I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Government and International Affairs at Lingnan University. I study economic democracy, and I have a growing interest in the platform economy and algorithmic politics. I am currently working on a book that develops a normative political theory of workplace justice. My research has received the Helen Potter Award from the Association for Social Economics and the Best Student Paper Award from the Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR), and was shortlisted for the 2023 ICAS Best Article Prize on Global Hong Kong Studies by the Society for Hong Kong Studies. I hold a PhD in Political Science from the University of Toronto in Canada. Before joining Lingnan, I was a Postdoctoral Researcher in the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Utrecht University in the Netherlands (2020-21) and a Visiting Researcher in the Normative Orders Research Centre at Goethe University Frankfurt in Germany (2019). (→ More)

Recent Publications

• Chan, N. K., & Kwok, C. (2025). Data, human subjects, and research ethics in transformative contexts. AI and Society. / Open Access /
• Kwok, C. (2025). The epistemology of corporate power: The limits of the firm-state analogy. Journal of Applied Philosophy, 42(1), 197-216. / Open Access /
• Kwok, C., & Chan, N. K. (2024). Human-automated collectives: Automating communication for social movement mobilization. New Media & Society, 26(9), 4992-5012. / Abstract /
• Chan, N. K., & Kwok, C. (2024). State-led embeddedness: Analyzing the discursive construction of platforms and social good in Beijing, Hangzhou, Shanghai, and Shenzhen. Global Media & China, 9(3), 362-383. / Open Access /
• Kwok, C., & Chan, N. K. (2024). Datafication and implicated networks of demobilization: social movement demobilization in datafied societies. Social Movement Studies, 23(3), 373-390. / Abstract /