Mingxiao Sui
Biographic Data
| ID | 3557313 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mingxiao Sui |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mingxiao |
| FAMILY NAME | Sui |
| SIGNATURE | SUI M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Alabama at Birmingham |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-6313-145X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 24 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 104 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 24 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Excessive Scrolling but Attentive News Reading? How Short Video Use and Awareness of Its Negative Impact Shape News Engagement Across Devices
Through a mixed-method approach, this study investigates three interrelated questions pertaining to how short-form video apps affect people’s engagement with news. Results from our lab study utilizing an eye-tracking method (Study 1) did not reveal evidence that people’s heavy use of short video apps is negatively associated with visual attention to news or recall of news; however, Study 1 uncovered that the more people were aware of their heavy …
Writing with emotion? Assessing emotional valence and appeals in AI-generated vs. human-written articles
Does generative AI write with emotionality in the same manners as humans? We investigated this question by focusing on three distinct aspects that characterize emotionally evocative content, including emotional valence, discrete appeals, and subjectivity. A quantitative content analysis of two publicly available data sets—TOEFL essays vs. news articles—was conducted, which paired each AI-generated text with a human-written piece by matching the e…
Good Guys Became Bad Guys? Changing Representations of Asians and Other Races in Crime News During Covid-19
During COVID-19, Asian Americans were perceived as a threat to the American society, which could have led to heightened media scrutiny and a shift in media portrayals. This study examines this question with a quantitative analysis of crime stories sampled from five newspapers (2019–2021). Our results suggested that large-scale social events such as COVID-19 might have transformed media representations of Asians and other racial groups, with notew…
Scrolling headlines and clicking stories
When Readers Do Not Fight Falsehood
This study examines the effects of misleading news-one type of false information presented by news media in the U.S. and China-in the context of international disputes. Through a web-based survey experiment, we tested how Chinese readers' perception of false news is affected by the source of the news, the presence of visual elements, and general trust in mainstream Chinese media and that in mainstream U.S. media, as well as news literacy. Our res…
When falsehood wins? Varied effects of sensational elements on users’ engagement with real and fake posts
Characterizing Asians in violence
This study examined variances in crime news involving Asian perpetrators and Asian victims in a mainstream English-language daily USA Today, and an ethnic newspaper Qiao Bao. Our quantitative content analysis focused on (a) the volume of crime stories published about Asians (as perpetrators and victims respectively), and (b) the news frames used to cover crime incidents involving Asians (as perpetrators and victims respectively). Our results reve…
Two nations in three worlds? Images of the US and China in ethnic, homeland, and host media
This study investigates disparities in the portrayals of US and China images across ethnic media, homeland media, and host media that are serving the Chinese migrants in the United States. A quantitative content analysis of 156 news articles was conducted. Results reveal that ethnic media share more similarities with homeland media than with host media, which adds empirical explanations to ethnic and homeland media’s commonalities in retaining mi…
Is More Better? Effects of Newsroom and Audience Diversity on Trait Coverage of Minority Candidates
This article examines how the racial composition of newsrooms and that of the news audiences influence campaign coverage of candidates. Using observational data compiled from multiple sources for analyses, our findings suggest that candidate trait coverage is influenced by what we term racial congruence at two levels. First, when the number of non-white journalists increases in newsroom, white candidates are more likely to receive positive trait …
Is news for men
News avoidance, particularly among women, raises potential challenges for democracy. While research shows audiences don’t penalize women reporters or the outlets that employ them, we don’t know whether the presence of women in the newsroom affects such avoidance behaviors, particularly for women audiences. Additionally, the news may communicate gender to the audience in other ways beyond ascriptive characteristics of the reporter. We ask, do repo…
Partisan media effects beyond one-shot experimental designs
Previous study demonstrates that partisans perceive in-party news outlets as fair, and out-party news outlets as unfair. However, much of this study relies on one-shot designs. We create an ecologically valid design that randomly assigns participants to news feeds within a week-long online news portal where the balance of in-party and out-party news outlets has been manipulated. We find that sustained exposure to a feed that features out-party ne…
The Moderating Effects of Perceived Severity on the Generational Gap in Preventive Behaviors during the Covid-19 Pandemic in the U.S
During the COVID-19 pandemic, older adults appear to be more susceptible to the coronavirus disease. Although the health stakes are higher for older adults, individuals of all ages should adopt preventive measures to contain the human-to-human transmission of the virus. This study conducted a national online survey of 1843 adults at the early stage of the COVID-19 pandemic in the U.S. to examine age disparities in preventive behaviors against the…
Ethnic Selective Exposure
This study proposes and tests a theory of ethnic selective exposure – namely, ethnic audiences’ use of English- and ethnic-language media as a function of their most salient or strongest cultural identity among the many available to them (American, ethnic American, pan ethnic, or national origin). This identity-based media selectivity is examined with experimental data from a 2016 survey experiment and observational data from the 2006 Latino Nati…
Look Who’s Writing
Women reporters are underrepresented in newsrooms and assigned to gender-stereotypic roles, but to what effect? To better understand the role of gender in news making, this article utilizes three survey experiments to investigate the effects of journalists’ gender on reader perceptions toward reporter credibility, outlet credibility, and the relevance of news to them. We find little evidence that readers doubt the credibility of a reporter or a n…
Seeing Spanish
Does seeing Spanish-language news in the media change the racial and political attitudes of Whites and Spanish-speaking Latinos? We examine the effects of Spanish-language media on White and Spanish-speaking Latino attitudes using online survey experiments in English and Spanish, respectively. We expect White Americans to react to Spanish-language media options by developing more hostile attitudes toward Hispanics, and Spanish-speaking Latino aud…
I Can Feel What You Feel
Twitter offers politicians a direct path of communication to the public, and by its very nature, encourages tweets that are often heavy on emotions. Given the rise of Twitter and emotional appeals in politics, this paper investigates two important questions: How “emotional” are political candidates on Twitter, and, how does the public respond to candidates’ tweets containing emotional appeals such as joy, fear, anger, and disgust? Based on Crimso…
Collision with Collusion
President Donald Trump faced substantial scandal coverage early in his presidency. Can these stories about presidential controversies change the opinions of Trump’s fellow Republicans, or are the efforts of the news media to inform partisans about prominent issues futile? Past research on partisan reactions to major political scandals were confounded by problems with self-reported media use and single-shot experimental treatments. We address thes…
Setting a Non-Agenda
The mere perception that news has given certain problems more coverage can lead the audience to assume that those problems are more important. Given that the news media, at times, obsesses over relatively trivial matters, and given that the audience is increasingly able to filter media exposure, it is worth asking what happens when audience members perceive that recent media coverage has not emphasized any very important problems. In such cases, …
News Attention in a Mobile Era
Mobile access to the Internet is changing the way people consume information, yet we know little about the effects of this shift on news consumption. Consuming news is key to democratic citizenship, but is attention to news the same in a mobile environment? We argue that attention to news on mobile devices such as tablets and smartphones is not the same as attention to news for those on computers. Our research uses eye tracking in two lab experim…
Crime News Effects and Democratic Accountability
Publics hold chief executives uniquely responsible for national well-being, and they learn about national conditions through news. But when news disproportionately covers problems, what happens to democratic accountability? Here, we experimentally test how leader approval changes when crime loses prominence in news for a sustained period. We create an online news environment coding real news in real time, then experimentally filter news for natio…
Partisan Media, Electoral Predictions, and Wishful Thinking
Public predictions about the results of forthcoming elections have important consequences for political campaigns and support for governmental institutions. This research examines whether partisan media facilitate wishful thinking, which occurs when candidate preference biases electoral predictions. We use two experiments to test whether partisan news exposure increases wishful thinking about election outcomes. Our results suggest that when parti…
Latino Portrayals in Local News Media
Given the rise in negative rhetoric about Latinos in the U.S., it is essential to examine whether this negative tone extends to general, local news as well. An analysis of 2426 news articles drawn from 55 local newspapers in 2015 reveals several important findings. First, despite the intense spotlight on Latinos, they are still underrepresented in local news media. Relative to the other ethnic groups and whites, Latinos are more likely to be port…
U.S. News Coverage of Global Terrorist Incidents
A slew of gruesome executions by terrorist groups in 2014–2015 renewed interest in the public relations strategies of terrorists. As a case in point, the Islamic State group’s escalating brutality reflects their efforts as a relatively nascent extremist group to ensure a high and sustained volume of media coverage, especially among Western outlets. But what characteristics of events actually prompt coverage from major U.S. news media? Using a ric…
Transnational political engagement
Asian Americans are in the unique position of participating in American politics as well as politics related to their nation of origin. However, there is a lack of consensus about the factors that are likely to make this group participate in homeland or US politics. We examine this question using data drawn from the 2008 National Asian American Survey (NAAS). Results suggest that Asian Americans’ participation in homeland politics is positively r…
News Attention in a Mobile Era
Mobile access to the Internet is changing the way people consume information, yet we know little about the effects of this shift on news consumption. Consuming news is key to democratic citizenship, but is attention to news the same in a mobile environment? We argue that attention to news on mobile devices such as tablets and smartphones is not the same as attention to news for those on computers. Our research uses eye tracking in two lab experim…
Partisan Media, Electoral Predictions, and Wishful Thinking
Public predictions about the results of forthcoming elections have important consequences for political campaigns and support for governmental institutions. This research examines whether partisan media facilitate wishful thinking, which occurs when candidate preference biases electoral predictions. We use two experiments to test whether partisan news exposure increases wishful thinking about election outcomes. Our results suggest that when parti…
U.S. News Coverage of Global Terrorist Incidents
A slew of gruesome executions by terrorist groups in 2014–2015 renewed interest in the public relations strategies of terrorists. As a case in point, the Islamic State group’s escalating brutality reflects their efforts as a relatively nascent extremist group to ensure a high and sustained volume of media coverage, especially among Western outlets. But what characteristics of events actually prompt coverage from major U.S. news media? Using a ric…
Seeing Spanish
Does seeing Spanish-language news in the media change the racial and political attitudes of Whites and Spanish-speaking Latinos? We examine the effects of Spanish-language media on White and Spanish-speaking Latino attitudes using online survey experiments in English and Spanish, respectively. We expect White Americans to react to Spanish-language media options by developing more hostile attitudes toward Hispanics, and Spanish-speaking Latino aud…
Collision with Collusion
President Donald Trump faced substantial scandal coverage early in his presidency. Can these stories about presidential controversies change the opinions of Trump’s fellow Republicans, or are the efforts of the news media to inform partisans about prominent issues futile? Past research on partisan reactions to major political scandals were confounded by problems with self-reported media use and single-shot experimental treatments. We address thes…
Partisan media effects beyond one-shot experimental designs
Previous study demonstrates that partisans perceive in-party news outlets as fair, and out-party news outlets as unfair. However, much of this study relies on one-shot designs. We create an ecologically valid design that randomly assigns participants to news feeds within a week-long online news portal where the balance of in-party and out-party news outlets has been manipulated. We find that sustained exposure to a feed that features out-party ne…
I Can Feel What You Feel
Twitter offers politicians a direct path of communication to the public, and by its very nature, encourages tweets that are often heavy on emotions. Given the rise of Twitter and emotional appeals in politics, this paper investigates two important questions: How “emotional” are political candidates on Twitter, and, how does the public respond to candidates’ tweets containing emotional appeals such as joy, fear, anger, and disgust? Based on Crimso…
Transnational political engagement
Asian Americans are in the unique position of participating in American politics as well as politics related to their nation of origin. However, there is a lack of consensus about the factors that are likely to make this group participate in homeland or US politics. We examine this question using data drawn from the 2008 National Asian American Survey (NAAS). Results suggest that Asian Americans’ participation in homeland politics is positively r…
Look Who’s Writing
Women reporters are underrepresented in newsrooms and assigned to gender-stereotypic roles, but to what effect? To better understand the role of gender in news making, this article utilizes three survey experiments to investigate the effects of journalists’ gender on reader perceptions toward reporter credibility, outlet credibility, and the relevance of news to them. We find little evidence that readers doubt the credibility of a reporter or a n…
Crime News Effects and Democratic Accountability
Publics hold chief executives uniquely responsible for national well-being, and they learn about national conditions through news. But when news disproportionately covers problems, what happens to democratic accountability? Here, we experimentally test how leader approval changes when crime loses prominence in news for a sustained period. We create an online news environment coding real news in real time, then experimentally filter news for natio…
Is news for men
News avoidance, particularly among women, raises potential challenges for democracy. While research shows audiences don’t penalize women reporters or the outlets that employ them, we don’t know whether the presence of women in the newsroom affects such avoidance behaviors, particularly for women audiences. Additionally, the news may communicate gender to the audience in other ways beyond ascriptive characteristics of the reporter. We ask, do repo…
Scrolling headlines and clicking stories
When Readers Do Not Fight Falsehood
This study examines the effects of misleading news-one type of false information presented by news media in the U.S. and China-in the context of international disputes. Through a web-based survey experiment, we tested how Chinese readers' perception of false news is affected by the source of the news, the presence of visual elements, and general trust in mainstream Chinese media and that in mainstream U.S. media, as well as news literacy. Our res…
Ethnic Selective Exposure
This study proposes and tests a theory of ethnic selective exposure – namely, ethnic audiences’ use of English- and ethnic-language media as a function of their most salient or strongest cultural identity among the many available to them (American, ethnic American, pan ethnic, or national origin). This identity-based media selectivity is examined with experimental data from a 2016 survey experiment and observational data from the 2006 Latino Nati…
Transnational political engagement
Asian Americans are in the unique position of participating in American politics as well as politics related to their nation of origin. However, there is a lack of consensus about the factors that are likely to make this group participate in homeland or US politics. We examine this question using data drawn from the 2008 National Asian American Survey (NAAS). Results suggest that Asian Americans’ participation in homeland politics is positively r…
Latino Portrayals in Local News Media
Given the rise in negative rhetoric about Latinos in the U.S., it is essential to examine whether this negative tone extends to general, local news as well. An analysis of 2426 news articles drawn from 55 local newspapers in 2015 reveals several important findings. First, despite the intense spotlight on Latinos, they are still underrepresented in local news media. Relative to the other ethnic groups and whites, Latinos are more likely to be port…
U.S. News Coverage of Global Terrorist Incidents
A slew of gruesome executions by terrorist groups in 2014–2015 renewed interest in the public relations strategies of terrorists. As a case in point, the Islamic State group’s escalating brutality reflects their efforts as a relatively nascent extremist group to ensure a high and sustained volume of media coverage, especially among Western outlets. But what characteristics of events actually prompt coverage from major U.S. news media? Using a ric…
Setting a Non-Agenda
The mere perception that news has given certain problems more coverage can lead the audience to assume that those problems are more important. Given that the news media, at times, obsesses over relatively trivial matters, and given that the audience is increasingly able to filter media exposure, it is worth asking what happens when audience members perceive that recent media coverage has not emphasized any very important problems. In such cases, …
News Attention in a Mobile Era
Mobile access to the Internet is changing the way people consume information, yet we know little about the effects of this shift on news consumption. Consuming news is key to democratic citizenship, but is attention to news the same in a mobile environment? We argue that attention to news on mobile devices such as tablets and smartphones is not the same as attention to news for those on computers. Our research uses eye tracking in two lab experim…
Crime News Effects and Democratic Accountability
Publics hold chief executives uniquely responsible for national well-being, and they learn about national conditions through news. But when news disproportionately covers problems, what happens to democratic accountability? Here, we experimentally test how leader approval changes when crime loses prominence in news for a sustained period. We create an online news environment coding real news in real time, then experimentally filter news for natio…
Partisan Media, Electoral Predictions, and Wishful Thinking
Public predictions about the results of forthcoming elections have important consequences for political campaigns and support for governmental institutions. This research examines whether partisan media facilitate wishful thinking, which occurs when candidate preference biases electoral predictions. We use two experiments to test whether partisan news exposure increases wishful thinking about election outcomes. Our results suggest that when parti…
I Can Feel What You Feel
Twitter offers politicians a direct path of communication to the public, and by its very nature, encourages tweets that are often heavy on emotions. Given the rise of Twitter and emotional appeals in politics, this paper investigates two important questions: How “emotional” are political candidates on Twitter, and, how does the public respond to candidates’ tweets containing emotional appeals such as joy, fear, anger, and disgust? Based on Crimso…
Collision with Collusion
President Donald Trump faced substantial scandal coverage early in his presidency. Can these stories about presidential controversies change the opinions of Trump’s fellow Republicans, or are the efforts of the news media to inform partisans about prominent issues futile? Past research on partisan reactions to major political scandals were confounded by problems with self-reported media use and single-shot experimental treatments. We address thes…
Seeing Spanish
Does seeing Spanish-language news in the media change the racial and political attitudes of Whites and Spanish-speaking Latinos? We examine the effects of Spanish-language media on White and Spanish-speaking Latino attitudes using online survey experiments in English and Spanish, respectively. We expect White Americans to react to Spanish-language media options by developing more hostile attitudes toward Hispanics, and Spanish-speaking Latino aud…
The Moderating Effects of Perceived Severity on the Generational Gap in Preventive Behaviors during the Covid-19 Pandemic in the U.S
During the COVID-19 pandemic, older adults appear to be more susceptible to the coronavirus disease. Although the health stakes are higher for older adults, individuals of all ages should adopt preventive measures to contain the human-to-human transmission of the virus. This study conducted a national online survey of 1843 adults at the early stage of the COVID-19 pandemic in the U.S. to examine age disparities in preventive behaviors against the…
Ethnic Selective Exposure
This study proposes and tests a theory of ethnic selective exposure – namely, ethnic audiences’ use of English- and ethnic-language media as a function of their most salient or strongest cultural identity among the many available to them (American, ethnic American, pan ethnic, or national origin). This identity-based media selectivity is examined with experimental data from a 2016 survey experiment and observational data from the 2006 Latino Nati…
Look Who’s Writing
Women reporters are underrepresented in newsrooms and assigned to gender-stereotypic roles, but to what effect? To better understand the role of gender in news making, this article utilizes three survey experiments to investigate the effects of journalists’ gender on reader perceptions toward reporter credibility, outlet credibility, and the relevance of news to them. We find little evidence that readers doubt the credibility of a reporter or a n…
Two nations in three worlds? Images of the US and China in ethnic, homeland, and host media
This study investigates disparities in the portrayals of US and China images across ethnic media, homeland media, and host media that are serving the Chinese migrants in the United States. A quantitative content analysis of 156 news articles was conducted. Results reveal that ethnic media share more similarities with homeland media than with host media, which adds empirical explanations to ethnic and homeland media’s commonalities in retaining mi…
Is More Better? Effects of Newsroom and Audience Diversity on Trait Coverage of Minority Candidates
This article examines how the racial composition of newsrooms and that of the news audiences influence campaign coverage of candidates. Using observational data compiled from multiple sources for analyses, our findings suggest that candidate trait coverage is influenced by what we term racial congruence at two levels. First, when the number of non-white journalists increases in newsroom, white candidates are more likely to receive positive trait …
Is news for men
News avoidance, particularly among women, raises potential challenges for democracy. While research shows audiences don’t penalize women reporters or the outlets that employ them, we don’t know whether the presence of women in the newsroom affects such avoidance behaviors, particularly for women audiences. Additionally, the news may communicate gender to the audience in other ways beyond ascriptive characteristics of the reporter. We ask, do repo…
Partisan media effects beyond one-shot experimental designs
Previous study demonstrates that partisans perceive in-party news outlets as fair, and out-party news outlets as unfair. However, much of this study relies on one-shot designs. We create an ecologically valid design that randomly assigns participants to news feeds within a week-long online news portal where the balance of in-party and out-party news outlets has been manipulated. We find that sustained exposure to a feed that features out-party ne…
When falsehood wins? Varied effects of sensational elements on users’ engagement with real and fake posts
Characterizing Asians in violence
This study examined variances in crime news involving Asian perpetrators and Asian victims in a mainstream English-language daily USA Today, and an ethnic newspaper Qiao Bao. Our quantitative content analysis focused on (a) the volume of crime stories published about Asians (as perpetrators and victims respectively), and (b) the news frames used to cover crime incidents involving Asians (as perpetrators and victims respectively). Our results reve…
Good Guys Became Bad Guys? Changing Representations of Asians and Other Races in Crime News During Covid-19
During COVID-19, Asian Americans were perceived as a threat to the American society, which could have led to heightened media scrutiny and a shift in media portrayals. This study examines this question with a quantitative analysis of crime stories sampled from five newspapers (2019–2021). Our results suggested that large-scale social events such as COVID-19 might have transformed media representations of Asians and other racial groups, with notew…
Scrolling headlines and clicking stories
When Readers Do Not Fight Falsehood
This study examines the effects of misleading news-one type of false information presented by news media in the U.S. and China-in the context of international disputes. Through a web-based survey experiment, we tested how Chinese readers' perception of false news is affected by the source of the news, the presence of visual elements, and general trust in mainstream Chinese media and that in mainstream U.S. media, as well as news literacy. Our res…
Excessive Scrolling but Attentive News Reading? How Short Video Use and Awareness of Its Negative Impact Shape News Engagement Across Devices
Through a mixed-method approach, this study investigates three interrelated questions pertaining to how short-form video apps affect people’s engagement with news. Results from our lab study utilizing an eye-tracking method (Study 1) did not reveal evidence that people’s heavy use of short video apps is negatively associated with visual attention to news or recall of news; however, Study 1 uncovered that the more people were aware of their heavy …
Writing with emotion? Assessing emotional valence and appeals in AI-generated vs. human-written articles
Does generative AI write with emotionality in the same manners as humans? We investigated this question by focusing on three distinct aspects that characterize emotionally evocative content, including emotional valence, discrete appeals, and subjectivity. A quantitative content analysis of two publicly available data sets—TOEFL essays vs. news articles—was conducted, which paired each AI-generated text with a human-written piece by matching the e…
Political science (18 works) · Psychology (15 works) · Social Media and Politics (15 works) · Sociology (14 works) · Advertising (13 works) · Business (12 works) · Media Influence and Politics (11 works) · Media Studies and Communication (11 works) · Law (10 works) · Law (10 works)