Guobin Yang, Grace Lee Boggs Professor of Communication and Sociology, associate dean for graduate studies at Penn’s Annenberg School for Communication and director of the Center on Digital Culture and Society, received an Outstanding Article award from the 2019 Annual Convention of the Chinese Association for History of Journalism and Communication for his paper “Remembering Disappeared Websites: Internet Memory, Media Biography and Website History.”

Dr. Yang  is also the deputy director of the Center for the Study of Contemporary China, a faculty member in the Graduate Group in History, the Graduate Group in East Asian Languages and Cultures, the Graduate Group in International Studies (Lauder Institute), the Center for East Asian Studies and an affiliated faculty in the Asian American Studies Program. He is the author of the award-winning The Power of the Internet in China: Citizen Activism Online and The Red Guard Generation and Political Activism in China.