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Yan Qu
Researcher at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Publications - 10
Citations - 67
Yan Qu is an academic researcher from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The author has contributed to research in topics: Social network & Corporate social responsibility. The author has an hindex of 3, co-authored 7 publications receiving 22 citations. Previous affiliations of Yan Qu include University of Minnesota.
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It Takes a Village: A Social Network Approach to NGOs’ International Public Engagement:
TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe the challenges of breaking through the saturated international media environment as they attempt to influence public opinions. But, they also highlight the challenges faced by Nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) like most strategic communicators.
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Organizational sensemaking in tough times: The ecology of NGOs’ COVID-19 issue discourse communities on social media
TL;DR: The analysis of the evolution of Twitter-based networks and discourse of 2,588 NGOs in the first five months of the COVID-19 outbreak in the United States revealed important factors that shape tie formation patterns in the NGOs' communities in this novel issue niche.
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Talking Politics and Engaging in Activism: The Influence of Publics’ Social Networks on Corporations in the Public Sphere
Adam J. Saffer,Aimei Yang,Yan Qu +2 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors have extensively theorized how citizens' political discussion networks have implications for elected political actors and can affect political and civic participation and knowledge, and they shi...
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What Drives People Away from COVID-19 Information?: Uncovering the Influences of Personal Networks on Information Avoidance.
TL;DR: The results suggest that the four network variables had varying effects on different forms of information avoidance, and Notably, social norms significantly predicted individuals' information avoidance.
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Engaging publics in the mobile era: A study of Chinese charitable foundations’ use of WeChat
TL;DR: Wang et al. as mentioned in this paper examined the dialogic features employed on the official WeChat accounts of Chinese charitable foundations as well as the public engagement functions fulfilled by their WeChat posts to examine their use of WeChat for dialogic communication with publics.