Department of Communication

Jing Yin, Ph.D., Professor

Jing Yin

Chair and Professor, Communication

(808) 932-7207

jingyin@hawaii.edu

(808) 932-7214

Kanakaʻole Hall, room 207

Dr. Yin is Professor and Chair of the Department of Communication. She teaches Media and Culture, Mass Media Analysis, Communication and Social Change, International Communication, and Intercultural Communication. She is also Fellow at the Molefi Kete Asante Institute for Afrocentric Studies. Dr. Yin earned her Ph.D. in Mass Communications from the Pennsylvania State University. Prior to joining the UH Hilo faculty in 2007, she was Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at Clemson University in South Carolina.

Dr. Yin’s research focuses on Chinese media and globalization, media discourse and representation, and non-Western feminist communication theory. She won a Top Paper Award from the International and Intercultural Communication Division of the National Communication Association. She co-edited two editions of The Global Intercultural Communication Reader (Routledge, 2008 and 2014) and guest-edited a special section of China Media Research on “Cultural Traditions and Ethical Concerns in the Age of Global Communication” (Vol. 9, No. 2, April 2013).

Dr. Yin has published in such journals as China Media Research, Critical Discourse Studies, Discourse Processes, Howard Journal of Communications, Javnost—The Public: Journal of the European Institute for Communication and Culture, Journal of International and Intercultural Communication, Journal of Multicultural Discourses, Journal of the Association of University Technology Managers, Review of Communication, and Technovation.

Dr. Yin’s works also appeared in scholarly books including Chinese Communication Studies: Contexts and Comparisons, Chinese Culture in a Cross-Cultural Comparison, Conflict Management and Intercultural Communication: The Art of Intercultural Harmony, Encyclopedia of Communication Theory, Encyclopedia of Political Communication, Intercultural Communication: A Reader, Systems and Policies for the Globalized Learning Economy and The International Encyclopedia of Intercultural communication.

Dr. Yin served as a member of the editorial boards of the Journal of International and Intercultural Communication and Human Communication: A Journal of the Pacific and Asian Communication Association and reviewed manuscripts for the Asian Journal of Communication, Journal of Communication Inquiry, Critical Studies in Media Communication, Intercultural Communication Studies, International Journal of Communication, and Journal of Multicultural Discourses.

Selected Publications

Books

  • Asante, M. K., Miike, Y., & Yin, J. (Eds.). (2014). The global intercultural communication reader (2nd ed.). New York, NY: Routledge.
  • Asante, M. K., Miike, Y., & Yin, J. (Eds.). (2008). The global intercultural communication reader. New York, NY: Routledge.

Journal Special Section

  • Yin, J. (Ed.). (2013). Cultural traditions and ethical concerns in the age of global communication [Special section]. China Media Research, 9(2), 64-110.

Journal Articles and Book Chapters

  • Yin, J. (in press). Articulation. In Y. Y. Kim (Ed.), The international encyclopedia of intercultural communication. West Sussex, UK: John Wiley & Sons.
  • Yin, J. (2017). Rethinking cultural identity in the context of globalization: Comparative Insights from the Kemetic and Confucian traditions. In X. Dai & G.-M. Chen (Eds.), Conflict management and intercultural communication: The art of Intercultural harmony (pp. 155-174). London, UK: Routledge.
  • Miike, Y., & Yin, J. (2015). Asiacentricity and shapes of the future: Envisioning the field of intercultural communication in the globalization era. In L. A. Samovar, R. E. Porter, E. R. McDaniel, & C. S. Roy (Eds.), Intercultural communication: A reader (14th ed., pp. 449-465). Boston, MA: Cengage Learning.
  • Yin, J. (2014). Portraits of the woman warrior: Cultural values in Disney and Chinese stories of Mulan. In. M. B. Hinner (Ed.), Chinese culture in a cross-cultural comparison (pp. 251-276). Frankfurt am Main, Germany: Peter Lang.
  • Alexander, B. K., Arasaratnam, L. A., Avant-Mier, R., Durham, A., Flores, L., Leeds-Hurwitz, W., Mendoza, S. L., Oetzel, J., Osland, J., Tsuda, Y., Yin, J., & Halualani, R. (2014). Introducing the discussion and one another. Journal of International and Intercultural Communication, 7(1), 4-13.
  • Alexander, B. K., Arasaratnam, L. A., Avant-Mier, R., Durham, A., Flores, L., Leeds-Hurwitz, W., Mendoza, S. L., Oetzel, J., Osland, J., Tsuda, Y., Yin, J., & Halualani, R. (2014). Defining and communicating what “intercultural” and “intercultural communication” means to us. Journal of International and Intercultural Communication, 7(1), 14-37.
  • Alexander, B. K., Arasaratnam, L. A., Avant-Mier, R., Durham, A., Flores, L., Leeds-Hurwitz, W., Mendoza, S. L., Oetzel, J., Osland, J., Tsuda, Y., Yin, J., & Halualani, R. (2014). Identifying key intercultural urgencies, issues, and challenges in today’s world: Connecting our scholarship to dynamic contexts and historical moments. Journal of International and Intercultural Communication, 7(1), 38-67.
  • Alexander, B. K., Arasaratnam, L. A., Avant-Mier, R., Durham, A., Flores, L., Leeds-Hurwitz, W., Mendoza, S. L., Oetzel, J., Osland, J., Tsuda, Y., Yin, J., & Halualani, R. (2014). Our role as intercultural scholars, practitioners, activists, and teachers in addressing these key intercultural urgencies, issues, and challenges. Journal of International and Intercultural Communication, 7(1), 68-99.
  • Yin, J. (2011). Popular culture and public imaginary: Disney vs. Chinese stories of Mulan. Javnost-The Public: Journal of the European Institute for Communication and Culture, 18(1), 53-74.
  • Yin, J. (2009). Confucian communication theory. In S. W. Littlejohn & K. A. Foss (Eds.), Encyclopedia of communication theory (Vol. 1, pp. 170-172). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
  • Yin, J. (2009). Negotiating the center: Towards an Asiacentric feminist communication theory. Journal of Multicultural Discourses, 4(1), 75-88.
  • Yin, J. (2008). China: Media and politics in. In L. L. Kaid & C. Holtz-Bacha (Eds.), Encyclopedia of political communication (pp. 98-99). Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
  • Yin, J., & Miike, Y. (2008). A textual analysis of fortune cookie sayings: How Chinese are they? Howard Journal of Communications, 19(1), 18-43.
  • Yin, J. (2007). The narrative function of news: A comparative study of media representation and audience interpretation of China-U.S. trade relationship. China Media Research, 3(3), 33-42.
  • Yin, J. (2007). The clash of rights: A critical analysis of news discourse on human rights in the United States and China. Critical Discourse Studies, 4(1), 75-94.
  • Yin, J. (2006). Toward a Confucian feminism: A critique of Eurocentric feminist discourse. China Media Research, 2(3), 9-18.
  • Yin, J. (2006). China’s second Long March: A review of Chinese media discourse on globalization. Review of Communication, 6(1/2), 32-51.
  • Yin, J. (2005). Constructing the Other: A critical reading of The Joy Luck Club. Howard Journal of Communications, 16(3), 149-175.