Jack Zhou

Communication and Digital Media emphasis

Thesis: 'Projected Images: Inventing the Chinese Identity through Animation'

Special Research Projects:

Business Evaluation: Menuism.com, Spring 2007
• Evaluated Menuism.com’s business setup using Peter Senge’s principle of systems thinking
• Discovered that the owners are underestimating the size of Menuism’s potential user base in their mental models
• Recommended the reduction of limiting factors for user registration and… Show more

Communication and Digital Media emphasis

Thesis: 'Projected Images: Inventing the Chinese Identity through Animation'

Special Research Projects:

Business Evaluation: Menuism.com, Spring 2007
• Evaluated Menuism.com’s business setup using Peter Senge’s principle of systems thinking
• Discovered that the owners are underestimating the size of Menuism’s potential user base in their mental models
• Recommended the reduction of limiting factors for user registration and engage in related market research

Race, Gender and Power in Asian American Film, Winter 2007
• Worked in a team with three other students to produce a 50 page project comparing two Asian American directors
• Produced a creative and effective PowerPoint presentation that seamlessly integrated video, sound and text
• All four team members received a 4.0 for the class, with full marks for class presentation and high peer evaluations Show less

Study Abroad: Cultural Anthropology research at Sichuan University in Chengdu, China, September 2002 - July 2003

Special Research Projects:

Chinese Dialect Project: Cantonese, Winter 2004
• Conducted fieldwork on a Cantonese dialect by recording the speech of a native Cantonese speaker
• Analyzed the phonetic characteristics and grammatical sentence structure of the dialect
• Discovered that Cantonese is conservative dialect that preserves a lot of elements from classical… Show more

Study Abroad: Cultural Anthropology research at Sichuan University in Chengdu, China, September 2002 - July 2003

Special Research Projects:

Chinese Dialect Project: Cantonese, Winter 2004
• Conducted fieldwork on a Cantonese dialect by recording the speech of a native Cantonese speaker
• Analyzed the phonetic characteristics and grammatical sentence structure of the dialect
• Discovered that Cantonese is conservative dialect that preserves a lot of elements from classical Chinese

Imperial Heritage Travel, Autumn 2003
• Conducted a cultural anthropological research on Diaspora and the nature of heritage travel
• Engaged in fieldwork interviewing three individuals regarding their heritage travel experiences Show less