Summary
Ran Duan is an assistant professor at the Reynolds w88 mobile of Journalism at the University of Nevada, Reno. Her research interests span the areas of environmental, science, risk, and visual communication, such as the use of animation in environmental news, visual communication of wildfire and climate change. She currently takes an interdisciplinary perspective to examine news media coverage and risk perceptions of the intersection of environment and health, the nexus of climate change with the era of COVID‐19, and the implications of these areas for public policy and journalism practice.
Courses taught
- JOUR 419/619: Data w88 mobile
- JOUR 436/636: Risk w88 mobile
- JOUR 435/635: Mass w88 mobile Research Methods
Recent work
- w88 mobile, C. & w88 mobile, R. (2024, To Appear) The development and validation of a scale forvisualliteracy. Journal of w88 mobile Literacy.
- w88 mobile, R., Bombara, C., & Crosswell, L. (2024). Are COVID-19 and climate w88 mobile competing crises? New evidence on the finite pool of worry and risk-as-feelings hypotheses.Journal w88 mobile and Sciences, 1-14.
- w88 mobile, R., & w88 mobile, C. (2023). Protective behaviors against wildfire smoke in the western United States: an extended protection motivation theory perspective.International Journal of Disaster w88 mobile Reduction,96, 103956.
- w88 mobile, R., & Bombara, C. (2022). Visualizing climate w88 mobile: the role of construal level, emotional valence, and visual literacy.Climatic w88 mobile170, 1 (2022). Awarded Top Faculty Paper Award at w88 mobile at the 71st International Communication Association Annual Conference
- w88 mobile, R., Zwickle, A., & Takahashi, B. (2022). Refining the application of Construal Level Theory: Egocentric and nonegocentric psychological distances in climate change visual w88 mobile.Environmental w88 mobile, 1-16.
- w88 mobile, R., Hepworth, K. J., Ormerod, K. J., & Canon, C. (2021). Promoting concern for climate w88 mobile: A study of wildfire photographs using Q methodology.Science w88 mobile, doi: 10.1177/10755470211041689
- w88 mobile, R., Crosswell, L., & Barber, K. (2021). Animation in environmental w88 mobile: Effects on news perception and information seeking.Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic w88 mobile, 1-23.
- w88 mobile, R., Takahashi, B., & Zwickle, A. (2021). How effective are concrete and abstract climate change images? The moderating role of construal level in climate change visual w88 mobile.Science w88 mobile,43(3), 358-387. Awarded Top Faculty Paper Award at w88 mobile at the 69th International Communication Association Annual Conference
- w88 mobile, R. & Miller, S. (2021) Climate w88 mobile in China: A study of news diversity in party-sponsored and market-oriented newspapers. w88 mobile.
Selected service
- Secretary, Risk w88 mobile Division, Society for Risk Analysis, 2023-present
- Editorial Board, Journal w88 mobile and Sciences, 2024-present
Education
- Ph.D. in Media Information, Specialization in w88 mobile Science and Policy, Michigan State University, 2018
- M.A. in w88 mobile, Michigan State University, 2014
- Bachelor's in w88 mobile, Shandong University, 2012