Faculty & Research

Education

Ph.D., Mass Communication, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana (1999)
MFA, Visual Arts, University of California, San Diego, California (1995)
ML, Journalism, People's University of China, Beijing, China (1988)
BA, English, The Institute of International Relations, Beijing, China (1984)

Research Interests

• Healthcare new media
• New media education
• Youth news consumption
• Video streaming
• Copyright issues related to DVD ripping
• Media convergence
• Usability and aesthetics of Web design
• Digital imaging manipulation and its impact on audience
• The Internet and national development
• Documentaries

Dr. Huang has taught media convergence, video production and editing, photojournalism, photography, Web publishing, graphic and layout design, research methods, computer-assisted reporting and news writing courses at IUPUI, the University of South Florida St. Petersburg, Northern Illinois University, Indiana University, University of California, San Diego, and Institute of International Relations. Huang started his college teaching career in 1984.

Huang’s journal articles on hospital marketing and patient education videos, youth news consumption, new media education, media convergence, rich media, video streaming, copyright issues related to DVD ripping, online imaging, documentary photography, postmodern photography, digital imaging, and the Internet and national development are seen in International Journal of Pharmaceutical and Healthcare Marketing, e-Service Journal, Convergence, Journalism and Communication Monographs, Visual Communication Quarterly, Newspaper Research Journal,Information Technology for Development, and so on.

Huang’s freelance experience covers writing, still photography, Web publishing, news design and video production and editing. Your Name Is Miracle, a documentary video on organ donation that three seniors in his Fall 2005 A451 Advanced Video class and he worked on won the 2007 AACN (American Association of Critical-Care Nurses) Media Award among close to 1,000 entries. A research project "Searching for an Ideal Streaming Technology," which he worked on with an undergraduate student in an independent study, won Judges' Choice Award at the 2006 New Media Consortium Summer Conference and was published online at http://www.iupui.edu/~nmstream. In 2004, the Department of Journalism and Media Studies, University of South Florida St. Petersburg, Web site, designed by Huang, won the first place in the Department and School sites category in the annual "Best of the Web" Design Competition run by the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. The same site and the USFSP College of Arts and Sciences Web site (designed by Edgar Huang and one of his students) won top awards in the USFSP Web Design competition in 2004. Several public service announcement videos, documentary videos and promotional videos that Huang's students produced in N501 and other classes have been adopted by Riley Hospital, Clarian Methodist Hospital, Indianapolis Parks Foundation, Indiana Organ Procurement Organization, U.S. Courthouse, and so on.

Dr. Huang joined the IUPUI School of Informatics faculty in the fall of 2004. He teaches courses related to video production and editing, Web design, video streaming, and empirical research.