Bu Wei

Mail Address:
No. 303, Building 19, Xibahebeili, Chaoyang Qu, Beijing 100028, P.R.China

Mobile
number：86-13901367867

E-mail：buwei@public3.bta.net.cn  bupipi@gmail.com

 

Bu, Wei, professor at the Institute of Journalism
and Communication (IJC), the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) and director
of the Research Center for Children and Media, based at the IJC of CASS; guest
professor of the Nordic Institute for Asia Studies in Denmark.

 

I mainly do researches on the Development
Communication. Since 1990, I published over 10 books and 200 articles on
ICT/communication for Development, children/youth’s use of media/ICTs and their
sub-culture, participatory communication, media empowerment for marginal
groups, feminist media studies, media literacy education, NGOs’ communication
activisms, art activism for social changes, working class cultural studies,
communication for participation into global governance, and communication research
methodology.

 

Since 1999, I has worked for UNICEF as
consultant on communication and children’s participation program (1999-2001)，child protection (2002-2003:Child
Protection and Media Advocacy，Child Trafficking Issue; 2006-2012: violence against children, abroad
and domestic trafficking of children), HIV/AIDS and Children (2001; 2006-2007),
Girl’s Development (2004-2006), also gender consultant and trainer for the Ford
Foundation (2004；2010；2011；2012；2013).

 

Since 2007 my research focuses on bottom up
communication campaigns and media convergence by migrant workers and other
marginal groups to improve public health and HIV/AIDS prevention/intervention,
reduce violence against children and women, deliver social welfare, combat trafficking
in women and children, develop working class culture and media literacy. At
present, I has been director of some research projects Marginal People and Media Empowerment: China Migrant Workers Research
(2007-2013), Communication and
Development (2009-2014) and Communication
and Development in China (2013-2015), sponsored by the CASS. In the
Department of Journalism and Communication of Chinese Academy of Social
Sciences, I opened two courses for master and Ph.D students: Doing Studies on
Communications (with Liu Xiaohong) and Communication for Development.

 

I am also an activist in the practice on
communication and development. Worked with peasants, workers, migrants,
trafficking of women, minorities, rural youth, people with HIV/AIDS and other
groups, I explored the theories, models, and action guidelines through pilot
practice and action researches. Since 1997, I has conducted over 200
participatory training workshops on human rights, ending violence against women
and children, fighting with human trafficking, children’s rights, media watch,
HIV/AIDS and youth, gender equity, and NGO’s communication and advocacy
strategies.