Siyuan Yin

Siyuan Yin is an Assistant Professor in the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University, specializing in interdisciplinary research at the intersection of cultural/media studies, feminist theory, social movements, and political economy. Her work examines how media, culture, and technology shape and resist power dynamics in migration and globalization contexts. She holds a PhD in Communication from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, alongside a graduate certificate in Advanced Feminist Studies and degrees from the University of Illinois Chicago and Peking University.

Her research focuses on labor activism among migrant workers, feminist movements, and gendered popular culture in transnational contexts. Current projects include studies on gig economy exploitation, digital feminist activism in China, and media discourses around essential workers during the pandemic. She teaches courses such as 'Political Economy of Communication' and 'Migration and Media.'

• Education:
  • PhD in Communication, University of Massachusetts Amherst
  • Graduate Certificate in Advanced Feminist Studies
  • MA in Communication, University of Illinois Chicago
  • BA in Journalism (minor in Philosophy), Peking University

Honored with the 2022 Herbert Schiller Award (IAMCR), her work critically engages with media's role in perpetuating and challenging hegemonic power structures. She supervises PhD and MA students researching topics like China's youth precarity, gig worker mobilizations, and transnational feminist digital activism. Recent publications explore migrant labor activism, intersectional feminism in China, and pandemic-era media discourses on essential workers.