Yifeng Hu

Assistant Professor

Office: Kendall
Tel. 609-771-2373
Fax. 609-637- 5187
Email: hu@tcnj.edu
Web site: http://www.tcnj.edu/~hu/

Professor Hu earned her Ph.D. in Mass Communications at Penn State University her master’s degree in Communication at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, and her bachelor’s degree in Journalism at Renmin University of China in Beijing. Her main research interests are Computer-Mediated Communication (CMC) and Internet-based Health Communication. Hu is the first author of the article “Friendship through IM: Examining the relationship between instant messaging and intimacy” published in Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, the premier outlet for CMC researchers. She also first-authored an encyclopedia entry on CMC in Encyclopedia of children, adolescents, and the media published by Sage. Her coauthored book chapter “Blogging for better health: Putting the ‘public’ back in public health” was published in Blogging, citizenship and the future of media by Routledge. 

Hu teaches Introduction to Communication Studies, a special topics course -- Future of Health Communication: New Media and Emerging Technologies, and will offer Communication Research Methods in fall, 2008. Hu has provided a variety of professional services: Membership Chair of the Communication Technology Division at the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC), Editorial Board of The Atlantic Journal of Communication, Manuscript Reviewer of Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, The Atlantic Journal of Communication, and Rocky Mountain Communication Review,and Conference Session Moderator at AEJMC.