YANG, Tian
Assistant Professor

B.E., B.A.
Tsinghua University

M.A.
National University of Singapore

Ph.D.
University of Pennsylvania

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  Research Interests:

• Digital media
• Computational social science
• Political communication
• Digital inequalities

 Teaching Interests:

• New media and society
• Computational social science

Advice to students: 

• Be serious.

Professional Awards: 

• Top Student Paper Award, Communication Methods Division, ICA, 2022
• Top Student Paper Award, Mass Communication Division, NCA, 2018

Publication List:

Huang, S., & Yang, T.(co-first author) (2022). No Trade-offs between Online News and Entertainment: Evidence from Online Engagement Data. New Media & Society.

Mukerjee, S., Yang, T., Stadler, G., & González-Bailón, S. (2022). What Counts as a Weak Tie? A Comparison of Filtering Techniques to Analyze Co-Exposure Networks. Social Networks, 68, 386–393.

Yang, T., Ticona, J., & Lelkes, Y. (2021). Policing the Digital Divide: Institutional Gate-keeping & Criminalizing Digital Inclusion. Journal of Communication, 71(4), 572–597.

Yang, T., & Fang, K. (2021). How Dark Corners Collude: A Study on an Online Chinese Alt-Right Community. Information, Communication & Society.

Peng, Y., & Yang, T. (corresponding author) (2021). Anatomy of Audience Duplication Networks: How Individual Characteristics Differentially Contribute to Fragmentation in News Consumption and Trust. New Media & Society.

Zhang, W., Yang, T., & Perrault, S. (2021). Nudge for Reflection: More than Just a Channel to Political Knowledge. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference Full Papers on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2021), Yokohama, Japan.

Yang, T., Wang, Y., & Zhang, W. (2021). Effects of Knowledge and Reflection in Intrapersonal Deliberation. Journal of Deliberative Democracy, 17(1), 134–148.

Mukerjee, S., & Yang, T. (co-first author) (2021). Choosing to Avoid? A Conjoint Experimental Study to Understand Selective Exposure and Avoidance on Social Media. Political Communication, 38(3), 222–240.

Yang, T., Majó-Vázquez, S., Nielsen, R., & González-Bailón, S. (2020). Exposure to News Grows less Fragmented with Increase in Mobile Access. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117(46), 28678–28683.

Yang, T., & Peng, Y. (2020). The Importance of Trending Topics in the Gatekeeping of Social Media News Engagement: A Natural Experiment on Weibo. Communication Research.

Zhang, W., & Yang, T. (2020). The Interaction between Perceived Procedural Fairness and Perceived Disagreement in Deliberation. Acta Politica, 55(2), 199–220.