Xinyu Zhao
Biographic Data
| ID | 3855542 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Xinyu Zhao |
| GIVEN NAMES | Xinyu |
| FAMILY NAME | Zhao |
| SIGNATURE | ZHAO X |
| AFFILIATIONS | Deakin University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2703-2427 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 40 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 37 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 40 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Is My Child Normal? Sciency Discourses in Online Parenting Advice Cultures
For some decades, scholars have documented the expansion of discourses of ‘intensive’ parenting in Anglo-American culture and the increasing mediation of family life. In this context, this article argues that online culture is increasingly responsible for an ever-present instructional address, in which parents are continually targeted with advice from many voices, automated, known and unknown, all claiming various kinds of expertise about how to …
Total Extract of Folium Rhododendri Daurici alleviate MASLD by regulating PPAR and TNF signaling pathways
Virtual Perfection
The present study explores the role of a virtual influencer’s perceived physical attractiveness, self-improvement motives, and self-esteem on advertising outcomes. A survey of U.S. female adolescents revealed that perceived physical attractiveness and self-improvement motives sequentially mediate the association between visual-human likeness and advertising outcomes (Study 1). Self-esteem also moderated the relationship between perceived physical…
Misbehaviour dominates GHG emissions from food loss and waste
From granny to granfluencer
This research explores how portrayals of older social media influencers (‘granfluencers’) affect consumer responses (brand-based outcomes) and ageism (society-based outcomes) through the Stereotype Content Model. Study 1 investigated three portrayals of a female granfluencer (i.e. demure, provocative, and stereotypical) and found that the demure portrayal elicited the highest attitudes and purchase intentions, mediated by perceived competence. St…
Progressive or regressive? Refining brand activism with a consumer-centric perspective by integrating cultural tightness-looseness and political ideology
This research refines the concepts of progressive and regressive brand activism through a consumer-centric perspective. Across two experimental studies using different societal issues, we demonstrate that the perceived progressiveness/regressiveness of brand activism and its influence on brand attitudes emerges from a dynamic interaction between brand stance (conservative vs. liberal), consumers’ cultural tightness-looseness, and their political …
Paradigm shifts and frontier issues in contemporary sustainable livelihoods research
Family Media Practices in a Post‐Pandemic Future
This article is co‐written by a team of researchers who worked together during the pandemic to conduct parallel research projects in their home countries, collectively referencing the project as Children, Media and Pandemic Parenting. Our article consists of a series of curated thought pieces, drawing on interviews with parents in Australia, Canada, China, Colombia, South Korea and the United States. The pieces consider how family media practices…
Integrated bioactivity-guided isolation, network pharmacology, and experimental validation to reveal the key constituents and potential mechanisms of Tectona grandis against diabetes and lipid disorde…
Unearthing Hidden Struggles
This study aimed to illuminate the often-overlooked challenges faced by older adults who live with pets. We adopted a qualitative method, utilizing semi-structured interviews with 18 older pet owners. Participants shared their negative experiences, which were subsequently categorized into five distinct categories. First, caregiving burdens arose from physically demanding tasks, emotional distress related to pet illness or loss, and significant fi…
Feasibility and acceptability of the Trans-theoretical Model-based advance care planning for community-dwelling older adults with chronic diseases in China
Background Advance care planning (ACP) has emerged as a structured process to honor participants’ autonomy in medical decision-making. Evidence indicates that participation in ACP among community-dwelling older adults with chronic conditions is associated with enhanced medical autonomy, improved quality of life, and reduced decisional burden for family caregivers. However, given cultural nuances specific to China, ACP implementation remains limit…
Researching the Edtech Industry for Children
Digital platforms and services are making inroads into the everyday lives of even very young children. As with many other domains of life, children’s learning and education are increasingly digitised through ‘educational technology’ software, or more commonly EdTech. The rise of the EdTech industry provokes new questions about children’s education in the digital age. Methodologically, studying the EdTech industry for children largely falls in the…
Public data opening and tourism development in China
Public data openness has the potential to reveal latent tourism consumption preferences and trends, improve the allocation of tourism resources, enhance visitor experiences, and foster the development of the tourism industry. This study exploits the staggered rollout of prefecture-level government open data platforms in China as a quasi-natural experiment to estimate the causal effect of public data openness on regional tourism development. The r…
Clan culture and private insurance take-up
Overseas Chinese parent wanghong on Douyin
This article explores how overseas Chinese parent wanghong (网红, internet celebrities) document, curate, and share their everyday life of parenting on Douyin, one of the most actively used short video platforms in China. Wanghong in this article refers to Chinese parents who were born in China and have migrated outside of the country with children or to form families, and who have attracted online audience and fame by sharing their everyday family…
Digital parenting as internet governance
“Mum Jury” (mama pingshentuan) is a non-governmental organization (NGO) established in 2010 in Beijing. It was initiated by the Beijing Internet Association, a non-profit social organization operat
Cultural Generalizability of the False Signaling Theory
Hypocrites are generally viewed unfavorably. According to the false signaling theory, this is because a hypocrite's condemnation falsely manipulates observers into believing in their moral goodness. However, since the false signaling theory has not been tested in cultures other than that of the United States, its cultural generalizability remains unclear. This study replicated two experiments comparing evaluations of hypocrites with those of tran…
Impact of a nurse-led multidomain intervention on intrinsic capacity among community-dwelling older adults in China
The nurse-led multidomain intervention effectively enhanced intrinsic capacity, particularly in locomotion, cognition, and vitality, but had limited impact on psychological and sensory domains. Further research is warranted to optimize intervention strategies for improving IC among community-dwelling older adults
What Australian research offers the study of digital childhoods
This article examines current Australian research about digital media use by families with young children. Informed by a scoping review of 55 publications (2017–2022), we use select findings as departure points to consider how Australian media and communications research can meaningfully contribute to both local and international knowledge. We find that current Australian research largely mirrors international trends, particularly in its lack of …
The Effects of Communicative Purposes on Lexicogrammatical Variation in EFL Prepared Public Speech
Prepared English public speaking (EPS) tasks are widely used in EFL programs to enhance learners’ oral communication skills. Yet little is known about how the communicative purposes embedded in different speech tasks shape learners’ linguistic choices in prepared spoken discourse. This study adopts a register‐functional (RF) approach and key feature (KF) analysis to investigate lexicogrammatical variation across two common EPS tasks: informative …
Edutainment 2.0 or eduwashing? The production of educational legitimacy for children’s apps
On the Apple App Store or Google Play Store, parents can choose from a dazzling number of ‘edutainment apps’ that claim to teach children essential skills whilst also being ‘fun’ and ‘engaging’. In this article, we introduce the phenomenon of ‘eduwashing’ by showing the variety of semantic strategies used by app developers to ‘produce’ educational legitimacy. Taking the popular app Lingokids as a case study, we identify the following three dimens…
Dynamics in the prevalence and clinical manifestations of acute mountain sickness of different ascent protocols during high altitudes exposure
Background: Leisure, work, and sports activities that involve ascending to high altitudes (HA) are growing in popularity, yet they also pose the risk of developing acute mountain sickness (AMS). Despite the dynamic nature of AMS, its prevalence, clinical manifestations, and associated risks have still not to be comprehensively characterized. Methods: = 346) who ascended to the same altitude by bus. Subsequently, they all further ascended to 4,400…
Reciprocal relation between resilience and executive function in Chinese children
The Effect of the Covid-19 Pandemic Recession on Less Educated Women’s Human Capital
The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in major declines in employment of women. We provide projections of impacts of this reduction on less educated women’s future human capital framed within the traditional Mincerian model. We find that wage losses one year out from 2020 are relatively modest on average, generally less than 1%, with the largest for married women without children in the home. But losses are greater for young married women, mothers with …
A novel entropy-based method for quantifying urban energy demand aggregation
Urban energy demand aggregation (UEDA) is a key aspect of urban sustainability, as it can help to improve the energy efficiency of urban systems and reduce their environmental impacts. However, UEDA is a challenging task, as it involves aggregating heterogeneous and diverse energy demands of individual buildings into a collective demand at a given spatial scale. This paper proposes a novel entropy-based method for UEDA that quantifies the informa…
Digital labour in transnational mobility
Daigou, literally translated as buying on behalf of, is a Mandarin term that refers to a form of personalised transnational trading activity, which is generally characterised by practices of purchasing locally manufactured products overseas and reselling them to consumers in China via international courier services. This article examines Chinese international students’ digital labour invested in daigou and their use of social media, particularly …
The “Fox Eye” Challenge Trend
This article takes the “Fox Eye” challenge that trended on social media in 2020 as a case study in anti-racism activism by (East) Asian users on TikTok. The “Fox Eye” challenge was a trend in which both celebrities and ordinary users—often predominantly White women—posted photos and short videos on how to wear specific styles of make-up to achieve almond-shaped eyes or “fox eyes.” This was often accompanied with a “migraine pose” where a user pus…
Coping with the ‘double bind’ through vlogging
The article examines the vlogging practices of Chinese international students during the COVID-19 pandemic and their positive roles in coping with the double bind. By doing thematic analysis of the content of vlog videos generated by Chinese international students on both Chinese and English audio-visual platforms, we identify three overarching themes of their vlogging stories: ‘everyday personal experience sharing’, ‘vlogger-generated citizen jo…
The paradox of Whiteness
Since its formal inception in the 1970s, Australian (ethno-) ‘multiculturalism’ has been a source of debate over the nation’s imagined trajectory. This internal or national discourse has, inter alia, critiqued the unchanging racialised power relations between groups, where ethnocultural plurality becomes subsumed under a predominant White governmentality. In this article, however, we consider a particular difficulty in sustaining a ‘truly’ multic…
International students and social exclusion in the age of social media
This article considers the changing nature of international students’ lived experiences of disadvantage in Australia in the context of their daily practices of social media. Specifically, it first engages with the extant empirical research on social media practices in the migration context which points to the contingent impacts of digital technologies on migrants’ everyday lives. This body of literature suggests the possibility to probe into the …
Disconnective intimacies through social media
This article investigates Chinese international students' everyday transnational family practices through the use of social media. Specifically, the article highlights the relevance of two interlinked forms of disconnection in these students' daily negotiations of ambivalent cross-border family relations in an age of always-on connectivity. The first form involves their disconnection from the general public via their creation of intimate spaces o…
Pushing against the panic
This short commentary is intended to be provocative, as we argue the importance of considering ‘other’ aspects of children's everyday experiences of TikTok. We argue the need to be cautious about how the risks of TikTok, and digital platforms at large, for children are often amplified at the expense of erasing public awareness about the joy, connection, and creativity that many children and young people also experience on these emerging platforms…
Disruptive and Cooperative Interruptions in Prime-Time Television Fiction
Speech characteristics of male and female characters in fictional television have received only scant attention in media content research. A content analysis of prime-time television revealed that male characters were more likely to initiate disruptive interruptions than female characters whereas female characters were more likely to use cooperative interruptions than male characters. Such differences, however, were moderated by status differenti…
International students and social exclusion in the age of social media
This article considers the changing nature of international students’ lived experiences of disadvantage in Australia in the context of their daily practices of social media. Specifically, it first engages with the extant empirical research on social media practices in the migration context which points to the contingent impacts of digital technologies on migrants’ everyday lives. This body of literature suggests the possibility to probe into the …
Disconnective intimacies through social media
This article investigates Chinese international students' everyday transnational family practices through the use of social media. Specifically, the article highlights the relevance of two interlinked forms of disconnection in these students' daily negotiations of ambivalent cross-border family relations in an age of always-on connectivity. The first form involves their disconnection from the general public via their creation of intimate spaces o…
Digital labour in transnational mobility
Daigou, literally translated as buying on behalf of, is a Mandarin term that refers to a form of personalised transnational trading activity, which is generally characterised by practices of purchasing locally manufactured products overseas and reselling them to consumers in China via international courier services. This article examines Chinese international students’ digital labour invested in daigou and their use of social media, particularly …
Tiktok’s ‘Fox Eye’ Trend and Everyday Activism
This paper examines TikTok as an emerging activist space for Gen Z. It uses the ‘fox eye’ trend as a case study to illustrate how TikTok allows young people – Asian diasporic communities in particular – to create audiovisual narratives of personal experiences and stories to speak up against anti-Asian racism. Through a qualitative content analysis of 30 relevant TikTok posts, the paper argues for the platform’s distinct audiovisual features in en…
Coping with the ‘double bind’ through vlogging
The article examines the vlogging practices of Chinese international students during the COVID-19 pandemic and their positive roles in coping with the double bind. By doing thematic analysis of the content of vlog videos generated by Chinese international students on both Chinese and English audio-visual platforms, we identify three overarching themes of their vlogging stories: ‘everyday personal experience sharing’, ‘vlogger-generated citizen jo…
The paradox of Whiteness
Since its formal inception in the 1970s, Australian (ethno-) ‘multiculturalism’ has been a source of debate over the nation’s imagined trajectory. This internal or national discourse has, inter alia, critiqued the unchanging racialised power relations between groups, where ethnocultural plurality becomes subsumed under a predominant White governmentality. In this article, however, we consider a particular difficulty in sustaining a ‘truly’ multic…
Color, Scent and Size
Steroid-releasing vaginal rings are available for contraception and estrogen replacement therapy, and a new antiretroviral-releasing ring was recently approved for HIV prevention. Marketed rings are white or transparent in appearance, non-scented, and supplied as one-size-fits-all devices with diameters ranging from 54 to 56 mm. In this study, drug-free silicone elastomer rings were manufactured in different sizes, colors and scents, and the opin…
Digital Experiences of International Students
Review of: Digital Experiences of International Students: Challenging Assumptions and Rethinking Engagement , Shanton Chang and Catherine Gomes (eds) (2021) Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 228 pp., ISBN 978-0-36722-635-0, p/bk, £34.99
Social Media in the Lives of Young Connected Migrants
Digital media are a key part of everyday social life for international migrants. However, we don’t know enough about how these migrants critically understand and cope with the cultures and infrastructures of ubiquitous connectivity while on the move. Social Media in the Lives of Young Connected Migrants explores and theorises what it means for young migrants to live in a digital age. Presenting a richly detailed analysis of Chinese international …
Central and peripheral changes in the retina and choroid in patients with diabetes mellitus without clinical diabetic retinopathy assessed by ultra-wide-field optical coherence tomography angiography
Background To explore the central and peripheral retinal and choroidal changes in diabetic patients without clinical diabetic retinopathy (DM-NoDR) using ultra-wide-field swept-source optical coherence tomography angiography (UWF-SS-OCTA). Methods 67 DM-NoDR eyes and 32 age-matched healthy eyes were recruited. Retinal and choroidal parameters, including qualitative retinal microangiopathy, vessel flow (VFD) and linear density (VLD), thickness, an…
The action logic of the older adults about health-seeking in South Rural China
This study showed that the medical practices of the rural elderly were profoundly influenced by their perceptions of health and their life experiences. In the face of diseases, they tended to keep their lives in order, preferring self-treatment practices that address symptoms or selectively following medical advice rather than medical and science-based clinical solutions. In the future, the construction of rural health care should focus on changi…
Component identification of modified sanmiao pills by UPLC-Xevo G2-XS QTOF and its anti-gouty arthritis mechanism based on network pharmacology and experimental verification
The “Fox Eye” Challenge Trend
This article takes the “Fox Eye” challenge that trended on social media in 2020 as a case study in anti-racism activism by (East) Asian users on TikTok. The “Fox Eye” challenge was a trend in which both celebrities and ordinary users—often predominantly White women—posted photos and short videos on how to wear specific styles of make-up to achieve almond-shaped eyes or “fox eyes.” This was often accompanied with a “migraine pose” where a user pus…
Dynamics in the prevalence and clinical manifestations of acute mountain sickness of different ascent protocols during high altitudes exposure
Background: Leisure, work, and sports activities that involve ascending to high altitudes (HA) are growing in popularity, yet they also pose the risk of developing acute mountain sickness (AMS). Despite the dynamic nature of AMS, its prevalence, clinical manifestations, and associated risks have still not to be comprehensively characterized. Methods: = 346) who ascended to the same altitude by bus. Subsequently, they all further ascended to 4,400…
Reciprocal relation between resilience and executive function in Chinese children
The Effect of the Covid-19 Pandemic Recession on Less Educated Women’s Human Capital
The COVID-19 pandemic resulted in major declines in employment of women. We provide projections of impacts of this reduction on less educated women’s future human capital framed within the traditional Mincerian model. We find that wage losses one year out from 2020 are relatively modest on average, generally less than 1%, with the largest for married women without children in the home. But losses are greater for young married women, mothers with …
A novel entropy-based method for quantifying urban energy demand aggregation
Urban energy demand aggregation (UEDA) is a key aspect of urban sustainability, as it can help to improve the energy efficiency of urban systems and reduce their environmental impacts. However, UEDA is a challenging task, as it involves aggregating heterogeneous and diverse energy demands of individual buildings into a collective demand at a given spatial scale. This paper proposes a novel entropy-based method for UEDA that quantifies the informa…
Pushing against the panic
This short commentary is intended to be provocative, as we argue the importance of considering ‘other’ aspects of children's everyday experiences of TikTok. We argue the need to be cautious about how the risks of TikTok, and digital platforms at large, for children are often amplified at the expense of erasing public awareness about the joy, connection, and creativity that many children and young people also experience on these emerging platforms…
Feasibility and acceptability of the Trans-theoretical Model-based advance care planning for community-dwelling older adults with chronic diseases in China
Background Advance care planning (ACP) has emerged as a structured process to honor participants’ autonomy in medical decision-making. Evidence indicates that participation in ACP among community-dwelling older adults with chronic conditions is associated with enhanced medical autonomy, improved quality of life, and reduced decisional burden for family caregivers. However, given cultural nuances specific to China, ACP implementation remains limit…
Researching the Edtech Industry for Children
Digital platforms and services are making inroads into the everyday lives of even very young children. As with many other domains of life, children’s learning and education are increasingly digitised through ‘educational technology’ software, or more commonly EdTech. The rise of the EdTech industry provokes new questions about children’s education in the digital age. Methodologically, studying the EdTech industry for children largely falls in the…
Public data opening and tourism development in China
Public data openness has the potential to reveal latent tourism consumption preferences and trends, improve the allocation of tourism resources, enhance visitor experiences, and foster the development of the tourism industry. This study exploits the staggered rollout of prefecture-level government open data platforms in China as a quasi-natural experiment to estimate the causal effect of public data openness on regional tourism development. The r…
Clan culture and private insurance take-up
Overseas Chinese parent wanghong on Douyin
This article explores how overseas Chinese parent wanghong (网红, internet celebrities) document, curate, and share their everyday life of parenting on Douyin, one of the most actively used short video platforms in China. Wanghong in this article refers to Chinese parents who were born in China and have migrated outside of the country with children or to form families, and who have attracted online audience and fame by sharing their everyday family…
Digital parenting as internet governance
“Mum Jury” (mama pingshentuan) is a non-governmental organization (NGO) established in 2010 in Beijing. It was initiated by the Beijing Internet Association, a non-profit social organization operat
Sociology (15 works) · Political science (13 works) · Psychology (11 works) · Medicine (8 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Gender Studies (7 works) · Law (7 works) · China (6 works) · Media studies (6 works) · Business (5 works)