Jialing Huang

Assistant Professor

Jialing.Huang@erau.edu

Department of Humanities & Communication

Worldwide College of Arts & Sciences

Jialing Huang

Overview

Dr. Jialing Huang is an assistant professor in the Department of Humanities & Communication. She has over 10 years of teaching experience in higher education and has previously taught at universities in the U.S. and China. Her research focuses on strategic environmental communication, exploring how media shape public understanding of environmental risks. She is especially interested in exploring people’s moral responses to media messages.

Outside of work, she enjoys hiking, traveling and spending time with her daughter.

Ph.D. - Doctor of Philosophy in Communication, University at Buffalo

M.A. - Master of Arts in Communication Studies, University of Miami

Teaching

  • COMM 350: Environmental Communication
  • RSCH 202: Intro to Research Methods
  • COMM 360: Public Relations
  • COMM 219: Speech

Research

Huang, J., Yang, J. Z., & Zhang, S. (2024). One Day When We Were Young: Nostalgia Brings Climate Change Temporally Closer. Environmental Communication, 1–21. https://doi.org/10.1080/17524032.2024.235308

Huang, J., & Guo, H. (2024). When a Bleak Future Comes Closer: Interaction Effects of Emotion and Temporal Distance Framing in Climate Change Communication. BMC Psychology 12, 677. https://doi.org/10.1186/s40359-024-02183-w

Huang, J., Yang, J. Z., & Chu, H. (2022). Framing Climate Change Impacts as Moral Violations: The Pathway of Perceived Message Credibility. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 19(9), 5210. 

Huang, J. & Ells, K. (2021) Risk Here vs. Risk There: Intention to Seek Information About Gulf Coastal Erosion, Environmental Communication, 15:3, 386 400, doi: 10.1080/17524032.2020.1853582

Huang, J., & Yang, Z. J. (2019). Beyond Under the Dome: An environmental documentary amplified public risk perception about air pollution in China. Journal of Risk Research. 1-15. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/13669877.2019.1569090 

Huang, J. & Yang, Z. J. (2017). Risk, affect, and policy support: Public perception of air pollution in China. The Asian Journal of Communication. 1-17. doi: 10.1080/01292986.2017.1386220.

Huang, J. Yang., J.Z., & Zhu, J. (2024). Moral salience in film reviews associated with film success: An analysis of 1.6 million reviews. Journal of Media Psychology.

Huang, J. (2023). Loving Shuang Ju: Chinese Entertainment Experience of Retribution Narratives. Psychology of Popular Media. 

Huang, J. & Grizzard, M. (2022). Beyond Content: Exploring Narrative Structure on Entertainment Experience. Journal of Media Psychology.