He is now coordinating the new MA program of new media communication at Fudan. He is also a research fellow of the Center for Information and Communication Studies and associate director of Fudan’s Media and Public Opinion Research Centre (FMORC). He studied at Nanyang Technological University of Singapore and was a visiting scholar at University of Pennsylvania. His research focuses on new media, media effects, migrant workers, and public opinion. His current research projects include: social differentiation, media use, opinion expression and political participation in China; ICTs and migrants workers in Shanghai; and Web 2.0 and public opinion in China, among others. His research has been published in Asian Journal of Communication (SSCI), Chinese Journal of Communication (SSCI), Communication & Society, and various major journals in the field of communication in China.