Bu Wei is a professor in the Institute of Journalism and Communication (IJC), Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), and director of the Research Centre for Children and Media. She mainly researches critical communication studies for sustainable development and social change. Since 1990, she has published over 10 books and 200 articles on ICT/communication for development, children/youth’s use of media/ICTs and their sub-culture, media empowerment for marginal groups, feminist media studies, media literacy education, NGOs’ communication activisms, art activism for social changes, working-class cultural studies, children’s rights and communication research methodology. Since 1999, she has worked for UNICEF China as a consultant on the Communication and Children’s Participation programme, and has led some surveys or baseline surveys on violence against children, overseas and domestic trafficking of children, HIV/AIDS and youth, and girl’s development in China.
Institute of Journalism and Communication, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, and Research Centre for Children and Media, China
