Kin Long Tong is a Hong Kong-Chinese researcher, writer and PhD student in the Department of Information Studies at UCL, interested in information politics, media activism, alternative media production and youth political participation in authoritarian contexts. Tong’s thesis project The Production of Digital Materiality: Self-publishing for Social Changes explores how and why Hong Kong citizens use self-publishing practices for advancing social changes and explains the logic of media hybridity.
Prior to Tong’s PhD he worked for publishing presses, at university libraries and as a teaching and research assistant for the University of Hong Kong, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Baptist University, the Education University of Hong Kong, and in community archives. He is also a regular contributor to CUP Media, Initium Media and Hong Kong Economic Journals.
