Yifei Wang is interested in the intersection of political communication and communication technology. He seeks to explore how social identity and socioeconomic status is presented and shifted in the digital space as well as the related political consequences.
Yifei Wang is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Communication at the University of California, Santa Barbara. His research interests center around social identity, information behavior, and economic inequality. Using surveys, experiments, and computational methods, he examines the display of social identities in the digital space and its influence in information behaviors and sociopolitical attitudes. He is especially interested in the ways socioeconomic status and class identity are shaped and perceived in communication. His research has appeared in outlets such as Journal of Communication, Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly, Computational Communication Research, and Social Science Computer Review.
M.A. (2023), National University of Singapore, Communications and New Media
B.S. (2021), Cornell University, Communication