Professor & Associate Chair of the School Board

School of Journalism and Communication

Tsinghua University

Education

Ph.D. in Communication (2011), The Chinese University of Hong Kong

M.A. in Communication (2007), Peking University

B.A. in Arts (2005), Peking University

B.A. in Journalism (2005), Peking University

Research Interests

Human-media interaction

ICTD

Media Literacy and Inclusive Communication

Global Communication

Computational Social Science

Teaching

The Psychology of New Media

Frontiers in Cognitive Communication

Communication Theories

Research Methods for Communication Studies

New Media and Society

Academic Research Workshop

Editorial & Review Service  

Journal Editor:

Associate Editor, Technology in Society (SSCI, Q1)

Editorial Board Member, Scientific Reports (Nature Portfolio; SCI, Q1)

Guest Editor, Frontiers in Public Health/ Frontiers in Psychiatry/ Frontiers in Sociology (Public Mental Health)

Book Reviewer:

Springer Nature

Routledge

Selected Awards

19th “Scholarly Mentor and Beneficial Friend” Award, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 2025

9th Research Award for Young Scholars of Humanities and Social Sciences, Ministry of Education, Beijing, China, 2024

“Question of Digital Era” Digital Research Award, Beijing, 2023

National Young Scholar Award, Beijing, China, 2021

Young Scholar Award, Chinese Association for History of Journalism and Communication, Shenzhen, China, 2021

16th Research Award for Social Sciences, Beijing, China, 2021

Teaching Award, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, 2020

Young Scholar Award for TV Broadcasting and Online Audio-visual Industry, Beijing, China, 2020

New Media Research Award, Qihao Academic Research Award for Distinction, Beijing, China, 2018

Top Paper Award, Chinese Association for History of Journalism and Communication, Annual Conference, Hangzhou, China, 2018

Teaching Award, Dalian, China, 2015

Xinghai scholar, Dalian, China, 2015

The Chinese University of Hong Kong Young Scholars Dissertation Award, Hong Kong, China, 2013

Young Scholar Award, Communication Policy Research South 2012 (CPRsouth7), Port. Luis, Mauritius, 2012

Schiller Award, International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR), Istanbul, Turkey, 2011

Best Paper Award, the Fourth Postgraduate Academic Conference, Beijing, China, 2009

Bell Canada Best Paper Award, 17th International Telecommunication Society (ITS), Montreal, Canada, 2008

South China Morning Post Merit Award for Distinction, Beijing, China, 2007

Selected Publications

Books (reviewed)

Jiang, Q. (2019). Internet addiction among cyberkids in China: Risk factors and intervention strategies. Singapore: Springer. (ISBN: 978-981-13-3791-8)

Peer-reviewed Journal Articles

Jiang, Q., Chen, Z., Zhang, Z., & Zuo, C. (2023). Investigating links between Internet literacy, Internet use, and Internet addiction among Chinese youth and adolescents in the digital age. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 14:1233303. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2023.1233303

Jiang, Q., Zhang, Y., & Pian, W. (2022). Chatbot as an emergency exist: Mediated empathy for resilience via human-AI interaction during the COVID-19 pandemic. Information Processing & Management, 59, Article 103074.

Jiang, Q., Liu, S., Hu, Y., & Xu, J. (2022). Social media for health campaign and solidarity among Chinese fandom publics during the COVID-19 pandemic. Frontiers in Psychology, DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.824377

Jiang, Q., Cheng, Y., & Cho, S. (2021). Media Coverage and Public Perception of the THAAD event in China, the United States, and South Korea: A Cross-national Network Agenda-setting Study. Chinese Journal of Communication, 14(4), 386-408.

Cheng, Y., Shen, H., & Jiang, Q. (2020). Corporate Dialogue in Crises of China: Examining dialogic strategies and communicative outcomes in a child abuse scandal. Public Relations Review, 46(1), 1-9.

Jiang, Q., Li, W., & Zhao, H. (2019). Relationship between narcissism, self-esteem, selfie-related behaviors, and problematic smartphone use. Journal of Behavioral Addictions, 8(Suppl. 1), 143.

Jiang, Q., & Fung, A. (2019). Games with a Continuum: Globalization, Regionalization and the Nation-state in the Development of China’s Online Game Industry. Games and Culture, 14(7-8), 801-824.

Jiang, Q., Li, Y., & Shypenka, V. (2018). Loneliness, individualism, and smartphone addiction among international students in China. Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, 21(11), 711-718.

Jiang, Q., & Luan, C. (2018). Diffusion, Convergence and Influence of Pharmaceutical Innovations: A Comparative Study of Chinese and U.S. Patents. Globalization and Health, 14: 92.

Jiang, Q., Li, Y., & Ramos-Diaz, J. (2018). Smartphone use and addiction in university students: The role of psychological traits and goals in Chinese and Peruvian samples. Journal of Behavioral Addictions, 7(Suppl. 1), 83.

Jiang, Q. (2018). Off the hook: An exploratory study of online game quitters in China. Social Behavior and Personality, 46(12), 2097-2112.

Jiang, Q. (2018). Freed or trapped: Gaming pleasures and expression of gender identities in world of Warcraft among Chinese players. Athens Journal of Mass Media and Communication, 4(2), 141-163.

Jiang, Q., & Li, Y. (2018). Factors affecting smartphone dependency among the young in China. Asian Journal of Communication, 28(5), 508-525.

Jiang, Q., Huang, X., & Tao, R. (2018). Examining factors influencing Internet addiction and adolescent risk behaviors among excessive Internet users. Health Communication, 33(12), 1434-1444.

Jiang, Q., Aricat, R. G., Chib, A., Chia, A. Z. Y., Tan, S. M., Tan, X. Q. L., & Woo, Z. W. (2016). Silent But Brewing: Reactive Ethnicity and Interculturality among Chinese Students in Singapore. Journal of Intercultural Communication,40.http://immi.se/intercultural/.

Lin, T. T. C., Chiang, Y., & Jiang, Q. (2015). Sociable people beware? Investigating smartphone versus non-smartphone dependency symptoms among young Singaporeans. Social Behavior and Personality, 43(7), 1209-1216.

Chib, A., & Jiang, Q. (2014). Investigating modern-day talaria: mobile phones and the mobility-impaired in Singapore. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 19(3), 695-711.

Jiang, Q. (2014). Internet addiction among young people in China: Internet connectedness, online gaming, and academic performance decrement. Internet Research, 24(1), 2-20.

Jiang, Q. (2013). Celebrity athletes, soft power and national identity: Hong Kong newspaper coverage of the Olympic champions of Beijing 2008 and London 2012. Mass Communication and Society, 16(6), 888-909.

Jiang, Q., & Leung, L. (2012). Effects of individual differences, awareness-knowledge, and acceptance of Internet addiction as a health risk on willingness to change Internet habits. Social Science Computer Review, 30(2), 170-183.

Jiang, Q., & Leung, L. (2012). Lifestyles, gratifications-sought, and narrative appeal: American and Korean TV drama viewing among Internet users in urban China. The International Communication Gazette, 74(2), 159-180.

Book Chapters

Jiang, Q., & Lian, L. (2024). Applying the technology acceptance model to understand China’s sharing economy among the young. In Emmanuel K. Ngwainmbi (Eds.), Social Media, Youth, and the Global South: Comparative Perspectives (pp. 81-102). Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan.

Jiang, Q. (2022). Development and effects of Internet addiction in China. In Jon Nussbaum (Ed.), Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Communication. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Jiang, Q., & Leung, L. (2015). Internet addiction. In A. Esarey & R. Kluver(Eds.), The Internet in China: Cultural, political, and social dimensions (1980s-2000s)(pp. 230-237). Great Barrington, MA: Berkshire Publishing Group.

Jiang, Q. (2014). Internet addiction. In T. L. Thompson (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Health Communication (pp.741-743). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Jiang, Q., & Huang, X. (2013). Internet: immersive virtual worlds. In P. M. Miller(Ed.), Principles of addiction: Comprehensive addictive behaviors and disorders, Volume I (pp. 881-890). Amsterdam; Boston, MA: Elsevier Academic Press.

Jiang, Q., Huang, X., & Tao, R. (2013). Cybersex. In P. M. Miller (Ed.), Principles of addiction: Comprehensive addictive behaviors and disorders, Volume I (pp. 809-818). Amsterdam; Boston, MA: Elsevier Academic Press.

Conference Proceedings

Jiang, Q., & Xu, K. (2018). Fandom, Gratifications and Communicative Practices in China’s Computer-Mediated Fan Culture. Paper presented at 16th Annual International Conference on Communication and Mass Media, Athens, Greece. (ISBN 978-960-598-182-2)

Jiang, Q., Zhou, X., & Xue, C. (September 2017). Mobile phone use and romantic relationship among female migrant workers in China. Paper presented at the 25th AMIC Annual Conference, Quezon City, Philippines. (ISSN 2599-4715[online]/ ISSN 2599-4734[print])

Jiang, Q., & Wang, G. (September 2017). Mobile Phone use and long-distance mothering among female migrant workers in China. Paper presented at the 25th AMIC Annual Conference, Quezon City, Philippines. (ISSN 2599-4715[online]/ ISSN 2599-4734[print])

Jiang, Q. (2016). Smartphone use and mobile phone dependency among university students in China: personal goals, self-esteem, leisure boredom, and sensation seeking. Paper presented at 14th Annual International Conference on Communication and Mass Media, Athens, Greece. (ISBN 978-960-598-042-9)

Wu, W., Jiang, Q., & Chai, Y. (2016). A Study on Instructional Communication Effects of Teachers’ Nonverbal Immediacies among Chinese University Students. Paper presented at 14th Annual International Conference on Communication and Mass Media, Athens, Greece. (ISBN 978-960-598-042-9)

Chai, Y., Jiang, Q., & Wu, W. (2016). Visualized Analysis of the communication effects of the Sina Weibo/Micro-blog of Chinese National Geography. Paper presented at 14th Annual International Conference on Communication and Mass Media, Athens, Greece. (ISBN 978-960-598-042-9)

See, A., Goh, S. L., Ng, X. X., Cheang, R. J., Jiang, Q., & Chib, A. (2012). ICT influence on foreign wives’ social integration into Singaporean society. In R. J. Kauffman, M. Bichler, H. C. Lau, Y. Yang, & C. Yang (Eds.),International Conference on Electronic Commerce (ICEC) 2012 Proceedings (pp. 209-210).New York, NY: ACM.