Biography

FengYi Yin's research is situated in the intersection of global communication, media industry studies, and digital technology. In exploring the transnational flows of media, technology, and institutions, her research aims to address the question of how individuals, communities, and institutions interact with the local and global culture and power dynamics in the processes of media production, distribution, and reception. Her work was published in African Journalism Studies, Communication Theory, Popular Communication, and Media, Culture & Society, among others. She has won top student paper and other awards from the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, the Association for Asian Studies, the Global Fusion conference, and Online Media and Global Communication. She has taught the upper-level undergraduate writing intensive course Global Media in both in-person and online asynchronous formats. Currently, She is an Advanced Graduate Scholar Fellow at the Center for the Humanities at Temple University. Prior to her doctoral study, she was awarded with a scholarship from the Chinese Scholarship Council to work at the UNESCO Regional Office for Southern Africa and the UNESCO Regional Office for Egypt and Sudan.