Fan Yang
Fan Yang is a PhD candidate at School of Communication and Creative Arts, Deakin University. She studies the intersection of technologies, postcolonialism, and migration. Her doctoral thesis – News Manufactories on WeChat: The Word Business, Censorship, and Pseudo-Journalism examines the internal operation of WeChat in Australia through the lens of Human-Computer Mediation.
Fan's recent articles
25 November 2025
AI in journalism and democracy: can we rely on it?
GenAI tools are reshaping the information environment in ways most audiences never see. From the data that trains them to the labour that maintains them, their inner workings raise urgent questions for journalism and democratic accountability.
31 January 2022
Multicultural Australia? How the mainstream media segregates us
Major media organisations have marginalised ethnic communities — for example, the Chinese community is seen through the prism of foreign influence.