• Hi, this is Qianying YE.
• I am now pursuing the Ph.D. degree in the Department of Public and International Affairs (PIA) at City University of Hong Kong (CityU) under the supervision of Dr. Edmund Cheng, Dr. Fei Shen, and Prof. Richard M WALKER. I am a research member in Political Analysis Lab. My research interests include public opinion, media governance, and big data analysis.
• I am also an amateur lyricist now, as one of the founders of a music culture studio in Shanghai.
• Please feel free to contact me.

Education

• Ph.D. in Political Communication, City University of Hong Kong, 2020-Present
• M.A. in Communication and New Media, City University of Hong Kong, 2019
• B.A. in Journalism, Chang’an University, 2017
• Summer institute, School of Journalism, Fudan University, Jul 2022
• Summer institute, Zhou Enlai School of Government, Nankai University, Jul 2022
• Summer institute, School of Journalism, Fudan University, Jul 2021

Research experience

• Research Assistant (PT), Department of Asian and International Studies, City University of Hong Kong, Feb 2022 – May 2022
  • Supervisor: Dr. Claudia Kim
  • Project: Base Towns: Local Contestation of Global U.S. Military Presence in Korea and Japan
  • Duties included: Data analysis and visualization
• Research Associate (FT) & Research Assistant (PT), School of Law, City University of Hong Kong, Aug 2019 – Jul 2020 & Apr 2019 – Jul 2019
  • Supervisor: Dr. Chan Chi Hin Peter
  • Project: #How are Defendants with Diminished Capacity Sentenced in China? (Co-PI, SSRG) #Gender Inequality in Chinese Courts: the Case of Married-Out Women and Their Rural Land Rights (ECS-9048112) #Are Chinese Courts Pro-Labor or Pro-Employer? (GRF-90429149)
  • Duties included: Group Leader; data collection, analysis, and visualization; article writing
• Research Assistant (PT), Department of Media and Communication, City University of Hong Kong, Jan 2019 – Aug 2020
  • Supervisor: Dr. Fei Shen Chris
  • Project: Hong Kong Online Public Opinion Data Mining Project (GRF-11600717)
  • Duties included: Data collection, analysis, and visualization

Publication

• Ye, Q. (2023). Exploring Collaborative Governance Approach for Misinformation on Chinese Social Media. 21st Annual International Conference on Communication and Mass Media 8-11 May 2023, Athens, Greece. (present)
• Wu, Y., Ye, Q., Shen, F., Zhang, Z., & Jiang, C. L. (2022). Country- and app-level factors affecting the adoption and evaluation of COVID-19 mobile apps. BMC Public Health, 22, [2457]. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12889-022-14918-8 (SCI Q2)
• Ye, Q. (2022). Who can be the Weibo supervisor? the co-production of social media governance in mainland China. Paper presented at 2022 International Association for Media and Communication Research Annual Conference (IAMCR 2022), Beijing, China.(present)
• Jin, X., Ye, Q., & Zhang, Y. (2021). Trust and Credibility: The Differences between Perceiving an AI Anchor as AI and Human. 71st Annual International Communication Association Conference (ICA21).(present)
• Qiu, S., An, Z., Ye, Q., & Jin, X. (2021). Political Identity as an Obstacle: The Effect of Local Identity and Perceived Benefit on Use Intention of Health Code in Hong Kong during COVID-19. 40-41. Paper presented at 2021 International Association for Media and Communication Research Conference (IAMCR 2021), Nairobi, Kenya.(present)
• Ye, Q., Zhang, Y., Hu, P., Wang, M., & Zhu, C. (2021). Acceptance of 5G in China based on TAM. AEJMC Midwinter Conference.(present)
• Jin, X., & Ye, Q., (2019). Impact of Different Social Media Context on Attitude Polarization of Hot Topics Online. 2018 Ph.D. Student New Media Conference, Beijing, China. (present)

Research report

• Shen, F., Yu, W., Min, C., Ye, Q., Xia, C., Wang, T., & Wu, Y. (2021, June 3). CyberCan: A New Dictionary for Cantonese Social Media Text Segmentation. https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/tyjr7
• Shen, F., Xia, C., Yu, W., Min, C., Wang, T., Wu, Y., & Ye, Q. (2021, May 23). The Ebb and Flow of Public Sentiments in Hong Kong: Analyzing Public Opinion Online from 2000 to 2017. https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/52zbm
• Shen, F., Xia, C., Yu, W., Min, C., Wang, T., Wu, Y., & Ye, Q. (2021, May 23). The Growth of Negative Sentiment in Post-Umbrella Movement Hong Kong: Analyzing Public Opinion Online from 2017 to 2019. https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/tnxw4
• Shen, F., Xia, C., Yu, W., Min, C., Wang, T., Wu, Y., & Ye, Q. (2021, May 14). Text-Mining Online Public Opinion in Hong Kong: Methods and Procedures. https://doi.org/10.31235/osf.io/b2mex

Teaching

• Teaching Assistant, PIA3120 - Politics and Media, Sep 2022 - Dec 2022
• Teaching Assistant, PIA3607 - Advanced Research Methodology, Jan 2022 - Apr 2022

Skill

• Python/R/SPSS/STATA
• Linux/Html/MySQL

Service

• Currently in Political Analysis Lab