Qian (Sarah) Gong

Contact

• workRoom C2b Trent Building
  University Park
  Nottingham
  NG7 2RD
  UK
• work0115 956 8676
• Qian.Gong@nottingham.ac.uk

Expertise Summary

Dr. Qian (Sarah) Gong worked in the University of Leeds and the University of Sheffield before she joined the University of Nottingham. Qian has research interests in political communication, journalism studies, media and democracy, consumer culture, visual communication, advertising and discourse analysis. She participated in a project 'Political Communication in New Democracies' funded by the British Academy 2007-2009, and a project 'Consumer Culture in an Age of Anxiety' funded by the European Research Council 2009-2011.

Teaching Summary

Office hours

Tuesday 11:30 - 1. Other time by appointment

Modules convened:

Media and Society (Semester 1)

Global Media and Communication (Semester 2)

Media and Conflict (Semester 2)

Contributing to modules:

Political Communications, Public Relations and Propaganda (Semester 1)

Studies Skills (Semester 2)

Recent Publications

• GONG, Q., 2013. New Media Public Sphere in China.. In: RAWNSLEY, G. AND RAWNSLEY, M., ed., Routledge Handbook of Chinese Media Routledge. (In Press.)
• JACKSON, P, COLES, B, GONG, Q. MEAH, A, LEE, R, MILNE, R and AND WATSON, M., 2012. Food Keywords: a Vocabulary of Food, Culture and Society. Berg. (In Press.)
• RAWNSLEY, G. AND GONG, Q, 2012. The Media’s Role in Shaping Taiwan’s Democratic Vitality.. In: TSANG, S., ed., The Vitality of Taiwan. Palgrave-Macmillan. (In Press.)
• GONG, Q. AND JACKSON, P., 2012. Consuming Anxiety? Parental Practice after the 2008 Infant Formula Scandal in China. Food, Culture and Society: An International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research. (In Press.)

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Past Research

'Consumer Culture in an Age of Anxiety' funded by the European Research Council. 2009-2012 http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/conanx

'Political Communication in New Democracies: Government Media Relationships in Transition' funded by the British Academy. 2007-2009 http://ics.leeds.ac.uk/sub1.cfm?pbcrumb=Political%20Communication%20in%20New%20Democracies

• GONG, Q., 2013. New Media Public Sphere in China.. In: RAWNSLEY, G. AND RAWNSLEY, M., ed., Routledge Handbook of Chinese Media Routledge. (In Press.)
• GONG, Q. AND JACKSON, P., 2012. Consuming Anxiety? Parental Practice after the 2008 Infant Formula Scandal in China. Food, Culture and Society: An International Journal of Multidisciplinary Research. (In Press.)
• RAWNSLEY, G. AND GONG, Q, 2012. The Media’s Role in Shaping Taiwan’s Democratic Vitality.. In: TSANG, S., ed., The Vitality of Taiwan. Palgrave-Macmillan. (In Press.)
• JACKSON, P, COLES, B, GONG, Q. MEAH, A, LEE, R, MILNE, R and AND WATSON, M., 2012. Food Keywords: a Vocabulary of Food, Culture and Society. Berg. (In Press.)
• GONG, Q., 2011. Internet – A Way Out of Nihilism? Engaging Baudrillard. Foreign Literature Review (Wai Guo Yu Lun Cong).. 4, 420-444
• RAWNSLEY, G. AND GONG, Q, 2011. Political Communications in Democratic Taiwan: The Relationship between Politicians and Journalists. Political Communication. 28(3), 323-340
• GONG, Q., 2010. Facilitating Participatory Communication in China? An Analysis ofCitizen Journalists and Media Regulators in Qiangguo Forum.. In: MONAGHAN, G. AND TUNNEY, S., ed., Web Journalism: A New Form of Citizenship? Sussex Academic Press. 261-274
• 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 Institute for Education and Research Press.
• GONG, Q., 2009. Internet BBS Forum and News Reporting.. In: PRASAD, K., ed., e-Journalism: New Directions in Electronic News Media. B.R. Publishing. 147-178