Joey Mengyuan Chen

Joey Mengyuan Chen is a Ph.D. candidate at the University of Maryland's Philip Merrill College of Journalism, with a cognate in the Department of Communication. Her research applies critical and interdisciplinary perspectives to discourse, gender, communication technologies, digital activism and audience practices across traditional and emerging media systems. She is particularly interested in the intersections of feminist politics, media technologies and everyday digital labor, including how young women use different media platforms and technologies to construct new forms of civic engagement, storytelling and resistance under conditions of censorship and inequality. 

She has published her co-authored book chapter with Peter Lang and published research in leading academic journals in China. She presented her research at major conferences, including the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication Conference and the International Association for Media and Communication Research Conference. ​​Chen’s academic achievements have been recognized with several competitive awards and fellowships, including AEJMC’s Warren Price Award (Top Student Paper), the University of Maryland Graduate Student Summer Research Fellowship and the Professor Thomas J. Aylward Scholarship.

Before joining the doctoral program at Merrill College, Chen worked as a podcast editor at a new media company in Beijing, China, and as an intern journalist at Shandong Radio and Television Station, an industry-leading provincial TV station in China. She managed offline, city-level cultural events in Beijing and Shanghai. Her work and research examine feminist media practices, platform resistance and non-institutional journalism in constrained environments. 

Areas of Interest

• Discourse in traditional and new media
• Digital and social media
• Audience research
• Social movements
• Digital activism

Education 

• B.A. (English), Xi'an Jiaotong University (China)
• M.A. (Communication Management), George Washington University

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