Lab membership
Vita
Yuru Li was a doctoral candidate in the Digital Communication and Information Diversity Lab from December 2020 to November 2025. She studied journalism and communication at Southwest University of Political Science and Law and continued her studies at the Communication University of China, specializing in computational communication. She wrote her master’s thesis on “Emotions in Social Media: Network Identity, Expression, and Communication.” During this time, she was a research assistant in the Data Mining and Social Computing Lab. She published several articles and participated in projects in the areas of democracy research, civic discourse on social media, Chinese environmental disputes, and political news production.
Research interests
- Computer communication
- Political communication
- Digital media and social media
- Fake news
- Image recognition communication
- Refugee research
- Discourse power
- The third level of agenda setting