Xiaoya Yang

Xiaoya Yang studies media culture in contemporary China, with interests in health communication and media history. She adopts mixed-methods to explore online public narratives and how they make sense of digital environments and technological change.

Xiaoya Yang is a visiting Ph.D. student at the Center on Digital Culture and Society, University of Pennsylvania, and a Ph.D. candidate in the School of Journalism and Communication at Wuhan University. Her research focuses on media culture in contemporary China, with particular attention to the intersections of gender, health, and culture in digital environments. She also engages with media history, especially Chinese internet history and media memory. Methodologically, she employs mixed-methods approaches, with current interest especially on historical and cultural approaches, to generate understandings of mediated experiences in China.