Jiawen Yang

Jiawen Yang
Jiawen Yang
Graduate Student
MA Research & Theory Students
Year 1

Jiawen Yang is a master’s student on the research and theory track in the School of Journalism and Media at the University of Texas at Austin. She received her B.A. and her first M.A. in Chinese, focusing on educational and media purposes, and then worked as a reporter in Hong Kong for two years. Her research interests include political communication, misinformation, news consumption, and audience research. More specifically, she is interested in exploring how individuals are exposed to, engage with, and evaluate political misinformation in news media, and how these practices influence their beliefs, attitudes, and behaviors.