Wenjie Yan（闫文捷）

Professor

School of Journalism and Communication, Beijing Normal University.

PROFILE

Wenjie Yan is a Professor of Political Communication in the School of Journalism and Communication at Beijing Normal University. She received her Ph.D. in Communication Science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her research is focused on the interplay between media and individuals’ communicative behaviors in the process broadly construed as public deliberation.

Her work has appeared in top-tier journals in communication such as Information, Communication & Society, Media Psychology, Computers in Human Behavior, and other journals. She is the Harvard-Yenching Institute Visiting Scholar, Zhijiang Young Scholar of Zhejiang Province, and the Sixth Tone Fellow. She was also the recipient of several national academic awards, including Journalism & Communication Paper of the Year Award (2020), National Journalism and Communication Outstanding Paper Award (2021) , and the Journalism and Communication Association Award (2019, 2021) for her research on deliberative governance in China.

Before joining BNU, she was a “Hundred Talents Program” Associate Professor in the College of Media and International Culture at Zhejiang University, and Assistant Professor in the Edward R. Murrow College of Communication at Washington State University.

For more information, please check out her homepage: https://wenjieyan.wixsite.com/homepage

CONTACT

Address: School of Journalism and Communication, Beijing Normal University,

Room 9307, 19 Xin Jie Kou Wai Ave., Haidian District, Beijing, 100875, China

RESEARCH INTERESTS

Public deliberation, Deliberative governance, Public opinion, New media and politics

TEACHING INTERESTS

Communication theory, Social science research methods

COURSES TAUGHT

Beijing Normal University：

·      Frontiers in Social Science Theories (Graduate course)

·      Digital Media and Public Life (Graduate course)

·      Communication Theory (Graduate course)

·      Quantitative Research Methods (Graduate course)

·      Group Communication：Theory and Practice

·      Media and Human Behavior

Zhejiang University：

·      Quantitative Social Science Research Methods (Graduate course)

·      Communication Theory (Graduate course)

Washington State University：

·      ComSoc230, Principles of Group Communication

·      ComSoc301, Foundations of Persuasion

·      ComSoc326, Organizing for Social Change

·      Com550, Media Processes and Effects: Theory and Practice (Graduate course)

·      Com573, Media and Public Discourse (Graduate course)

University of Wisconsin-Madison:

·      CA266, Theory and Practice of Group Discussion

·      CA272, Interpersonal Communication

·      CA325, Mass Media and Human Behavior

·      CA361, Introduction to Quantitative Communication Research

PUBLICATIONS

1.     Translated Books:

·      Yan, W. (Transl.) (2022). Journalism and the public. Communication University of China Press.

·      Yan, W. (Transl.) (2021). Habermas and the media. Communication University of China Press.

2.     Selected Journal Articles:

·      Yan, W., & Pan, Z. (2023). Believing and sharing false news on social media: The role of news presentation, epistemic motives, and deliberative thinking. Media Psychology, 00(0), 1–24. DOI: 10.1080/15213269.2023.2208363

·      Ma, Y., Hmielowski, J., & Yan, W. (2021). Clearing the smog? Examining the relationship between traditional media versus nontraditional Internet-based media on risk information seeking in China. International Journal of Communication, 15, 4208–4229.

·      Lee, Y., & Yan, W. (2020). The role of interdependent self-value and opinion climate in promoting online discussion. Computers in Human Behavior, 103, 226–235.

·      Sun, Y., & Yan, W. (2020). The power of data from the Global South: Environmental civic tech and data activism in China. International Journal of Communication, 14, 2144–2162.

·      Yan, W. (2018). Where is the deliberative turn going? —A survey study of the impacts of public consultation and deliberation in China. International Journal of Communication, 12, 2661–2682.

·      Yan, W., Sivakumar, G., & Xenos, M. A. (2018). It’s not cricket: Examining political discussion in nonpolitical online space. Information, Communication & Society, 21(11), 1571–1587.

PROJECTS AND GRANTS

·      National Social Science Fund of China (PI). Project Title: Cross-national Comparative Research on the Influence of Media Systems on Social Trust.

·      Beijing Social Science Planning Foundation (PI). Project Title: Misinformation on Social Media and Its Governance.

·      Zhejiang Philosophy and Social Science Planning Fund (PI). Project Title: Innovations in Public Communication and Its Impacts in Grassroots Social Governance.