I am a Professor of Political Communication in the School of Journalism and Communication at Beijing Normal University (BNU), China.

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My research interests are centered on the interplay between media ( “old” and “new”), individuals' psychology, and their communicative behaviors in the process broadly construed as public deliberation. I’m also interested in the ways that the new digital media may help individuals to form attitudes, express opinions, and participate in public life in contemporary China.

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My work has appeared in Media Psychology, Information, Communication & Society, Computers in Human Behavior, International Journal of Public Opinion Research, and other journals. I am the Harvard-Yenching Visiting Scholar (2023-2024), the Zhijiang Young Scholar of Zhejiang Province (2018) and the Sixth Tone Fellow (2020). I was also the recipient of the Journalism and Communication Association Award from the Chinese Association for History of Journalism and Mass Communication (2019, 2021) for my research on (mediatized) deliberative governance in China. I am currently leading two major lines of research. One involves a series of projects funded by the National Social Science Fund of China and Beijing Social Science Planning Foundation exploring misinformation on social media, and the other examines the various modes in which public deliberation may be incorporated into and then facilitate local governance in China.

 

Prior to joining BNU, I was an Associate Professor in the College of Media and International Culture at Zhejiang University, and Assistant Professor in the Edward R. Murrow College of Communication at Washington State University. I received my Ph.D. in Communication Science from the Department of Communication Arts, University of Wisconsin-Madison. I also studied at Peking University (B.A., Communication) and China Foreign Affairs University (B.A., International Studies).

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