Yufeng Xia 夏煜峰

Hello! I am Yufeng Xia, a PhD student from the School of Journalism and Communication at Tsinghua University (China), and will graduate in June 2023. My research areas are political communication and environmental communication. I focus on content design and media effect of social media, with three papers accepted by ICA and IAMCR conferences and two studies about higher education published in leading China’s journals, as well as serving as reviewers for both conferences. I specialize in quantitative communication research.

The title of my doctoral dissertation is Climate Communication and Citizen Participation in Climate Change Public Sphere. It explores how the public sphere of climate change in China is constructed and developed through social media, driven by the state and the public, and it analyze the topic from the perspectives of macro-level national climate governance, meso-level climate policy debates, and micro-level media effects.

I’m looking for faculty or postdoctoral position recently.

EDUCATION

• 2018–2023.6 PhD Student, Tsinghua University, China

  Journalism & Communication (Ranking 2/30, GPA 3.9/4.0)

• 2016–2018 Master, Sun Yat-sen University, China

  Political Communication (Ranking No.1)

• 2009–2013 B.S. in Psychology, Wuhan University, China

  (Ranking 3/60, GPA 3.7/4.0)

  *Three universities and majors are among the top in China

PUBLICATION

• Yufeng Xia. “The Impact of Frames on User Engagement and Citizen Comments in Climate Change Communication: The Case of Chinese Government Social Media.” Annual ICA Conference 2023.

• Yufeng Xia. “Frame Adoption and Framing Effects in Climate Communication: The Case of Chinese Government Microblogs.” ICA Environmental Communication Pre-Conference PhD Mentoring Workshop 2023.

• Yufeng Xia. “Framing Corruption News: The Emotional Effects of News Frames on Corruption Perception, Political Trust and Government Image.” Annual IAMCR Conference 2023.

• Yufeng Xia, and Fanxu Zeng. “Democratic E-governance Website Evaluation Model for China: Considering Communication as The Effective Approach.” Annual IAMCR Conference 2020.

  (Both ICA and IAMCR conferences are top-level international conferences)

Chinese Articles

• Qingwei Lian, Yanni Ren & Yufeng Xia. (2019). A Practical Approach to College Online Ideological and Political Education–Analysis of “A Letter to Youth” on Social Media of People’s Daily. Higher Education Exploration, 000(006), 101-105,111. (CSSCI)
• Jiuli Ruan, Yin Wu & Yufeng Xia. (2023). Foreign Journalism and Communication Education in the Context of All-Media Era. Journal of Education and Media Studies. (AMI, forthcoming)

BOOKS

• 2020-2021 Participated in the writing and proofreading of the textbook Elementary News Writing Course (Editor-in-chief: Prof. Fanxu Zeng, Tsinghua University)
• 2021-2022 Pre-publication editing and proofreading of Environmental Risk Communication in China (Editors: Prof. Jia Dai & Prof. Fanxu Zeng, Tsinghua University)

PROFESSIONAL WORKING EXPERIENCE

• 2015–2016 Research Assistant (Administrative Staff), Big Data & Communication Lab, Sun Yat-Sen University

  Participated in data analysis and visualization project, recruited student assistants for the newly established lab, and conducted team formation, module management, project implementation and progress monitoring

WORKING ABILITIES

• Software and Programming Languages: SPSS, R, Python, Gephi, Tableau, Mindmanager
• English: High Score in TOEFL Speaking Section, Second Prize in China’s National English Contest
• Cantonese, Mandarin Chinese: Native

CONTACT

• E-mail: yufeng_xia@outlook.com