ANNUAL Communication research group of CJJC
Chinese Journal of Journalism & Communication.
2023, 45(1):
25-49.
This paper selects innovative communication reseach from nearly 30 Chinese academic journals (including Hong Kong and Taiwan) in 2022 in terms of research issues, perspectives
and demonstration methods. Studies are categorized into eleven topics: Metaverse, epidemic and
health communication, communication history, media theory, materiality, algorithms, platform labour, media and space, media culture, media memory, mobile/social media use and interaction.
The study found that communication research in China in 2022 was characterised by three main features: firstly, communication research focused on dialogue with classical theories from across disciplines and continued reflection on fundamental questions such as “what is media”; secondly, researchers balanced new phenomena with everyday issues and focused on the dialogue between old and new issues and theories; finally, communication scholars placed their research horizons on a more diverse range of actors and richer research scenarios, leading to a deeper and more comprehensive understanding of objects such as space and materials.