Shuhuan Zhou
Biographic Data
| ID | 3915130 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Shuhuan Zhou |
| GIVEN NAMES | Shuhuan |
| FAMILY NAME | Zhou |
| SIGNATURE | ZHOU S |
| AFFILIATIONS | Tianjin University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4366-7799 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Who triggers the hostile media effect in the generative AI era? Examining stance congruence, AI and human news writer and actor diversity in China
In the era of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI), the impact of news on audiences may depend not only on stance and source diversity but also on whether the news is generated by AI.This study employed a 2 × 2 × 2 between-subjects factorial experiment, manipulating news writer (GenAI vs human) and actor diversity (single vs multiple), while news stance (pro vs con) was combined with participants’ prior attitudes to calculate stance congrue…
Multi-stakeholder game dynamics in copyright governance of China's short video
How news consumption through different media sources affects political trust
The effects of incidental news exposure on social media on Chinese youth
Chinese youths––the “mobile internet generation”––are increasingly exposed to news incidentally through mobile social media. Based on the theory of incidental news exposure and semi-structured interviews with 41 Chinese youths, this study inductively explored the effects of incidental news exposure on news diversity and expression on social media from an audience-centered perspective. The results question previous findings of positive impacts of …
Effects of Covid-19 Fact-Checking on Youths’ Rectifying Behaviors in Chinese Social Media
Using a between-subjects experimental design with 660, this study investigated the impact of exposure and non-exposure to fact-checking on people’s rectifying behaviors in response to COVID-19 fake news. We found that participants who read COVID-19 fake news accompanied by true fact-checking information believed that the news stories had a greater impact on others than on themselves. This phenomenon is commonly known as the third-person effect (T…
Damn Their Media, Damn the Other Side
This study examined how relative hostile media perception (i.e. a perceived credibility gap between pro- and counter-attitudinal partisan media outlets) connects to affective polarization. Drawing on theoretical foundations of the corrective action and the self-effects of communication, we tested whether expressive political participation resulting from relative hostile media perceptions exacerbated affective polarization. Findings from a two-wav…
Affective agenda dynamics on social media
Emotions shared by posters on social media can have a profound impact on individuals and society. This was particularly evident during the COVID-19 pandemic. To examine the types, trends, and dynamics of emotions communicated by the public, government, and media, this study collected 67,689 public posts, 36,740 government posts, and 126,988 media posts on Sina Weibo during the first 6 months of the COVID-19 pandemic. The vector autoregression mod…
The Impact of Social Media News Consumption on Online Political Expression in China
Political ideology and political trust are key factors that affect people’s political expression. With the development of the internet, social media is at the forefront of China’s mainstream ideological dissemination, and social media users are becoming the dominant force in various online public opinion and political expression venues. This study examines whether Chinese netizens’ trust in the government and their political ideology impact the r…
Impact of Internet Pornography on Chinese Teens
Based on the third-person effect hypothesis-people's belief that the media influences others more than it influences themselves-we administered a questionnaire to Chinese teens ( N = 1,538) to discover the impacts of exposure to internet pornography on perceptions of pornography and attitudes toward censorship of pornography. The results validated the third-person effect hypothesis and showed that teens' subjective perceptions of what constitutes…
Agenda Dynamics on Social Media During Covid-19 Pandemic
Social media has profoundly altered the way the public, the media, and the government set their agendas. To examine the dynamics between public, government, and media agendas, this study collected posts on Sina Weibo during the COVID-19 pandemic in China from January 2020 to July 2020. The word2vec model and Granger causality analysis were used to measure agenda networks and examine the agenda dynamics. The results show that (1) pandemic statisti…
Status and Risk Factors of Chinese Teenagers’ Exposure to Cyberbullying
The debate over teenagers’ exposure to cyberbullying has aroused broad public concern, but there are few nationwide empirical studies on teen cyberbullying in China. Based on social cognitive theory, this study analyzes the current state of cyberbullying among Chinese teenagers using a questionnaire survey ( N = 1,538) distributed to teenagers in eastern, central, and western regions of China. The results suggest that 18.1% ( N = 279) of responde…
Impact of perceived risk on epidemic information seeking during the outbreak of Covid-19 in China
This paper examines how perceived risk influences epidemic information seeking behaviour, which in turn helps us understand public information seeking generally. To this end, the effects of perceived risk, information needs and negative emotions on public epidemic information seeking were examined using a structural equation model (SEM) based on data collected via an online survey (N = 407) covering two regions in China, Guangdong and Hubei, and …
Impact of perceived risk on epidemic information seeking during the outbreak of Covid-19 in China
This paper examines how perceived risk influences epidemic information seeking behaviour, which in turn helps us understand public information seeking generally. To this end, the effects of perceived risk, information needs and negative emotions on public epidemic information seeking were examined using a structural equation model (SEM) based on data collected via an online survey (N = 407) covering two regions in China, Guangdong and Hubei, and …
Status and Risk Factors of Chinese Teenagers’ Exposure to Cyberbullying
The debate over teenagers’ exposure to cyberbullying has aroused broad public concern, but there are few nationwide empirical studies on teen cyberbullying in China. Based on social cognitive theory, this study analyzes the current state of cyberbullying among Chinese teenagers using a questionnaire survey ( N = 1,538) distributed to teenagers in eastern, central, and western regions of China. The results suggest that 18.1% ( N = 279) of responde…
Impact of perceived risk on epidemic information seeking during the outbreak of Covid-19 in China
This paper examines how perceived risk influences epidemic information seeking behaviour, which in turn helps us understand public information seeking generally. To this end, the effects of perceived risk, information needs and negative emotions on public epidemic information seeking were examined using a structural equation model (SEM) based on data collected via an online survey (N = 407) covering two regions in China, Guangdong and Hubei, and …
Agenda Dynamics on Social Media During Covid-19 Pandemic
Social media has profoundly altered the way the public, the media, and the government set their agendas. To examine the dynamics between public, government, and media agendas, this study collected posts on Sina Weibo during the COVID-19 pandemic in China from January 2020 to July 2020. The word2vec model and Granger causality analysis were used to measure agenda networks and examine the agenda dynamics. The results show that (1) pandemic statisti…
Affective agenda dynamics on social media
Emotions shared by posters on social media can have a profound impact on individuals and society. This was particularly evident during the COVID-19 pandemic. To examine the types, trends, and dynamics of emotions communicated by the public, government, and media, this study collected 67,689 public posts, 36,740 government posts, and 126,988 media posts on Sina Weibo during the first 6 months of the COVID-19 pandemic. The vector autoregression mod…
The Impact of Social Media News Consumption on Online Political Expression in China
Political ideology and political trust are key factors that affect people’s political expression. With the development of the internet, social media is at the forefront of China’s mainstream ideological dissemination, and social media users are becoming the dominant force in various online public opinion and political expression venues. This study examines whether Chinese netizens’ trust in the government and their political ideology impact the r…
Impact of Internet Pornography on Chinese Teens
Based on the third-person effect hypothesis-people's belief that the media influences others more than it influences themselves-we administered a questionnaire to Chinese teens ( N = 1,538) to discover the impacts of exposure to internet pornography on perceptions of pornography and attitudes toward censorship of pornography. The results validated the third-person effect hypothesis and showed that teens' subjective perceptions of what constitutes…
Damn Their Media, Damn the Other Side
This study examined how relative hostile media perception (i.e. a perceived credibility gap between pro- and counter-attitudinal partisan media outlets) connects to affective polarization. Drawing on theoretical foundations of the corrective action and the self-effects of communication, we tested whether expressive political participation resulting from relative hostile media perceptions exacerbated affective polarization. Findings from a two-wav…
The effects of incidental news exposure on social media on Chinese youth
Chinese youths––the “mobile internet generation”––are increasingly exposed to news incidentally through mobile social media. Based on the theory of incidental news exposure and semi-structured interviews with 41 Chinese youths, this study inductively explored the effects of incidental news exposure on news diversity and expression on social media from an audience-centered perspective. The results question previous findings of positive impacts of …
Effects of Covid-19 Fact-Checking on Youths’ Rectifying Behaviors in Chinese Social Media
Using a between-subjects experimental design with 660, this study investigated the impact of exposure and non-exposure to fact-checking on people’s rectifying behaviors in response to COVID-19 fake news. We found that participants who read COVID-19 fake news accompanied by true fact-checking information believed that the news stories had a greater impact on others than on themselves. This phenomenon is commonly known as the third-person effect (T…
Who triggers the hostile media effect in the generative AI era? Examining stance congruence, AI and human news writer and actor diversity in China
In the era of generative artificial intelligence (GenAI), the impact of news on audiences may depend not only on stance and source diversity but also on whether the news is generated by AI.This study employed a 2 × 2 × 2 between-subjects factorial experiment, manipulating news writer (GenAI vs human) and actor diversity (single vs multiple), while news stance (pro vs con) was combined with participants’ prior attitudes to calculate stance congrue…
Multi-stakeholder game dynamics in copyright governance of China's short video
How news consumption through different media sources affects political trust
China (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Social Media and Politics (6 works) · Media Studies and Communication (5 works) · Misinformation and Its Impacts (5 works) · Social media (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Law (3 works)