Jinghong Xu
Biographic Data
| ID | 3915699 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jinghong Xu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jinghong |
| FAMILY NAME | Xu |
| SIGNATURE | XU J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Beijing Normal University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4654-0603 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 39 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 7 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 39 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
“Temporarily Forgetting Stress”
This study examines the content characteristics, audience interaction, and experience feedback of artificial intelligence (AI)-generated psychological healing videos on Douyin, a popular short-video platform in China. It integrates a multimodal analysis framework with stress recovery theory to conduct content analysis of 354 AI-generated healing videos on Douyin and semi-structured interviews with 30 viewers. The study finds that AI-generated vid…
“See How I Did It”
This study analyses the content and strategic features of short videos of embodied health experiences posted by cancer patients on Douyin and examines the audience interactions these videos generate. A content analysis of 525 videos showed that patients posted videos on almost all common types of cancer and that mental health, treatment, and daily life were popular topics. Guided by the health belief model, this study reveals that many videos ref…
Exploring the advertising effectiveness of generative artificial intelligence
The burgeoning use of Generative Artificial Intelligence (GAI) in advertising calls for a deeper understanding of its effectiveness drivers. This study, grounded in the Hierarchy-of-Effects model, empirically investigates how consumer perceptions unique to GAI (novelty, attitude toward GAI, perceived effort) and the potent affective response of awe shape behavioral intentions toward GAI-generated advertisements. Based on SEM analysis of survey da…
How Does Generative AI Reshape Chinese Patients’ Perceptions of Medical Authority
Employing a sequential mixed-methods design combining survey ( N = 607), interviews ( N = 30), and digital ethnography, the study traces pathways from technology adoption to clinical interaction and introduces the concept of “algorithm-mediated negotiated authority.” Findings indicate that trust in generative AI arises from both perceived technical capability and socially conferred legitimacy, mediated by cognitive load. Health literacy and techn…
Climate Change Reporting Frames and Discourse in African Media (2015–2025)
African media play a pivotal role in shaping public perceptions of climate change and influencing related policy agendas through framing and constructing climate justice discourses. This study examines how climate change is framed and constructed in news coverage published on AllAfrica, focusing on the evolution of the salience of specific frames and sub-themes. This study conducts a quantitative content analysis and a qualitative discourse analy…
How do multiple Chinese actors conduct environmental communication on World Environment Day (2013–2022)
This paper analyses the environmental communication of three actors in China (government, media, and public) on World Environment Day (WED) from 2013 to 2022. It employs social network analysis (SNA) and content analysis to compare the topics and strategies of each participant, thereby generalizing China’s environmental communication experience . The study reveals three distinct approaches aligned with China’s WED themes: government communication…
Echoes of Emotion
This study examines strategic differences between Democratic and Republican YouTube influencers during the 2024 US presidential election and their association with comment-level political polarization. Drawing on digital opinion leadership theory, platform architecture perspectives, and visual framing research, we employ a mixed-methods design integrating framing analysis with latent Dirichlet allocation topic modeling. The study analyzes 373 vid…
Relationship Between Emotional Reactions and Information Sharing
Virtual reality therapy for depression and anxiety treatment in China
Pathways to Safeguarding Digital Sovereignty Within a Multi‐Level Governance Framework
As global digitalization and cybersecurity threats intensify, digital sovereignty has become increasingly significant as a vital component of national security and economic independence. Utilizing the fuzzy‐set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA) method and through data from 30 countries, the study identifies internal stability‐driven, externally driven, comprehensively coordinated, and externally dependent pathways to achieving digital sove…
Promoting Resilience and Well-Being of Young Adults with Diabetes Through Digital Storytelling in Arts-Based Research
This arts-based research explores the role and impact of digital storytelling in supporting young adults with diabetes in China to face diabetes-related stigma and promote resilience and well-being. Twenty participants with diabetes recounted their experiences across three workshops and shared their perspectives on digital storytelling through semi-structured interviews. The results indicate that digital storytelling, as a health intervention, fa…
Strategic Choices for Balancing Intimacy and Professionalism
By analyzing 120 episodes from 12 podcast accounts, representing central, provincial, commercial, and individual Chinese news outlets on the Himalaya platform, this study examines the strategies employed by news publishers to balance intimacy and professionalism. Our findings show that while all media types prioritize professionalism, their strategies for cultivating intimacy differ significantly. Compared to commercial and provincial media, cent…
Comparing AI literacy policies in the European Union, the United States, India, and China
Generative Artificial Intelligence and the Media Digital Divide
Can Fragmented Facts Produce Complete Truth? Exploring Short Video Investigative Journalism from Information Integration Perspective
The “Journalistic I” in Multiplatform
Bodily Realities in Digital Journalism
Contentious publicness and visibility management
This article draws on the theoretical framework of contentious publicness, integrated with the concept of legal standing, to track the movement of environmental public interest litigation (EPIL) initiated by the Chinese non-governmental organization (NGO), Friends of Nature (FoN). The results showed that by utilizing the technological infrastructure provided by Weibo, FoN effectively brought the EPIL debate into the public sphere and media spotli…
Chinese Netizens’ Perceptions and Attitudes Towards Carbon Neutrality
This paper analyses 8,033 Weibo posts to examine Chinese netizens’ perceptions and attitudes towards carbon neutrality. Automated and manual content analysis methods are used to identify themes, topics, and interest considerations in the posts, while SnowNLP is employed to assess netizens’ attitudes. The results show that carbon neutrality remains a controversial issue in China. Under popular themes such as carbon management, industry retrofits, …
Can social media promote vaccination? Strategies and effectiveness of Covid-19 vaccine popularization on Chinese Weibo
Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has shown a high severity in terms of mortality, and to mitigate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, a great deal of reliance has been placed on vaccines with defensive effects. In the context of the transmission of hazardous Omicron variant strains, vaccine popularization and acceptance are very important to ensure world health security. Social media can spread information and increase public confidence in and …
Cognition, Experience & reaction
Blockchain as a Breakthrough in Technological Innovation
This study investigates China’s blockchain strategies through the lens of techno-developmentalism and sociotechnical imaginaries. Discourse analysis on 103 policy documents reveals that China has defined three main storylines of blockchain strategies in terms of usability, legitimacy, and applicability, thereby opening diverse imaginations for policy actors. By constructing a top-down framework for technology adoption, China has integrated blockc…
Gender Stereotypes and Composition in the Chinese Film Industry
This study employed qualitative textual analysis to explore gender representation in the 15 highest-grossing films in China. Applying the doing gender framework, the study revealed that there are limited efforts toward gender equality, pervasive stereotypes, and patriarchal and heteronormative ideologies across different genres. Women are portrayed through family-oriented lenses, and an Iron Lady image has emerged, perpetuating shallow perception…
Attitudinal, Normative, and Resource Factors Affecting Communication Scholars’ Data Sharing
This study explores the factors affecting communication scholars’ data-sharing intentions, a critical component of reproducibility and replicability in open science. We replicate Harper and Kim’s (2018) study, which employs the theory of planned behavior to demonstrate the impacts of attitudinal, normative, and resource factors. Specifically, their original research examines data-sharing practices among psychologists, and our replication aims to …
Contextualization
Meyrowitz’s media context theory proposes that new media and their contexts will lead to new behaviors. This article adopts media context theory as a framework and utilizes a textual analysis approach to analyze what Meyrowitz termed middle region behaviors and the contextualization strategies of the traditional Chinese news media ( People’s Daily ) on the social media platform Weibo. The findings reveal three of People’s Daily ’s Weibo news’ inn…
Relationship between news overload and news avoidance
In the era of digital news, news overload and news avoidance represent novel crises confronting the field of journalism. However, most relevant studies are limited to case studies, and a clear understanding of the relationship between news overload and news avoidance has yet to be established. To address this gap, a meta-analysis of 17 papers (with 13,143 participants) was conducted. The results suggest that news avoidance is positively linked to…
Intertextuality and ideology
As one of the major venues for articulating and disseminating national agendas and opinion discourse, national newspapers play a critical role in promulgating ideology. Underpinned by Intertextuality and Social Actor Theory, this study explores intertextual aspects of China Daily’s reporting of COVID-19 to unearth hidden ideology behind texts. The analysis reveals diversified voices from multiple actors around the globe, with China’s official lea…
The “Journalistic I” in Multiplatform
Grounded theory in journalism and communication studies in the Chinese mainland (2004–2017)
Grounded theory is a qualitative research method widely used in social sciences. Using content analysis and CiteSpace visualization software and taking journal articles of China National Knowledge Infrastructure database from 2004 to 2017 as the analysis objects, this paper comprehensively explores the studies using grounded theory in the field of journalism and communication in the Chinese mainland. It shows that the application of grounded theo…
How Do Chinese Media Frame Arab Uprisings
Employing content analysis, this study compares the coverage of the Arab uprisings by the People’s Daily (the official newspaper of the Communist Party of China) and Caixin Net (a typical commercial media) with statements from the Chinese Foreign Ministry in the last decade. It shows that the overall attention given to Arab uprisings in the People’s Daily and Caixin Net declined during the period, but there were shifts in the framing of the confl…
WeChat users’ debunking strategies in response to Covid-19 conspiracy theories
The current study adopted a mixed-methods approach to examine both qualitative and quantitative data of Chinese WeChat users’ strategies in response to COVID-19 conspiracy theories disseminated in WeChat. Thematic analysis based on 30 interviewees suggested interesting patterns about how such conspiracy theories were disseminated based on relationship types within WeChat groups and how different types of debunking strategies were used to counter …
Technology empowerment
Media attention, dependency, self-efficacy, and prosocial behaviours during the outbreak of Covid-19
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused disruption not only in the global health and economic sectors, but also in the field of journalism. As media has played and continues to play a pivotal role in disseminating information during the pandemic crisis, it is critical to examine how media influences the behaviour of their target audience. Subsequently, this study aimed to examine the relationship between media attention, dependency, self-efficacy, and p…
Pathways Linking Media Use to Wellbeing during the Covid-19 Pandemic
During prolonged social isolation, media exposure is often intensified increases as individuals turn to the Internet, social media, television, and newspapers for information, communication, entertainment, and more. This exploratory study explores the correlations among media use, anxiety, and wellbeing in China during the COVID-19 pandemic. A survey questionnaire was designed to measure the following five constructs: media dependency, media atte…
Automatic Coding Mechanisms for Open-Ended Questions in Journalism Surveys
Answers from open-ended questions are a valuable part of journalism surveys. However, due to the expense and difficulties involved in manual coding, the current situation, in which open-ended questions are used and analyzed in large-scale web surveys, is not satisfactory. This article reviews the types, coding tasks, and automatic coding techniques of open-ended questions. We propose a five-step procedure on how to analyze open-ended questions th…
Do Privacy Stress and Brand Trust still Matter? Implications on Continuous Online Purchasing Intention in China
Combating Disinformation or Reinforcing Cognitive Bias
This study conducted a controlled experiment to examine the impact of posters’ IP disclosure on the perceptions of Weibo users with different habits and information preferences and explore whether such disclosure facilitates the fight against disinformation or deepens cognitive biases. Results showed that the IP location of the information poster does influence users’ judgments of the authenticity of the information and that the consistency betwe…
Factors Affecting Trust in Chinese Digital Journalism
Trust in online digital news has become a significant concern affecting social cohesion in China. Under the framework of folk theories, we interviewed urban and rural residents’ perceptions and imaginations of digital news credibility in China’s digital journalism environment. The study finds that digital media giants in China are utilised by both urban and rural residents. Regarding the behaviour of news avoidance, scepticism of digital news acc…
How Do Multiple Actors Conduct Science Communication About Omicron on Weibo
This article explores science communication about Omicron on Weibo by eight actors from November 2021 to June 2022. Regarding the themes of vaccines, symptoms, and medicines, we examined the actors’ communication with content analysis, presented the interactions of different actors using social network analysis, and assessed the impact of weibos on public sentiment using SnowNLP and descriptive statistics. The results showed that scientists are s…
Intertextuality and ideology
As one of the major venues for articulating and disseminating national agendas and opinion discourse, national newspapers play a critical role in promulgating ideology. Underpinned by Intertextuality and Social Actor Theory, this study explores intertextual aspects of China Daily’s reporting of COVID-19 to unearth hidden ideology behind texts. The analysis reveals diversified voices from multiple actors around the globe, with China’s official lea…
Can social media promote vaccination? Strategies and effectiveness of Covid-19 vaccine popularization on Chinese Weibo
Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has shown a high severity in terms of mortality, and to mitigate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, a great deal of reliance has been placed on vaccines with defensive effects. In the context of the transmission of hazardous Omicron variant strains, vaccine popularization and acceptance are very important to ensure world health security. Social media can spread information and increase public confidence in and …
Cognition, Experience & reaction
Blockchain as a Breakthrough in Technological Innovation
This study investigates China’s blockchain strategies through the lens of techno-developmentalism and sociotechnical imaginaries. Discourse analysis on 103 policy documents reveals that China has defined three main storylines of blockchain strategies in terms of usability, legitimacy, and applicability, thereby opening diverse imaginations for policy actors. By constructing a top-down framework for technology adoption, China has integrated blockc…
Gender Stereotypes and Composition in the Chinese Film Industry
This study employed qualitative textual analysis to explore gender representation in the 15 highest-grossing films in China. Applying the doing gender framework, the study revealed that there are limited efforts toward gender equality, pervasive stereotypes, and patriarchal and heteronormative ideologies across different genres. Women are portrayed through family-oriented lenses, and an Iron Lady image has emerged, perpetuating shallow perception…
Attitudinal, Normative, and Resource Factors Affecting Communication Scholars’ Data Sharing
This study explores the factors affecting communication scholars’ data-sharing intentions, a critical component of reproducibility and replicability in open science. We replicate Harper and Kim’s (2018) study, which employs the theory of planned behavior to demonstrate the impacts of attitudinal, normative, and resource factors. Specifically, their original research examines data-sharing practices among psychologists, and our replication aims to …
Contextualization
Meyrowitz’s media context theory proposes that new media and their contexts will lead to new behaviors. This article adopts media context theory as a framework and utilizes a textual analysis approach to analyze what Meyrowitz termed middle region behaviors and the contextualization strategies of the traditional Chinese news media ( People’s Daily ) on the social media platform Weibo. The findings reveal three of People’s Daily ’s Weibo news’ inn…
Why Do We Listen to Audiobooks? The Role of Narrator Performance, BGM, Telepresence, and Emotional Connectedness
Audiobooks have gained significant popularity in China and other regions worldwide. While scholars and practitioners have extensively researched strategies to develop the audiobook market, limited attention has been given to the factors influencing audiences’ attitude toward audiobooks, which is a gap this study aimed to explore. Survey data was collected from a total of 537 consumers and analyzed using partial least squares structural equation m…
Relationship between news overload and news avoidance
In the era of digital news, news overload and news avoidance represent novel crises confronting the field of journalism. However, most relevant studies are limited to case studies, and a clear understanding of the relationship between news overload and news avoidance has yet to be established. To address this gap, a meta-analysis of 17 papers (with 13,143 participants) was conducted. The results suggest that news avoidance is positively linked to…
Pathways to Safeguarding Digital Sovereignty Within a Multi‐Level Governance Framework
As global digitalization and cybersecurity threats intensify, digital sovereignty has become increasingly significant as a vital component of national security and economic independence. Utilizing the fuzzy‐set qualitative comparative analysis (fsQCA) method and through data from 30 countries, the study identifies internal stability‐driven, externally driven, comprehensively coordinated, and externally dependent pathways to achieving digital sove…
Promoting Resilience and Well-Being of Young Adults with Diabetes Through Digital Storytelling in Arts-Based Research
This arts-based research explores the role and impact of digital storytelling in supporting young adults with diabetes in China to face diabetes-related stigma and promote resilience and well-being. Twenty participants with diabetes recounted their experiences across three workshops and shared their perspectives on digital storytelling through semi-structured interviews. The results indicate that digital storytelling, as a health intervention, fa…
Strategic Choices for Balancing Intimacy and Professionalism
By analyzing 120 episodes from 12 podcast accounts, representing central, provincial, commercial, and individual Chinese news outlets on the Himalaya platform, this study examines the strategies employed by news publishers to balance intimacy and professionalism. Our findings show that while all media types prioritize professionalism, their strategies for cultivating intimacy differ significantly. Compared to commercial and provincial media, cent…
Comparing AI literacy policies in the European Union, the United States, India, and China
Generative Artificial Intelligence and the Media Digital Divide
Sociology (17 works) · Computer Science (16 works) · Political science (16 works) · Psychology (15 works) · Business (9 works) · China (9 works) · Misinformation and Its Impacts (8 works) · Social media (8 works) · Social Media and Politics (8 works) · Media Influence and Health (7 works)