- ACES Assistant Professor
- Assistant Professor
- Email: xia@tamu.edu
- Office: BLTN 309C
- Document: CV
Biography
Yiping Xia is an ACES assistant professor in the Department of Communication and Journalism at Texas A&M University. He is a teacher and scholar of journalism, audience studies, and mis/disinformation. Using qualitative, interpretive methodologies, Dr. Xia studies how people – especially diasporic and otherwise marginalized groups – navigate the contemporary news ecosystem, and how they make meaning of news by drawing upon the social and cultural resources from everyday life. His ongoing book project, tentatively titled “Becoming Audiences: Everyday News Engagement in a Transnational Community,” builds upon his doctoral thesis and applies a lifeworld framework to news audience research. The project focuses on the Chinese-Canadian community in Toronto – a large, well-established immigrant community that is underserved by mainstream media – and combines in-depth interviews with a unique “news diary” method.
Born and raised in Shanghai, China, Dr. Xia received his PhD in Mass Communication from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, with minors in Sociology and Science and Technology Studies (STS). Prior to joining Texas A&M, he was a postdoctoral research associate at the Center for Information, Technology, and Public Life (CITAP), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Courses Taught
- COMM 665: Communication and Technology