Yukun Yang

Yukun (he/him) is a second-year Ph.D. student working with Professor Brooke Foucault Welles in the CoMM Lab. He studies the collective and communicative practices on social media and how these acts uphold or challenge the dominant narratives, power hierarchies, and hegemonic ideologies, with a specific concentration on race and ethnicity. Before joining NetSI, he was a data scientist at the Center for Antiracist Research at Boston University, where he contributed to the Racial Data Lab. He obtained his Master's degree in Information Science from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

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