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Jian Chung Lee

Pronouns: He / Him

Positions

Doctoral Student

Department of Communication, Media and Film

Contact information

Email

jianchung.lee@ucalgary.ca

Background

Educational Background

Master of Science Media and Communication Studies, Lund University, 2020

Bachelor's in Journalism Convergence Journalism, University of Missouri-Columbia, 2013

Biography

I am interested in media and news engagement, public deliberation and everyday political talk, civic and political participation, environmental and social movements, and media and social phenomenology. I have worked as an assistant for several audience research projects that span Nordic and Southeast Asian countries. I have also worked as a digital, video, radio and print journalist for seven years in the U.S. I am originally from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Research

Areas of Research

Media and news engagement, Public deliberation and everyday political talk, Civic and political participation, Environmental and social movements, Media and social phenomenology

Projects

Roaming Audiences

I worked as a research assistant for Professor Annette Hill on the Roaming Audiences project. The project examined the mobility and motility of young Southeast Asian audiences across different streaming platforms. I conducted qualitative interviews with Generation Z audiences residing in the capital cities of Kuala Lumpur in Malaysia and Jakarta in Indonesia. I also worked with Hill on a map-making method, where we asked participants to visualize and sketch their movements across different platforms as if they were locations on a map. We published part of our findings in a 2021 journal article titled Roamers: Audiences on the Move Across Entertainment Platforms In Southeast Asia.

Parameters of Media Engagement

I was one of two research assistants for Professor Annette Hill on the Parameters of Media Engagement project. The project provided a new conceptual model for analyzing media engagement, situating it along the parameters of media contexts, motivations, modalities, intensities, and consequences. I conducted qualitative interviews with Millennial Malaysians of Chinese descent about how they engaged with news in the Southeast Asian country. My research contributions and graphics (including the cover art) appear in the 2023 publication Media Engagement.

The Ultimate TV Show

I was one of four research assistants for Professor Annette Hill on The Ultimate TV Show research project, a research collaboration with the Swedish public relations company Wenderfalck. We conducted qualitative interviews both Generation Z and Millennial audiences from 2019 to 2020 in Sweden, Norway, Denmark and Finland.

Publications