Yu Hong

Yu Hong is a media & communication professor based at Zhejiang University, China. She got her Ph.D. in Communication from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and taught at USC Annenberg. Her research focuses on ICT development, Internet and media policy, and digital capitalism, with a regional focus on China. Coming of age in the 1990s in China, she is always intrigued by the drastic transformation that the country and millions of people there have gone through. Her training in Communication then sensitized her towards seeing China as a fascinating case where network-enabled digitization processes play a central role in the country’s internal reform and global rise. Blending the two sentiments, her work ultimately grappled with a complex and even elusive issue, that is, the nature and direction of China’s information age, digital economy, and network society.