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Dr Yuan Gong BA, MA, PhD

Lecturer

Doctoral Co-Supervisor
School of Humanities Media and Creative Comm

Professional

Contact details

  • Location: 2.35, Atrium
    Campus: Auckland

Qualifications

  • Bachelor of Arts - Fudan University (2009)
  • Master of Arts - Ohio State University (2011)
  • Doctor of Philosophy - University of Massachusetts Amerst (2018)

Research Expertise

Research Interests

Cultural Studies

Global Media Studies

Audience Research and Fan Studies

Digital Cultures and Social Media

Cultural Consumption in Everyday Life

Gender and Media

Popular Culture in East Asia

Thematics

21st Century Citizenship

Area of Expertise

Field of research codes
Asian Cultural Studies (200202): Communication and Media Studies (200100): Communication Technology and Digital Media Studies (200102): Consumption and Everyday Life (200203): Cultural Studies (200200): Culture, Gender, Sexuality (200205): Globalisation and Culture (200206): Languages, Communication And Culture (200000): Media Studies (200104)

Research Projects

Summary of Research Projects

Position Current Completed
Project Leader 0 1

Research Outputs

Journal

Gong, Y. (2023). Book Review: The Chinese lifestyle: The reconfiguration of the middle class in contemporary China by Alfonso Sánchez-Romera. China Information: a journal on contemporary China studies. 37(3), 411-412
[Book Review]Authored by: Gong, Y.
Liu, LS., Jia, X., Zhu, A., Ran, GJ., Johnston, D., Siegert, R., . . . Lu, J. (2023). Correction to: Measuring the missing: Knowledge, risk perceptions and self-protection practices of COVID-19 among the Asian population in New Zealand: An online survey (Journal of Public Health, (2023), 10.1007/s10389-023-01926-0). Journal of Public Health (Germany).
[Journal article]Authored by: French, N., Gong, Y., Johnston, D.
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Huffer, I., & Gong, Y. (2023). ‘Falling leaves return to their roots’? The reception of Chinese blockbusters by Chinese university students in New Zealand. Studies in Australasian Cinema. 17(3), 126-140
[Journal article]Authored by: Gong, Y., Huffer, I.
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Liu, LS., Jia, X., Zhu, A., Ran, GJ., Johnston, D., Siegert, R., . . . Lu, J. (2023). Measuring the missing: Knowledge, risk perceptions and self-protection practices of COVID-19 among the Asian population in New Zealand: An online survey. Journal of Public Health (Germany).
[Journal article]Authored by: French, N., Gong, Y., Johnston, D., Liu, L.
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Gong, Y. (2022). Transcultural taste and neoliberal patriotic subject: A study of Chinese fans’ online talk of K-pop. Poetics.
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Lu, L., Lankala, S., Gong, Y., Feng, X., & Chang, BG. (2021). Forum: COVID-19 Dispatches. Cultural Studies - Critical Methodologies. 21(1), 97-115
[Journal article]Authored by: Gong, Y.
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Gong, Y. (2020). Reading European football, critiquing China: Chinese urban middle class fans as reflexive audience. Cultural Studies. 34(3), 442-465
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Gong, Y. (2020). Virtual Collectivity through Second Screen: Chinese Fans’ WeChat Use in Televised Spectatorship of European Football. Television and New Media. 21(8), 807-824
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Gong, Y. (2017). Media Reflexivity and Taste: Chinese Slash Fans' Queering of European Football. Communication, Culture and Critique. 10(1), 166-183
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Gong, Y. (2017). Between conformity and transgression: Chinese women’s gendered discourse of fan authenticity for European football. Feminist Media Studies. 17(5), 821-835
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Gong, Y. (2016). Online discourse of masculinities in transnational football fandom: Chinese Arsenal fans’ talk around ‘gaofushuai’ and ‘diaosi’. Discourse and Society. 27(1), 20-37
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Knobloch-Westerwick, S., Kennard, AR., Westerwick, A., Willis, LE., & Gong, Y. (2014). A Crack in the Crystal Ball? Prolonged Exposure to Media Portrayals of Social Roles Affect Possible Future Selves. Communication Research. 41(6), 739-759
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Gong, Y. (2014). Book review of “Sport beyond television: The internet, digital media and the rise of networked society” (Hutchins, B. & Rowe, D., 2012, Routledge).. International Journal of Sport Communication. 7(2), 279-281
[Book Review]Authored by: Gong, Y.
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Knobloch-Westerwick, S., Gong, Y., Hagner, H., & Kerbeykian, L. (2013). Tragedy Viewers Count Their Blessings: Feeling Low on Fiction Leads to Feeling High on Life. Communication Research. 40(6), 747-766
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Gong, Y. (2012). Research on a new employment system in the process of publishing industry reform—taking a publishing group in mainland China as an example. 当代传播 Contemporary Communication. (2), 60-65
[Journal article]Authored by: Gong, Y.

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Book

Gong, Y. (2022). Reconfiguring Transnational Fan Experience Through Digital Media: European Football in China. In Routledge Handbook of Sport Fans and Fandom. (pp. 354 - 364).
[Chapter]Authored by: Gong, Y.
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Gong, Y. (2015). Writing Chinese slash fan fiction: Chinese slash fan’s ‘localized’ interpretation of Western movies and television. In J. Cao, & G. Murdock (Eds.) New Media and Metropolitan Life: Connecting, Consuming, Creating. : Fudan University Press
[Chapter]Authored by: Gong, Y.
Cao, J., & Gong, Y. (2014). Introduction. In J. Cao, V. Mosco, & LR. Shade (Eds.) Critical Studies in Communication and Society. : Shanghai Translation Publishing House
[Chapter]Authored by: Gong, Y.

Thesis

Gong, Y. (2018). Cultural Practices and Social Formations in a Reforming Society: The Transnational Fandom of European Football in China. (Doctoral Thesis, University of Massachusetts Amherst) Gong, Y. (2018). Cultural Practices and Social Formations in a Reforming Society: The Transnational Fandom of European Football in China. (Doctoral Thesis)
[Doctoral Thesis]Authored by: Gong, Y.
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Conference

Gong, Y.A (limited) virtual public sphere? Chinese fans’ online discussions of European football on Hupu forum.. . Online
[Conference Paper]Authored by: Gong, Y.
Gong, Y.The second screen: Chinese fans’ social media use in televised spectatorship of European football. . Beijing, China
[Conference Paper]Authored by: Gong, Y.
Gong, Y.Reconstructing image of China: The American reception of first Chinese fifth generation films in 1980s. . New York, United States of America
[Conference Paper]Authored by: Gong, Y.
Gong, Y.Technology and masculinity: The construction of Andrew Garfield’s star persona. . Kaohsiung, Taiwan
[Conference Paper]Authored by: Gong, Y.
Gong, Y.Amateur artworks of Yaoi fandom: Young women’s queer interpretation and reconstruction of male characters in Japanese boys’ manga.. . Dublin, Ireland
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Gong, Y.Why women like boy’s love novels? Chinese Fujoshi subculture and its communication practices around boy’s love novels.. . London, United Kingdom
[Conference Paper]Authored by: Gong, Y.
Gong, Y., & Kline, S.Chinese new media, boy-love novels, and the construction of masculinity and romance in Chinese society.. . New Orleans
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Teaching and Supervision

Contact Supervisor

Summary of Doctoral Supervision

Position Current Completed
Co-supervisor 1 0

Current Doctoral Supervision

Co-supervisor of:

  • Chengxu Zhao - Doctor of Philosophy
    The representation of China's 'leftover women' on social media