E-mail: yaoq@mailbox.sc.edu

Spring 2008 Course Syllabi
Jour 304 - Mass Communications Research

Qingjiang Yao
Graduate Assistant and Ph.D. Candidate

Education:
M.A., Philosophy (3-year program). Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China, 1999. One year in the Bachelor’s Program (2-year program) in Political Science at Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou, China, 1996. Drop off to attend the Master’s Program at Beijing Normal University.
Associate Degree, History (2-year program), Henan Institute of Education, Zhengzhou, China, 1995.

Qingjiang Yao worked as a journalist at an educational newspaper in Beijing, China, for six years before he joined the Ph.D. program at the University of South Carolina. An administrator for five years,Yao was in charge of branding, circulation and managing the newsroom.

As a doctoral student, Yao is a quantitative researcher interested in media effect and society, political and science communication. His ongoing dissertation is about the dynamics among presidential and public opinion, and media coverage of environmental issues in the past 28 years in the U.S., by which he tries to identify the influence-provider and receiver on the environmental issues in a democratic society.