Representative Achievements
Book Chapter
Yan, P. (forthcoming in 2022) Internet policy and smart city in China. Handbook of Public Policy and the Internet. Edward Elgar publishing
Yan, P. (forthcoming in 2021) Social theory and the internet in everyday life. Research Handbook on Digital Sociology. Edward Elgar publishing
Journal publications (* indicates correspondent authorship)
Yan, P*. (2021). ‘Fed with the Wrong Stuff’: Information Overload (?) and the Everyday Use of the Internet in Rural and Urban China. International Communication Gazette. 83(5), pp. 404-427. https://doi.org/10.1177/17480485211029019
Yan, P*. Schroeder, R. (2021). Grassroots information divides in China: Theorising everyday information practices in the Global South.Telematics and Informatics,https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tele.2021.101665
Yan, P, Schroeder, R*. & Sebastian, S. (2021). Is there a link between climate chanhttps://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v25i7.10844ope and the US. Information, Communication & Society, https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2020.1864005
Robinson, L., ...Yan, P....et al. (2020). Digital inequalities 3.0: Emergent inequalities in the information age. First Monday. 25. https://doi.org/10.5210/fm.v25i7.10844
Robinson, L., ...Yan, P....et al. (2020). Digital Inequalities 2.0: Legacy Inequalities in the Information Age. First Monday. 25https://doi.org/10.1177/2050157919884718
Yan, P.& Schroeder, R*. (2019). Variations in the adoption and use of mobile social apps in everyday lives in urban and rural China. Mobile Media & Communication, 8(3), pp. 318–341. https://doi.org/10.1177/2050157919884718
Yan, P*. (2019). Information Bridges: Understanding the Informational Role of Network Brokerages in Polarised https://doi.org/10.3389/fdigh.2017.00011ian-Lamb C., Martin M., Nardi B. (eds) Information in Contemporary Society. iConference 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 11420. Springer
Yan, P.&Yasseri, T*. (2017). Two Diverging Roads: A Semantic Network Analysis of Chinese Social Connection (“Guanxi”) on Twitter. Frontiers. Digital Humanities. 4:11. https://doi.org/10.3389/fdigh.2017.00011
Journal papers under review
Mishra, M, Yan, P., & Schroeder, R. TikTok Politics: Tit for Tat on the India-China Cyberspace Frontier
Yan, P., Schroeder, R., & Sebastian, Stier. Populism, cosmopolitanism, and globalization: A comparison between the US and Germany
Yan, P., Schroeder, R., & Sebastian, Stier. Drifting away from the mainstream: Media attention and the politics of hyperpartisan news websites
Journal articles in progress
Yan, P. The Space of Attention for News: A Similarity Network of Website Visits
Yan, P. “Living in the Era of Attention-Grabbing Designs”: Misinformation, Media, and the Use of the Internet in China. [Thesis chapter]
Yan, P. Information Needs and Information Seeking Practices among Chinese Internet Users. [Thesis chapter]
Book review and policy papers
Yan, P. & Mishra, M. (2o21).How TikTok shapes the attention economy in China and India. IT4Change
Yan, P. (2020) Payal Arora, The Next Billion Users: Digital Life Beyond the West. International Sociology, 35(2), 231-234
Yan, P. (2019) The Public-Private Partnership (PPP) Model in The Development of E-Commerce and Digital Skill Trainings in Rural China. Pathways for Prosperity. Blavatnik School of Government, U of Oxford
Fu, X. &Yan, P. (2017) Issues Paper on Building digital competencies to benefit from existing and emerging technologies with special focus on gender and youth dimensions. Prepared for the UNCTAD Secretariat Meeting
Non-peer-reviewed publications
Yan, P. (2019). “Chinese Pastoral”: What happens when town and country collide. LOGIC Magazine. 2019(7)
Yan, P. (2016). More than Simply Access: Literature Review on the Social Science Research of the Rural Internet. China Internet
Yan, P. (2016). Observing Human Behaviours: Opportunities and Challenges in Social Media Studies. China Statistics
