Time: Thursday April 11, 14:00-15:30 BJT

Location:  LIB 2121

Guest Speaker: Dr. Li Ji, Professor and Ph.D. Supervisor at School of Journalism and Communication at Wuhan University

*The lecture will be given in Chinese.

Abstract

In the context of the ‘risk society’, environmental communication research has developed from an environmental issue into an independent academic field. By studying the development of environmental communication research in China from 2007 to 2020, we hope to identify key concepts of environmental communication, explore the social context behind the growth of the body of environmental communication knowledge in each phase, and uncover the sense of problematic and self-awareness of environmental practices evoked by these modes of knowledge production. Adopting a comparative perspective on China’s environmental communication, we will reflect on how to build an autonomous knowledge system for environmental communication research, and make a Chinese contribution to this international academic field.

Bio

Dr. Ji is a professor and a Ph.D. supervisor at School of Journalism and Communication at Wuhan University. She’s also the Director of the Department of Radio and Television at WHU. She’s one of the Outstanding Young Scholars of Humanities and Social Sciences at WHU. She’s also the Director of Institute of Environment and Science Communication in the Media Development Research Center at WHU. Meanwhile, she is a visiting professor at Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University.

Her positions include Vice president of the International Communication Committee of the Chinese Journalism History Society, Vice president of the Foreign Journalism History Committee of the Chinese Journalism History Society, Director of the Health Communication Committee of the Chinese Journalism History Society, and an expert of the New Communication think tank of Shenzhen Newspaper Group.