Yangliu Fan, PhD, is a researcher at the “Digitalization and Participation” department of the Institute for Media and Communication Studies, Freie Universität Berlin. She is also a postdoctoral researcher at the research group “Digital News Dynamics“ at the Weizenbaum Institute for the Networked Society, Germany.  Before coming to Berlin, she earned her PhD in Social Data Science at the Copenhagen Center for Social Data Science (SODAS) at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark.

Winter term 2023/24:

28628 BA PuK Seminar: Networks in Online Political Communication: Theory and Concepts (co-taught with Jakob Ohme)

28629 BA PuK Seminar: Networks in Online Political Communication: Application

Research fields:

• Computational Social Science
• Science Studies
• Media Studies
• Digital Methods

Fan, Y., Blok, A., & Lehmann, S. (2024). Understanding the scholars' trajectories across scientific periodicals. Scientific Reports. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-54693-7

Fan, Y., Lehmann, S., & Blok, A. (2023). New methodologies for the digital age? How methods (re-) organize research using social media data. Quantitative Science Studies, 1-21. https://doi.org/10.1162/qss_a_00271

Fan, Y., Lehmann, S., & Blok, A. (2022). Extracting the interdisciplinary specialty structures in social media data-based research: A clustering-based network approach. Journal of Informetrics, 16(3), 101310. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joi.2022.101310