Yi Xiao

Biography

I graduated as a master in communication sciences in 2015 at University of Science and Technology (USTC) in China. I obtained a grant from Chinese Scholarship Council  (CSC). Currently, my research topic is to explore the effectiveness of emotional crisis responses in social media. I have been involved in projects using quantitative methods, such as experimental design, meta-analysis and sentiment analysis.

Yi

PhD Project

My research project on Emotions and crisis responses online' is funded by CSC from 2015. I examine how to use emotions to frame crisis response messages and to find how these emotionally framed messages affect publics' responses online during crisis.

Supervisors: Liselot Hudders and Verolien Cauberghe

Contact

Yi.Xiao@UGent.be

Korte Meer 9, 1st floor, 9000 Gent, Belgium.

Publications