Yeqing Kong
Assistant Professor
Member Of:
- School of Literature, Media, and Communication
Office Phone: 404-894-2730
Office Location: Skiles Classroom Building
Related Links:
Email Address: yeqingkong@gatech.edu
Overview
Personal Pronouns:
She, Her, HersYeqing Kong is an Assistant Professor of Technical Communication in the School of Literature, Media, and Communication. Her research brings together risk and crisis communication, technology-mediated communication, and cross-cultural communication. She examines how communities respond to crises and how emerging technologies, particularly AI, shape public discourse and professional practices across cultural contexts. Her work has appeared in journals including Technical Communication Quarterly, IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication, Journal of Business and Technical Communication, and Communication Design Quarterly.
Education:
- Ph.D. in Communication, Rhetoric, and Digital Media, North Carolina State University, U.S.
- M.A. in Language and Linguistics, Lancaster University, U.K.
- B.A. in English, Hunan University, China
Interests
Teaching Interests:
Technical and Scientific Communication; Digital and Visual Rhetorics; Responsible AI; Social Media; Information Design; User Experience
Research Interests:
Risk and Crisis Communication; Technology-Mediated Communication; Science and Health Communication; Cross-Cultural Communication
Research Fields:
- Communication
- Digital Media
- Science and Technology Studies
Geographic
Focuses:
Focuses:
- Asia (East)
- United States
Issues:
- Inequality and Social Justice
- Digital Communication
- International Communication
- Science and Technology
- Wicked Problems
Courses
- LMC-3206: Communication & Culture
- LMC-3310: The Rhetoric of Scientific Inquiry
- LMC-3403: Technical Communication, Theory and Practice
- LMC-3412: Communicating Sci/Tech
- LMC-4406: Professional Comm
Publications
Recent Publications
Journal Articles
- Emerging job roles in communication design: A corpus-assisted analysis of the core competencies of prompt engineers
In: Communication Design Quarterly [Peer Reviewed]
Date: October 2026
- Leveraging persuasive technologies for global health: Insights across COVID-19 digital contact tracing technologies
In: Communication Design Quarterly [Peer Reviewed]
Date: March 2026
- Visualizing Flint lead contamination risks: Building a critical rhetorical risk visualization ecology
In: Communication Design Quarterly [Peer Reviewed]
Date: December 2025
- From incident to insight: Understanding AI model lifecycle management through case analysis
In: Programmatic Perspectives [Peer Reviewed]
Date: October 2025
- How documentation saved lives: An actor-network analysis of digital volunteering in China’s rainstorm disasters
In: IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication [Peer Reviewed]
Date: October 2025
All Publications
Journal Articles
- Emerging job roles in communication design: A corpus-assisted analysis of the core competencies of prompt engineers
In: Communication Design Quarterly [Peer Reviewed]
Date: October 2026
- Leveraging persuasive technologies for global health: Insights across COVID-19 digital contact tracing technologies
In: Communication Design Quarterly [Peer Reviewed]
Date: March 2026
- Visualizing Flint lead contamination risks: Building a critical rhetorical risk visualization ecology
In: Communication Design Quarterly [Peer Reviewed]
Date: December 2025
- From incident to insight: Understanding AI model lifecycle management through case analysis
In: Programmatic Perspectives [Peer Reviewed]
Date: October 2025
- How documentation saved lives: An actor-network analysis of digital volunteering in China’s rainstorm disasters
In: IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication [Peer Reviewed]
Date: October 2025
- Using immaterial labor to fight for justice: Rhetoric of grassroots citizens to communicate risks in the Flint water crisis
In: Technical Communication Quarterly [Peer Reviewed]
Date: October 2025
- Mapping interaction design in global health interventions: A comparative analysis of COVID-19 mHealth technologies
In: IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication [Peer Reviewed]
Date: May 2024
- Theorizing knowledgescape as a transnational mediating force: Artificial intelligence and global flows
In: Global Media and Communication [Peer Reviewed]
Date: March 2024
- Tools, potential, and pitfalls of social media screening: Social profiling in the era of AI-assisted recruiting
In: Journal of Business and Technical Communication [Peer Reviewed]
Date: September 2023
- A corpus-assisted critical discourse analysis of news construction of the Flint water crisis
In: IEEE Transactions on Professional Communication [Peer Reviewed]
Date: October 2022
- The state of social-mediated crisis communication research through the lens of global scholars: An updated assessment
In: Public Relations Review [Peer Reviewed]
Date: June 2022
Scholarly Editions
- Introduction to special issue on intercultural and participatory risk communication about COVID-19: Using immaterial labor to promote social justice in a pandemic
In: Journal of Rhetoric, Professional Communication, and Globalization [Peer Reviewed]
Date: October 2022
Updated: Oct 23rd, 2026 at 10:01 PM