Program Director
Prof. Nishant Shah
Bachelors in Arts (English, Computer Science) St. Xavier’s College, Ahmedabad, Gujarat University, India
Masters in Women’s Studies Pune University, India
Masters in English Literature (Postcolonial theories specialization) Pune University, India
Ph.D. Cultural Studies (Digital Cultures specialization) Centre for the Study of Culture and Society Manipal University, India
Nishant Shah is the Professor (Assoc.) of Global Media and Director of the Digital Narratives Studio at the School of Journalism and Communication, The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Since co-founding the Centre for Internet & Society (India), he has served in different roles as Professor and Director of the Digital School at Leuphana University, Germany, and Vice-President at ArtEZ University of the Arts and Endowed Professor at Radboud University, The Netherlands. He is Faculty Associate at the Berkman Klein Centre for Internet & Society, Harvard University, USA. His recent books are Really Fake (2021, University of Minnesota Press) and Overload, Creep, Excess: An Internet from India (2023 Leftward Books). He is a widely sought after public speaker, thinker and writer at global, interdisciplinary events and conferences. His current preoccupations are around the affordances and possibilities of digital narratives to create hopeful futures of collective action. More…
Full-time Professors
Prof. Anthony Y.H. Fung
B.S.Sc. The Chinese University of Hong Kong
M.A. University of Minnesota
Ph.D. University of Minnesota
Anthony Y.H. Fung is Wei Lun Professor of Journalism and Communication and Dean of Social Science at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. His research interests and teaching focus on popular culture and cultural studies, popular music, gender and youth identity, cultural industries and policy, and digital media studies. He published widely in international journals, and authored and edited more than 20 Chinese and English books. His recent books are Youth Cultures in China (2016 under Polity Press), Global Game Industries and Cultural Policy (2016 under Palgrave Macmillan), Hong Kong Game Industry, Cultural Policy and East Asian Rivalry (2018 under Rowman & Littlefield), and Made in Hong Kong: Studies in Popular Music (Routledge, 2020). More…
Prof. Lin Jian
B.A. Anhui Normal University
M.A. Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Ph.D. University of Amsterdam and Western Sydney University (Joint Ph.D. award)
Jian Lin is an assistant professor in the School of Journalism and Communication at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He researches and writes about platform societies, cultural industries, and digital cultures in the global Chinese context. He is the author of Chinese Creator Economies: Labour, Subjectivity and the Bilateral Creatives (NYU Press 2023) and Wanghong as Social Media Entertainment (co-authored with David Craig and Stuart Cunningham, Palgrave McMillan 2021). Jian Lin is the cultural commons and book review editor of the European Journal of Cultural Studies, and the associate editor of the journal Communication and the Public. More…
Prof. Saskia Witteborn
M.A. University of Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany
Ph.D. University of Washington, Seattle, USA
Saskia Witteborn is Associate Professor in the School of Journalism and Communication where she also directs the M.A. program in Global Communication. Saskia specializes in transnational migration and communication. Specifically, she is interested in the intersections between embodied and virtual communicative practice and transnational mobility. She has written on advocacy practices of migrants (e.g., Iraqis and Palestinians in the United States) and the intersections between new technology and transnational political advocacy (e.g., Uyghurs from China). New technologies and forced migration is another important strand of Saskia’s research. She has worked with and on forced migrants over the past 10 years in the U.S., Germany, and Hong Kong and is interested in how virtual practice enables forced migrants to connect globally.
Saskia’s work has appeared in leading international journals and edited volumes. Saskia was Chair of the Communication as Social Construction Division at the National Communication Association (USA) and is Associate Editor of the Journal of International and Intercultural Communication and Chinese Journal of Communication as well as Research Associate of the University of Washington Center for Local Strategy Research in affiliation with UNIDIR in Geneva.
In her spare time, Saskia likes exploring the mountains of Hong Kong, eating her way through the fabulous restaurants of the city, and finding new ideas to enjoy long-distance flights. Suggestions are welcome.
Part-time teachers
Dr. Raees Baig
PhD (Social Policy) The University of Hong Kong;
MA (Global Security and Strategy) SOAS University of London;
BSW The University of Hong Kong
Raees specialises in the work of social and political participation of ethnic minorities and the construction of gender, racial and religious identities under social and political oppressions. Through exploring the power dynamics between transnational communities, her work focuses on the application of the frameworks of everyday multiculturalism and everyday resistance in constructing gender and racial identities under different forms of state governance in Asia. Prior to joining academia, she worked for various local and international organisations, including The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights of the United Nations and Amnesty International.
Mr. Eddy Li
Eddy Li joined ABC News Hong Kong in 1971. Before his retirement in October 2009, Mr. Li was Senior Video Editor Asia. Mr. Li traveled extensively, often witnessing history in the making. From Baghdad to Havana, from Kabul to Ulan Bator, Mr. Li and his teammates belonged to a few hard-core journalists who decided what the audience should see with the use of the latest means of technology, bringing first-hand materials on a 24-hour basis to a global audience.
Mr. Li was once stationed in Tokyo from 1991 to 2000. He shared with his teammates the honor of winning the following awards in outstanding television news coverage and documentary categories: Three Emmy Awards (1983, 1986 and 2003), one Alfred DuPont-Columbia University Award (1997) and a first prize of the Overseas Press Club Award (2008).
Dr. Zhao Mengmeng Sarah
Dr. Zhao Mengmeng obtained her Ph.D. in Communication from The Chinese University of Hong Kong. Her research interests include public relations, corporate communication, and corporate social responsibility & sustainability. Prior to her doctoral study, she worked as a PR professional for several years. At Burson-Marsteller (now known as Burson Cohn & Wolfe), she helped clients (including Hewlett-Packard, Lexus, Blu-ray Disc Association, etc.) boost their brand image as well as mitigate crisis by designing and facilitating strategic communication in a variety of public contexts. As a conference manager at Caixin Media, China’s leading financial media group, she developed and implemented communication plans for its partners, mostly reputable financial institutions, such as Nomura Securities, Franklin Templeton Investment Funds, etc.
Dr. Zhao also specializes in media translation. She has worked with The New York Times and Bloomberg BusinessWeek for more than ten years. She also translated 7 best-sellers across the fields of branding, advertising, and management. The best known is Steve Jobs.
Before joining CUHK as a part-time lecturer, she was Assistant Professor in Communication at Hang Seng University of Hong Kong. Dr. Zhao holds a Master’s degree in Global Communication from CUHK and a double Bachelor’s degree in English Language & Literature and Broadcasting & Hosting from The Communication University of China.
Dr. Tobias Zuser
Originally from Austria, Tobias has been calling Hong Kong his home since 2008. After several years as event and arts manager in Berlin and Beijing, he returned to Hong Kong to pursue his MPhil and PhD. Tobias currently teaches in CUHK, HKBU, and Lingnan, covering topics across media studies, communication, cultural studies, sports policy, and sports management. In January 2024, he published the edited volume “Sport in Hong Kong”, and he is known as a leading expert and commentator on sports politics. In addition, he is a professional advisor for global companies and NGOs, who look for research and insights into policy, media production, and sports data.