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Sibo Chen

Sibo Chen

Associate Professor & Associate Chair
Memberships/ServicesCo-Vice Chair, Environment, Science & Risk Communication Section, International Association of Media and Communication Research; Business Manager, Canadian Journal of Communication

Biography

Dr. Sibo Chen is a critical communication scholar by training, with areas of interest that include Environmental Communication, Risk and Crisis Communication, Social Media, 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) .

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TMU Academia (external link) 

  • Critical AI studies
  • Environmental communication
  • Polarization

SSHRC Explore Grant: ““Bridging divides: Toward a unified conceptual framework for analyzing political polarization” (2025-26); SSHRC Insight Grant: “Decoding wildfires: A study on media coverage, conspiracy theories, and public engagement” (2025-28)

Selected Publications:

  • Chen, S. (2025). The political economy of environmental communication: The Chinese context. In Lee Edwards et al. (eds.), The Sage Handbook of Promotional Culture and Society. Sage.
  • Chen, S. (2024). Reporting in a time of crisis: Progressive alternative media's coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada. Journalism Practices, 18(6), 1542-1559.
  • Chen, S. (2023). Energy politics and discourse in Canada: Probing progressive extractivism. Routledge.
  • Chen, S., & Zhao, Y. (2022). China’s ecological civilization: A blindspot in global environmental discourse. Environmental Communication, 16(2), 195-208.
  • 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 extractivism: Stakeholder communications in British Columbia’s liquefied natural gas controversy. Sage Open, 10(4).
  • 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.