Yeqing Kong
Assistant Professor
Member Of:
- School of Literature, Media, and Communication
Office Location: Skiles Classroom Building
Related Links:
Email Address: yeqingkong@gatech.edu
Overview
Personal Pronouns:
she, her, hersYeqing Kong is an Assistant Professor of Technical Communication in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication. Her research focuses on the communication of scientific, technological, health, and environmental risks in the global context, especially the communication strategies that vulnerable communities use for self-advocacy. She has published in IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, Journal of Business and Technical Communication, Journal of Rhetoric, Professional Communication, and Globalization, and Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on the Design of Communication.
Education:
- Ph.D. in Communication, Rhetoric, and Digital Media
- M.A. in Language and Linguistics
- B.A. in English
Interests
Research Fields:
- Communication
- Digital Media
- Science and Technology Studies
Geographic
Focuses:
Focuses:
- Asia (East)
- United States
Issues:
- Inequality and Social Justice
- Digital Communication
- International Communication
- Science and Technology
- Wicked Problems
Courses
- LMC-3310: The Rhetoric of Scientific Inquiry
- LMC-3403: Technical Communication, Theory and Practice
Recent Publications
Journal Articles
- Theorizing knowledgescape as a transnational mediating force: Artificial intelligence and global flows
In: Global Media and Communication [Peer Reviewed]
Date: March 2024
- Tools, potential, and pitfalls of social media screening: Social profiling in the era of AI-assisted recruiting
In: Journal of Business and Technical Communication [Peer Reviewed]
Date: September 2023
- A corpus-assisted critical discourse analysis of news construction of the Flint water crisis
In: IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication [Peer Reviewed]
Date: October 2022
- The state of social-mediated crisis communication research through the lens of global scholars: An updated assessment
In: Public Relations Review [Peer Reviewed]
Date: June 2022
Scholarly Editions
- Introduction to special issue on intercultural and participatory risk communication about COVID-19: Using immaterial labor to promote social justice in a pandemic
In: Journal of Rhetoric, Professional Communication, and Globalization [Peer Reviewed]
Date: October 2022