Jingyi Ji

Department of Sociological Studies

PhD student

jji18@sheffield.ac.uk
The Wave

Full contact details

Jingyi Ji
Department of Sociological Studies
The Wave
2 Whitham Road
91Ö±²¥
S10 2AH
Profile

I joined the Department in October 2021. My research interests are digital health, health communication, social media and lay users.

Qualifications

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
  • 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