Yang Wei

· Position: Professor

· Qualifications: PhD (Jinan University , Guangzhou)

· Phone:86-2039380899

· Office: Rm 317, B9, SCUT College Mega Campus, Guangzhou

· Email:sswyang@scut.edu.cn

Wei Yang is Professor in the School of Journalism and communication at The South China University of Technology. She holds a Master’s degree in Chinese linguistics from Hunan Normal University, and a Ph.D. in Applied linguistics from Jinan University. From Summer 2016 to Autumn 2017,She worked as a Senior Visiting Scholar at the Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA.

Her research activities include the research of Global Cultural Industry, new media communication, Chinese sociolinguistics ,and historical linguistics.

Her current research projects are 1.new media communication mode and new media industry .2.new media and social development (specially on digital divide in the perspective of Communication and Sociology)3.extensive fieldwork experience investigating dialects and culture of Hunan and Guangdong provinces in China. She has received many grants and awards to support her scholarship, including

Guangdong Humanities and Social Science Planning Project, Guangdong Support for the publication of outstanding achievements in philosophy and social sciences, etc.

Her publications include The Research on Xianghua in West Hunan（Guangzhou Publishing Group）, and The Analytical Studies in Xianghua in Yuanling(Hunan Education).The changes of the language of newspapers and periodicals under the  influence of social culture in the last hundreds years(Academic Research),IP Development Path of Publishing Industry(Modern Publishing), The Phenomenon and thinking of the new digital divide of the elderly.(China Culture Daily),The innovation of traditional culture in the context of cultural industry(The Journal of SCUT),Comparison of two communication logic and operation modes of mobile short video(Television Research),The inheritance of the Contemporary Cantonese opera culture and the innovation of its communication mode(The Cultural Industry)

 Professor Yang undergraduate courses are “An introduction to cultural and creative industries”, ”Fiction and nonfiction writing”, her graduate courses are “The Observation on new phenomenon of cultural industry”.” The theory and practice of semiotics”.