Sheng Zou
Biographic Data
| ID | 938613 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sheng Zou |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sheng |
| FAMILY NAME | Zou |
| SIGNATURE | ZOU S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hong Kong Baptist University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3567-7639 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 25 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 58 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 25 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Between creative identity performance and constrictive empowerment
The extent of women’s empowerment in the digital world has been debated, given the co-existence of digital feminist activism and enduring gender stereotypes. This study investigates how women of color who work as STEM communicators utilize social media creatively to redraw the boundary of acceptable topics and styles in STEM knowledge production. Through case studies, we identify their identity performance practices, such as sharing about out-of-…
Hotbed of stigmatization or source of support
Association between GRIN2B DNA methylation and cognitive impairment
DNA methylation levels in the GRIN2B gene promoter region may represent a potential therapeutic target for addressing cognitive impairment in bipolar depression. These findings provide a theoretical foundation for future clinical diagnosis and the development of targeted treatment strategies
Exploration of neurometabolic alterations in adolescent patients with bipolar depression and non-suicidal self-injury based on proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy
Compared with ABD without NSSI, ABD with NSSI have reduced NAA/Cr metabolism in the vmPFC brain area. The level of membrane phospholipid breakdown metabolism in the vmPFC brain area of ABD with NSSI may be related to the severity of depression. The level of phosphoinositol cycle in the vmPFC brain area of ABD without NSSI may be related to age or onset age. Therefore, further validation was required
Investigating biomarkers of mitochondrial and aging-related genes in major depressive disorder through bioinformatics analysis
This study identified SLC25A5, ALDH2, CPT1C, and IMMT as biomarkers associated with MDD, offering insights into its molecular mechanisms
The spread of pro- and anti-vaccine views by coordinated communities on facebook during Covid-19 pandemic
The widespread dissemination of problematic vaccine-related content during the COVID-19 pandemic has posed serious challenges to public health and eroded institutional trust. This study investigates the interplay between manipulative social media actors, coordinated behaviors, and misleading information by analyzing coordinated link sharing behavior (CLSB) on Facebook in the United Kingdom and the United States. Drawing on a dataset of 3,469,719 …
Women on China’s Internet
This essay critically examines the evolving relationship between women and the Internet in China, incorporating a multidimensional theoretical framework to explore the nuances of digital access, usage, and empowerment over the past 30 years. While noting a significant reduction in the gender gap in Internet access, the essay highlights persistent gender disparities in usage and outcomes, influenced by socio-economic and cultural factors. It also …
Transcoding a wanghong city
Digital media have been playing an increasingly pivotal role in reshaping urban spaces, landscapes, and lifestyles across the world. In China, the rapid development of digital infrastructure, platforms, and e-commerce has fueled the rise of a number of so-called wanghong cities. A term originally employed to denote internet celebrities, wanghong as a social phenomenon, practice, and modus operandi now penetrates different spheres of life in China…
Restyling propaganda
Propaganda has been increasingly digitized, popularized, and aestheticized globally. This article focuses on the restyling of propaganda in China, particularly the role of Chinese state-run media in the making of soft propaganda – propagandistic content packaged in sleek and entertaining formats. Building upon Bourdieu’s field theory, this article illuminates Chinese state-run media’s capacity to refract external pressures, such as digitization, …
Provincializing “web traffic”
This article dehomogenizes the concept of “web traffic” through a keywords-informed approach. It attends to how, in China, the term for “web traffic,” liuliang (流量), is utilized in rich and creative ways. Instantiating bottom-up epistemic practices, the taxonomies, collocations, and wisdom related to liuliang reveal alternative and locally relevant ways in which people imagine, apprehend, and deal with digital media and data in everyday life. The…
Hold on to the Green Horse’
At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Health Code played a decisive role in regulating Chinese citizens’ everyday activities, where securing a green code became essential. This article examines an outburst of popular discourses around the ‘green code’ and its homophone ‘green horse’ on a popular Chinese platform, Xiaohongshu, revealing the multifarious ways in which people imagine and experience this algorithmic technology—whether as an ins…
When a Subculture Goes Pop
This article examines the rise, demise, and afterlife of “Boys’ Love” (BL) web series—or male/male romantic dramas—in China. Through the production of culture perspective, it examines how the localization and adaptation of BL in China take shape amid tensions and negotiations between state regulation, digital media production, and commercial interests. Foregrounding the roles of oligopolistic video platforms, private capital, and entrepreneurial …
The Chinese Brief Cognitive Test
The aim of this study was to develop a brief version of cognitive assessment test for evaluating the efficacy of treatments targeting cognitive impairments in Chinese schizophrenia patients, to examine its reliability, and establish normative data. Stratified according to age, gender, and educational level, healthy adult subjects were recruited from fifteen institutions in seven administrative regions of China and 723 valid samples were obtained,…
Curating a Scopic Contact Zone
With the promulgation of the “rural revitalization” initiative, China has been promoting the marriage between technology and rurality to chart a digital future for what is christened “a new countryside.” Rural revitalization is not simply a socio-economic project but a profoundly ideological one, which choreographs a socio-spatial order, fashions an aspirational rural subjectivity, and realigns imaginaries of rurality. This article examines the r…
Aesthetic Subjectification Through Ambivalent Play
Propaganda research was central to the coalescence of communication studies into a modern social science field in the early twentieth century. Positivist and behaviorist in its orientation, traditional propaganda research centers on questions of message and effect, brushing aside the culturally rich forms that propaganda assumes as well as the myriad ways in which subjects experience these forms on an aesthetic and sensorial level. This article e…
Disenchanting Trust
Digital technologies have provided governments across the world with new tools of political and social control. The development of algorithmic governance in China is particularly alarming, where plans have been released to develop a digital Social Credit System (SCS). Still in an exploratory stage, the SCS, as a collection of national and local pilots, is framed officially as an all-encompassing project aimed at building trust in society through …
Mistranslation as disinformation
This article delves into the politics of the U.S.-China blame-game regarding COVID-19's origin, particularly Chinese disinformation narratives attributing the virus's root to the United States. The blame-game is symptomatic of contradictory global imaginaries circulated within distinct geopolitical spaces. This article approaches Chinese disinformation narratives as transnational and intertextual constructs, which involve the practices of (mis)tr…
People’s Republic of Desire. Directed, produced, cinematography
Beneath the bitter laughter
This article examines the practice of egao , or online parody, in China as an act of cultural citizenship. Looking at user-generated parodies derived from a viral meme called Mom Please Hit Me Once More , it explores how young netizens negotiate their collective identity, memory and social changes through participatory cultural production online. Broadening the purview of citizenship practice while highlighting its cultural and affective dimensio…
When nationalism meets hip-hop
This essay unravels the coalescence between bottom-up youth culture and state-led ideological work in China by examining the patriotic hip-hop music videos of a Chinese youth band. I attend to the ways in which the state-centric ideology is aesthetically evoked by co-opting popular cultural formats, maneuvering grassroots nationalistic expressions and appropriating symbols of both tradition and modernity. Hip-hop is thus localized and sanitized a…
Producing Value Out of the Invaluable
This paper extends the critique of informational capitalism to increasingly commercialised cyberspace in China by examining the case of live streaming. Informed by Marxist and neo-Marxist theories, I set out to investigate how live streaming ushers in flexible paid labour online, and how informational capitalism cashes in on users’ affective engagement, locking them into a constant process of value production. Diving into the structure and afford…
Localisation between Negotiating Forces
During the past decade, Chinese state-owned media have accelerated their pace of overseas development to establish their international presence. In their worldwide expansion in the service of the government’s political and diplomatic initiatives, these media outlets attempt to connect with and rise in the global media market by borrowing experiences from their Western competitors. This article revisits the Western model of media localisation and …
Emotional News, Emotional Counterpublic
Examining a popular news blog that targets Chinese diaspora living in the United States, this paper explores how emotionally-oriented digital news sustains the diasporic community as an emotional counterpublic. The salience of emotionality in the Chinese diasporic media sphere has to do with the complex identity of diasporic news bloggers, and their adaptation to the new media logic of interactivity and participation. This paper finds that diaspo…
Native advertising and the cultivation of counterfeit news
From Inarticulacy to Care
This article seeks to critically re-open the closed structure of news coverage of ethnic minorities by proposing a dialogical model of representation, which evokes mutual understanding across differences through well-crafted narratives of minority experiences. Informed by Mikhail Bakhtin and Charles Taylor, it explores the notion of “dialogue” within journalistic narratives and delineates two dialogical approaches, namely the evaluative articulat…
When nationalism meets hip-hop
This essay unravels the coalescence between bottom-up youth culture and state-led ideological work in China by examining the patriotic hip-hop music videos of a Chinese youth band. I attend to the ways in which the state-centric ideology is aesthetically evoked by co-opting popular cultural formats, maneuvering grassroots nationalistic expressions and appropriating symbols of both tradition and modernity. Hip-hop is thus localized and sanitized a…
Transcoding a wanghong city
Digital media have been playing an increasingly pivotal role in reshaping urban spaces, landscapes, and lifestyles across the world. In China, the rapid development of digital infrastructure, platforms, and e-commerce has fueled the rise of a number of so-called wanghong cities. A term originally employed to denote internet celebrities, wanghong as a social phenomenon, practice, and modus operandi now penetrates different spheres of life in China…
Emotional News, Emotional Counterpublic
Examining a popular news blog that targets Chinese diaspora living in the United States, this paper explores how emotionally-oriented digital news sustains the diasporic community as an emotional counterpublic. The salience of emotionality in the Chinese diasporic media sphere has to do with the complex identity of diasporic news bloggers, and their adaptation to the new media logic of interactivity and participation. This paper finds that diaspo…
Curating a Scopic Contact Zone
With the promulgation of the “rural revitalization” initiative, China has been promoting the marriage between technology and rurality to chart a digital future for what is christened “a new countryside.” Rural revitalization is not simply a socio-economic project but a profoundly ideological one, which choreographs a socio-spatial order, fashions an aspirational rural subjectivity, and realigns imaginaries of rurality. This article examines the r…
Hold on to the Green Horse’
At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Health Code played a decisive role in regulating Chinese citizens’ everyday activities, where securing a green code became essential. This article examines an outburst of popular discourses around the ‘green code’ and its homophone ‘green horse’ on a popular Chinese platform, Xiaohongshu, revealing the multifarious ways in which people imagine and experience this algorithmic technology—whether as an ins…
Beneath the bitter laughter
This article examines the practice of egao , or online parody, in China as an act of cultural citizenship. Looking at user-generated parodies derived from a viral meme called Mom Please Hit Me Once More , it explores how young netizens negotiate their collective identity, memory and social changes through participatory cultural production online. Broadening the purview of citizenship practice while highlighting its cultural and affective dimensio…
Native advertising and the cultivation of counterfeit news
Women on China’s Internet
This essay critically examines the evolving relationship between women and the Internet in China, incorporating a multidimensional theoretical framework to explore the nuances of digital access, usage, and empowerment over the past 30 years. While noting a significant reduction in the gender gap in Internet access, the essay highlights persistent gender disparities in usage and outcomes, influenced by socio-economic and cultural factors. It also …
Provincializing “web traffic”
This article dehomogenizes the concept of “web traffic” through a keywords-informed approach. It attends to how, in China, the term for “web traffic,” liuliang (流量), is utilized in rich and creative ways. Instantiating bottom-up epistemic practices, the taxonomies, collocations, and wisdom related to liuliang reveal alternative and locally relevant ways in which people imagine, apprehend, and deal with digital media and data in everyday life. The…
Aesthetic Subjectification Through Ambivalent Play
Propaganda research was central to the coalescence of communication studies into a modern social science field in the early twentieth century. Positivist and behaviorist in its orientation, traditional propaganda research centers on questions of message and effect, brushing aside the culturally rich forms that propaganda assumes as well as the myriad ways in which subjects experience these forms on an aesthetic and sensorial level. This article e…
From Inarticulacy to Care
This article seeks to critically re-open the closed structure of news coverage of ethnic minorities by proposing a dialogical model of representation, which evokes mutual understanding across differences through well-crafted narratives of minority experiences. Informed by Mikhail Bakhtin and Charles Taylor, it explores the notion of “dialogue” within journalistic narratives and delineates two dialogical approaches, namely the evaluative articulat…
Producing Value Out of the Invaluable
This paper extends the critique of informational capitalism to increasingly commercialised cyberspace in China by examining the case of live streaming. Informed by Marxist and neo-Marxist theories, I set out to investigate how live streaming ushers in flexible paid labour online, and how informational capitalism cashes in on users’ affective engagement, locking them into a constant process of value production. Diving into the structure and afford…
Localisation between Negotiating Forces
During the past decade, Chinese state-owned media have accelerated their pace of overseas development to establish their international presence. In their worldwide expansion in the service of the government’s political and diplomatic initiatives, these media outlets attempt to connect with and rise in the global media market by borrowing experiences from their Western competitors. This article revisits the Western model of media localisation and …
Emotional News, Emotional Counterpublic
Examining a popular news blog that targets Chinese diaspora living in the United States, this paper explores how emotionally-oriented digital news sustains the diasporic community as an emotional counterpublic. The salience of emotionality in the Chinese diasporic media sphere has to do with the complex identity of diasporic news bloggers, and their adaptation to the new media logic of interactivity and participation. This paper finds that diaspo…
Native advertising and the cultivation of counterfeit news
When nationalism meets hip-hop
This essay unravels the coalescence between bottom-up youth culture and state-led ideological work in China by examining the patriotic hip-hop music videos of a Chinese youth band. I attend to the ways in which the state-centric ideology is aesthetically evoked by co-opting popular cultural formats, maneuvering grassroots nationalistic expressions and appropriating symbols of both tradition and modernity. Hip-hop is thus localized and sanitized a…
People’s Republic of Desire. Directed, produced, cinematography
Beneath the bitter laughter
This article examines the practice of egao , or online parody, in China as an act of cultural citizenship. Looking at user-generated parodies derived from a viral meme called Mom Please Hit Me Once More , it explores how young netizens negotiate their collective identity, memory and social changes through participatory cultural production online. Broadening the purview of citizenship practice while highlighting its cultural and affective dimensio…
Disenchanting Trust
Digital technologies have provided governments across the world with new tools of political and social control. The development of algorithmic governance in China is particularly alarming, where plans have been released to develop a digital Social Credit System (SCS). Still in an exploratory stage, the SCS, as a collection of national and local pilots, is framed officially as an all-encompassing project aimed at building trust in society through …
Mistranslation as disinformation
This article delves into the politics of the U.S.-China blame-game regarding COVID-19's origin, particularly Chinese disinformation narratives attributing the virus's root to the United States. The blame-game is symptomatic of contradictory global imaginaries circulated within distinct geopolitical spaces. This article approaches Chinese disinformation narratives as transnational and intertextual constructs, which involve the practices of (mis)tr…
When a Subculture Goes Pop
This article examines the rise, demise, and afterlife of “Boys’ Love” (BL) web series—or male/male romantic dramas—in China. Through the production of culture perspective, it examines how the localization and adaptation of BL in China take shape amid tensions and negotiations between state regulation, digital media production, and commercial interests. Foregrounding the roles of oligopolistic video platforms, private capital, and entrepreneurial …
The Chinese Brief Cognitive Test
The aim of this study was to develop a brief version of cognitive assessment test for evaluating the efficacy of treatments targeting cognitive impairments in Chinese schizophrenia patients, to examine its reliability, and establish normative data. Stratified according to age, gender, and educational level, healthy adult subjects were recruited from fifteen institutions in seven administrative regions of China and 723 valid samples were obtained,…
Curating a Scopic Contact Zone
With the promulgation of the “rural revitalization” initiative, China has been promoting the marriage between technology and rurality to chart a digital future for what is christened “a new countryside.” Rural revitalization is not simply a socio-economic project but a profoundly ideological one, which choreographs a socio-spatial order, fashions an aspirational rural subjectivity, and realigns imaginaries of rurality. This article examines the r…
Aesthetic Subjectification Through Ambivalent Play
Propaganda research was central to the coalescence of communication studies into a modern social science field in the early twentieth century. Positivist and behaviorist in its orientation, traditional propaganda research centers on questions of message and effect, brushing aside the culturally rich forms that propaganda assumes as well as the myriad ways in which subjects experience these forms on an aesthetic and sensorial level. This article e…
Restyling propaganda
Propaganda has been increasingly digitized, popularized, and aestheticized globally. This article focuses on the restyling of propaganda in China, particularly the role of Chinese state-run media in the making of soft propaganda – propagandistic content packaged in sleek and entertaining formats. Building upon Bourdieu’s field theory, this article illuminates Chinese state-run media’s capacity to refract external pressures, such as digitization, …
Provincializing “web traffic”
This article dehomogenizes the concept of “web traffic” through a keywords-informed approach. It attends to how, in China, the term for “web traffic,” liuliang (流量), is utilized in rich and creative ways. Instantiating bottom-up epistemic practices, the taxonomies, collocations, and wisdom related to liuliang reveal alternative and locally relevant ways in which people imagine, apprehend, and deal with digital media and data in everyday life. The…
Hold on to the Green Horse’
At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Health Code played a decisive role in regulating Chinese citizens’ everyday activities, where securing a green code became essential. This article examines an outburst of popular discourses around the ‘green code’ and its homophone ‘green horse’ on a popular Chinese platform, Xiaohongshu, revealing the multifarious ways in which people imagine and experience this algorithmic technology—whether as an ins…
Women on China’s Internet
This essay critically examines the evolving relationship between women and the Internet in China, incorporating a multidimensional theoretical framework to explore the nuances of digital access, usage, and empowerment over the past 30 years. While noting a significant reduction in the gender gap in Internet access, the essay highlights persistent gender disparities in usage and outcomes, influenced by socio-economic and cultural factors. It also …
Transcoding a wanghong city
Digital media have been playing an increasingly pivotal role in reshaping urban spaces, landscapes, and lifestyles across the world. In China, the rapid development of digital infrastructure, platforms, and e-commerce has fueled the rise of a number of so-called wanghong cities. A term originally employed to denote internet celebrities, wanghong as a social phenomenon, practice, and modus operandi now penetrates different spheres of life in China…
Hotbed of stigmatization or source of support
Association between GRIN2B DNA methylation and cognitive impairment
DNA methylation levels in the GRIN2B gene promoter region may represent a potential therapeutic target for addressing cognitive impairment in bipolar depression. These findings provide a theoretical foundation for future clinical diagnosis and the development of targeted treatment strategies
Exploration of neurometabolic alterations in adolescent patients with bipolar depression and non-suicidal self-injury based on proton magnetic resonance spectroscopy
Compared with ABD without NSSI, ABD with NSSI have reduced NAA/Cr metabolism in the vmPFC brain area. The level of membrane phospholipid breakdown metabolism in the vmPFC brain area of ABD with NSSI may be related to the severity of depression. The level of phosphoinositol cycle in the vmPFC brain area of ABD without NSSI may be related to age or onset age. Therefore, further validation was required
Investigating biomarkers of mitochondrial and aging-related genes in major depressive disorder through bioinformatics analysis
This study identified SLC25A5, ALDH2, CPT1C, and IMMT as biomarkers associated with MDD, offering insights into its molecular mechanisms
The spread of pro- and anti-vaccine views by coordinated communities on facebook during Covid-19 pandemic
The widespread dissemination of problematic vaccine-related content during the COVID-19 pandemic has posed serious challenges to public health and eroded institutional trust. This study investigates the interplay between manipulative social media actors, coordinated behaviors, and misleading information by analyzing coordinated link sharing behavior (CLSB) on Facebook in the United Kingdom and the United States. Drawing on a dataset of 3,469,719 …
Between creative identity performance and constrictive empowerment
The extent of women’s empowerment in the digital world has been debated, given the co-existence of digital feminist activism and enduring gender stereotypes. This study investigates how women of color who work as STEM communicators utilize social media creatively to redraw the boundary of acceptable topics and styles in STEM knowledge production. Through case studies, we identify their identity performance practices, such as sharing about out-of-…
Political science (17 works) · Sociology (15 works) · Law (13 works) · Media studies (12 works) · China (10 works) · Politics (9 works) · Law (8 works) · Aesthetics (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Social science (6 works)