Yangliu Fan

Biographic Data

ID4617034
NAMEYangliu Fan
GIVEN NAMESYangliu
FAMILY NAMEFan
SIGNATUREFAN Y
AFFILIATIONSWeizenbaum Institute
ORCID0000-0003-3217-0648
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS5
TOTAL CITATIONS1
WORKS AS AUTHOR5
WORKS AS EDITOR0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2023
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX1

  • Exploring temporal dynamics in digital trace data

    Open AccessYangliu Fan, Jakob Ohme et al.ARTICLECommunication Methods and Measures2026

    Communication is commonly considered a process that is dynamically situated in a temporal context. However, there remains a disconnection between this theoretical dynamicality and the often less dynamic methods that communication scholars use to study it. Given the increasing accessibility of digital trace data, this study provides a methodological overview of how such fine-grained temporal information can be used in communication research. In pa…

  • Digital Turn Without Digital Methods? Mapping the Journey of Journalism Studies

    Open AccessYangliu Fan, Jakob Ohme et al.ARTICLEDigital Journalism2025

    Recent years have seen a growing diversity in journalism studies, primarily ascribed to digital transformation in the contemporary context. Analyzing 6,770 publications from the five major journalism journals—Journalism, Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, Journalism Practice, Journalism Studies, and Digital Journalism—between 1995 and 2022, we find new evidence that the digital turn is highly visible in journalism studies. Using document …

  • The platform matters

    Open AccessLion Wedel, Jakob Ohme et al.ARTICLECommunication Methods and Measures2025References: 14

    Data donations are a method to access user-level digital trace data, as they provide fine-grained measures of content exposure on social media. The interest in data donation as a data collection method is accompanied by a broad uncertainty about the reasons that drive the donation of data by users. The current literature lacks comparative analysis across various platforms. This study investigates platform-specific predictors for data donation beh…

  • D[X]IM—the Dynamic Intermediary Model of communicative transaction on digital platforms in a networked public sphere

    Open AccessJakob Ohme, Anna-Theresa Mayer et al.ARTICLECommunication Theory2025Cited by: 1References: 10

    This study introduces the Dynamic Intermediary Model (D[X]IM) to address how knowledge processes have evolved with digital platforms by shifting from a dyadic to a triadic communication model of content flow with a potential intermediary. This intermediary, which can be a journalist, influencer, artificial agent, or another platform actor, provides services to the source and recipient of a message, thereby transforming traditional direct communic…

  • New methodologies for the digital age? How methods (re-)organize research using social media data

    Open AccessYangliu Fan, Lehmann et al.ARTICLEQuantitative Science Studies2023

    As “big and broad” social media data continues to expand and become a more prevalent source for research, much remains to be understood about its epistemological and methodological implications. Drawing on an original data set of 12,732 research articles using social media data, we employ a novel dictionary-based approach to map the use of methods. Specifically, our approach draws on a combination of manual coding and embedding-enhanced query exp…