Yiran Duan’s research focuses on cross-platform studies, examining how climate change–related information spreads within X (formerly Twitter) and across platforms from YouTube to X, as well as the users who facilitate this cross-platform diffusion. Yiran’s research also analyzes the content and comments of short- and long-format videos on Instagram, TikTok, and YouTube to compare climate change discourse across these platforms.
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information science, social computing, social justice, science and technology studies, climate change, content analysis
