Dechun Zhang
Dechun Zhang
Dechun Zhang is a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Tracking and Society in the Department of Communication at the University of Copenhagen, Denmark. He is part of the ERC Advanced Grant project “GREENWATCH – Green Surveillance: Imagining a Sustainable Internet of Things,” where he examines the use of IoT technologies for environmental monitoring, with a focus on their ethical and political implications.
He currently serves as Managing Editor of the Journal of Contemporary Eastern Asia, Editor at Asia Pacific Viewpoint, and Social Media Editor for the Journal of Visual Political Communication. Previously, he was a visiting researcher at the Nordic Institute of Asian Studies (NIAS) at the University of Copenhagen and a visiting scholar at the Institute for Media and Communication Studies at Freie Universität Berlin. His research has been published in peer-reviewed journals, edited volumes, and presented at international conferences, including in Journalism Practice and the International Journal of Communication, among others.
Research interests
- Political communication
- Digital politics
- Digital propaganda
- Online participation
- Chinese politics.
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