Activities

Invited Talking

• Unveiling the Nexus of Online Activism, Privacy, and Societal Dynamics: A Critical Exploration Roundtable at Interdisciplinary PhD Communication Conference at Istanbul Bilgi University, on June 1, 2024, with Prof. Dr. James Gomez and Hualin Cao

• Chinese Populist Nationalism: Nationalists Competition on Weibo about the Red Cross Scandal during the COVID-19 Pandemic

·Lunch talk at NIAS at University of Copenhagen, on April 12, 2023

• Chinese Nationalism, online engagement, and Beijing Winter Olympics 

·Invited Key speaker at V-BRYGE (Vanguard-Better Relations Youth Global Exchange) Conference -- Sports Diplomacy of China through the Winter Olympics 2022" – on March 23, 2022 (online)

• COVID-19 & Vaccine Nationalism in China

·Invited speaker at 5th Benedict Anderson Memorial Roundtable: COVID-19 & Vaccine Nationalism, January 20, 2021, organized by Asia Centre and the Thai Media Fund, Bangkok, Thailand. (online)

Teaching Experience

• Guest Lecture at East China Normal University, Shanghai, China    

Guest lecture on teaching digital politics in China for master students

• Guest Lecture at Communication University of China, Beijing, China                               

Guest lecture on teaching social science methods for master students

• Teaching Assistant at Social Science Methods and Research Training (SSMART)                                                                             

Summer school is organized by Peking University, Beijing, China

TA for the course of Research Design and Methods for Social Sciences

Instruct students, in charge of help session and grade assignments

Organize the class and assist professor

Conferences

• Cyber-Nationalism in China: Exploring the Evolution of Nationalistic Discourse and Social Media User Responses at 74th Annual conference of ICA, June 23, 2024, in Gold Coast, Australia.

• Chinese Populist Nationalism: Nationalists Competition on Weibo about the Red Cross Scandal during the COVID-19 Pandemic

·International Conference & PhD course on Technology in Movement, Movement in Technology at University of Copenhagen, May 8 to May 10, Copenhagen, Denmark

• Big Data Analysis through Facebook: How Taiwan Public Reacts to COVID-19 Pandemic

·73rd Annual conference of ICA, May 27, 2022, in Toronto, Canada

• Affective biopolitics in the time of crisis: Unpacking Chinese Party press’s soft propaganda during Covid-19

·2022 International Conference on Method Triangulation: Implications for Social Science Research, August 18-19, 2022. Host at Center for Survey Research, Academia Sinica

·ICA Regional Conference 2022, Computational Communication Research in Central and Eastern Europe, June 27-29, 2022. Host at University of Helsinki

• Hashtag Nationalism: online discourse on China’s vaccines

·New Zealand Discourse Conference 8, December 12, 2021, host at University of Canterbury.

·72nd Annual conference of ICA, May 27, 2022, in Paris, France

• China's 'Weaponized' Vaccine: Intertwining Between International and Domestic Politics

·New York Conference on Asian Studies (NYCAS) 2021, October 01- October 02, 2021, sponsored by Association for Asian Studies, NYCAS and State University of New York-Brockport, USA.

• The Use of Mass Media by Think Tanks in China : The Case of the Charhar Institute

·Sixth International Conference on Communication & Media Studies, October 06- October 08, 2021, hosted with the University of Toronto, Canada.

• Digital Nationalism on Weibo on the 70th Chinese National Day

·26th IPSA World Congress of Political Science, July 10 to July 15, 2021, organized by International Political Science Association

• Rethink China’s digital nationalism in the wake of the COVID-19 crisis

·71st ICA Political Communication PhD Student Preconference, May 27, 2021, organized by International Communication Association

• Factionalism and Red Guards under the Cultural Revolution: Ideal Point Estimation Using Text-as-Data Scaling Method

·Co-presenter with Yi-Nung Tsai and Yen-Chieh Liao at AsianPolmeth VIII & ASQPS IX, Joint Quantitative Political Science Conference for Asia and Australasia, January 13 to January 15, 2021, organized by Asian Political Methodology group and the Australian Society for Quantitative Political Science.

· Co-presenter with Yi-Nung Tsai and Yen-Chieh Liao at 11th European Political Science Association Annual Conference, June 23 to June 25, 2021.

• Media Use, Media Trust and Nationalism in China during COVID-19 Pandemic

·Second Helsinki Conference on Emotions, Populism and Polarisation (HEPP), May 4 to May 8, 2021, organized by University of Helsinki

·Inter-Asia Cultural Studies Society Conference 2021: Culture in the Pandemic Age, July 26 to July 30, 2021, host by the Cultural Research Centre, National University of Singapore

·APSA Political Communication preconference, September 29, 2021, host by Washington State University.

• News Coverage on Pollution In China

·Seventeenth International Conference on Environmental, Cultural, Economic & Social Sustainability, Feb 24 to Feb 26, 2021 at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam, Netherlands.

• Introduction to China’s Digital Nationalism

·International Conference on Understanding China, August 16, 2020, organized by Nepal Institute for International Cooperation and Engagement, Kathmandu, Nepal.

• China’s Digital Nationalism: Search Engines and Online Encyclopaedias           

·ECREA section conference on “Infrastructures and Inequalities: Media Industries, Digital Cultures and Politics”, 21-22 October 2019 at University of Helsinki, Finland.

·Fourth International Conference on Communication & Media Studies, September 26- September 28, 2019, host by University of Bonn, Germany

Training and Summer School 

• Digital Methods Winter School and Data Sprint 2024 at University of Amsterdam                                                                     

• European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA) Summer School in 2023                                                                               

• PhD School of Technology in Movement, Movement in Technology at University of Copenhagen in 2023

Mentor: Prof. Dr. Guobin Yang

• American Political Science Association (APSA) Mentoring Program                                                                                

Mentor: Dr. Silvia Fierascu

• ECREA Political Communication mentoring program                                          

Mentor: Prof. Dr. Nicoleta Corbu

• 2018 International Joint Summer School: Back to the Future: China Communication Studies at 40        

At the Communication University of China

• The 16th "International Relations Research Method Workshop” at Tsinghua University                                

• Fudan Intensive Summer Teaching at Fudan University, China                             

Course: Theory and Practice: Interpersonal Communication

• LSE-PKU Summer School                                                     

Course: Global Media Industries