Mengyao Yuan
- Name
- Mengyao Yuan
- Title
- Organisation
- Sociology School of Social and Political Science University of Edinburgh
- Address
- Edinburgh UK
- Telephone
- M.Yuan-2@sms.ed.ac.uk
- Research Interests
- Social media, Political identities and citizenship
- URL
- http://www.sps.ed.ac.uk/gradschool/community_and_representation/research_student_profiles/sociology/mengyao_yuan
PhD Title
Political imaginary presented by online narratives
Supervisors
Dr. Kate Orton-Johnson
Professor Lynn Jamieson
Qualifications
BA Sociology, Lanzhou University, China
MSc Sociology, Lanzhou University, China
Current Research
Political imaginary presented by online narratives: How social media change people's political belief
This project will examine if using social media will reshape people's perceptions of political situation by using mixed methods. It will also show how Chinese Internet users imagine their relationship between the authority and the society.