ZHANG Lei Professor, The National Centre for Communication Innovation Studies, Communication University of China, Beijing

ZHANG Lei is Professor in The National Centre for Communication Innovation Studies at Communication University of China, Beijing. His research interests include: media studies and cultural studies, critical political economy of communications, international communication, media sociology, and ethnographic study of the audience/users. One of his recent books is Anxiety and Hope: Study on Urban Poverty from a Media Sociological Perspective (Beijing: China Broadcasting Press, 2010).