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Dr Sharon Zheng

Senior Lecturer in Digital Media and Culture

  1. 2025
  2. Published

    Chinese celebrity and Wanghong economy: diversification, motivation and capitalisation

    Zheng, S. & Ewen, N., 30/06/2025, In: Celebrity Studies. 16, 2, p. 280-283 4 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineEditorialpeer-review

  3. Published

    It is imperative and obtainable: the construction of confidence culture by female toubu vloggers on Xiaohongshu

    Xu, M. & Zheng, S., 30/06/2025, In: Celebrity Studies. 16, 2, p. 284-294 11 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  4. E-pub ahead of print

    TV representation of the single woman in Nothing But Thirty: traditional and postfeminist discourses from social media responses

    Xu, M. & Zheng, S., 19/05/2025, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Journal of Gender Studies.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  5. Published

    “Journalists” without a press card- cross-border cooperation of Chinese private news organizations

    Yin, Q. & Zheng, S., 30/04/2025, In: Journalism. 26, 4, p. 881-899 19 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  6. Published

    'I’m Passive yet devoted': reconstructing fan identity and hierarchy in the transcultural landscape

    Zheng, S., 7/04/2025, In: Humanities and Social Sciences Communications. 12, 497.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  7. 2024
  8. Published

    Precarity or Stability?- Exploring cultured microcelebrities in the post-Covid era

    Zheng, S., 8/08/2024.

    Research output: Contribution to conference - Without ISBN/ISSN Conference paperpeer-review

  9. Published

    Hidden in plain sight- Audience engagement in China’s data journalism

    Yin, Q., Zheng, S. & Wu, S., 31/07/2024, In: Journalism. 25, 7, p. 1559-1577 19 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  10. Published

    Empowering the black women in vlogging? Transcultural cultivation, sinicised motherhood and platformised celebrification

    Zheng, S., 15/07/2024.

    Research output: Contribution to conference - Without ISBN/ISSN Conference paperpeer-review

  11. Published

    Survival in the Fissure: Strategies of Private News Organizations in the Social Media Era in China

    Yin, Q., Zheng, S. & Fu, Z., 3/07/2024, In: Journalism Studies. 25, 9, p. 970-989 20 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  12. Published

    Meso News-Space in China: Peripheral News Production of Platform Journalism

    Yin, Q., Fu, Z. & Zheng, S., 30/06/2024, In: Digital Journalism. 12, 5, p. 680-699

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  13. Published

    Is Culture a Tool or Fame? Exploring the Emergence and Expertise of Cultured Microcelebrities.

    Zheng, S., 6/06/2024.

    Research output: Contribution to conference - Without ISBN/ISSN Conference paperpeer-review

  14. Published

    Prestige of Culture: Emergence of cultured microcelebrities in the post-covid China

    Zheng, S., 10/05/2024.

    Research output: Contribution to conference - Without ISBN/ISSN Conference paperpeer-review

  15. Published

    Chinese celebrity and the pandemic: introduction

    Ewen, N. & Zheng, S., 25/04/2024, In: Celebrity Studies. 15, 2, p. 282-284 3 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal article

  16. Published

    From grassroots to celebrities in healthcare– professionality as a new persona in China’s celebrity culture

    Zheng, S. & Xu, M., 25/04/2024, In: Celebrity Studies. 15, 2, p. 285-292 8 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  17. 2023
  18. Published

    Gendered fandom in transcultural context- female-dominated paratexts and compromised fan culture

    Zheng, S., 1/11/2023, In: Journal of Consumer Culture. 23, 4, p. 1017-1035 19 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  19. Published

    Chinese parents’ understanding of infant vaccine risk reports on WeChat

    Gao, Z. & Zheng, S., 29/06/2023.

    Research output: Contribution to conference - Without ISBN/ISSN Abstractpeer-review

  20. Published

    Hidden in Plain Sight- public engagement in data journalism on digital platforms in China

    Yin, Q., Zheng, S. & Fu, Z., 29/06/2023, p. 69. 1 p.

    Research output: Contribution to conference - Without ISBN/ISSN Abstractpeer-review

  21. Published

    Gendered Fandom in Transcultural Context- Female-dominated paratexts and compromised fan culture

    Zheng, S., 27/05/2023, p. 339. 1 p.

    Research output: Contribution to conference - Without ISBN/ISSN Abstractpeer-review

  22. Published

    Fashioning China: Precarious creativity and women designers in Shanzhai culture

    Zheng, S., 1/05/2023, In: Journal of Consumer Culture. 23, 2, p. 486-491 6 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineBook/Film/Article review

  23. Published

    Against masculinised hypercorrection? Renegotiating the everydayness and ordinariness of postfeminism on Chinese TV

    Xu, M. & Zheng, S., 1/03/2023, In: Media, Culture and Society. 45, 2, p. 435-446 12 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  24. Published

    The Threshold of Sound

    Carlson, R. (Designer), Markham, A. (Designer), Stirling, F. (Artist) & Zheng, S., 2023

    Research output: Exhibits, objects and web-based outputsDigital or Visual Products

  25. 2022
  26. Published

    From grassroots to celebrities – professionality as a new persona in China’s celebrity culture

    Zheng, S. & Xu, M., 7/09/2022.

    Research output: Contribution to conference - Without ISBN/ISSN Conference paperpeer-review

  27. Published

    PGR studies, research and post-doc employment in and after the global pandemic.

    Zheng, S., Zhang, S., Obia, V., Zhang, Y. & Udenze, S., 7/09/2022.

    Research output: Contribution to conference - Without ISBN/ISSN Conference paper

  28. Published

    From leftover women to cuihun–audience reception of TV representation on marriageable single women in China

    Zheng, S. & Xu, M., 30/06/2022, In: Feminist Media Studies. 22, 5, p. 1282-1286 5 p.

    Research output: Contribution to Journal/MagazineJournal articlepeer-review

  29. Published

    From grassroots to entrepreneurs – professionality as a new persona for Chinese entrepreneurism in the digital media era.

    Zheng, S., 15/06/2022, p. 25. 1 p.

    Research output: Contribution to conference - Without ISBN/ISSN Conference paperpeer-review

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