Li CHEN, Ph.D.

Assistant Professor of Communication

Faculty Biography

Dr. Li Chen is an Assistant Professor of Social Media and Data Analytics at Weber State University. While completing two doctoral degrees in mass communications and media arts, she has been engaged in the exploration of research methods from qualitative to quantitative to computational data analytics. Her dissertation has employed social network analysis and social media research methods to investigate the associations between celebrity culture, networked media, and social movements. Her teaching and research interests include applied data science, media and diversity, and popular communication. Before pursuing her doctoral degrees, she has been working in the Chinese media industry for seven years as a broadcasting journalist, an editor, and a media relations practitioner. Obsessed with the beautiful nature, she is in love with clouds, cats, and trees.

Education

Ph.D., Mass Communications, Syracuse University (2020) M.A., Media Studies, Syracuse University (2015) Ph.D., Broadcasting and Television Arts, Beijing Normal University (2011) M.A., Journalism, Nanjing University (2002) B.A., Journalism, Renmin University of China (1999)

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Comm 2010: Mass Media & Society Comm 2200: Multi-camera Production & Performance Comm 3460: Public Relations & Social Media

Publications

Chen, L. (2020). The US Cultural Industry. In C. Jiang, W. Sun, and M. Dai. (Eds.). The World Culture Development Report (forthcoming). (In Chinese) Liebler, C. M., Chen, L., & Peng, A. (2018). Corporeal commodification: Chinese women's bodies as advertisements. In K. Golombisky (Ed.). Feminists Perspectives on Advertising: What’s the Big Idea (pp. 165-187). Lexington Books. Liebler, C. M., Jiang, W. & Chen, L. (2015). Beauty, binaries and the big screen in China: Character gender in feature films. Asian Journal of Communication, 25 (6), 1-16. Chen, L., Akat, H. D., Xin, C., & Song, S. W. (2014). Rethinking hijab: multiple themes in Muslim women’s perception of the hijab fashion. In International Conference on Communication, Media, Technology and Design, 208 (Vol. 214).

Conference Papers

Chen, L. (2018). A Theoretical Model on How the Media Play a Role in Celebrification Analyses: Based on Bourdieu (1986) and Driessens (2013). Paper presented at the National Conference of Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Washington D.C., 2018. Liebler, C. M. & Chen, L. (2018). When girls of color go missing: A text analysis of #MissingDCGirls. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of International Communication Association, Prague, Czech Republic, 2018. Chen, L. & Liebler, C. M. (2017). Selfie-posting on social media: The influence of narcissism, identification, and gender on celebrity followers. Paper presented at the National Conference of Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Chicago, 2017.

2 Chen, L. (2016). How to understand a woman director? : A perspective of Chinese women audience members on Ann Hui’s The Golden Era (2014). Paper presented at the National Conference of Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Minneapolis, 2016. (Top Paper) Chen, L. (2016). Perfecting fatherhood: Gender discourse on reality TV in China. Paper presented at the National Conference of Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Minneapolis, 2016. Chen, L. (2016). Space, otherness, and public intimacy: An observation of the current LGBT activism in mainland China. Paper presented at the National Conference of Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Minneapolis, 2016. Chen, L., Warren, S., Peng, A., & Zhao, L. (2016). Framing gender and power: A visual analysis of Peng Liyuan and Michelle Obama in Xinhua and the Associated Press. Paper presented at the National Conference of Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, Minneapolis, 2016. Chen, L. (2016). Decoding Xiao Hong in The Golden Era (2014): A reception analysis of Chinese women audience members’ film-viewing Experiences. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of International Communication Association, Fukuoka, Japan, 2016. Chen, L. (2015). Neoliberalism, absence, and violence: On The Postmodern Life of My Aunt (2006). Paper presented at the National Conference of Popular Communication Association, Seattle, U.S.A, 2016. Liebler, C. M. & Chen, L. (2015). Butts and other body parts: Celebrity culture, ethnic identification, and self-objectification. Paper presented at the National Conference of Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, San Francisco, U.S.A. Liebler, C. M. & Chen, L. (2015). Celebrity culture, media use, and body surveillance. Paper presented at the Fifteenth International Conference on Diversity in Organizations, Communities, and Nations, Hong Kong. Zhou, X. Y. and Chen, L. (2015). A longitudinal content analysis: The construction of U.S. presidential photographs in China’s Xinhua News Agency since 1972. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of International Communication Association, Puerto Rico, U.S.A.

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