Zicheng Cheng
Marshall 337
Zicheng Cheng joined the University of Arizona School of Journalism in Fall 2024. Born and raised in Guangzhou, China, she earned her bachelor’s degree from Sun Yat-sen University. She then moved to the U.S. to complete her M.S. in Mass Communication at Boston University and her Ph.D. in Mass Communications at the Pennsylvania State University. Cheng's research focuses on digital journalism and political communication, exploring how people consume and engage with news information on digital media and its societal and political impacts. She mainly uses quantitative methods such as surveys, computational analysis, and experiments. Her work has been published in the Journal of Communication, Human Communication Research, The International Journal of Press/Politics, Social Science Computer Review, and others.