Tian Yang
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3675440 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Tian Yang |
| PRENOMES | Tian |
| SOBRENOME | Yang |
| ASSINATURA | YANG T |
| AFILIAÇÕES | The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7254-2584 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 39 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 34 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 39 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2020 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
Disentangling the Three Facets of Mass Ideological Polarization
Public opinion research has intensively examined mass ideological polarization, often linking it to outcomes that threaten key democratic ideals. Both theory and empirical evidence suggest that it comprises multiple manifestations, with their relationships, however, remaining largely unclear. Meanwhile, previous studies have seldom conducted cross-contextual comparisons, which are essential for understanding how macrostructural factors shape mass…
Bricolage and proximity tourism in regional revitalization
Purpose This study aims to examine how bricolage and proximity tourism intersect to advance regional revitalization through cultural asset regeneration. Focusing on the Yuejin Lantern Festival (YLF) in Tainan, Taiwan, it explores how local actors mobilize heritage, creativity and limited resources to stimulate economic and social renewal. Design/methodology/approach A qualitative case study design integrates document analysis, semi-structured int…
Environmental pollution reduction effect of urban land transition in the three major urban agglomerations of the Yangtze River Economic Belt in China
Land use transition is an essential approach to understanding human-land relationships. Understanding the mechanism of urban land transition (ULT) in relation to environmental pollution is vital within the context of China’s urbanization, though relevant research is limited. Therefore, this study expands the framework of ULT’s environmental effects based on land use transition theory and systematically analyzes the impact mechanisms of ULT on env…
Synergizing Economic Growth and Environmental Sustainability
Urban Land Agglomeration (ULA) is continuously reshaping the way of urban spatial growth, emerging as a crucial pathway to balance economic growth and environmental sustainability. However, such economic‐environmental synergies remain unclear, posing challenges to sustainable urban development. This study, using panel data from China's Yangtze River Delta urban agglomeration (2006–2020), introduces the fixed effect panel regression model, mediati…
Impact of Construction Land Transition on Staple Crop Diversity in China
Construction land transition (CLT) under rapid urbanization persistently alters regional land‐use patterns, significantly affecting cropland allocation and agricultural production structures. As a critical indicator of safeguarding food security, staple crop diversity (SCD) is both essential for preserving biodiversity and for balancing its relationship with sustainable urbanization, yet its impact by CLT has been overlooked. To address this gap,…
Multidimensional dynamics of construction land transition
How Social Media Metrics Shape News Production
Audience engagement signals on social media platforms have shaped how media outlets produce news. Mukerjee et al. examined this phenomenon empirically by estimating the extent to which media outlets respond to audience engagement signals on Facebook in deciding what news to publish on the platform. However, the extent to which their findings can be generalized to other social media platforms remains unknown. We replicate their study on Twitter us…
Are partisan, unreliable, digital-born, and mass-oriented media more likely to thrive on social media? Comparing four information ecosystems
Social media platforms form information ecosystems distinct from the Web and reconfigure power relationships, especially the distribution of visibilities, among news media. We developed a theoretical framework based on structuration theory to explain the differences between the Web and social media, and investigated four prominent factors: institutional legacy, information reliability, ideological differences, and news inequalities. This study co…
Declining Urban–Rural Population Densities
The decline in urban–rural population density (URPD) has consistently characterized China's rapid urbanization. Analyzing the spatiotemporal trends in URPD and their effects on habitats within the context of China's ecological civilization is crucial. However, quantitative studies on the decline in URPD are lacking, and the impact on natural habitats remains unclear. Therefore, using population census and land‐use data, we analyzed the spatiotemp…
Quality and reliability of pediatric pneumonia related short videos on mainstream platforms
The overall quality of video content on the three platforms Bilibili, TikTok, and Kwai is average, with low reliability, among which Bilibili's video quality and reliability are higher than the other two platforms. Meanwhile, videos published by medical professionals have better quality and higher reliability
Deplatforming Donald Trump influences platform migration between Twitter and alternative sites
Social media platforms have removed influential users for violating platform rules. While this intervention reduces harmful content on the platform, deplatforming high-profile figures may prompt general users to migrate to alternative domains, where they can continue to engage with inappropriate communication. Utilizing web tracking data from 12,400 US Twitter users, we showed that after Twitter deplatformed Donald Trump, users had no immediate c…
More platforms, less attention to news? A multi-platform analysis of news exposure across TV, web, and YouTube in the United States
We gain exposure to news across a range of platforms and, within each platform, across a range of sources. How does a multi-platform media environment shape the news choices we make and the gaps that result from those choices? We address this question tracking news exposure across TV, the web, and YouTube for approximately 55,000 unique US panelists over a period of 39 months. We find important variations in the demographic profiles of those who …
Implementing ICT for Supporting Learning? A Case Study of an ICT-Exemplary Kindergarten in Urban China
This study employs a qualitative case study approach to investigate the Information and Communication Technology (ICT) implementation in an exemplary kindergarten in urban China. It examines how the urban kindergarten collaborates with ICT companies to create learning environments such as Smart-pad and motion sensing rooms for children, and how educators’ practices are influenced by decision-making by principals. Findings indicate that such partn…
Construction and application of knowledge graph in digital humanities
This study utilizes Knowledge Graph (KG) technology, taking Qiaoxiang Memory Heritage “Gu Zhai Yue Kan” and “Guang Yu Yue Bao” as examples, to analyze the contributions of overseas Chinese to the development of their hometown. By integrating multisource heterogeneous data, constructing datasets, and mining deep information, the practicality and efficiency of KG in managing Qiaoxiang Memory Heritage (Qiaokan) data are verified. KG not only provide…
Distinct time trends in colorectal cancer incidence in countries with SDI levels from 1990 to 2019
Introduction The burden of colorectal cancer (CRC) plays a pivotal role in the global cancer epidemic. Our study reported the incidence trends in CRC and the associated effects of age, period, and birth cohort in 204 countries and territories over the past 30 years. Methods The incidence data of CRC were extracted from the Global Burden of Disease Study (GBD) 2019. We performed the age–period–cohort (APC) model to estimate the overall annual perc…
The Educational Technology Divide in Glocalisation
Research Findings: With individuals’ increased access to information and communication technologies (ICT) in many places around the world, the definition of the digital divide has become more complicated than referring to differences in accessing technologies. As early childhood education (ECE) may impact children’s life-long learning and development, digital divides may cause differences in how individual children experience technology-related l…
An exploration of kindergarten gratitude education during the Covid-19 pandemic in China / Una exploración de la enseñanza de la gratitud en la Educación Infantil en China durante la pandemia de Covid…
Gratitude is a moral virtue that is valued by many cultures, including the Chinese culture. While the COVID-19 pandemic has affected children’s lives, many Chinese early childhood practitioners argue that the crisis offers a rewarding opportunity for gratitude education. However, empirical studies that reveal practices regarding gratitude education in kindergartens in China are rare. Framed by the sociocultural perspective and Confucianism, this …
Integrating multi-source data to assess land subsidence sensitivity and management policies
Auditing Entertainment Traps on YouTube
Recommendation algorithms that customize information feeds for individuals have raised concerns about exacerbating inequalities in news exposure among citizens. In response to these concerns, we conducted an audit study on YouTube to analyze the algorithmic impact on curating news versus other content topics. We examined over 1.7 million YouTube video recommendations audited in 2019 and developed novel analysis approaches including network analys…
Metrics in action
Social media metrics allow media outlets to get a granular, real-time understanding of audience preferences, and may therefore be used to decide what content to prioritize in the future. We test this mechanism in the context of Facebook, by using topic modeling and longitudinal data analysis on a large dataset comprising all posts published by major media outlets used by American citizens (N≈2.23M, 2015–2019). We find that while the overall effec…
Low vaccination and infection rate of Omicron in patients with inflammatory bowel disease
Background The SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant caused a large-scale outbreak of COVID-19 in Shanghai, China. Patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) are at high risk of infection due to immunosuppressive interventions. We aimed to investigate the vaccination information of patients with IBD and update a vaccination guide based on a comparison of vaccination in asymptomatic carriers and healthy individuals. Methods This retrospective study was c…
An Ecological Investigation of Kindergarten-Oriented Educational Practice during the Initial Covid-19 Class Suspension in China
Research Findings: Given that kindergartens are essential in sustaining children’s education during the COVID-19 lockdown, this study investigates kindergarten-oriented educational practice during the initial class suspension (February–June 2020) in China. Articles published via twenty Chinese kindergartens’ WeChat official subscription accounts during this period and relevant policy documents were collected and analyzed. This study found that du…
How dark corners collude
The rise of the ‘alt-right’ (alternative right) and their communications on the Internet are not unique to the West. This study follows a mixed-methods approach combining topic modeling, social network analysis, and discourse analysis to analyze the discursive and network structure of an online Chinese alt-right community on Weibo. We summarize the topics Chinese alt-right influencers discuss and examine how these topics are interrelated. We find…
Generalisability and potential deaths averted from intensive blood pressure treatment among the elderly population in the US and China
Background: The Systolic Blood Pressure Intervention Trial (SPRINT) from the US and the Strategy of Blood Pressure Intervention in the Elderly Hypertensive Patients (STEP) trial from China have consistently demonstrated clinical benefits from intensive blood pressure (BP) treatment among elderly adults with hypertension. However, we have little data on the generalisability and potential implications of a scale-up of intensive BP treatment to all …
Civilizing social media
Many social media affordances can affect the quality of online discourse, but such an effect remains understudied for the visibility of geolocation, which is available on most social media platforms. We looked at the event in which Weibo started to display users’ IP locations on 28 April 2022, which was supposed to reduce incivility as the deindividuation hypothesis predicted. Leveraging a natural experiment, we examined the effect of IP location…
Choosing to Avoid? A Conjoint Experimental Study to Understand Selective Exposure and Avoidance on Social Media
Social media platforms provide multiple affordances, which convey several cues to guide users in making decisions about which news to consume. Traditional factorial designs have failed to experimentally study the effects of multiple, simultaneous cues operating on social media. As a result, there is little consensus in the literature about their exact effects on news choice. In this study, we use a conjoint experimental design to examine how sour…
Civilizing social media
Many social media affordances can affect the quality of online discourse, but such an effect remains understudied for the visibility of geolocation, which is available on most social media platforms. We looked at the event in which Weibo started to display users’ IP locations on 28 April 2022, which was supposed to reduce incivility as the deindividuation hypothesis predicted. Leveraging a natural experiment, we examined the effect of IP location…
Anatomy of audience duplication networks
While partisan selective exposure could drive audience fragmentation, other individual factors might also differentiate news diets. This study applies a method that disentangles the differential contributions of the individual characteristics to audience duplication networks. By analyzing a nationally representative survey about US adults’ media use in 2019 ( N = 12,043), we demonstrate that news fragmentation is driven by a myriad of individual …
Auditing Entertainment Traps on YouTube
Recommendation algorithms that customize information feeds for individuals have raised concerns about exacerbating inequalities in news exposure among citizens. In response to these concerns, we conducted an audit study on YouTube to analyze the algorithmic impact on curating news versus other content topics. We examined over 1.7 million YouTube video recommendations audited in 2019 and developed novel analysis approaches including network analys…
The dark side of entertainment? How viral entertaining media build an attention base for the far-right politics of The Epoch Times
To amplify their audience reach, far-right outlets need a calculated and coordinated array of acts to set the stage for audience attention and to build a communication network that spreads their messages. We examined the Facebook newsfeed history of The Epoch Times ( N = 117,274 posts from 2013 to 2020), which transitioned from a niche anti-China publication to an influential player in US far-right politics. We found that US partisan issues helpe…
Transnational labour contractor regime in the China-Myanmar borderland
We investigate the labour regime of an agricultural sector in the China-Myanmar borderland. The extant literature on labour generally stresses the hyper-precarity of workers, especially migrant workers. Our case study of the sugar cane cutting industry in Dragon Village, Yunnan Province, suggests that contractors who hire workers from Myanmar are also in a state of hyper-precarity which is shaped by multiple layers of socio-economic and politico-…
The puzzle of misinformation
Healthy news consumption requires limited exposure to unreliable content and ideological diversity in the sources consumed. There are two challenges to this normative expectation: the prevalence of unreliable content online; and the prominence of misinformation within individual news diets. Here, we assess these challenges using an observational panel tracking the browsing behavior of N ≈ 140,000 individuals in the United States for 12 months (Ja…
No trade-offs between news and entertainment
In today’s high-choice media environment, some scholars are concerned that people selectively consume media content based on personal interests and avoid others, which might lead to audience fragmentation across different content genres. Individually, there might be trade-offs between those genres, especially entertainment versus news. This study analyzed a large user engagement dataset (~40,000 users’ comments) collected from the Chinese informa…
What counts as a weak tie? A comparison of filtering techniques to analyze co-exposure networks
The interaction between perceived procedural fairness and perceived disagreement in deliberation
The interaction between perceived procedural fairness and perceived disagreement in deliberation
Effects of Knowledge and Reflection in Intrapersonal Deliberation
Deliberation is not a black box. In this paper, we look at intrapersonal deliberation, a process different from interpersonal deliberation. In particular, we examine two variables, i.e. knowledge access and reflection, looking at their effects on attitudes, attitude certainty, and willingness to express opinions. A between-subjects 2×2 factorial experimental study (N = 83) shows that both knowledge access and reflection could serve as 'double-edg…
Policing the Digital Divide
Previous studies generally assume that barriers to internet access are largely passive. That is, exclusion from the Internet is a consequence of poorly resourced individuals, communities, and institutions. This study complicates that assumption by focusing on the active policing and gatekeeping of internet access. Specifically, we estimate the causal effect of free Wi-Fi at chain restaurants on quality-of-life crime reporting by leveraging a stag…
Anatomy of audience duplication networks
While partisan selective exposure could drive audience fragmentation, other individual factors might also differentiate news diets. This study applies a method that disentangles the differential contributions of the individual characteristics to audience duplication networks. By analyzing a nationally representative survey about US adults’ media use in 2019 ( N = 12,043), we demonstrate that news fragmentation is driven by a myriad of individual …
Choosing to Avoid? A Conjoint Experimental Study to Understand Selective Exposure and Avoidance on Social Media
Social media platforms provide multiple affordances, which convey several cues to guide users in making decisions about which news to consume. Traditional factorial designs have failed to experimentally study the effects of multiple, simultaneous cues operating on social media. As a result, there is little consensus in the literature about their exact effects on news choice. In this study, we use a conjoint experimental design to examine how sour…
Intergenerational differences in the urban vibrancy of TOD
Transit-oriented development (TOD) has been regarded as an effective way to improve urban vibrancy and facilitate affordable, equitable, and livable communities in metro station areas (MSAs). Previous studies placed great attention on the interplay between the MSA-level built environment and overall human activities while neglecting the heterogeneity among different age groups. To address this gap, we leverage the mobile phone signaling data to q…
The use of information and communication technology in pedagogical documentation
Pedagogical documentation has been regarded as an important practice in early childhood education (ECE) settings because it provides an opportunity to observe children’s learning and help teachers plan for learning experiences. This article focuses on teachers’ use of information and communication technology (ICT) in pedagogical documentation in an under-researched context. A qualitative study was conducted in three kindergartens in Nanjing, Chin…
The Importance of Trending Topics in the Gatekeeping of Social Media News Engagement
Digital gatekeepers have greatly shaped the gatekeeping process of news consumption and news engagement, but how digital gatekeepers work is understudied. This study focuses on one example of digital gatekeepers, trending topics on social media, which aggregate the most popular search terms and present them to the public. We utilize a natural experiment on Weibo by analyzing user engagement data of 36,239 posts in three consecutive weeks, during …
English in the Philippines from the Perspective of Linguistic Imperialism
This essay analyses English linguistic imperialism (Phillipson, 1992, 46) in the Philippines and identifies the features of linguistic neo-imperialism in the current era. The study rethinks and investigates how English linguistic imperialism plays a dual role in promoting and destroying the Filipino linguistic ecology. The present situation of English imperialism analyzed in this essay shows that the new stage of English linguistic imperialism em…
No trade-offs between news and entertainment
In today’s high-choice media environment, some scholars are concerned that people selectively consume media content based on personal interests and avoid others, which might lead to audience fragmentation across different content genres. Individually, there might be trade-offs between those genres, especially entertainment versus news. This study analyzed a large user engagement dataset (~40,000 users’ comments) collected from the Chinese informa…
Transnational labour contractor regime in the China-Myanmar borderland
We investigate the labour regime of an agricultural sector in the China-Myanmar borderland. The extant literature on labour generally stresses the hyper-precarity of workers, especially migrant workers. Our case study of the sugar cane cutting industry in Dragon Village, Yunnan Province, suggests that contractors who hire workers from Myanmar are also in a state of hyper-precarity which is shaped by multiple layers of socio-economic and politico-…
What counts as a weak tie? A comparison of filtering techniques to analyze co-exposure networks
Metrics in action
Social media metrics allow media outlets to get a granular, real-time understanding of audience preferences, and may therefore be used to decide what content to prioritize in the future. We test this mechanism in the context of Facebook, by using topic modeling and longitudinal data analysis on a large dataset comprising all posts published by major media outlets used by American citizens (N≈2.23M, 2015–2019). We find that while the overall effec…
Low vaccination and infection rate of Omicron in patients with inflammatory bowel disease
Background The SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant caused a large-scale outbreak of COVID-19 in Shanghai, China. Patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) are at high risk of infection due to immunosuppressive interventions. We aimed to investigate the vaccination information of patients with IBD and update a vaccination guide based on a comparison of vaccination in asymptomatic carriers and healthy individuals. Methods This retrospective study was c…
An Ecological Investigation of Kindergarten-Oriented Educational Practice during the Initial Covid-19 Class Suspension in China
Research Findings: Given that kindergartens are essential in sustaining children’s education during the COVID-19 lockdown, this study investigates kindergarten-oriented educational practice during the initial class suspension (February–June 2020) in China. Articles published via twenty Chinese kindergartens’ WeChat official subscription accounts during this period and relevant policy documents were collected and analyzed. This study found that du…
How dark corners collude
The rise of the ‘alt-right’ (alternative right) and their communications on the Internet are not unique to the West. This study follows a mixed-methods approach combining topic modeling, social network analysis, and discourse analysis to analyze the discursive and network structure of an online Chinese alt-right community on Weibo. We summarize the topics Chinese alt-right influencers discuss and examine how these topics are interrelated. We find…
Generalisability and potential deaths averted from intensive blood pressure treatment among the elderly population in the US and China
Background: The Systolic Blood Pressure Intervention Trial (SPRINT) from the US and the Strategy of Blood Pressure Intervention in the Elderly Hypertensive Patients (STEP) trial from China have consistently demonstrated clinical benefits from intensive blood pressure (BP) treatment among elderly adults with hypertension. However, we have little data on the generalisability and potential implications of a scale-up of intensive BP treatment to all …
Civilizing social media
Many social media affordances can affect the quality of online discourse, but such an effect remains understudied for the visibility of geolocation, which is available on most social media platforms. We looked at the event in which Weibo started to display users’ IP locations on 28 April 2022, which was supposed to reduce incivility as the deindividuation hypothesis predicted. Leveraging a natural experiment, we examined the effect of IP location…
The dark side of entertainment? How viral entertaining media build an attention base for the far-right politics of The Epoch Times
To amplify their audience reach, far-right outlets need a calculated and coordinated array of acts to set the stage for audience attention and to build a communication network that spreads their messages. We examined the Facebook newsfeed history of The Epoch Times ( N = 117,274 posts from 2013 to 2020), which transitioned from a niche anti-China publication to an influential player in US far-right politics. We found that US partisan issues helpe…
The puzzle of misinformation
Healthy news consumption requires limited exposure to unreliable content and ideological diversity in the sources consumed. There are two challenges to this normative expectation: the prevalence of unreliable content online; and the prominence of misinformation within individual news diets. Here, we assess these challenges using an observational panel tracking the browsing behavior of N ≈ 140,000 individuals in the United States for 12 months (Ja…
Distinct time trends in colorectal cancer incidence in countries with SDI levels from 1990 to 2019
Introduction The burden of colorectal cancer (CRC) plays a pivotal role in the global cancer epidemic. Our study reported the incidence trends in CRC and the associated effects of age, period, and birth cohort in 204 countries and territories over the past 30 years. Methods The incidence data of CRC were extracted from the Global Burden of Disease Study (GBD) 2019. We performed the age–period–cohort (APC) model to estimate the overall annual perc…
The Educational Technology Divide in Glocalisation
Research Findings: With individuals’ increased access to information and communication technologies (ICT) in many places around the world, the definition of the digital divide has become more complicated than referring to differences in accessing technologies. As early childhood education (ECE) may impact children’s life-long learning and development, digital divides may cause differences in how individual children experience technology-related l…
An exploration of kindergarten gratitude education during the Covid-19 pandemic in China / Una exploración de la enseñanza de la gratitud en la Educación Infantil en China durante la pandemia de Covid…
Gratitude is a moral virtue that is valued by many cultures, including the Chinese culture. While the COVID-19 pandemic has affected children’s lives, many Chinese early childhood practitioners argue that the crisis offers a rewarding opportunity for gratitude education. However, empirical studies that reveal practices regarding gratitude education in kindergartens in China are rare. Framed by the sociocultural perspective and Confucianism, this …
Integrating multi-source data to assess land subsidence sensitivity and management policies
Auditing Entertainment Traps on YouTube
Recommendation algorithms that customize information feeds for individuals have raised concerns about exacerbating inequalities in news exposure among citizens. In response to these concerns, we conducted an audit study on YouTube to analyze the algorithmic impact on curating news versus other content topics. We examined over 1.7 million YouTube video recommendations audited in 2019 and developed novel analysis approaches including network analys…
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