Selected Publications
Journal articles
Xu, M. & He, R*. (2025). Knowledge production and digital distinction of micro-intellectuals on Chinese digital platform Zhihu. Social Media + Society, 11(2), 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051251340142 *Corresponding author.
He, R. & Xu, M. (2025). In the name of help: Anti-interracial marriage discourse in China and the intersection of racial discrimination, patriarchy, and nationalism. European Journal of Cultural Studies, 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1177/13675494251316118
He, R. & Chang, J. (2025). Chinese medicine to the cure of gayness: Satire as countercultural resistance against heteronormative symbolic violence in digital public sphere. International Journal of Cultural Studies, 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1177/13678779241308289
He, R. & Huang, X. (2025). Conceptualizing gossip as counterdiscourse: Alternative ways of publicly alleging sexual misconduct in an online groupie community. International Journal of Cultural Studies, 28(2), 425-441. https://doi.org/10.1177/13678779241280291
He, R. (2024). Let's keep boys out: Promoting exclusion as a means to actualize feminist digital citizenship. Citizenship Studies, 28(4-5), 549-564. https://doi.org/10.1080/13621025.2024.2425642
He, R. (2024). Gender-equal sexism: A covert and subtle form of gender discrimination. Feminist Media Studies, 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2024.2335664
He, R. & Chang, J. (2024). More than just a box: Music storage medium and the mediatization of Chinese rock culture. Critical Arts, 37(5), 93-107.
He, R. & Huang, X. (2024). Shared concerns versus ideological preferences: The New York Times’ coverage of Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics and Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics. Global Media and China, 9(2), 221-236. https://doi.org/10.1177/20594364241240261
He, R. (2024). Nationalized anti-feminism: A collusion between nationalism and gender-equal sexism. European Journal of Cultural Studies, 27(5), 819-835. https://doi.org/10.1177/13675494231191486
He, R. (2023). Hashtag nationalism: A discursive and networked hashtag activism. Media, Culture & Society, 45(7), 1471-1488.
He, R. & Tian, H. (2023). Social media influencer and source credibility: Endorsing content moderation on Douyin. International Journal of Communication, 17, 5760-5780.
Chang, J., He, R. & Ren, H. (2021). The semiotic guerrilla: Internet subcultures as political resistance in China. Journal of Media and Communication Studies, 13(4), 110-120.
Book chapters
He, R. (Accepted). Populism and gender. In: L. Roberts (Ed.), The SAGE International Encyclopedia of Politics and Gender. Sage.
He, R. (Accepted). Nationalsim and gender. In: L. Roberts (Ed.), The SAGE International Encyclopedia of Politics and Gender. Sage.
He, R. (Accepted). Neoliberalism and gender. In: L. Roberts (Ed.), The SAGE International Encyclopedia of Politics and Gender. Sage.
Book review
He, R. (2024). Performing fear in television production: Practices of an illiberal democracy by Siao Yuong Fong, Global Media and China, 9(3), 418-422. https://doi.org/10.1177/20594364241267702