Liangwen Kuo

Distinguished Professor, School of Media and Communication, Shanghai Jiao Tong University

Email: lwkuo@sjtu.edu.cn

Education:   Ph.D. in Media, Film and Theatre, University of New South Wales (UNSW), 1998-2006

                    Ph.D. in Sociology, University of California, Los Angeles  (UCLA), 1989-1991

Research Interests: By adopting qualitative methodologies, the main research interests of Professor Kuo are surrounding digital media, ethnic media, and cultural communication. 

EMPLOYMENT HISTORY

Professor, Graduate Institute of Communication Studies, Yang Ming Chiao Tung University, August 2003 – January 2019

University Fellow/ Visiting Scholar, School of Communication, Hong Kong Baptist University, September 2014 - June 2015

Associate Professor/ Professor, the Department of Public Communications at Shih Hsin University & The Graduate Institute of Communication Studies, August 1991 – July 2003

ACADEMIC SERVICE

IAMCR Ambassador, IAMCR (International Association for Media & Communication Research), 2024-2027

Editor-in-Chief, Emerging Media (Sage Journal), 2023-2030

Director, Center for Digital Communication of Intangible Culture, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 2021-2030

Vice-Chair, Digital Divide Working Group, IAMCR (International Association for Media & Communication Research), 2012-2016

President, The Research Association of Taiwan Information Society, 2010-2014

PUBLICATIONS 

JOURNAL ARTICLES

Kuo, L. (2024). Book Review: Social process of online hate by Joseph B. Walther and Ronald E. Rice (Eds), Emerging Media (2024-06).

Kuo, L. (2024). Friends or Foes? AI techno-sphere and impact on humanity, Emerging Media (2024-03).

Penn Tsz Ting Ip, P., Xu, J., Shan, S. & Kuo, L. (2024). Stigmatizing female success: The affective economies of leftover women in popular television dramas in China, Journal of Popular Television (2024-03).

Kuo, L. (2023). Emerging Technologies on the prosperity of image, film, and television, Emerging Media (2023-12).

Kuo, L. (2023). Book review: TikTok— Creativity and culture in short video, International Journal of Communication (17), pp. 8-11.

Kuo, L. (2023). Book Review: AI for everyone? Critical perspectives by Pieter Verdegem, Emerging Media (2023-09).

Pi, N. & Kuo, L. (2023). Cultural space practice of intangible cultural heritage of festival activities and its evolution: A case study of Dragon Boat Festival (Shenzhou Events), Economic Geography (43:1), pp.227-236.

Yang, C. & Kuo, L. (2023). New model of youth self-organization and public space reconstruction: A study of 706 Youth Space, Chinese Youth Study.

Kuo, L. (2023). Book review: TikTok: Creativity and culture in short video, International Journal of Communication (17).

Gan, Y. & Kuo, L. (2022). When human-machine encountered: A study of Shanghai’s “COFE+robot” automatic vending machine from a video ethnography perspective, News and Writing (12).

V, Lo., L. Kuo, R. Wei. & Z. Li. (2022). Anger yes, boycott no: Third-person effects and the China–U.S. Trade War, International Journal of Communication (16), pp. 4958-4979.

BOOK CHAPTERS

Kuo, L. (2023). Introduction: Communication research methods - from the past to the present, in Liangwen Kuo & Xiahua Wang eds. Communication research methods: Quantitative, qualitative and big data analyses, Taipei: YehYeh Press.

Kuo, L. (2023). Grounded theory and qualitative data analysis: From segmentations to systems, in Liangwen Kuo & Xiahua Wang eds. Communication research methods: Quantitative, qualitative and big data analyses, Taipei: YehYeh Press.

Kuo, L. (2022). All about media creating problems? Media literacy in the post-truth era, in Chen, Y. & Kuo, L. Eds. Communication technology and media literacy, Taipei: YehYeh Press.

Kuo, L. (2022). Small potato against big shot: Critical media literacy and citizen education, in Chen, Y. & Kuo, L. Eds. Communication technology and media literacy, Taipei: YehYeh Press.

Kuo, L. (2020). The development of Taiwan chip industry, Shenzheng migrants and mobile phone business, in Liangwen Kuo ed. Cross-strait cooperation and development: A search into the beginning of 21st century, Taipei: YehYeh Press.

Shu, A. & Kuo, L. (2020). A study of the production relations among the cross-strait TV programs, in Liangwen Kuo ed. Cross-strait cooperation and development: A search into the beginning of 21st century, Taipei: YehYeh Press.

Kuo, L. Lin, S. & Hsu, C. (2020). Digital humanity practice: A case study of Tao’s folk song archives, in Meng Chien ed. Digital Humanity Research, Fudan University Press.