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Biography


I'm Lihan Yan, a second-year Ph.D. student in Computational Communication at SocratesLab and School of Journalism and Communication, Nanjing University. I'm also a member of Data Intelligence and Interdisciplinary Innovation Lab in Department of Information Management. My research interests are in science communicationcomputational communication, and science of science.

I graduated from Central South University with a bachelor's degree, majoring in radio and television and graduated from city university of Hong Kong with a master's degree, majoring in communication and new media, and the specific stream is media data analysis.  I have two research assistant experiences so far in City University of Hong Kong to do some data collection.

Welcome!

I'm Lihan Yan, a second-year Ph.D. student in Computational Communication at SocratesLab
and School of Journalism and Communication, Nanjing University,
under the supervision of A/Prof. Cheng-jun Wang.

Publications

[3] Wang, C. J. *, Yan, L. *, & Cui, H. (2023). Unpacking the essential tension of knowledge recombination: Analyzing the impact of knowledge spanning on citation impact and disruptive innovation. Journal of Informetrics, 17(4), 101451. (*co-first author)

[2] Li, Y., Yan, L., Jiang, X., Ren, L. & Wang, C-J. (2022). Multiple Actors in Emergency Science Popularization: Analyzing the Agenda Setting among the Subjects of Emergency Science Popularization Using Microblog Data. China Computer-Mediated Communication Studies. [Chinese] (Accepted)

[1] Yan, L., Jin, X., & Zhang, Y. (2022, June). Effects of virtual reality technology in disaster news coverage based on MAIN model. In International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (pp. 122-129). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

Conferences

[9] Jiang, X., Yan, L., Li, Y. & Wang, C. (2023). Can Agenda Setting between Risk Communication Actors Reduce Public Risk Perception Bias: Evidence from Weibo During COVID-19. Poster presented at the 106th Annual Conference of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC), Washington, D.C., USA.

[8] Yan, L., Ni, Y., Tan, X., Jiang, X., Chen, Z., Wang, C-J. (2023). The Narrative Gene of Collective Gatekeeping: Pandemic, Government Regularization, Economic Development, and the Publicness of Weibo Hot Search (2020-2021). The 73rd International Communication Association Annual Conference (ICA). Toronto, Canada

[7] Yan, L., Ni, Y., Tan, X., Wang, C-J. (2022). Searching for Public Narrative Genes: During the COVID-19 Epidemic (2020-2021) Weibo Epidemic Narratives. The 2022 Annual Conference of Computational Communication. Nanjing, China (virtual)

[6] Yan, L., Jin, X., & Zhang, Y. (2022). Effects of virtual reality technology in disaster news coverage based on MAIN model. Presented at the HCI International 2022 Conference. Sweden (virtual)

[5] Zhang, Y., Jin, X., & Yan, L. (2022) How Social Media Information Affects the Intention to Uptake Covid-19 Vaccine: Integrating ELM and HBM Models. The 72nd International Communication Association Annual Conference (ICA). Paris, France (virtual)

[4] Yan, L. (2021) Effects of exposure to news in virtual reality on knowledge acquisition and audience perception. Presented at the 2021 IAMCR Regional Conference. Yueyang, China

[3] Yan, L., Zou, Q., Guo, Y., Zhang, Y. (2021) Depression News Coverage in Chinese Online Media. Presented at the 12th Chinese Journalism and Communication Consortium. Taiwan, China (virtual) [Selected as an excellent paper (4/24≈16.67%)]

[2] Yan, L. (2021) Effects of exposure to news in virtual reality on knowledge acquisition and audience perception. Presented at the 12th Chinese Journalism and Communication Consortium. Taiwan, China (virtual)

[1] Yan, L., Zou, Q., Guo, Y., Zhang, Y. (2021) Depression News Coverage in Chinese Online Media. presented for the 2021 International Communication Association Regional Hub Symposium. Changsha, China

Teaching

2023.03-2023.07 Teaching Assistant
Quantitative Research Methods, Nanjing University

Work Experience

2021.08-2022.01 Research Assistant (Full-time)
Web Mining Lab, City University of Hong Kong

2021.05-2021.08  Research Assistant (Part-time) 
Department of Media and Communication, City University of Hong Kong

Awards

Outstanding Graduate Student Award of Nanjing University, 2023

First Prize of Doctoral Yingcai Scholarship, 2023

Outstanding Graduate Award of Central South University, 2020

Second Prize of Undergraduate Scholarship, 2017-2019

Outstanding Student Award of Central South University, 2017 

Skills

Python, R, Stata, SPSS, Gephi, Statistics, Quantitative research

Contacts

Email: lihanyan2-c@my.cityu.edu.hk
           602022110022@365.nju.edu.cn

Github: https://github.com/YAN-Lihan

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