Ke Zhang (PhD) is Research Associate at Shandong  University, China. His research interests lie in the areas of visual communication, media discourse analysis, and gender studies. His articles have been published in leading journals that include Discourse & Communication, Discourse & Society, Frontiers in Psychology, Humanities and Social Sciences Communications. He has served as peer-reviewer for over 20 journals since 2021. He is currently preparing for his monograph titled Public Discourses of Sexual Minorities in Contemporary China.