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Department of Communication and Media Research Science Communication

Xiaoyue Yan

Xiaoyue Yan, MSc

  • Assistentin / Research and Teaching Assistant
Phone
+41 44 635 20 94
Room number
AND 3.26

Curriculum Vitae

since 09/2022

Research and Teaching Assistant at the Department of Communication and Media Research, University of Zurich, Switzerland

2020 – 2022

M.Sc. in Communication Sciences, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

2016 – 2020

B.A. in English Language and Literature & B.A. in Communication Sciences, Beijing Normal University, China

Research Interests

  • Climate change and environmental communication
  • Visual and multimodal communication
  • Computational social science
  • Artificial intelligence and science communication

Publications

Book Chapter

  1. Schäfer, M. S., & Yan, X. (2023). News and Social Media Imagery of Climate Change. In Z. Baker, T. Law, M. Vardy, & S. Zehr (Eds.), Climate, Science and Society. A Primer (pp. 66–73). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003409748-11

Conference Presentations

  1. Yan, X., Schäfer, M. S., Hase, V., & Mahl, D. (2024). From "climate change" to "climate crises"? Changing nomenclature in climate-related journalism in the Global South and Global North between 1996-2022. Paper to be presented at the 74th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA), 20-24 June 2024, Gold Coast, Australia.
  2. Yan. X., & Kroon. A. (2023). Shaping the social media news agenda: Explaining organizations’ agenda building success using topic-level newsworthiness. Paper presented at the 73rd Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA), 25-29 May 2023, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
  3. Yan. X. (2023). BERT for understanding social media news: an empirical study on organizational agenda building and topic-level newsworthiness. Paper presented at the 73rd Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA), 25-29 May 2023, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
  4. Zeng. J., & Yan. X. (2023). Understanding video memes: A case study of #climate content on TikTok. Paper presented at the 73rd Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA), 25-29 May 2023, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
  5. Yan, X., Schäfer, M. S., Hase, V., & Mahl, D. (2023). From “climate change” to “climate crisis”? The labeling of climate change in global news coverage from 1996 to 2021. Paper presented at the Living with Climate Change Conference, 8-9 May 2023, Bergen, Norway.

Teaching and Supervision

  • BA research seminar, University of Zurich: “Visual Communication of Climate Change” (two semesters)
  • BA research seminar, University of Zurich: “Persuasion in Science Communication” (one semester)
  • BA thesis supervision, University of Zurich (14 students)

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