معرفی
Menno D.T. de Jong serves as a Full Professor in Communication Science with an extensive research portfolio comprising 291 publications and a 40 h-index. His work bridges academic theory and practical applications in digital communication, sustainability, and cross-cultural contexts, supported by consistent annual output since 1991 including multiple 2025 publications.
His research centers on Cross-Cultural Communication (particularly Western-Chinese comparisons), Social Media engagement, Sustainability Communication, and Technical Communication. Key themes include cultural adaptation in digital platforms, polarization mitigation in societal discourse, and empathy competence development. The fingerprint analysis of his work reveals dominant concentrations in Communication Psychology (70%), Consumer Behavior (49%), and Organizational Communication (48%), with strong emphasis on Chinese-Western comparative frameworks.
Professor de Jong's scholarly impact is recognized through five major awards:
- Associate Fellow of Society for Technical Communication (STC) (2011)
- Best Qualitative Paper Award by Group & Organization Management (2019)
- Goldsmith Award for Engineering Communication Excellence (2019)
- Ken Rainey Research Excellence Award (2012)
- IEEE Transactions Landmark Paper Award (2007)
He actively shapes the field through editorial leadership as Member of the Editorial Board for IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication (2018–present) and Communication Design Quarterly (2018–present), while supervising 25 graduate works. His current projects address energy citizenship frameworks, pandemic-era science communication challenges, and municipal web design across cultural contexts, demonstrating sustained relevance to contemporary societal issues.
