Yangliu Fan, Ph.D., ist wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin an der Arbeitsstelle „Digitalisierung und Partizipation“ am IfPuK der Freien Universität Berlin. Zudem ist sie als Postdoktorandin in der Forschungsgruppe “Digital News Dynamics” am Weizenbaum-Institut für die vernetzte Gesellschaft tätig.
Bevor sie nach Berlin kam, promovierte sie in Social Data Science am “Center for Social Data Science” (SODAS) an der Universität Kopenhagen in Dänemark.

Sommersemester 2026

28842 Advanced Seminar: Diagnosing structures of division: concepts and measures of political polarization

Sommeresemester 2025

28848 Advanced Seminar: Structures of division: Political polarization in different contexts 

28871 Advanced Seminar: Comparing networked public spheres during election campaigns in different countries 

Wintersemester 2023/24:
28628 BA PuK Seminar: Networks in Online Political Communication: Theory and Concepts (gemeinsam mit Jakob Ohme)

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

Forschungsschwerpunkte:

• computergestützte Sozialwissenschaft
• Wissenschaftsforschung
• Medienwissenschaft
• Digitale Forschungsmethoden

• Ohme, J., Mayer, A. T., Charlton-Czaplicki, T., Gaisbauer, F., Wedel, L., Fan, Y., & Neuberger, C. (2026). D [X] IM-the Dynamic Intermediary Model of communicative transaction on digital platforms in a networked public sphere. Communication Theory, 36(1), 12-23. https://doi.org/10.1093/ct/qtaf025

• Wedel, L., Ohme, J., Mayer, A. T., Gaisbauer, F., & Fan, Y. (2026). The platform matters: cross-platform differences in data donation willingness, behavior, and bias. Communication Methods and Measures, 1-25. https://doi.org/10.1080/19312458.2025.2605946

• Fan, Y., Buehling, K., & Stocker, V. (2025). Beyond Citations: Measuring Idea-level Knowledge Diffusion from Research to Journalism and Policy-making. arXiv preprint arXiv:2511.03378. https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.03378

• Fan, Y., Ohme, J., & Neuberger, C. (2025). Digital Turn Without Digital Methods? Mapping the Journey of Journalism Studies. Digital Journalism, 1–27. https://doi.org/10.1080/21670811.2025.2480106

• 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