Dr Qian Gong

Research Associate CONANX Project

Address: 4th Floor, ICoSS Building
Telephone (Internal): 26065
Telephone (UK): 0114 222 6065
Telephone (International): +44 114 222 6065
Email: Q.Gong@Sheffield.ac.uk

Qian Gong obtained her Ph. D. in 2009 at the Institute of Communications Studies at the University of Leeds where she was also employed as research and teaching assistant. She had teaching interests in critical theories of media culture, history of communication, communication policy and discourse analysis. Her research interests include political communication, media and democracy, media and communication in China, Taiwan and South Korea and discourse analysis. Qian joined the current project in June 2009 and will be working on the package of global food supply and rising consumer demand in China.

Publications

Book Chapters:

Internet BBS Forum and News Reporting: Towards an Enhanced Public-Government Communication in China in Prasad, K (ed.) e-Journalism: New Directions in Electronic News Media B.R. Publishing Corporation, New Delhi, pp147-178.

Facilitating Participatory Communication in China? An Analysis of Citizen Journalists and Media Regulators in Qiangguo Forum in Monaghan, G. and Tunney, S. (eds) Web Journalism: A New Form of Citizenship? Sussex Academic Press, pp261-274.

Facilitating Political Deliberation in China: The Process of Online Discussion of 'Self Tax Declaration' in Qiangguo Forum, in Shedletsky, L and Aitken, J. (eds) Cases on Online Discussion and Interaction: Experiences and Outcomes, IGI Global, Pennsylvania, forthcoming 2010.

Conference Proceedings:

Extended Media Public Sphere in China? An Analysis of the People's Daily and Qiangguo Forum through the Lenses of Income Discrepancy in 2007 China Communication Forum, 'Harmonious Society, Civil Society and the Media' International Symposium organised by the Chinese Association for Communication (CAC) and the International Communication Association (ICA), 2007, Beijing, pp1026-1044.

Extended Media Public Sphere in China? An Analysis of Media Coverage of "Income Disparity" Issue in Four Media Discourses, peer-reviewed for proceedings publication for the 6th International Conference on Media, Athens, Greece, May 19-22, 2009, pp547-561.

Research Grants

Research grant awarded by The Universities' China Committee in London (UCCL) Mar 2007.

Research Grant Awarded by Great Britain-China Educational Trust May 2007.

Research Fund Awarded by Allan & Nesta Ferguson Charitable Trust, November 2007.

Conferences

`Rethinking Media Public Sphere in China paper presented at the `Modernisation, Modernity and the Media in China´ 2006 CMC Conference, The China Media Centre in Co-sponsorship with the Annenberg School for Communication, London, UK, 15-16 June 2006. http://www.wmin.ac.uk/mad/pdf/CMC_Conference_Programme_080606.pdf

`Rethinking Media Public Sphere in China - An Analysis of People's Daily and Qiangguo Forum through the Lenses of Income Discrepancy Issue´ Paper presented at the ICS International Postgraduate Conference `Communication Technologies of Empowerment´, Leeds, UK, 18 May 2007. http://www.personal.leeds.ac.uk/~icsfsp/

`Extended Media Public Sphere in China: An Empirical Analysis in the Cultural Context of Confucianism´ Paper presented at the Culture Studies Now - An International Conference, University of East London, London, UK, 19-22 July 2007. http://www.uel.ac.uk/culturalstudiesnow/speakers.htm

`Extended Media Public Sphere in China? An Empirical Online Discourse Analysis through the Lenses of Income Discrepancy Issue´ Paper presented at the International Association for Media and Communication Research 50th Anniversary Conference, International Association for Media and Communication Research, UNESCO, Paris, France 23-25 July 2007. http://www.iamcrparis2007.org/

`Extended Media Public Sphere in China? An Analysis of the People´s Daily and Qiangguo Forum through the Lenses of Income Discrepancy´ Paper presented at the Harmonious Society, Civil Society and the Media, a joint conference organised by the Chinese Association for Communication and the International Communication Association, 20-21 Oct 2007 in Beijing. http://www.icahdq.org/conferences/pastfutureconferences.asp

`Internet BBS Forum and News Reporting: Towards An Enhanced Public-Government Communication in China´ Poster presented at the MECCSA Annual Conference, Cardiff, 9-11 Jan 2008.
http://www.meccsa.org.uk/conference/index.html

`Extended Media Public Sphere in China? An Analysis of Media Coverage of Income Disparity Issue in Four Media Discourses´, paper presented at the 6th International Conference on Media to be held in Athens, Greece on May 19-22, 2008.
http://www.atiner.gr/docs/Media.htm

`Internet BBS Forum and News Reporting: Towards an Enhanced Public - Government Communication in China´, `Facilitating Participatory Communication in China? An Analysis of Media Coverage of Income Disparity Issue in Four Media Discourses papers presented at the 2008 conference for the International Association for Media & Communication Research (IAMCR) at the University of Stockholm, Sweden, July 20-25, 2008.
http://www.mediaandglobaldivides.se/

`Media Perception and Perceptions of the Media: How Journalists and Politicians View Each Other in Post-transition Taiwan and South Korea´, co-authored paper (with Prof. Gary Rawnsley), presented at Media Cultures and Politics in Asia and Beyond (Focus Asia) at Lund, Sweden, 26-27 February 2009.

`Analysis of the Emerging Media Public Sphere in China: Potential and Threat´, Paper to be presented at the 7th Chinese Internet Research Conference: `The Chinese Internet and Civil Society: Civic Engagement, Deliberation and Culture´, The Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA, 27-28 May, 2009 (Travel Grant provided by the Organiser).

`The Internet Mediated Political Discussion in China´, `Dynamics of Political Communications in Post-Transition Taiwan: An Analysis of Journalist-Political Relationship´, papers to be presented at the 2009 conference for the International Association for Media & Communication Research (IAMCR) at National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico, 21-24 July 2009.

Other Academic Activities

My paper named `Extended Media Public Sphere in China? An Empirical Online Discourse Analysis through the Lenses of Income Discrepancy Issue´ was submitted to the Technology and the Public Sphere doctoral course organised by Cultural Techniques (a research project in the Norwegian Council of Research), with financial support from the Department of Information Science and Media Studies and the Social Science Faculty at the University of Bergen, Norway. The course is promoted under the umbrella of the European Communication Research and Education Association (www.ecrea.eu). A diploma was awarded on successful completion of the course.
http://www.kulturteknikker.hivolda.no/default.asp?kat=940&id=3860&sp=2

Internet Regulation in China and Its Social Impact, Research seminar delivered in School of Media, Critical and Creative Arts, Liverpool John Moores University, 29th Nov. 2007.
http://www.ljmu.ac.uk/MCA/index.htm

Co-ordinating the Chinese translation for the International Journal of Zizek Studies held by the Institute of Communications Studies (ICS) of University of Leeds http://zizekstudies.org/translations/home_chinese.pdf

Organising the first ICS PhD Conference: Communication Technologies of Empowerment to be held in 18 May 2007. http://www.personal.leeds.ac.uk/~icsfsp/

Maintaining and updating Communication Policy Re/sources website http://ics.leeds.ac.uk/papers/index.cfm?outfit=ks