xiang-huang.bsky.social
@xiang-huang.bsky.social
Assistant professor in City University of Macau/ critical health communication, multimodal discourse analysis, obesity studies, metaphor studies
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The Routledge Handbook of Chinese Media 2nd Edition is published. Has your library got a copy yet? www.routledge.com/Routledge-Ha...
September 22, 2025 at 8:03 AM
Glad to share that our paper, “Visual (Mis)Representations on Sports and Weight Loss: A Multimodal Critical Discourse Study of Images in Official Health Posts on WeChat in China”, has been published in Health Communication! A great co-work with Run Li 🎉

Read the paper here: doi.org/10.1080/1041...
Visual (Mis)Representations on Sports and Weight Loss: A Multimodal Critical Discourse Study of Images in Official Health Posts on WeChat in China
In response to physical inactivity and rising levels of obesity among the population, the Chinese government has used social media, such as WeChat, to engage and encourage the public to do sports i...
doi.org
July 20, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Excited to share that my paper, "Why you should (not) use semaglutide?”: A critical discourse analysis on health professionals’ videos of semaglutide for weight loss on Douyin ", has just been published in Social Science & Medicine!

Read the paper here: authors.elsevier.com/a/1lLJk-CmV5...
authors.elsevier.com
July 2, 2025 at 11:06 AM