Publication - Yukun Yang

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Critical / Conceptual Empirical Quantitative Qualitative

Peer-reviewed journal papers

11 publications

Yang, Y., & Taylor, Z. A. (2026). #NationalityofMen: The gamification of racialized attractiveness as entertainment laundering on TikTok. New Media & Society. https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448261456237.
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Yang, Y., & Clark, M. D. (2026). “Turns out my paternal grandmother has 16% Native blood”: Racialized DNA, race destabilization, and digital race-(re)making on social media. Social Media + Society. https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051261478877
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Yang, Y., Dong, H., & Welles, B. F. (2026). Refugee, tourist, or colonizer: Scrutinizing the dramaturgical performance of “TikTok refugee” on RedNote. Information, Communication & Society. https://doi.org/10.1080/1369118X.2025.2609777.
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Yang, Y., & Welles, B. F. (2026). Subversive humor and platformed Asianness: How Asians use neologisms to define themselves and others online. The Communication Review. https://doi.org/10.1080/10714421.2026.2616143
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Yang, Y. (2025). r/23andMe and my pictures: Platform racial spectacles as collective racial identity formation. New Media & Society. https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448251344291.
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Yang, Y., Lange, R., Zhang, Y., & Walther, J. B. (2025). How social responses to online hate messages affect hatefulness. New Media & Society. https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448251396951.
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Smith, A. H., Kumar, S., Yang, Y., & Goel, P. (2025). Locating the asymmetry in information flow between local and national media on transgender discourses. Bulletin of Applied Transgender Studies, 4(1–3), 77–119. https://doi.org/10.57814/5578-rs39
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Kang, M., Cho, A., & Yang, Y. (2025). My “kind” of food: How ethnic food categories were changed in local mainstream media from the case study of Boston Magazine. Food, Culture & Society, 28(5), 1396–1421. https://doi.org/10.1080/15528014.2025.2460315
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Holtzman, G. S., Yang, Y., Louis, P., West, S. G., & Kandaswamy, P. (2024). Racial disparities in Phase 1 COVID-19 vaccine shipments to neighborhood sites in Pennsylvania by the Federal Retail Pharmacy Program. Scientific Reports, 14(1). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-73116-1.
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Yang, Y., Cho, A. (co-first author), Nguyen, Q., & Nsoesie, E. O. (2023). Association of neighborhood racial and ethnic composition and historical redlining with built environment indicators derived from Street View images in the US. JAMA Network Open, 6(1), e2251201. https://doi.org/10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.51201
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Taniguchi, T., Vovak, H., Cordner, G., Amendola, K., Yang, Y., Hoogesteyn, K., & Bartness, M. (2022). The impact of active bystander training on officer confidence and ability to address ethical challenges. Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice, 16(3), 508–522. https://doi.org/10.1093/police/paac034.
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Peer-reviewed conference proceedings

4 publications

Yang, Y., Tagore, P., & Welles, B. F. (2025). “I'm so sick and tired of this”: Understanding the roles and scenarios in self-disclosure of everyday experiences of racism on social media. Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, 9(7), 1–35. https://doi.org/10.1145/3757412
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Yang, Y. (2020). “Musicalization of the culture”: Is music becoming louder, more repetitive, monotonous, and simpler? Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, 14(1), 750–761. https://doi.org/10.1609/icwsm.v14i1.7340.
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Yang, Y. (2019). When power goes wild online: How did a voluntary moderator's abuse of power affect an online community? Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Technology, 56, 504–508. https://doi.org/10.1002/pra2.55.
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Yang, Y., & Huang, Y. (2019). Dumping the closet skeletons online: Exploring the guilty information disclosure behavior on social media. Proceedings of the International AAAI Conference on Web and Social Media, 13(1), 663–666. https://doi.org/10.1609/icwsm.v13i01.3267.
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Reports

3 reports

Amendola, K. L., Valdovinos Olson, M., Carlson, C., Gronlund, S., Mickes, L., Gao, J., & Yang, Y. (2025). Confidence, latency, and accuracy in eyewitness identifications made from showups: Nationwide survey of policies and practices in eyewitness identification. Final report to the National Institute of Justice.
National Police Foundation. (2021). A crisis of trust: A National Police Foundation report to the Los Angeles Board of Police Commissioners on the Los Angeles Police Department's response to First Amendment assemblies and protests occurring May 27–June 7, 2020.
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Vovak, H., Riddle, T., Taniguchi, T., Hoogesteyn, K., & Yang, Y. (2021). Strategies for Policing Innovation (SPI) in Wilmington, Delaware: Targeting violent crime.
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Public writing

4 articles

Yang, Y., & McKnight, J. (2023, April 28). Students of color are disproportionately bullied and harassed at school. Public Health Post.
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Yang, Y., & Vu, C. (2023, January 25). The persisting racial inequities in food insecurity. Public Health Post.
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Nsoesie, E. O., & Yang, Y. (2022, November 22). The high suicide rates among Indigenous populations. Public Health Post.
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Yang, Y., & Nsoesie, E. O. (2022, October 25). Are racial differences in flu vaccination rates widening? Public Health Post.
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Journal papers in Chinese

CNKI profile

Yang, Y. (2019). A study on the public perception of libraries' social image in social media based on text mining: Taking Sina Weibo as an example. Library Tribune (CSSCI), 03, 51–63.
Huang, Y., & Yang, Y. (2019). A study on the influencing factors of online praying behavior on Chinese social media: Taking the “Koi Fish” as an example. Information Science (CSSCI), 04, 86–91, 121.
Yang, J., Yang, Y., & Xu, B. (2019). The theoretical logic, practical difficulties, and prospects of artificial intelligence in library applications. Library and Information Service (CSSCI), 04, 32–38.
Yang, J., & Yang, Y. (2019). The THEV model for library technologies' performance appraisal. Library Tribune (CSSCI), 01, 80–91.
Yang, J., & Yang, Y. (2018). A study on the index of performance appraisal for library technologies from a life-cycle perspective. Library Tribune (CSSCI), 11, 61–69, 106.
Yang, Y., & Huang, Y. (2018). Strategy analysis of WeChat mini-program applications in library services using quantitative SWOT. New Century Library (CSSCI-E), 07, 54–61.
Zhang, X., Yang, Y., & Huang, Y. M. (2018). Innovation participation and information requirements of the public in Xi'an. Knowledge Management Forum, 03, 117–129.
Huang, Y., Yang, Y., & Zhang, X. (2018). Report on public information requirements in Xi'an. Library Science Work and Research, 04, 86–93.
Yang, Y. (2017). Empirical research on factors influencing MOOC users' knowledge-sharing behavior. Journal of Information Resources Management (CSSCI), 04, 66–74.
Yang, Y., & Huang, Y. (2017). Factors influencing users' information serendipity in social media environments. Digital Library Forum (CSSCI-E), 06, 65–72.
Yang, Y. (2017). Social Q&A's implications for library digital reference services. Knowledge Management Forum, 2(5), 424–438.