Zongya Li，Female，1990.10，Ph.D

Title：Post Doctor

Subject：Journalism and Communication

E-mail：lzy901014@sina.com

Education experience：

PhD, School of Journalism and Communication, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

MA, School of Media & Design, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

BA, Journalism and Information Communication School, Huazhong University of Science and Technology

Employment experience：

2019.11-Present

Huazhong University of Science and Technology - Journalism and Information Communication School - Postdoc

Research Keywords：Health Communication、Environmental Communication、Risk Communication、Media Effects

Main Research Projects& Papers and Books Finished or Now Engaged：

Selected Publications:

Li, Z. Y., Wei., R., Lo., V. H., Zhang., M. X., & Zhu., Y. C. (2021). Cognitive Reasoning, Risk Targets and Behavioral Responses to COVID-19 Outbreaks among Wuhan Residents during Lockdown. Asian Journal of Communication, 31(5): 355-372.

Li, Z. Y., Zhang, M. X., Wei, R., & Zhu, Y. C. (2021). WeChat Use and Altruistic Behavior in the COVID-19 Crisis: The Mediated Effects of Risk Perception and Public Trust, Chinese Journal of Journalism & Communication, 5: 6-22. (in Chinese)

Li, Z. Y. (2021). Role of Affective Mediators in the Effects of Media Use on Proenvironmental Behavior. Science Communication, (43)1: 64-90.

Huang, H., Chen, Z. X., Shi*, X. H., Wang, C. X., He, Z. P., Jin, H., Zhang, M. X., & Li, Z. Y. (2021). China in the eyes of news media: a case study under COVID-19 epidemic. Front Inform Technol Electron Eng, online. https://doi.org/10.1631/FITEE.2000689.

Li, Z. Y., Lo, V. H., Wei, R., Zhang, G. L., Chen, Y. N., & Tandoc, E. (2020). The Impact of Mobile News Use, Need for Orientation and Information Environment on Political Knowledge, Journalism Research, 7: 105-120. (in Chinese)

Li, Z. Y., Lo, V. H., Lu, H. Y., & Wei, R. (2019). Effect of Information-Processing Strategies and Political Discussion on Game and Substance Knowledge, Chinese Journal of Communication Research, 36: 117-155. (in Chinese)

Kim, S., & Li, Z. Y. (2018). Understanding Social-Commerce Shopping Behavior: A Study in the Chinese Context. International Journal of Contents, 14(4)：76-85.

Li, Z. Y., & Yin, Y. Y. (2018). Attractiveness, expertise and closeness: The effect of source credibility of the first lady as political endorser on social media in China. Global Media and China, 3(4), 297-315.

Projects:

Lead:

Media representation of China in global COVID-19 news, funded by Young Scholar Program of the Humanity and Social Science Foundation, Ministry of Education of China. 2021, in progress now.

Reporting on COVID-19: the mechanism and effects of positive emotional framing in the mainstream media, funded by the 68th China Postdoctoral Science Foundation, 2020, in progress now.

Participant:

Participant in the key program of the National Social Science Fund of China titled of Research on social media use and political socialization of teenagers in China lead by Prof. Mingxin Zhang. Assisting in constructing the framework, designing the questionnaire, and supervising the implementation.

Participant in a program named as“big data news”lead by Prof. Xuanhua Shi and Prof. Hong Huang from the School of Computer Science & Technology. They crawled more than 280 000 pieces of news from 57 mainstream media agencies in 22 countries during the COVID-19 epidemic outbreak, and aimed to understand how the international public portrays China during the pandemic.