Kecheng
Fang, Ph.D.
Communication researcher
Research Projects and Publications
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Digital Media Experiments in China: “Revolutionizing” Persuasion under Xi Jinping
Shanghai-based Pengpai and its copycats.
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Turning a Communist Party Leader into an Internet Meme: the Political and Apolitical Aspects of China’s Toad Worship Culture
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Authoritarian Participatory Persuasion 2.0: Netizens as Thought Work Collaborators in China
How online persuasion is taking on an increasingly participatory form under President Xi
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‘Guard Against Fire, Theft, and Journalists’: The Public Against the Press in China
Pressures, threats, violence, and incitement aimed at the media and journalists from the public.
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Demystifying ‘Little Pink’: The Creation and Evolution of a Gendered Label for Nationalistic Activists in China
Little Pink was an invented label.
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Weibo, Wechat and the Chinese Culture of Connectivity
They may reproduce inequality among the public rather than empower the disadvantaged groups.
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Digital Media and the Arab Spring
Did digital media really “cause” the Arab Spring, or is it an important factor of the story behind what might become democracy’s fourth wave?
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The Myth of China’s Liberal Media
The understanding of so-called “liberal media” in China sometimes deviates from the truth and the complexity is widely ignored.
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Do Not Overrate the Internet Speech: An Empirical Analysis of 122 Threads on Online Forums
Discussions can continue for some time but most of them cannot be deepened.
