Dr. Liu is a research fellow in the Center for Crisis Management Research (sponsored by Beijing Planning Office of Philosophy & Social Science) and the director of Academic Department, National Institute of Strategic Communication, Peking University. His research interests include new media, risk society and communication theory, information communication technologies (ICTs) and social change in the context of China’s modernization and globalization. He get the Funding provided by National Social Science Foundation of China, Beijing Social Science Fund and so on. He has published five books and papers in Health Communication, Mobile Media & Communication, Asian Journal of Women's Studies, International Handbook of International Media and Mass Communication, among other journals.