Dr Qian Gong

Address: Room 1.03, Bankfield House, University of Leicester
Telephone (UK): 0116 252 5293
Telephone (International): +44 116 252 5293
Email: qg8@le.ac.uk

Qian Gong is a lecturer at the Department of Media and Communication at the University of Leicester. Before that she was teaching at the Department of Culture, Film and Media at the University of Nottingham (2011-2012). Qian worked as a research associate on the CONANX project from 2009 to 2011. From 2007 to 2009 she worked on a British Academy project ‘Political Communication in New Democracies’ at the Institute of Communications Studies at the University of Leeds. Qian has research interests in political communication, journalism studies, media and democracy, consumer culture, advertising and discourse analysis. In the CONANX project, she has developed new interests in media discourses of food in/security and food safety and the construction of social anxieties around such discourses, and consumer perceptions of food safety in China.

Publications

• Gong, Q. (forthcoming) New Media Public Sphere in China in Rawnsley, G. and Rawnsley, M. (eds.) Routledge Handbook of Chinese Media. London and New York: Routledge.
• Gong, Q. contributor to (in press) Food Keywords: a Vocabulary of Food, Culture and Society. Oxford and New York: Berg.
• Gong, Q. and Jackson, P. (in press) Consuming Anxiety? Parental Practice after the 2008 Infant Formula Scandal in China. Food, Culture and Society: An International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research.
• Rawnsley, G. and Gong, Q. (in press) The Media’s Role in Shaping Taiwan’s Democratic Vitality, in Tsang, S. (ed.) The Vitality of Taiwan. Basingstoke: Palgrave-Macmillan.
• Rawnsley, G. and Gong, Q. (2011) Political Communications in Democratic Taiwan: The Relationship between Politicians and Journalists. Political Communication Vol.28 (3): 323-340.
• Gong, Q. (2011) Internet – A Way Out of Nihilism? Engaging Baudrillard, Wai Guo Yu Lun Cong, Sichuan University Press (外国语文论丛, 四川大学出版社) Vol. 4: 420-444.
• Gong, Q. (2010) 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: Sussex Academic Press, 261-274.
• Gong, Q. (2009) Internet BBS Forum and News Reporting in Prasad, K. (ed.) e-Journalism: New Directions in Electronic News Media. New Delhi: B.R. Publishing Corporation, 147-178.
• Gong, Q. (2009) Extended Media Public Sphere in China? An Analysis of Media Coverage of Income Disparity in Four Media Discourses in Pasadeos, Y. (ed.) Variety in Mass Communication Research. Athens: Athens Institute for Education and Research Press, 247-266.