Junyi LYU
Assistant Professor
Academic Qualifications
- Ph.D. in Communication, University of Southern California
- M.A. in Communication, University of Southern California
- BA in Broadcasting Journalism, Hunan Normal University
Careers
2025-present Assistant Professor, Department of Communication, University of Macau
2024-2025 Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow, Schwarzman College, Tsinghua University
2023-2024 Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for the Study of Contemporary China, University of Pennsylvania
Research Areas
Energy communities in transition
Social media and creator culture
Environmental communication
Energy communication
Public sphere, memory, and culture
Guest-edited Journal Special Issue
Yang, G., Gu, J., & Lv, J. (ed). (2024). “30-year history of the internet in China.” Communication and the Public.
Journal Articles
Lv, J. (2025). Refuge: returning home with displaced coal communities. Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, 22(2), 260-278.
Lv, J. (2025). “Local Multimodal Argumentative Ambience” in Social Media:
A Case of Flood, Coal, and Hometown. Argumentation and Advocacy, 60(2), 137-152.
Lv, J. (2025). A Matter of Time: The Texture of China’s Digital Green Public Culture. Communication and the Public, 10(1).
Yang, G. Gu, J. & Lv, J. (2024). Thirty years of the Internet in China: On writing Chinese Internet histories. Communication and the Public, 9(4).
Lv, J. (2023). Museums in Motu in the Anthropocene: From Active Space to Spatial Actions. Journal for the History of Rhetoric, 26(2), 189-204.
Lv, J. (2022). Crafting multimodal argumentative meshworks: Li Ziqi’s “Mushrooms at the End of the World.” Journal of Argumentation in Context, 11(3), 329-349.
Bukowski, A. H., & Lv, J. (2022). Reimagining Leslie Cheung through Hanyuan Bookstore: the posthumous personalities of the queer Hong Kong celebrity. Celebrity Studies, 13(4), 595-612.
Cunningham, S., Craig, D., & Lv, J. (2019). China’s livestreaming industry: platforms, politics, and precarity. International Journal of Cultural Studies, 22(6), 719-736.
Craig, D., Cai, H., & Lv, J. (2016). Mapping and managing Chinese social media entertainment: a conversation with Heng Cai, Chinese media entrepreneur. International Journal of Communication, 10, 5463-5472.
Book Chapters
Lv, J. (2021). Local argument spheres in China: a case study of the Chinese debate show, Qipashuo. In D. Hample (Ed.), Local Theories of Argument. Routledge.
Lv, J. & David Craig (2021). Firewalls and walled gardens: the interplatformization of China’s wanghong industry. In Guobin Yang & Wei Wang (Eds.)., Engaging Social Media in China: Platforms, Publics, and Production (pp. 51-74). Michigan State University Press.
Craig, D., Cunningham, S., & Lv, J. (2021). Critical media industries studies: the case of livestreaming in China. In Stuart Cunningham & David Craig (Eds.), Creator Culture: An Introduction to Global Social Media Entertainment (pp. 96-114). New York University Press.
Lv, J. & Goodnight, G. T. (2020). Material cultural diplomacies of the Anthropocene: an analysis of the Belt and Road Initiative between China & Oceana. In Jingfang Liu & Phaedra C. Pezzullo (Eds.), Green Communication and China: On Crisis, Care, & Global Futures (pp. 155-178). Michigan State University Press.
Recent Fellowships and Awards
2025 Best Reviewer Award, Communication and the Public
2023 Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation Doctoral Fellowship in Chinese Studies (declined)
2022 Annenberg Fellowship for Continuing/Advanced PhD Students, USC
2022 East Asian Studies Center Graduate Fellowship, USC
2020 Top Paper, Urban Communication Association, National Communication Association
2019 Michael Calvin McGee Award for Outstanding Graduate Student Research, NCA/AFA Summer Conference on Argumentation (ALTA)
Courses Taught
Communication and Publics (at USC)
Institutional and Social Transformation in Contemporary China (at Tsinghua)
Global Affairs (at Tsinghua)
Contact Details
Faculty of Social Sciences (FSS)
Humanities & Social Sciences Building (E21B), 2034
Tel: (853) 9285
E-mail: junyilyu@um.edu.mo