Hong Receives Harvard Research Appointment

BUFFALO. N.Y. -- Junhao Hong, Ph.D., associate professor in the Department of Communication in the University at Buffalo School of Informatics, and an expert on media and social change in China, has received a research appointment at Harvard University for the 2005-06 academic year.

Hong, who specializes in the fields of international and intercultural communication, media and society, and information technology, will be a research associate at Harvard's Fairbank Center for East Asian Research. He will spend part of the academic year conducting research projects in collaboration with members of the Harvard faculty and part of it at UB.

Hong is the author of "The Internationalization of Television in China," (Praeger, 1998), the first systematic study of China's television, the largest and one of the most complicated television systems in the world. The book explores the evolution of ideology, society and media since the beginning of the reform era, which began under Deng Xiaoping and has been continued by his successors.

Hong has also written a number of chapters in edited books and more than a dozen articles in refereed journals, including Media, Culture & Society, Telecommunications Policy, Gazette-The International Journal for Communication Studies, Media Development, Asian Journal of Communication, Asian Survey and American Journal of Chinese Studies.

He has received various awards for research and teaching and is the president of the Chinese Communication Association, an international academic organization serving the Chinese communication research community.