Dechun Zhang

Dechun Zhang is a postdoctoral researcher in the Department of Communication at the University of Copenhagen. His research focuses on digital politics, political communication, state propaganda, and public discourse in China. He works at the intersection of political communication, digital society, and media studies, with publications in several international journals, and is the author of “Digital Nationalism and Affective Governance: Propaganda, Public Sentiment, and Soft Authoritarianism in China” (Routledge, 2026).