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45
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Overview

Yan Jin is affiliated with the University of Georgia in the United States and specializes in research within the social sciences, focusing primarily on areas such as sociology, political science, and communication. Their scholarly contributions span several interconnected fields including social psychology, literature and literary theory, and strategy and management.

Their research centers predominantly on public relations and crisis communication, misinformation and its impacts, and disaster management and resilience. Additional areas include media influence on health, risk perception and management, communication in education and healthcare, and general media studies and communication.

Yan Jin has published frequently in several academic journals. The most common venues include the Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management, Public Relations Review, Journal of Communication Management, Journal of International Crisis and Risk Communication Research, and Health Communication.

Key recent papers authored or co-authored by Yan Jin include:

  • The Effects of Corrective Communication and Employee Backup on the Effectiveness of Fighting Crisis Misinformation, 2020, Public Relations Review
  • How shades of truth and age affect responses to COVID-19 (Mis)information: randomized survey experiment among WhatsApp users in UK and Brazil, 2021, Humanities and Social Sciences Communications
  • Information vetting as a key component in social-mediated crisis communication: An exploratory study to examine the initial conceptualization, 2020, Public Relations Review
  • Telling the tale: the role of narratives in helping people respond to crises, 2020, Journal of Applied Communication Research
  • Dynamics of social corrections to peers sharing COVID-19 misinformation on WhatsApp in Brazil, 2021, Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association

Their most frequent collaborators include Xuerong Lu, Santosh Vijaykumar, Brooke Fisher Liu, Lucinda Austin, and Sung In Choi. Collaborations with these coauthors have occurred across multiple publications, with the highest number of joint works with Xuerong Lu.

Best Publications

  • Keeping up with the digital age: How the American Red Cross uses social media to build relationships

    Rowena L. Briones;Beth Kuch;Brooke Fisher Liu;Yan Jin

  • How Audiences Seek Out Crisis Information: Exploring the Social-Mediated Crisis Communication Model

    Lucinda Austin;Brooke Fisher Liu;Yan Jin

  • Examining the Role of Social Media in Effective Crisis Management: The Effects of Crisis Origin, Information Form, and Source on Publics’ Crisis Responses

    Yan Jin;Brooke Fisher Liu;Lucinda L. Austin

  • How publics respond to crisis communication strategies: The interplay of information form and source

    Brooke Fisher Liu;Lucinda L. Austin;Yan Jin

  • The Blog-Mediated Crisis Communication Model: Recommendations for Responding to Influential External Blogs

    Yan Jin;Brooke Fisher Liu

  • Ebola on Instagram and Twitter: How health organizations address the health crisis in their social media engagement

    Jeanine P.D. Guidry;Yan Jin;Caroline A. Orr;Marcus Messner

  • Social Media Use During Disasters: How Information Form and Source Influence Intended Behavioral Responses

    Brooke Fisher Liu;Julia Daisy Fraustino;Yan Jin

  • Toward a Publics-Driven, Emotion-Based Conceptualization in Crisis Communication: Unearthing Dominant Emotions in Multi-Staged Testing of the Integrated Crisis Mapping (ICM) Model

    Yan Jin;Augustine Pang;Glen T. Cameron

  • Seeking Formula for Misinformation Treatment in Public Health Crises: The Effects of Corrective Information Type and Source.

    Toni G L A van der Meer;Yan Jin

  • Making Sense Sensibly in Crisis Communication: How Publics’ Crisis Appraisals Influence Their Negative Emotions, Coping Strategy Preferences, and Crisis Response Acceptance

    Yan Jin

  • On pins and needles: how vaccines are portrayed on Pinterest.

    Jeanine P.D. Guidry;Kellie Carlyle;Marcus Messner;Yan Jin

  • Integrated Crisis Mapping: Toward a Publics-Based, Emotion-Driven Conceptualization in Crisis Communication

    Yan Jin;Augustine Pang;Glen T. Cameron

  • Social media use during disasters: a review of the knowledge base and gaps.

    Julia Daisy Fraustino;Brooke Liu;Yan Jin

  • Emotional Leadership as a Key Dimension of Public Relations Leadership: A National Survey of Public Relations Leaders

    Yan Jin

  • Managing Turbulence in the Blogosphere: Evaluating the Blog-Mediated Crisis Communication Model with the American Red Cross

    Brooke Fisher Liu;Yan Jin;Rowena Briones;Beth Kuch

  • The effects of public's cognitive appraisal of emotions in crises on crisis coping and strategy assessment

    Yan Jin

  • The Tendency To Tell: Understanding Publics' Communicative Responses To Crisis Information Form and Source

    Brooke Fisher Liu;Yan Jin;Lucinda L. Austin

  • How Disaster Information Form, Source, Type, and Prior Disaster Exposure Affect Public Outcomes: Jumping on the Social Media Bandwagon?

    Brooke Fisher Liu;Julia Daisy Fraustino;Yan Jin

  • Social Media and Crisis Communication

    Lucinda L. Austin;Yan Jin

  • The Effects of Threat Type and Duration on Public Relations Practitioner's Cognitive, Affective, and Conative Responses in Crisis Situations

    Yan Jin;Glen T. Cameron

  • Examining the interplay of an organization's prior reputation, CEO's visibility, and immediate response to a crisis

    Judy VanSlyke Turk;Yan Jin;Sean Stewart;Jeesun Kim

  • The role of emotions in crisis responses: Inaugural test of the integrated crisis mapping (ICM) model

    Yan Jin;Augustine Pang;Glen T. Cameron

  • Contingency theory: Strategic management of conflict in public relations

    Glen T. Cameron;A. Pang;Yan Jin

  • Going head to head: Content analysis of high profile conflicts as played out in the press

    Jae-Hwa Shin;I-Huei Cheng;Yan Jin;Glen T. Cameron

  • Contingency theory of strategic conflict management: Directions for the practice of crisis communication from a decade of theory development, discovery and dialogue

    Augustine Pang;Yan Jin;Glen T. Cameron

  • Examining Publics' Crisis Responses According to Different Shades of Anger and Sympathy

    Yan Jin

  • Explicating crisis coping in crisis communication

    Yan Jin;Soo Yeon Hong

  • Strategic communication of hope and anger: A case of Duke University's conflict management with multiple publics

    Yan Jin;Sun-A Park;María E. Len-Ríos

  • Do We Stand on Common Ground? A Threat Appraisal Model for Terror Alerts Issued by the Department of Homeland Security

    Augustine Pang;Yan Jin;Glen T. Cameron

Frequent Co-Authors

Glen T. Cameron
Glen T. Cameron University of Missouri
Claudia Pagliari
Claudia Pagliari University of Edinburgh
Gregory R. Hancock
Gregory R. Hancock University of Maryland, College Park

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