Xiaoyue Yan

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

Book Chapter

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

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.
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.
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.
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.
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.

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)

Member of the Computational Analyses of Climate Visuals Network (CCVsion)
Member of the Computational Methods Working Group (University of Zurich & ETH)
Member of the Visual Methods Collective (VMC)
Member of International Communication Association (ICA) and European Communication Research and Education Association (ECREA)