Yuxuan Chua

PhD Candidate

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Yuxuan is a PhD candidate studying the evolution of public opinion on environmental policies within digital spaces. She has a prior MSc in Social Research from Birkbeck College, University of London, with a dissertation titled “Slow Down: Online Political Discourse on Twitter through Speed Limit Policy” and a BSc in International Relations from the University of London.

Research Interests

• Patterns of political communication within a hybrid media system

• Informal systems of deliberation in global north democracies

• Politics of automobility and the environment

• Mixed-methods social media research involving computational approaches and digital ethnography

At present, Yuxuan’s research is focused on informal discursive spaces and the role that social media platforms play as tools of political communication in the diffusion of narrative frames about environmental policy. Her thesis examines how themes of misinformation, populist rhetoric and material justice map onto discursive networks about automobility, and their subsequent effect on civic debate and public choice.

Her research is jointly supervised by Dr Philippe Blanchard at PAIS and Dr Kavin Narasimhan from CIM.

Teaching

Yuxuan is currently a seminar tutor on the CIM module IM902: Approaches to the Digital.