Guobin Yang (Chinese: 杨国斌) is the Grace Lee Boggs Professor of Communication and Sociology at the Annenberg School for Communication and Department of Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania.[1] He is also the Associate Dean for Graduate Studies at the Annenberg School for Communication, Director of the Center on Digital Culture and Society, and deputy director of the Center for the Study of Contemporary China. Yang received his first PhD from Beijing Foreign Studies University in 1993 and his second PhD in sociology from New York University in 2000.[2] His other former positions include being an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Hawaii at Manoa and as an associate professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Cultures at Barnard College of Columbia University.
Yang's research is interdisciplinary covering issues in both communication and sociology while focusing on various aspects of social movements, online activism which is the use of electronic communication to get information out faster about activism, digital culture, cultural sociology, historical sociology, critical theory which is the theory of applying certain knowledge to unearth a challenge in the power structure much like what Yang has discovered in China, global communication, environmental communication, and media and politics in China. Many of his research papers, journal articles, books, and projects are based on his focuses in China with topics such as the internet and civil society, environmental NGOs (non-governmental organizations), the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests, also known as the student movement, the Red Guard (Red Guards) movement, and collective memories of the Chinese Cultural Revolution. His research projects are mainly in three areas; Chinese culture revolution, the rise of the environmental movement in China, and internet activism. He also has analyzed China's public sphere and showed how the use of the Internet in a social aspect has fostered many public debates.[3]
^Hassid, Jonathan (July 2017). "The Internet, Social Media, and a Changing China, edited by Jacques deLisle, Avery Goldstein, and Guobin Yang. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016. vi+284 pp. US$49.95/£32.50 (paper)". The China Journal. 78: 158–160. doi:10.1086/691709. JSTOR26559306.
^Schneider, Florian (February 2017). "The Internet, Social Media, and a Changing China, written by Jacques deLisle, Avery Goldstein, and Guobin Yang". Asiascape: Digital Asia. 4 (1–2): 147–157. doi:10.1163/22142312-12340073.
^"Reviewed work: The Internet, Social Media, and a Changing China by Jacques deLisle, Avery Goldstein, Guobin Yang". Contemporary Sociology. 47 (2): 246. March 2018. JSTOR26425124.
^Huang, Ronggui (2018). "The internet, social media, and a changing China". Chinese Journal of Communication. 11 (1): 131–133. doi:10.1080/17544750.2018.1426375.
^Smith, Jason A. (2018). "Book Review: Media Activism in the Digital Age by Victor Pickard and Guobin Yang (Eds.)". Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly. 95 (4): 1175–1176. doi:10.1177/1077699018792273.
^Sorce, Giuliana (2018). "Media activism in the digital age". Critical Studies in Media Communication. 35 (4): 390–392. doi:10.1080/15295036.2018.1465194.
^Mittelstaedt, Jean Christopher (2023). "The Party Leads All: The Evolving Role of the Chinese Communist Party Edited by Jacques DeLisle and Guobin Yang. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution Press. viii + 427 pp. $49.79; £45.15 (pbk). ISBN 9780815739517". The China Quarterly. FirstView: 1–2. doi:10.1017/S0305741023000449.
