Publications

• [Full Paper] 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(ICWSM), 14(1), 750-761. Retrieved from https://aaai.org/ojs/index.php/ICWSM/article/view/7340 .

• [Short Paper] 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(ASIS&T), 56: 504-508. Retrieved from doi:10.1002/pra2.55 .

• [Poster Paper] 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(ICWSM), 13(01), 663-666. Retrieved from https://wvvw.aaai.org/ojs/index.php/ICWSM/article/view/3267 .

• Yang Y. r/23andMe and My Pictures: Platformed Racial Spectacle as Collective Racial Identity Formation. New Media & Society. Online First: https://doi.org/10.1177/14614448251344291.

• Yang Y., Lange, R. A. & Walther, J. B. How Social Responses to Online Hate Messages Affect Hatefulness. Submitted.

• Smith, A., Kumar, S., Yang Y., Goel, P. Locating the Asymmetry in Information Flow between Local and National Media on Transgender Discourses. Bulletin of Applied Transgender Studies. Accepted.

• 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, 1-26.

• Cho, A., Yang Y.*, Nguyen, Q., & Nsoesie, E. O. Census Tract Built Environment Resources in Relation to Contemporary Social Characteristics and Historical Redlining. Submitted.

•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), 23591.

• Yang Y.*, Cho, A., 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-e2251201. doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2022.51201

• 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. https://doi.org/10.1093/police/paac034

• 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 response to First Amendment assemblies and protests occurring May 27 – June 7, 2020. https://www.policefoundation.org/publication/a-crisis-of-trust-a-national-police-foundation-report-to-the-los-angeles-board-of-police-commissioners-on-the-los-angeles-police-department-response-to-first-amendment-assemblies-and-protests-occurri/.

• Vovak, H., Riddle, T., Taniguchi, T., Hoogesteyn, K., & Yang, Y. (2021). Strategies for Policing Innovation (SPI) in Wilmington, Delaware: Targeting Violent Crime. Retrieved from https://www.smart-policing.com/sites/default/files/inline-files/Wilmington%20SPI_Final%20report.pdf.

• Yang Y., & Nsoesie, E. O. (2022, October 25). Are racial differences in flu vaccination rates widening? Public Health Post. Retrieved December 22, 2022, from https://www.publichealthpost.org/databyte/race-flu-vaccination-rates/.

•Nsoesie , E. O., & Yang Y. (2022, November 22). The high suicide rates among indigenous populations. Public Health Post. Retrieved December 22, 2022, from https://www.publichealthpost.org/databyte/suicide-rates-indigenous/.

•Yang Y., & Vu, C. (2023, Jan 25). The Persisting Racial Inequities in Food Insecurity. Public Health Post. Retrieved Jan 25, 2023, from https://www.publichealthpost.org/databyte/the-persisting-racial-inequities-in-food-insecurity/.

•Yang Y., & McKnight, J. (2023, Apr 28). Students of Color are Disproportionately Bullied and Harassed at School. Public Health Post. Retrieved Apr 28, 2023, from https://www.publichealthpost.org/databyte/students-of-color-are-disproportionately-bullied-and-harassed-at-school/.

• Yang Y. (2019). A study on the public perception of library’s social image in social media based on text mining——taking Sina Weibo for 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” for example. Information Science (CSSCI), 04,86-91+121.

• Yang, J., Yang Y., Xu, B. (2019). The theoretical logic, practical difficulties and path prospects of artificial intelligence in library application. Library and Information Service (CSSCI), 04, 32–38.

• Yang, J., Yang Y. (2018). A study on the index of performance appraisal for library technologies under the perspective of life cycle. Library Tribune (CSSCI), 11, 61-69+106.

• Yang, J., Yang Y. (2019). The THEV model for library technologies’ performance appraisal. Library Tribune (CSSCI), 01, 80-91.

• Yang Y. (2017). Empirical research on influencing factors of MOOC users’ knowledge sharing behavior: based on Schmitt’s strategic experiential modules and technology acceptance model. Journal of Information Resources Management (CSSCI), 04, 66–74.

• Yang Y., & Huang, Y. (2018). Strategy analysis on the application of WeChat mini-program in library services based on the quantitative method of SWOT: from the perspective of user’s information behavior. New Century Library (CSSCI-E), 07, 54–61.

• Yang Y., & Huang, Y. (2017). A study on the influencing factors of user’s information serendipity in the social media environment. Digital Library Forum (CSSCI-E), 06, 65–72.

• Yang Y. (2017). Social Q&A’s enlightenment to library digital reference service. Knowledge Management Forum, 02(5), 424–438.

• Zhang, X., Yang Y., & Huang, Y. M. (2018). An investigation on the status quo of innovation participation and information requirement of the public in Xi’an. Knowledge Management Forum, 03, 117-129.

• Huang, Y., Yang Y., & Zhang, X. (2018). Report of public’s information requirement in Xi’an. Library Science Work and Research. 04, 86-93.