Mingxin Zhang，male，Ph.D.TitleProfessor & Dean; MA and Ph.D. student supervisor，Journalism and Communication

Brithday：1978.10

E-mail：mingxinzhang@hust.edu.cn

Education experience ：

BE, School of Materials Science & Engineering, Huazhong University of Science & Technology

MA, School of Journalism & Communication, Huazhong University of Science & Technology

PhD, School of Journalism & Communication, Wuhan University

Employment experience：

2004.7-2007.6

Hubei University, School of Art, Journalism Department, Full-time Teacher (Teaching assistant, Lecture)

2007.7-2012.4

Wuhan University, School of Journalism & Communication, Full-time Teacher (Lecture, Associate professor)

2012.5 so far

Huazhong University of Science & Technology, School of Journalism & Communication, Full-time Teacher (Associate professor, Professor, Ph.D. supervisor), Dean of the School (2018.4-so far).

Research Keywords：Social media; Political communication; Communication theory

Professional Affiliations：

Member, The 8th Academic Degrees Committee of The State Council;

Member, The National Administration Committee on Teaching Journalism and Communication to Majors in Higher Education under The Ministry of Education;

Associate Chair, American China Media Research Association.

Main Research Projects & Papers and Books Finished or Now Engaged

Main Research Projects:

Chinese Adolescents' Social Media Use and Political Socialization, The National Social Science Fund of China, 2019-2022;

New Media Communication and Political Trust in Transforming China, The National Social Science Fund of China, 2012-2018.

Selected Publications:

Mingxin Zhang & Jiayi Chen. (2020).“Superior and Inferior Communicate with Each Otherand Generate Political Ideals”: The Construction of Political Trust in the Analects A Study from the Perspective of Political Communication. Journalism & Communication (In Chinese), 1: 69-86.

Mingxin Zhang & Wen You. (2019). The American Public’s Cognition of“China’s Rise”and the Future Direction of Sino-US Relationship: An Empirical Study, Journal of Huazhong University of Science and Technology(Social Science Edition) (In Chinese), 33(6), 85-94.

Ping Xu, Yinjiao Ye, & Mingxin Zhang*. (2018). Assessing Political Participation on the Internet in Contemporary China. Chinese Journal of Communication, 11(3): 243-266. *Corresponding author.

Mingxin Zhang & Yinjiao Ye. (2014). Intermittent Discontinued Adoption in the Diffusion of Innovation Communication Technologies: Evidence from National Survey Results in the U.S. and Mainland China. Journalism & Communication (In Chinese), 2: 35-55.

Mingxin Zhang (2010). Social Network Analysis: History, Concepts, and Research. In Borko Furht(Ed.),Handbook of Social Networks: Technologies and Applications (pp.3-22). Springer Science + Business Media, LLC.

Mingxin Zhang (2009). Exploring Adolescent Peer Relationships Online and Offline: An Empirical and Social Network Analysis. Proceedings of 2009 WRI International Conference on Communications and Mobile Computing, Volume 3, 268-272.

Lu Wei & Mingxin Zhang (2008). The Impacts of Internet Knowledge on College Students’Intention to Continue to Use the Internet. Information Research, 13(3) paper 348. Available at http://InformationR.net/ir/13-3/paper348.html

Lecture Resources：

Virtual Simulation Teaching Project《Virtual Simulation Experiment on Mobile News App Design》(http://www.ilab-x.com/details/v5?id=4556)

Courses：

Media Psychology(undergraduate level)

Research Methods in Communication Science(undergraduate level)

Media Psychology(graduate level)

Advanced Data Analysis(graduate level)

Main Awards：

Prof. Zhang has gained various academic awards in the field of journalism and communication research, political communication and communication theory in particular, for more than ten times.

The recruitment of students information：

Recruit 3-4 MA and 1 Ph.D. students per year.