Join us for a free one-day workshop for educators at the Japanese American National Museum, hosted by the USC U.S.-China Institute and the National Consortium for Teaching about Asia. This workshop will include a guided tour of the beloved exhibition Common Ground: The Heart of Community, slated to close permanently in January 2025. Following the tour, learn strategies for engaging students in the primary source artifacts, images, and documents found in JANM’s vast collection and discover classroom-ready resources to support teaching and learning about the Japanese American experience.
Zongyi Zhang is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the division of Cultural Studies in the Chinese University of Hong Kong. His research interests include new media and digital culture, digital platform studies and digital creative industries in China. His current studies focus on how video streaming platforms are mingled with other social institutions/industries in the Chinese society as well as how China’s video streaming platforms expand into oversea markets and underlying challenges.
Dissertation
- Media Entertainment in Platform Age: Creators, Governance and Infrastructuralization of Video Streaming Platforms in China.
Publications in progress
- Infrastructuralization of Tik Tok: Transformation, Power Relationships and platformization of video entertainment in China.
- Tik Tok “Going Out”: Controversies, Strategies and Tensions in the Globalization of China’s Digital Platforms.
Industry Review
- Zongyi Zhang, From “Live Streaming Plus” to “Plus Live Streaming”. Tenyun, Tencent Social Research Institute, 22 March, 2018.
Conference Presentations
- “Promise and Paradox of Platform: Uncertainties in Tik Tok’s Aspirations for Public Value”, NCA Shenzhen Forum, Shenzhen University, June 27-29, 2019.
- “Promise and Paradox of Platform: Uncertainties in Tik Tok’s Aspirations for Public Value”, The 17th Chinese Internet Research Conference, National University of Singapore, June 28, 2019.
- “Empower the Public: Infrastructuralization of Wechat and Its Challenges”, Communication University of China, Beijing, Mar 29-30, 2019.
- “Network Connectivity: Hopes and Predicament of Live Streaming Industries in China”, “Social Technology, User Community and Cultural Knowledge”, U40 Conference, Curtin University, Australia, Feb 20-23, 2018.
- “Network Connectivity: Hopes and Predicament of Live Streaming Industries in China”, Qsinghua Cultural and Creative Industry Forum, Qsinghua University, Nov 18-19, 2018.
- “Online Celebrity3.0 and Its Future: Affective Labor, Relationship Economy and Black Mirror Times”, “Digital Media and Industry Innovation”, Shenzhen International Communication conference, June17-18, 2017.
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October 20, 2024
October 20, 2024
Please join us for the Grad Mixer! Hosted by USC Annenberg Office of International Affairs, Enjoy food, drink and conversation with fellow students across USC Annenberg. Graduate students from any field are welcome to join, so it is a great opportunity to meet fellow students with IR/foreign policy-related research topics and interests.
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Events
Wednesday, November 20, 2024 - 3:00pm
Hosted by USC Annenberg Office of International Affairs, enjoy food, drink and conversation with fellow international students.
Thursday, November 7, 2024 - 4:00pm
Join us for an in-person conversation on Thursday, November 7th at 4pm with author David M. Lampton as he discusses his new book, Living U.S.-China Relations: From Cold War to Cold War. The book examines the history of U.S.-China relations across eight U.S. presidential administrations.