Dr. Jingyu Wang

Media ethics, philosophy of technology & AI

Jingyu Wang has been an EU Campus Fellow of Doshisha University and a Visiting Researcher at IZEW, University of Tübingen, since April 2026. She studied Intercultural German Studies in China and Germany and Media Studies in Japan. Her research focuses on human–AI interaction, affectively designed chatbots, and relationships between humans and conversational AI from an intercultural perspective.

Research Focus Areas

Human–AI Interaction
Media and Technology Studies
Digital Intimacy
AI Companionship
Sociolinguistics

Career

03. 2026	PhD. in Media Studies Doshisha University, Graduate School of Social Studies (Dissertation Title) Liquid Intimacy: On the Relational Dynamics Between Humans and Conversational AI
03. 2020	M.A. in Media Studies Doshisha University, Graduate School of Social Studies (Thesis Title) Forms of Connection Between Artificial Agents and Humans: A Case Study of the Virtual YouTuber Kizuna AI
06. 2017	M.A. in Literature Beijing Foreign Studies University, Department of German Studies (double degree with Georg August Universität Göttingen)
05. 2017	M.A. in Intercultural German Studies (Germany‐China) Georg August Universität Göttingen, Faculty of Humanities (double degree with Beijing Foreign Studies University)
07. 2014	B.A. German Studies Beijing Foreign Studies University, Department of German Studies

Publications

Journal articles

12. 2025「親密性をプログラムする：会話型AIサービスにおける関係性のデザインと制御 (Designing Intimacy: The Construction of Human–AI Relationships in Conversational Systems)」『評論・社会科学』Vol. 155. pp.1~23.
09. 2025「AIとの親密関係を想像する——一般利用者の明確な期待と曖昧な不安 (Imagining Intimacy with AI: Clear Expectations and Ambiguous Anxieties among General Users in Japan)」『評論・社会科学』Vol. 154. pp.91~118.
09. 2025 Experiencing a virtual character with a human soul: Affectively designed and emotionally connected『評論・社会科学』Vol. 154. pp.35~62.
04. 2025 「ChatGPT夜明け前：人工知能との親密性をめぐる可能性 (Before the Dawn of ChatGPT: The Possibilities of Intimacy with Artificial Intelligence)」『中央調査報』No.810、pp.7103~7110.

Book translations

03. 2021 正念与生机——生物能量学視角下的圧力管理 (Mindfulness and Vitality: Stress Management from a Bioenergetics Perspective) — Chinese translation of Achtsam und vital: Stressbewältigung durch Bioenergetik by Ulrich Sollmann. East China Normal University Press, 2021. 152 pp. (Sole translator; translated from German to Chinese.) ISBN: 978-7576011142.
09. 2015士兵家書 (Soldiers’ Letters) — Chinese translation of Lettres de la Wehrmacht (ed. Marie Moutier).Baihuazhou Literature & Art Publishing House, 2015. 336 pp. (Co-translator with Fan Yun & Zhang Bin; translated from German to Chinese; responsible for pp. 1–100.) ISBN: 978-7550011236.