Risk Communication and Digital Governance

The Risk Communication and Digital Governance Team of the School of Journalism and Communication at Beijing Normal University is composed of eight teachers: Professor Tao Li, Professor Min Zhou, Professor Jinghong Xu, Professor Wenjie Yan, Associate Professor Rui Wang, Associate Professor Yik Chan Chin, Professor Miao Liu, and Professor Yi Zhu.

In the post pandemic era, against the backdrop of increasingly prominent health and technological risks, there is significant room for development in risk transmission research. The technological revolution has brought about changes in society, media, and communication governance, and the accompanying research on digital governance has also become a prominent discipline in China.

Our team is characterized by the research on "risk governance" in the context of new media, combined with research backgrounds in communication science, political science, law, and electronic computer science. Based on a Chinese and foreign perspective, we study the risks and governance issues related to media, technology, and communication from an interdisciplinary perspective. Our team of teachers covers multiple key areas of research, including risk communication, digital governance, internet governance, communication psychology, health communication, political communication, and international communication. Team research focuses on discovering problems, how to solve them, and how to regulate them in the future, which presents a trend of multi perspective and integration in team research. The establishment and development of the risk communication and digital governance team is in line with the guidance direction of the Ministry of Education's "New Humanities" construction, and its academic and consulting significance is significant.

Teacher's introduction

Tao Li: Professor and Doctoral Supervisor of the School of Journalism and Communication at Beijing Normal University, and Dean of the Internet Development Research Institute at Beijing Normal University. Vice President of the China Society for Social Governance Research and President of the Digital Governance Branch.

Min Zhou: Professor and Doctoral Supervisor, Vice Dean of the School of Journalism and Communication at Beijing Normal University, and Director of the Center for International Communication Strategy and Effectiveness Evaluation.

Jinghong Xu: Professor and Doctoral Supervisor at the School of Journalism and Communication, Beijing Normal University. He is also a member of the Steering Committee and Mainland China Head of the Chinese Communication Association (CCA) and a visiting scholar from Fulbright, China and the United States.

Wenjie Yan: Professor and Doctoral Supervisor at the School of Journalism and Communication, Beijing Normal University, and a young scholar in Zhijiang, Zhejiang Province.

Rui Wang: Associate Professor and Doctoral Supervisor at the School of Journalism and Communication, Beijing Normal University.

Yik Chan Chin: Associate Professor at the School of Journalism and Communication at Beijing Normal University, Observer for the Multi Stakeholder Committee of the Asia Pacific Internet Governance Forum, Member of the Multi Stakeholder Committee of the China Internet Governance Forum, Director of Outreach and Partnership at the Global Internet Governance Scholars Network (Giganet), Vice Chairman of the Public Service Media Policy Working Group of the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR), and Individual Member of the ICANN Asia, Australia, and Pacific Islands Network General User Organization (APRALO).

Miao Liu: lecturer at the School of Journalism and Communication, Beijing Normal University.

Zhu Yi: lecturer at the School of Journalism and Communication, Beijing Normal University.

Scientific research achievements

Partial monographs and journal articles:

Zhou, M., Wang, M., & Zhang, J. (2017). How are risks generated, developed and amplified? Case study of the crowd collapse at Shanghai Bund on 31 December 2014. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF DISASTER RISK REDUCTION, 24, 209–215. SSCI

Jinghong Xu, DifanGuo, Jing Xu & Chang Luo. (2023). How Do Multiple Actors Conduct ScienceCommunication About Omicron on Weibo: A Mixed-Method Study. 11(1), 306-322. SSCI

Wang, R., & Zhang, H., (2023). Who spread COVID-19 (mis)information online? Differential informedness, psychological mechanisms, and intervention strategies, Computers in Human Behavior, 138, 107486. SSCI

Chin，Yik Chan (2023)”Rights to Data Access in the Digital Era: the Case of China”. in Minna Horowitz & Hannu Nieminen; Katja Lehtisaari; Alessandro D’Arma (eds.) Epistemic Rights in the Era of Digital Disruption, Palgrave-MacMillan: London. Chin, Yik-Chan, and Jingwu Zhao（2022）Governing Cross-Border Data Flows: International Trade Agreements and Their Limits. Laws, 11: 63.  https:// doi.org/10.3390/laws11040063, (ESSCI & Scopus Indexed)  Chin, Yik Chan, Park, Ahran, & Li, Ke (2022). A comparative study on false information governance in Chinese and American social media platforms. Policy& Internet, 14, 263–283. https://doi.org/10.1002/poi3.301. (SSCI Indexed) Chin, Yik Chan (2020) “Internet Governance in China: the network governance approach”. In Zhenxu Wang and Dragan Pavlicevic (eds.) Social Relations and Political Development in China: Change and Continuty in the ‘New Era’. London: Routledge, pp: 134-153. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781003032151-8/internet-governance-china-yik-chan-chinChin, Yik Chan (2018) The Legitimation of Media Regulation in China. Chinese Political Science Review. 3, 172–194. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41111-018-0099-x (ESSCI & Scopus Indexed) 

Liu, M., Zhang, H, & Huang,H. (2020).Media Exposure to COVID-19 Information, Risk Perception, Social and Geographical Proximity, and Self-Rated Anxiety in China. BMC Public Health.SSCI

Zulli, D.Liu, M., & Gehl, R. W., (2020). Rethinking the ‘Social’in‘Social Media’: Insights into Topology, Abstraction, and Scale on the Mastodon Social Network. New Media and Society.SSCI

Liu, M., Zhu, Y., Gao, H., & Li, J. (2022). “Thank heavens for sparing my life”: Thematic and content analyses of Chinese users’ feedback comments on HIV self-testing kits from e-commerce platforms. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 24(11), Article e38398.