Her research focuses on the social and cultural implications of new media technologies in China. She is interested in how the use of new media technologies is connected to multiple axes of identity, sociality, and forms of individual and collective agency as well as how such usage is shaped by multiple discourses and power relations. Her work is informed by critical/cultural studies, feminist theory, and theories of the social shaping of technology. Her forthcoming book, Mobile Bodies, Mobile Technologies (NYU Press), examines the use of new media, especially mobile phones, by young rural-to-urban migrant women working in the low-level service sector in Beijing.