FANG, Kecheng
FANG, Kecheng
Assistant Professor
B.A. and M.A.
Peking University
Ph.D.
University of Pennsylvania
Honors and Awards
- Exemplary Teaching Award
- Faculty of Social Sciences
- The Chinese University of Hong Kong (2022)
Research Interests
- Journalism
- Political communication
- Digital media
Current Research
- How media organizations deal with the journalism crisis
- New actors in online content provision
- How platforms and algorithms influence the information environment
- The ideological landscape on Chinese media
Teaching Interests
- Journalism in the digital age
- Media and politics
- Media literacy
Advice to students
“The good life is one inspired by love and guided by knowledge.” – Bertrand Russell
Publication List :
Peer Reviewed Journal Articles
Luo, Y. & Fang, K. (2024). Transnational citizen journalism for resistance and solidarity: The case of a Sinophone community on Instagram. The International Journal of Press/Politics, 1-22. https://doi.org/10.1177/19401612241291812 (corresponding author) | view> |
Fang, K. (2024). Wangbao (Cyberbullying) and Jubao (Reporting): Strategic Ambiguity in Collaborative State-Society Influence Operations in China. Journal of Online Trust and Safety, 2(3), 1-22. https://doi.org/10.54501/jots.v2i3.167 | view> |
Fang, K., Feng, M., & Tse, C. H. (2024). Hyperlocal citizen journalism in Hong Kong: Resilience through community newspapers. Journalism, 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1177/14648849241246900 | view> |
Peng, Y., Yang, T., & Fang, K. (2023). The dark side of entertainment? How viral entertaining media build an attention base for the far-right politics of The Epoch Times. New Media & Society, 1-22. https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448231205893 [Corresponding author] | view> |
Guo, J., Huang, X., & Fang, K. (corresponding author) (2023). Authoritarian environmentalism as reflected in the journalistic sourcing of climate change reporting in China, Environmental Communication, 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1080/17524032.2023.2223774 | view> |
Fang, K. (2023). The social movement was live streamed: a relational analysis of mobile live streaming during the 2019 Hong Kong protests. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 28(1), 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1093/jcmc/zmac033 pdf | view> |
Zhao, M. & Fang, K. (corresponding author) (2022). Extending the research on digital China: the transnational lens. Information, Communication & Society, 1-16. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2022.2159487 pdf | view> |
Fang, K., & Cheng, C. Y. (2022). Social media live streaming as affective news in the anti-ELAB movement in Hong Kong. Chinese Journal of Communication, 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1080/17544750.2022.2083202 | view> |
Guo, J., & Fang, K.* (2022). Where are the missing girls? gender inequality, job precarity, and journalism students’ career choices in China. Journalism, 1-19.https://doi.org/10.1177/14648849221108768 (* corresponding author) | view> |
Fang, K. (2022). Praise from the international community: How China uses foreign experts to legitimize authoritarian rule. The China Journal, 87(1), 72-91. | view> |
Fang, K. (2021). What is Zimeiti? the commercial logic of content provision on China’s social media platforms. Chinese Journal of Communication, 1-20. | view> |
Yang, T. & Fang, K. * (2021). How dark corners collude: a study on an online Chinese Alt-Right community. Information, Communication and Society. 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2021.1954230 (* corresponding author) | view> |
Fang, K., & Repnikova, M. (2021). The state-preneurship model of digital journalism innovation: Cases from China. The International Journal of Press/Politics. DOI: 10.1177/1940161221991779 | view> |
Fang, K. (2020). Turning A Communist Party Leader into an Internet Meme: The Political and Apolitical Aspects of China’s Toad Worship Culture. Information, Communication & Society, 23(1), 38-58. | |
Repnikova, M. & Fang, K. (2019). Digital Media Experiments in China: “Revolutionizing” Persuasion under Xi. China Quarterly. 239, 679-701. | |
Repnikova, M. & Fang, K. (2018). Authoritarian Participatory Persuasion 2.0: Netizens as Thought Work Collaborators in China. Journal of Contemporary China, 27(113), 763-779. | |
Fang, K. & Repnikova, M. (2018). Demystifying “Little Pink”: The Creation and Evolution of a Gendered Label for Nationalistic Activists in China. New Media & Society, 20(6), 2162-2185. | |
Fang, K. (2016). Investigating Party Media’s Resurgence on Social Media. Journalism Bimonthly (Xinwen Daxue), (3), 45-54. |
Non-Peer Reviewed Articles
Fang, K. (2017). “Guard against Fire, Theft, and Journalists”: Public against Journalists in China. Media Asia, 44(1), 55-60. | |
Repnikova, M. & Fang, K. (2016, October). China’s New Media: Pushing Political Boundaries Without Being Political. Foreign Affairs. | |
Repnikova, M. & Fang, K. (2015, January). Behind the Fall of China’s Greatest Newspaper. Foreign Policy. |
Book Chapters
Fang, K. (2022). The tabloidization of party media: How the People’s Daily and CCTV adapt to social media. In S. I. Zhang (Ed.), Digital journalism in China (pp. 48–60). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003247579-5 | View> |
Fang, K. (2022). “Rumor-Debunking” as a Propaganda and Censorship Strategy in China: The Case of the COVID‐19 Outbreak. In H. Wasserman & D. Madrid-Morales (Eds.), Disinformation in the Global South (pp. 108–122). Wiley-Blackwell | View> |
Bandurski, D., & Fang, K. (2020). Introduction – The rise and fall of Southern Weekly and the changing landscape of journalism in China: A pivotal event. In J. Guan, Silencing Chinese media: The “Southern Weekly” protests and the fate of civil society in Xi Jinping’s China (pp. vii – xxiv). Rowman & Littlefield. | View> |
Book Reviews
The American Journalist in the Digital Age: A Half-Century Perspective by Lars Willnat, David H Weaver and G Cleveland Wilhoit. Journalism, 2018. |