Research

Research in the School of International Communications

Research at the School of International Communications is multi-disciplinary, including media and communication studies, film and television studies, journalism, mobile studies, and game studies.

If you have any questions about the research at the School of International Communications, get in touch with our director of research Dr Corey Kai Nelson Schultz.

The School of International Communications is an Institutional Member of the following Professional Organisations:

International Communication Section IAMCR

International Communication Association

Media, Communication and Cultural Studies Association

Recent Publications

Ainslie, Mary J. (2021) ‘Chinese philosemitism and historical statecraft: Exploring representations of Judaism through contemporary Sino-Israeli relations’. The China Quarterly Vol. 245, March 2021, pp.208-206. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305741020000302
Brown., M.S., & Lam, Celia (2021) Introduction to Playces: Special issue on Spaces of Play. Culture, Theory and Critique, 62 (3), 197-207. https://www.doi.org/10.1080/14735784.2021.1993078
Ch’ng Eugene (2022) Virtual Environments as Memory Anchors. In Ch’ng E., Chapman H., Gaffney V. and Wilson, A. (eds.), Visual Heritage: Digital Approaches in Heritage Science, Springer Cultural Computing Series.
Ch’ng Eugene, Chapman H., Gaffney V., Wilson, A. (eds.) (2022) Visual Heritage: Digital Approaches in Heritage Science, Springer Cultural Computing Series.
Ch’ng Eugene, Feng P., Yao H., Cheng D. and Cai S. (2021) Balancing Performance and Effort in Deep Learning via the Fusion of Real and Synthetic Cultural Heritage Photogrammetry Training Sets. Special Session on Artificial Intelligence and Digital Heritage: Challenges and Opportunities - ARTIDIGH, 13th Int’ Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - ICAART, 2-4 Feb. 2021
Chen, Z. T., & Whyke, Thomas W. (2022) Manufacturing and commodifying “Chineseness: Cultural diplomacy through a food-vlogger Li Ziqi and her media representation on YouTube”. In Zhang, X., & Schultz, C. (eds.), China and the World in the 21st Century: Communication and Relationship Building. London, UK: Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003254157-12
Gilardi, Filippo, White, A., Chen, T., Cheng, S., Song, W., & Zhao, Y. (2022) From copycat to copyright: intellectual property amendments and the development of Chinese online video industries. International Journal of Cultural Policy. https://doi.org/10.1080/10286632.2022.2040494
Lam, Celia, & Raphael, J. (2022) Celebrity Bromance: Constructing, Interpreting and Utilising Personas. Oxon: Routledge.
Leow, F.T. and Ch’ng, Eugene (2021) Analysing narrative engagement with immersive environments: designing audience-centric experiences for cultural heritage learning. Museum Management and Curatorship, DOI: 10.1080/09647775.2021.1914136
Li, Y., Ch’ng, Eugene, S. Cobb and S. See (2022) Presence and Communication in Hybrid Virtual and Augmented Reality Environments, PRESENCE Special Issue on Virtual and Augmented Reality Special Issue on User Experience and Engagement.
Liu, Nancy, Veecock, Candace, Zhang, Shixin. (eds.) (2021) Chinese news discourse: Perspectives from communications, linguistics, translation and pedagogy, London: Routledge
Lopez, J.M., & Whyke, Thomas W. (2022) Double consciousness of Chinese modernity: in the cosmopolitan ruins of Shanghai. Fudan Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences. Online First. (Forthcoming).
Martin, Paul, & Song, W. (2021) Gaming on campus: The promotion of esports in Chinese universities. In D. Y. Jin (Ed.), Global esports: Transformation of cultural perceptions of competitive gaming (pp. 281–296). Bloomsbury Academic.
Martin, Paul (2021) Realism in play: The uses of realism in computer game discourse. In D. Göttsche, R. Mucignat, & R. Weninger (Eds.), Landscapes of Realism: Rethinking Literary Realism in Comparative Perspectives, Vol. I (pp. 715–733). John Benjamins. https://doi.org/10.1075/chlel.xxxii
Meng, Jing & Zhang, Shixin (2022) Immersive Journalism and New Audience Relationship, in Ville J. E. Mannine, V. J.E., Niemi, M. K. & Anthony Ridge-Newman, A. (eds.) Futures of Journalism Technology-stimulated Evolution in the Audience-News Media Relationship, Palgrave MacMillan
Moss-Wellington, W., Lam, Celia, & Gilardi, Filippo (2022). Introduction to media and fakery. Continuum Journal of Media and Cultural Studies, 36 (3), 333-338.
Murgatroyd P., Ch’ng Eugene, Kabora T. and Butler M. (2022) Simulating a Drowned Landscape: A Four-dimensional Approach to Solving Problems of Behaviour and Scale, in Gaffney V.L. and Fitch S. (Eds), Europe's Lost Frontiers: Volume 1, Archaeopress Archaeology.
Raphael, J., Lam, Celia (2022). Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock: Person and Promotion. Celebrity Studies, 13 (2), 171-184. https://doi.org/10.1080/19392397.2022.2063398
Schleser, M. & Xu, Xiaoge (2021). (Eds.). Mobile Storytelling in an Age of Smartphones. Palgrave McMillan.
Schleser, M. & Xu, Xiaoge (2021). Mobile Storytelling in an Age of Smartphones. In Schleser, M. & Xu, X. (Eds.). Mobile Storytelling in an Age of Smartphones (pp. 1-6). Palgrave McMillan.
Schultz, Corey K.N. (2021) Transforming Pedagogies: Adapting Art School Peer Group Design Critique (the ‘Crit’) for the Humanities, Practitioner Research in Higher Education: 41-49.
Schultz, Corey K.N. (2022) Museums, Affect, and Soft Power: The Harbin Jewish Museum, in China and the World in the 21^st Century: Communication and Relationship Building, edited by Xiaoling Zhang and Corey Schultz. London: Routledge.
Whyke, Thomas W. (2022). Discourses of Heteronormativity and Power: The Ethical Position of Confucianism on Same-Sex Behaviour in China. Journal of Homosexuality. Online First. https://doi.org/10.1080/00918369.2022.2042663
Whyke, Thomas W., & Brown, M.S. (2021). Becoming-Perverse: Queering Sworn Brotherhood in the Non/Human Realm of Song Zhuxuan’s Hailiwa and Daokousu. Journal of Homosexuality, 69 (7), 1185-1203.
Whyke, Thomas W., & Lopez, J.M. (2021). Calling for a Hero: The Displacement of the Nezha Archetypal Image from Chinese Animated Film Nezha Naohai (1979) to New Gods: Nezha Reborn. Fudan Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences. Online First.https://doi.org/10.1007/s40647-021-00335-5
Whyke, Thomas W.,& Lopez, J.M. (2021). Love, Friendship, Fraternity, and Sexual Pleasure between Men in Pu Songling’s Qing Dynasty Tale Huang Jiulang (c. 1740). Sexuality and Culture. Online First. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12119-021-09927-5
Whyke, Thomas W., Lopez, J.M., & Brown, M.S. (2021). Contemporizing the National Style in Chinese Animation: The Case of Nezha (2019). Animation, 16 (3), 157-174. https://doi.org/10.1177/17468477211049354
Whyke, Thomas W., Lopez, J.M., & Chen, Z.T. (2021). The Rite of Passage and Digital Mourning in Fang Fang’s Wuhan Diary. Global Media and China, 6 (4), 443-459. https://doi.org/10.1177/20594364211041683
Wilson, A. S., Gaffney, V., Gaffney, C., Ch’ng, Eugene, Bates, R., Ichumbaki, E. B., ... & Coningham, R. (2022). Curious Travellers: Using Web-Scraped and Crowd-Sourced Imagery in Support of Heritage Under Threat. In Visual Heritage: Digital Approaches in Heritage Science (pp. 51-65). Springer, Cham.
Xu, Xiaoge (ed.) (2021) Applying Mobile Technologies to Chinese Language Learning. Hershey, Pennsylvania: IGI Global.
Xu, Xiaoge (2021). Mobile Storytelling: Elements, Evolution and Experience. In Schleser, M. & Xu, X. (Eds.). Mobile Storytelling in an Age of Smartphones (pp.25-36). Palgrave McMillan.
Zhang, Shixin (ed.) (2022) Digital Journalism in China, London: Routledge Focus.
Chen, Zenan, & Xu, Xiaoge (2021) COVID-19 news reporting and engaging in age of social media: Comparing Xinhua News Agency and The Paper. Global Media and China 6(2): 152-170. https://doi.org/10.1177/20594364211017364
Gilardi, Filippo & Lam, Celia (eds.) (2021) Transmedia in Asia and the Pacific: Industry, practice and transcultural dialogues. Palgrave Macmillan.
Schultz, Corey K.N. (2021) Creating the ‘virtual’ witness: The limits of empathy. Museum Management & Curatorship. Online first. https://doi.org/10.1080/09647775.2021.1954980
Zhang, Shixin & Hadland, A. (2021) ‘A survey of Chinese photojournalists’ - identities, work conditions and attitudes in the digital age’, in Liu, N. X., Candace Veecock, C., Zhang, S. (eds.) Chinese News Discourse: Perspectives from Communications, Linguistics, Translation and Pedagogy, London: Routledge
Zhang, Shixin & Meng, Jing (2022) Conclusion: retrospect and prospect, in Zhang, S. (ed.) Digital Journalism in China, London: Routledge Focus.
Zhang, Shixin & Meng, Jing (2022) Introduction: Chinese digital journalism: disruptive or sustainable?, in Zhang, S. (ed.) Digital Journalism in China, London: Routledge Focus.
Zhang, Xiaoling and Schultz, Corey K.N. (2022) “Communication China to the World: Representations, Reception, and Effects” in China and the World in the 21^st Century: Communication and Relationship Building, edited by Xiaoling Zhang and Corey Schultz. London: Routledge.
Zhang, Xiaoling and Schultz, Corey K.N. (eds.) (2022) China and the World in the 21^st Century: Communication and Relationship Building. London: Routledge.
Zhang, Xiaoxiao, Xu, Xiaoge & Cheng, Jiang. (2021). WeChatting health: What motivates older adult active engagement of health information, Healthcare 9(6): 751.

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