{"id":8357,"date":"2013-09-23T16:04:53","date_gmt":"2013-09-23T08:04:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cuhkmdw-dev.visibleone.dev\/peoples\/yang-tian\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T14:41:04","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T06:41:04","slug":"%e6%a5%8a%e5%a4%a9","status":"publish","type":"peoples","link":"https:\/\/cuhkmdw-dev.visibleone.dev\/zh\/people\/%e6%a5%8a%e5%a4%a9\/","title":{"rendered":"\u694a\u5929"},"content":{"rendered":"

B.E.,B.A.<\/strong>
\nTsinghua University<\/p>\n

M.A.<\/strong>
\nNational University of Singapore<\/p>\n

Ph.D.<\/strong>
\nUniversity of Pennsylvania<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":45145,"template":"","people_categories":[263],"about_nah_category":[297],"about_nah_code":[1403],"class_list":{"0":"post-8357","1":"peoples","2":"type-peoples","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"people_categories-teaching-staff-zh","7":"about_nah_category-nah-1-f-zh","8":"about_nah_code-101-zh"},"acf":{"student_chinese_name":"","full_name":"","name_with_title_prof":"\u694a\u5929","position":"\u52a9\u7406\u6559\u6388","full_position":"","project":"","content":"

Research Interests<\/span><\/h4>\r\n
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  • Digital media<\/li>\r\n \t
  • Computational social science<\/li>\r\n \t
  • Political communication<\/li>\r\n \t
  • Digital inequalities<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n \r\n

    Teaching Interests<\/span><\/h4>\r\n
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    • New media and society<\/li>\r\n \t
    • Computational social science<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n \r\n

      Advice to students<\/span><\/h4>\r\n
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      • Be serious.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n \r\n

        Professional Awards<\/span><\/h4>\r\n
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        • Top Faculty Paper Award, Political Communication Division, ICA, 2025<\/li>\r\n \t
        • Top Faculty Paper Award, Computational Methods Division, ICA, 2025<\/li>\r\n \t
        • Top Faculty Paper Award, Political Communication Division, ICA, 2024<\/li>\r\n \t
        • Top Student Paper Award, Communication Methods Division, ICA, 2022<\/li>\r\n \t
        • Top Student Paper Award, Mass Communication Division, NCA, 2018<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>","publication_list_title":"","people_publication_lists":[{"people_publication_list_title":"Publication List:","people_publication_content":"\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
          Zhang, Y., & Yang, T*. (*co-first author & corresponding author) (Online first). Beyond Algorithms: How Folk Theories of Information Homogeneity Differ from Academic Theories across the Contexts of the US and China. Information, Communication & Society<\/em>. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/1369118X.2025.2609817<\/a><\/td>\r\n\u00a0View><\/a><\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
          Wei, L., & Yang, T. (Online first). Deplatforming Donald Trump Influences Platform Migration Between Twitter and Alternative Sites. New Media & Society<\/em>. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/14614448251388993<\/a> (Corresponding author)<\/td>\r\n\u00a0View><\/a><\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
          Yang, T., Yang, X., Peng, Y., & Mukerjee, S. (2025). Are partisan, unreliable, digital-born, and mass-oriented media more likely to thrive on social media? Comparing four information ecosystems. Journal of Communication<\/em>, jqaf035. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1093\/joc\/jqaf035<\/a><\/td>\r\n\u00a0View><\/a><\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
          Yang, T., & Gonz\u00e1lez-Bail\u00f3n, S. (2025). More platforms, less attention to news? A multi-platform analysis of news exposure across TV, web, and YouTube in the United States. New Media & Society<\/em>, 1-20. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/14614448251341496<\/a><\/td>\r\n\u00a0View><\/a><\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
          Huang, S., & Yang, T. (2024). Auditing entertainment traps on YouTube: How do recommendation algorithms pull users away from news. Political Communication<\/em>, 1-19. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1080\/10584609.2024.2343769<\/a><\/td>\r\n\u00a0View><\/a><\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
          Guo, Y., Li, Y., &Yang, T. (Corresponding author) (Online first). Civilizing Social Media: The Effect of Geolocation on the Incivility of News Comments. New Media & Society<\/em>.<\/i><\/td>\r\n\u00a0View><\/a><\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
          Zhou, A.,\u00a0Yang, T.,& Gonz\u00e1lez-Bail\u00f3n, S. (Online first). The Puzzle of Misinformation: Exposure to Unreliable Information in the U.S. is Higher among the Better Informed.\u00a0New Media & Society<\/em>.<\/td>\r\n\u00a0View><\/a><\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
          Mukerjee, S.,\u00a0Yang, T., & Peng, Y. (2023). Metrics in Action: How social media metrics shape news production on Facebook.<\/i>\u00a0Journal of Communication,\u00a073<\/em>(3), 260\u2013272.<\/td>\r\n\u00a0View><\/a><\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
          Cai, W., Feng, F., Wang, Q.,\u00a0Yang, T., Liu, Z., & Xu, C. (2023). A Causal View for Item-level Effect of Recommendation on User Preference. In\u00a0Proceedings of the 16th<\/sup>\u00a0ACM International Conference on Web Search and Data Mining (WSDM 2023)<\/em>,<\/i>\u00a0Singapore.<\/td>\r\n\u00a0View><\/a><\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
          Peng, Y., Yang, T., & Fang, K. (Online first). The dark side of entertainment? How viral entertaining media build an attention base for the far-right politics of The Epoch Times. New Media & Society<\/em>, 1-22. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/14614448231205893<\/a><\/td>\r\n\u00a0View><\/a><\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
          Huang, S., & Yang, T.(co-first author) (2022). No Trade-offs between Online News and Entertainment: Evidence from Online Engagement Data. New Media & Society<\/em>.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
          Mukerjee, S., Yang, T., Stadler, G., & Gonz\u00e1lez-Bail\u00f3n, S. (2022). What Counts as a Weak Tie? A Comparison of Filtering Techniques to Analyze Co-Exposure Networks. Social Networks<\/em>, 68, 386\u2013393.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
          Yang, T., Ticona, J., & Lelkes, Y. (2021). Policing the Digital Divide: Institutional Gate-keeping & Criminalizing Digital Inclusion. Journal of Communicatio<\/em>n, 71(4), 572\u2013597.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
          Yang, T., & Fang, K. (2021). How Dark Corners Collude: A Study on an Online Chinese Alt-Right Community. Information, Communication & Society<\/em>.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
          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<\/em>.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
          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)<\/em>, Yokohama, Japan.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
          Yang, T., Wang, Y., & Zhang, W. (2021). Effects of Knowledge and Reflection in Intrapersonal Deliberation. Journal of Deliberative Democracy<\/em>, 17(1), 134\u2013148.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
          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<\/em>, 38(3), 222\u2013240.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
          Yang, T., Maj\u00f3-V\u00e1zquez, S., Nielsen, R., & Gonz\u00e1lez-Bail\u00f3n, S. (2020). Exposure to News Grows less Fragmented with Increase in Mobile Access. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences<\/em>, 117(46), 28678\u201328683.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
          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<\/em>.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n
          Zhang, W., & Yang, T. (2020). The Interaction between Perceived Procedural Fairness and Perceived Disagreement in Deliberation. Acta Politica<\/em>, 55(2), 199\u2013220.<\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table>"}]},"yoast_head":"\n\u694a\u5929 - CUHK<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cuhkmdw-dev.visibleone.dev\/zh\/people\/\u694a\u5929\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"zh_TW\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"\u694a\u5929 - CUHK\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"B.E.,B.A. Tsinghua University M.A. National University of Singapore Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/cuhkmdw-dev.visibleone.dev\/zh\/people\/\u694a\u5929\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"CUHK\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/cuhkcom\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2026-02-03T06:41:04+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/cuhkmdw-dev.visibleone.dev\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/yangTian.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"350\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"645\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cuhkmdw-dev.visibleone.dev\\\/zh\\\/people\\\/%e6%a5%8a%e5%a4%a9\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/cuhkmdw-dev.visibleone.dev\\\/zh\\\/people\\\/%e6%a5%8a%e5%a4%a9\\\/\",\"name\":\"\u694a\u5929 - 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