Dr. Jingyuan Yu

Dr. Jingyuan Yu received his PhD from the Department of Social Psychology at the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona (February 2021). He obtained his Master's degree in Social Communication at the Universitat Pompeu Fabra (2017). His research focuses on computational communication science and communication psychology research, with a special interest in text mining and social network analysis. Since July 2021, he has been a postdoctoral researcher at TU Ilmenau and will be part of the DFG-funded project "Deciphering the pandemic public sphere: Government communication, (social) media discourses on and citizens' responses to Covid-19 in Europe and the USA (DECIPHER)".

Barreto de Souza Martins, F., Yu, J., & Domahidi, E. (2023). A global health crisis with divided research traditions? A comparative review of Brazilian and international research in communication on the COVID-19 pandemic. Annals of the International Communication Association, 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1080/23808985.2023.2242817

Xu, Y., Yu, J., & Löffelholz, M. (2022). Portraying the Pandemic: Analysis of Textual-Visual Frames in German News Coverage of COVID-19 on Twitter. Journalism Practice, 1–21. https://doi.org/10.1080/17512786.2022.2058063

Banda, J. M., Tekumalla, R., Wang, G., Yu, J., Liu, T., Ding, Y., ... & Chowell, G. (2020). A large-scale COVID-19 Twitter chatter dataset for open scientific research—An international collaboration. Epidemiologia, 2(3), 315-324. https://doi.org/10.3390/epidemiologia2030024

Yu, J., & Muñoz-Justicia, J. (2020). Free and low-cost twitter research software tools for social science. Social Science Computer Review, 40(1), 124-149. https://doi.org/10.1177/0894439320904318

Yu, J., Lu, Y., & Muñoz-Justicia, J. (2020). Analyzing spanish news frames on twitter during COVID-19—A network study of El País and El Mundo. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 17(15), 5414. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph17155414

Yu, J., & Muñoz-Justicia, J. (2020). A bibliometric overview of twitter-related studies indexed in web of science. Future Internet, 12(5), 91. https://doi.org/10.3390/fi12050091

Zhou, Y., Paul, B., Malic, V., & Yu, J. (2019). Sexual behavior patterns in online sexually explicit materials: A network analysis. Quality & Quantity, 53(4), 2253-2271. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11135-019-00869-7

Barreto de Souza Martins, F., Yu, J., &  Domahidi, E. (2023, May 25-29). A Global Crisis With Divided Research Agendas? A Comparative Review of Brazilian and International Research in Communication on the Covid-19 Pandemic [Paper presentation]. International Communication Association 73rd Annual Meeting, Toronto, Canada.

Xu, Y., Yu, J., & Löffelholz, M. (2022, May 26–30). Portraying the Pandemic: Analysis of Textual-Visual Frames in German News Coverage of COVID-19 on Twitter [Paper presentation]. International Communication Association 72nd Annual Meeting, Paris, France.

Best Student Paper Award 2023 of Global Communication and Social Change Division at ICA (part of the team):

Barreto de Souza Martins, F., Yu, J., & Domahidi, E. (2023). A Global Crisis with Divided Research Agendas? A Comparative Review of Brazilian and International Research in Communication on the Covid-19 Pandemic [Paper presentation]. 73rd Annual International Communication Association Conference. Toronto, Canada.

Top Student Paper Award 2022 of Visual Communication Studies Division at ICA (part of the team):

Xu, Y., Yu, J., & Löffelholz, M. (2022, May 26–30). Portraying the Pandemic: Analysis of Textual-Visual Frames in German News Coverage of COVID-19 on Twitter [Paper presentation]. International Communication Association 72nd Annual Meeting, Paris, France.