Jingyi Ji
Department of Sociological Studies
PhD student
jji18@sheffield.ac.uk
The Wave
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Jingyi Ji
Department of Sociological Studies
The Wave
2 Whitham Road
Sheffield
S10 2AH
Department of Sociological Studies
The Wave
2 Whitham Road
Sheffield
S10 2AH
- Profile
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I joined the Department in October 2021. My research interests are digital health, health communication, social media and lay users.
- Qualifications
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MA Art (Digital Media), the East China University of Science and Technology.
BA Visual Communication Design, the East China University of Science and Technology.
- Research interests
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- Digital health
- Health communication
- Social media and lay users
- Vaccination
My proposed title is 'Understanding Conversations about Health Conditions on Chinese Social Media Platforms: A Study of the HPV Vaccine on Weibo'.
My thesis aims to investigate how users use social media to talk about health topics and processes. Specifically, to describe how information and knowledge about HPV vaccine is communicated on Weibo.
- Research group