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CGCS Visiting Scholars 2008-2009
CGCS hosted eleven visiting scholars in 2008-2009. Here are their profiles:
- Anne Chen
- Lifeng Deng
- Liu Hailong
- Altug Akin
- Zhao Fei
- Weibu Peng
- Ferruh Yilmaz
- Ana Keshelashvili
- Brisa Ferrão
- Ole Mjos
If you would like to be considered as a visiting scholar, please see the Annenberg School's Visiting Scholar guidelines.
Find out about the 2007-2008 CGCS Visiting Scholars.
We also have visiting scholars from Jordan participating in our Jordan Media Strengthening Program.
Anne Chen (2008-2009)
Anne Chen is a post-graduate research fellow with the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania. She graduated summa cum laude with a B.S. in Computer Science from the College of William and Mary and is a graduate of Yale Law School. At Yale Law, Anne was a Student Fellow with the Information Society Project and has edited both the Yale Journal on Regulation and the Yale Journal of Law and Technology. She has researched and written on the role of technology in public benefits programs and the legal ramifications of online collaboration, and will continue to explore the intersection of law, media, and technology at the Center for Global Communications Studies next year.
Lifeng Deng (2008-2009)
Lifeng Deng, is currently a Ph.D. student at the School of Journalism and Communication, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. Till 2004, He has worked as an instructor at the Department of Journalism, China Youth College for Political Science in Beijing for five years. He is a native of HakKa, an ethnic group of the Han Chinese people who live predominantly in southern China. He was born and grew up in southern Jiangxi, southeast China.
Lifeng's Research Interests
Lifeng Deng's research interests include history and theories of mass communication, political economy of communication, mass media and nationalism in China. At Penn's Annenberg School, he will be engaged in his dissertation research on the political economy of press commercialization in the United States. In particular, he plans to delve into the corporation's influence in journalism and its social impact. Using North American countries as a benchmark, ultimately he hopes to explore China's media commercialization and an alternative modernization route for Chinese news media.
Liu Hailong (2008-2009)
Liu Hailong, PhD, is a lecturer at the School of Journalism and Communication of the Renmin University of China in Beijing. Dr. Liu is the Vice-Director for the Institute of Communication Study the center of news and social development. He was a visiting scholar at Dentsu, Inc. in Tokyo in 2003. Dr. Liu teaches communication theory to undergraduate and graduate students. He was the author of Mass Communication Theory: Paradigm and School (2008) and co-author of Introducing the Media Today (2005). He has translated four books on communication and journalism into Chinese: Milestones in Mass Communication Research: Media Effect; News That Matters: Television and American Opinion; Introducing Communication Theory: Analysis and Application; and The Elements of Journalism. Now his research interests lie in two areas: the history of Chinese communication study between 1978 and 2008, and the ideas of propaganda in the 20th century- from total war to public diplomacy. He is also interested in fan culture and the relationship between mass media and nationalism in China. As a visiting scholar at the Annenberg School, his research will focus on a comparison study between the ideas of propaganda in China and the United States.
Altug Akin (November-December 2008)
Altug Akin is a PhD student at the Faculty of Communication & Advertising at Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain, and a member of research group GRISS (Grupo de Investigación en Imagen, Sonido y Síntesis - Image, Sound and Synthesis Research Group) at the same university. His interests lie at the intersection of media, culture, and society, with a focus on the transformations being witnessed in the recent epoch, such as digitalization, migration, de-regulation, and the role of media in fostering national subjectivity in this intensively globalized era. In this context, Turkish media experience - particularly in relation with Europe and the Middle East - constitutes the core of his research activities. Mr. Akin completed his Masters studies in Engineering Management Information Systems at Royal Institute of Technology, and in Journalism Studies at Stockholm University, both in Sweden. Prior to his studies in Barcelona, he taught at the Izmir University of Economics, Turkey.
Zhao Fei (December 2008-July 2009)
Zhao Fei, a PhD candidate at the School of Journalism and Communication of Tsinghua University in Beijing, will come to Annenberg for a few months in the fall semester. In addition, she is a research assistant at the Tsinghua International Center for Communication Studies and at the Tsinghua Comprehensive AIDS research center. She also serves as a Training Assistant for the National Spokespersons Training Program. While at Annenberg, she plans to research communication strategies and effects research on cancer prevention and treatment. She plans to spend her time at Annenberg auditing classes, developing her research and ultimately writing her dissertation.
Zhao's Research Interests
Zhao Fei's research interests include health communication, political communication, studies of effects of mass media coverage on diseases and health issues, and cancer prevention communication.
Weibu Peng (Spring and Summer 2009)
Peng Weibu is Ph.D of Peking University, now teaching in the school of Journalism and Communication of Jinan University, Guangzhou, China. He is interested in studying the overseas Chinese language press, and has published three books and thirty articles about this field. He investigated Singapore and Malaysia as a fellow of SinChew media Corp in 2006, and went to Malaysia for his second investigation when invited by SinChew daily (the biggest Chinese newspaper in Malaysia in 2008). In 2007, he studied in Singapore and Cambodia as LeeKongChian fellow of Singapore, and published a report on "Ethnic and Culture Self-identity: From a Historical Perspective, Overseas Chinese Language Newspaper and Its Relationship with Ethnic Chinese of Singapore and Malaysia."
Weibu's Research Interests
His research focuses on minority press and minority ethnic identity. On the basis of his prior work, he is researching how Overseas Chinese language press improves and promotes Overseas Chinese ethnic identity, the impact of minority press on minority ethnic groups' loyalty both to their current nation and their country of origin.
Ferruh Yilmaz (Spring 2009)
Ferruh Yilmaz is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at Tulane University (from July 2009). Before becoming an academic, he had a long career as a journalist, producer, columnist and public relations officer. His professional experience includes working with the DR (Denmark), Cumhuriyet (Turkey), BBC World Service (UK), and The Board for Ethnic Equality (DK).
Ferruh's Research Interests
His research is concerned with the culturalization of the political discourse in Europe through immigration debate, pushing the entire political spectrum to the right. Dr. Yilmaz is particularly interested in analyzing how discursive resources such as nationalism, ethnicity, racism, religion, and culture are politically mobilized to create and institutionalize new type of social divisions. He is also interested in more theoretical and analytical questions such as hegemony, the nature of meaning, reality-mind relationship, and how to analyze them through concrete data. Publications include "Religion as Rhetorical Resource.
The Muslim immigrant in (Danish) Public Discourse" in Lynn Schofield Clark (ed.), /Religion, Media, and the Marketplace/ (2007). As a visiting scholar at the Annenberg School, he will be working on a book manuscript that explores the new hegemonic order based on a culturalized political discourse and its implications for progressive politics. More info at his website: communication.ucsd.edu/fyilmaz
Ana Keshelashvili (January and February 2009)
Ana Keshelashvili is an Assistant Professor at Georgian Institute of Public Affairs, School of Journalism and Media Management, where she teaches basics and advanced reporting and writing. Before gaining Master of Mass Communication from Louisiana State University she has worked as print and TV reporter, was as well a PR officer for non-profit organizations. Keshelashvili was also a country leader of circuit riders providing ICT consulting to different non-governmental groups.
Ana's Research Interests
She intends to work on development of Media policy and economics course. Her research interests lie in policies related to new technologies, knowledge gap and socio-psychological aspects of technology use.
Brisa Ferrão (February-March 2009)
Brisa Ferrão is a Ph.D candidate in Law at University of São Paulo Law School (Brazil), where she is responsible for the Press Law Clinic. This initiative is a course offered to graduate and undergraduate students in order to propose a bill draft for the new Brazilian Press Law. Her Ph.D project deals with several aspects in media regulation, including image of minorities, right to reply and correction and the political economy of media regulation. Parts of her work have been presented in such forums as the 2007 UNESCO/IAMCR conference in Paris and the 207 ESNIE (European School for New Institutional Economics) in Corsica.
Brisa's Research Interests
Her interests in media include, besides the before mentioned areas, the intersection of law and psychology, cultural studies, rights of minorities and civil liberties.
Ole Mjøs (March-July 2009)
Ole J. Mjøs is a Post Doctoral Fellow at the Department of Information Science and Media Studies, University of Bergen, Norway. He obtained his PhD in Media and Communications from University of Westminster, UK (2007) and an MA in Transnational Communications and the Global Media from Goldsmiths College, University of London (2003). Ole's professional experience in the media and creative industries includes work in television documentary production, and contributions on many records within the wide genre of electronic music released on European record labels.
Ole's Research Interests
Ole's research interests centres around the relationship between media and globalization. His Post Doctoral research project is titled News Corporation, the Internet, Myspace.com: New Theoretical Perspectives on Media Globalization. The research project has two main aims: 1) To explore as a case study key strategies of one of the world's largest global media conglomerates: News Corporation's expansion into the Internet. The focus of the enquiry is the increasingly global social Internet network MySpace.com. 2) To contribute to the theoretical understanding of the process of media globalization through the study of this Internet based case. Ole is also working on a monograph titled Media Globalization and Discovery Channel Networks, which is under contract with Routledge.
Last updated: August 28, 2009
