VANCOUVER - Wednesday February 21, 2007 - 9:00am PST

World Platforms Inc. is pleased to welcome Dr. Yuezhi Zhao to the Advisory Board

Dr. Zhao is an Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in the Political Economy of International Communication at the School of Communication, Simon Fraser University. She received her Ph.D. in 1996 and was Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication, University of California, San Diego, between 1997 and 2000.

Dr. Zhao has a broad research interest on media, telecommunication, and democratic governance in North American, Chinese, and global contexts. She has written extensively on the institutional and policy dimensions of China’s media and telecommunication developments during the reform era, including the commercialization of China’s communication industries, the policy dimension of convergence between China’s broadcasting, cable and telecommunication industries, communication and social stratification, and the role of communication in China’s global integration.

Dr. Zhao has presented papers in many parts of the world and published more than 30 major journal articles and book chapters. In addition, she is the author of Media, Market, and Democracy in China: Between the Party Line and the Bottom Line (1998), a co-author of Sustaining Democracy? Journalism and the Politics of Objectivity (1998), and a co-editor of Democratizing Global Media? One World, Many Struggles (2005).
As the holder of a prestigious Canada Research Chair position, Dr. Zhao’s research program encompasses three key components: telecommunication policy and the political economy of China’s information revolution, comparative analysis of telecommunication and information policies in Asia, and global media governance.

World Platforms

Lance Morginn
CEO / DIRECTOR

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