Dr. Wu Jing is professor of communication and vice dean at the School of Journalism and Communication at Peking University. She got her Ph.D. in Media Studies from the Department of Communication Studies, the University of Iowa in 2002. Her research areas are critical media and cultural studies, social theories of communication and media technology, social uses of new media, new media and creative industries, visual culture, etc. She published articles both in Chinese and English on topics concerning various aspects of media, culture and society. Her recent book is entitled Visual Expressions of Cultural Modernity: Ways of Seeing and Communication. She has guest lectured at Oxford University, Columbia University and the Royal Institute of Technology among others. Her recent research interests focus on social and cultural history, social uses and social theories of new media technologies, especially visual media.