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Sibo Chen

Sibo Chen

Assistant Professor | Graduate Program Director
Office RCC 382E
Phone(416) 979-5000 x6384
https://ryerson.academia.edu/SiboChen/ (external link) 

Sibo Chen is an Assistant Professor in the School of Professional Communication at Toronto Metropolitan University. As a critical communication scholar by training, his areas of interest include Public Communication of Climate and Energy Policy, Risk and Crisis Communication, Transcultural Political Economy, and Critical Discourse Analysis. Currently, he serves as Executive Board Members of the International Environmental Communication Association (external link)  as well as the Canadian Communication Association (external link) .

Research Interests

Dr. Chen's current research explores how political polarization is communicated in the public sphere, focusing on three topics: political contention over climate change, online mis/disinformation, and the rise of anti-Asian racism.

Selected Publications (also see Academia.edu (external link) )

  • Chen, S. (2023). Energy politics and discourse in Canada: Probing progressive extractivism. Routledge.
  • Chen, S. & Shirley, R. (2023). When pandemic stories become personal stories: Community journalism and the coverage of health inequalities. Journalism Practice, online first.
  • Chen, S. (2022) Reporting in a time of crisis: Progressive alternative media's coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada. Journalism Practices, online first.
  • Chen, S., & Zhao, Y. (2022). China’s ecological civilization: A blindspot in global environmental discourse. Environmental Communication, 16(2), 195-208.
  • Chen, S. (2021). The reproduction of "petro-nationalism" in ethnic media: A case study of WeChat public accounts' coverage of the Trans Mountain pipeline controversy. Frontiers in Environmental Science, 9, article 802757.
  • Chen, S. (2021). The rise of blockadia as a global anti-extractivism movement (Perspective Essay). Local Environment, 26(12), 1423–1428.
  • Chen, S., & Wu, C. (2021). #StopAsianHate: Understanding the global rise of anti-Asian racism from a transcultural communication perspective. Journal of Transcultural Communication, Online First.
  • Chen, S. (2020). Debating resource-driven development: A comparative analysis of media coverage on the Pacific Northwest LNG project in British Columbia. Frontiers in Communication (Science and Environmental Communication Section), 5, article 66.
  • Chen, S. (2019). How to discredit a social movement: Negative framing of “Idle No More” in Canadian print media. Environmental Communication, 13(2), 144-151.
  • Chen, S. (2018). Exploring the formation of the “leave-it-to-experts” storyline during the initial outbreak of the 2013 smog hazard in Beijing. Chinese Journal of Communication, 11(4), 385-399.
  • Chen, S. (2017). Toward multiple conceptions of the human–nature relationship: The "human–nature unity" frame in a Chinese village. International Journal of Communication, 11, 4481–4498.
  • Chen, S. (2016). Selling the environment: Green marketing discourse in China's automobile advertising. Discourse, Context & Media, 12, 11-19.
  • Chen, S. & Gunster, S. (2016). “Ethereal carbon”: legitimizing liquefied natural gas in British Columbia. Environmental Communication, 10(3), 305-321.