Tsinghua University
ORCID: 0000-0003-2802-4584
Research Interests
Digital Media
Human-AI interaction
ICTD
Media Literacy and Inclusive Communication
Computational Social Science
Professional Affiliations
- Director of the Center for Intelligent Media Studies at Tsinghua University
- 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)
- Member of Tsinghua University Science and Technology Ethics Committee (Humanities & Engineering)
- Director, Computational Communication & Intelligent Media Lab, Tsinghua National Lab for Computing Social Science and Governance
- Deputy Director of the Center for Intelligent Media Studies, School of Journalism and Communication, Tsinghua University
- Evaluation Recommendation Expert, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) A-Journal Evaluation
- Council Member, the 6th Council of China Family Education Society
- Council Member, Computational Communication Committee, Chinese Association for History of Journalism and Communication
- Council Member, the 4th Council of Communication Studies Branch, China Association of News and Culture Promotion
- Committee Member, Health Communication Branch, China Science and Technology News Society
- Expert Member, China Cyberspace Security Association (CSACA) Expert Group on Youth Cybersecurity
- Reviewer for over 20 SSCI journals and multiple CSSCI journals
- Book Reviewer for Springer Nature and Routledge
Academic Honors
- National Teaching Excellence Award (2008)
- 19th 'Scholarly Mentor and Beneficial Friend' Award, Tsinghua University (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 (2021)
- 16th Research Award for Social Sciences, Beijing, China (2021)
- Teaching Award, Tsinghua University (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 (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) (2012)
- Herbert Schiller Award, International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) (2011)
- Best Paper Award, the Fourth Postgraduate Academic Conference, Beijing, China (2009)
- Bell Canada Best Paper Award, 17th International Telecommunication Society (ITS) (2008)
- South China Morning Post Merit Award for Distinction, Beijing, China (2007)
Professional Experience
2011-2013
: Postdoctoral Fellow, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
2013-2018
: Associate Professor and Deputy Department Chair, Dalian University of Technology
2018-present
: Associate Professor (), Professor (), School of Journalism and Communication, Tsinghua University
2022-present
: Professor and Director of the Center for Intelligent Media Studies, Tsinghua University
2024-present
: Associate Chair of the School Board, School of Journalism and Communication, Tsinghua University
Biography
Qiaolei Jiang is Professor at School of Journalism and Communication
Awards & Recognition
- IAMCR Herbert Schiller Award (2011)
- CPRsouth Young Scholar Award (2012)
- ITU Bell Canada Best Paper Award (2008)
- 9th Research Award for Young Scholars of Humanities and Social Sciences, MOE (2024)
- 19th Tsinghua 'Scholarly Mentor and Beneficial Friend' Award (2025)
- National Young Scholar Award (2021)
- Tsinghua University Teaching Award (2020)
Publications & Representative Works
Complete Bibliography
2024
Applying the technology acceptance model to understand China's sharing economy among the young
Palgrave Macmillan (In: Social Media, Youth, and the Global South: Comparative Perspectives)
2023
Investigating links between Internet literacy
and Internet addiction among Chinese youth and adolescents in the digital age
2022
Development and effects of Internet addiction in China
Oxford University Press (In: Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Communication)
2022
Social media for health campaign and solidarity among Chinese fandom publics during the COVID-19 pandemic
Frontiers in Psychology
2022
Chatbot as an emergency exist: Mediated empathy for resilience via human-AI interaction during the COVID-19 pandemic
Information Processing & Management
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
2020
Corporate Dialogue in Crises of China: Examining dialogic strategies and communicative outcomes in a child abuse scandal
Public Relations Review
2019
Games with a Continuum: Globalization, Regionalization and the Nation-state in the Development of China's Online Game Industry
Games and Culture
2019
Relationship between narcissism, self-esteem, selfie-related behaviors, and problematic smartphone use
Journal of Behavioral Addictions
2019
Internet addiction among cyberkids in China: Risk factors and intervention strategies
Springer
2018
Fandom, Gratifications and Communicative Practices in China's Computer-Mediated Fan Culture
16th Annual International Conference on Communication and Mass Media, Athens, Greece
2018
Examining factors influencing Internet addiction and adolescent risk behaviors among excessive Internet users
Health Communication
2018
Factors affecting smartphone dependency among the young in China
Asian Journal of Communication
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
2018
Off the hook: An exploratory study of online game quitters in China
Social Behavior and Personality
2018
Smartphone use and addiction in university students: The role of psychological traits and goals in Chinese and Peruvian samples
Journal of Behavioral Addictions
2018
Diffusion, Convergence and Influence of Pharmaceutical Innovations: A Comparative Study of Chinese and U.S. Patents
Globalization and Health
2018
Loneliness, individualism, and smartphone addiction among international students in China
Cyberpsychology
2017
Mobile Phone use and long-distance mothering among female migrant workers in China
25th AMIC Annual Conference, Quezon City, Philippines
2017
Mobile phone use and romantic relationship among female migrant workers in China
25th AMIC Annual Conference, Quezon City, Philippines
2016
Visualized Analysis of the communication effects of the Sina Weibo/Micro-blog of Chinese National Geography
14th Annual International Conference on Communication and Mass Media, Athens, Greece
2016
A Study on Instructional Communication Effects of Teachers' Nonverbal Immediacies among Chinese University Students
14th Annual International Conference on Communication and Mass Media, Athens, Greece
2016
Smartphone use and mobile phone dependency among university students in China: personal goals, self-esteem, leisure boredom, and sensation seeking
14th Annual International Conference on Communication and Mass Media, Athens, Greece
2016
Silent But Brewing: Reactive Ethnicity and Interculturality among Chinese Students in Singapore
Journal of Intercultural Communication
2015
Internet addiction
Berkshire Publishing Group (In: The Internet in China: Cultural, political, and social dimensions (1980s-2000s))
2015
Sociable people beware? Investigating smartphone versus non-smartphone dependency symptoms among young Singaporeans
Social Behavior and Personality
2014
Internet addiction
Sage (In: Encyclopedia of Health Communication)
2014
Internet addiction among young people in China: Internet connectedness
and academic performance decrement
2014
Investigating modern-day talaria: mobile phones and the mobility-impaired in Singapore
Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication
2013
Cybersex
Elsevier Academic Press (In: Principles of addiction: Comprehensive addictive behaviors and disorders, Volume I)
2013
Internet: immersive virtual worlds
Elsevier Academic Press (In: Principles of addiction: Comprehensive addictive behaviors and disorders, Volume I)
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
2012
ICT influence on foreign wives' social integration into Singaporean society
In: International Conference on Electronic Commerce (ICEC) 2012 Proceedings, New York, NY: ACM
2012
Lifestyles, gratifications-sought, and narrative appeal: American and Korean TV drama viewing among Internet users in urban China
The International Communication Gazette
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
