-long (2021), Solidarity in Diversity: Online Petitions and Collective Identity in Hong Kong’s Anti-Extradition Bill Movement. Japanese Journal of Political Science 22(4): 215-232.
Tong, Kin-long and Yuen, Samson (2021), Secondary Schools as Sites of Resistance and Control in Hong Kong. Sociological Forum 36(4): 984-1004.
Tong, Kin-Long (2020), DIY Print Activism in Digital Age: Zines in Hong Kong. ZINES Journal 1(1): 65-76.
Li, Cho-Kiu and Tong, Kin-Long (2020), “We are Safer without the Police”: Hong Kong Protestors Building a Community for Safety, Radical History Review (137): 199-216.
Conference Presentation:
Tong, Kin-long (2022), Self-publishing for Social Changes: Towards a Model of Hybrid Media Activism? Presented in Zines and Self-publishing in Chinese Cultures Conference, January 14, Virtual Event.
Tong, Kin-Long (2021), Prints for Social Changes: Hong Kong’s Community Newspaper Movement from 2018 to 2020. Presented in European Consortium for Political Research General Conference, August 30 – September 03, Virtual Event.
Cheung, Peter Tsan Yin and Tong, Kin-Long (2019), The Pattern of Civic Engagement in Hybrid Regimes: Evidence from Hong Kong. Presented in the workshop, Public Participation and the Policy Process in Asia, June 25-26, the University of Hong Kong.
Education Background
MA in Archive and Record Management (Distinction), University College London
M. Phil. in Politics and Public Administration, The University of Hong Kong
B.Soc.Sc. in Government and Public Administration, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Contact Information
Email: kin.tong.20@ucl.ac.uk
ResearchGate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Kin-Long-Tong-2