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Sibo Chen

Sibo Chen

Associate Professor & Graduate Program Director, 91滴滴-York Joint Program in Communication and Culture (MA, PhD)
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 critical AI studies, environmental communication, political economy of communication, and transcultural communication. He is author of Petro-Rhetoric in Canada: Narrating Extractivism (Palgrave McMillan, 2026), Energy Politics and Discourse in Canada: Probing Progressive Extractivism (Routledge, 2023), and over 50 peer-reviewed articles in journals such as Canadian Journal of Communication, Chinese Journal of Communication, Environmental Communication, Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, and Journalism Practice.

  • Critical AI studies
  • Environmental communication
  • Polarization

SSHRC Explore Grant: 鈥溾�淏ridging divides: Toward a unified conceptual framework for analyzing political polarization鈥� (2025-26); SSHRC Insight Grant: 鈥淒ecoding wildfires: A study on media coverage, conspiracy theories, and public engagement鈥� (2025-28)

SSHRC Partnership Grant (as Co-PI): "The Explanatory Journalism Impact and Uptake (XJO) project" (2023鈥�2027)

SSHRC Partnership Engage Grant: "Monitoring and Assessing Public Narratives concerning Canada鈥揅hina tensions" (2023鈥�2026)

SSHRC Insight Development Grant: "Probing Asian Experiences during the COVID颅19 Pandemic" (2021鈥�2025)

SSHRC Explore Grant: "Storytelling on Canadian Extractivism in an Era of Synergistic Epidemics" (2021鈥�2023)

Selected Publications:

  • Chen, S. (2026). Petro-rhetoric in Canada: Narrating extractivism. Palgrave Macmillan.
  • Chakraborty, C., Chen, S., Li, M., Man, G. C., & Yang, X. A. (eds.) (2026). Anti-Asian Racism during the COVID-19 Pandemic in Canada. UBC Press.  
  • 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鈥檚 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鈥檚 liquefied natural gas controversy. Sage Open, 10(4).
  • Chen, S. (2019). How to discredit a social movement: Negative framing of 鈥淚dle No More鈥� in Canadian print media. Environmental Communication, 13(2), 144-151.
  • Chen, S. (2018). Exploring the formation of the 鈥渓eave-it-to-experts鈥� 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鈥搉ature relationship: The "human鈥搉ature unity" frame in a Chinese village. International Journal of Communication, 11, 4481鈥�4498.
  • Chen, S. (2016). Selling the environment: Green marketing discourse in China's automobile advertising. Discourse, Context & Media, 12, 11-19.