Zhian Zhang
Biographic Data
| ID | 3917786 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Zhian Zhang |
| GIVEN NAMES | Zhian |
| FAMILY NAME | Zhang |
| SIGNATURE | ZHANG Z |
| AFFILIATIONS | Fudan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3905-0262 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 19 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
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…
Technology for Good? Tencent's Corporate Social Responsibility, Institutional Chameleon, and the Future of Platform Economies
There have been global regulatory debates and efforts aimed at holding digital platforms accountable for the public interest. Utilizing mixed methods of documentary research and expert interviews, this article examines how the Chinese digital giant Tencent leverages its adaptive capabilities for corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives in response to increasingly stringent regulation in China. Specifically, it explores Tencent's organiza…
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…
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…
Country- and app-level factors affecting the adoption and evaluation of Covid-19 mobile apps
This study systematically investigates factors affecting the adoption and evaluation of COVID-19 apps. Evidence shows that government-developed apps and the inclusion of contact tracing and consultation app functions strongly predict app adoption
Immersive virtual reality news
Self as enterprise
Situated in China’s neoliberal context and its rapid development of information communication technologies (ICTs), this study aimed to examine how disabled people in China transformed themselves into new self-enterprising subjects in the wave of ‘Internet + Disability.’ In order to answer this question, this study tried to develop an analytical framework to illustrate the disability practices that situated in the ICTs and neoliberal context, unde…
Do circumvention tools promote democratic values? Exploring the correlates of anticensorship technology adoption in China
China is one of the world’s most sophisticated Internet censoring countries. Chinese Internet users who wish to visit blocked Web sites will have to use circumvention tools to get around the Great Firewall, a censoring system inspecting, filtering, and blocking foreign Web sites outside China. Using a nationally representative survey dataset, this study compares circumvention tool users and nonusers in terms of demographic features, Internet-use …
To include, or not to include, that is the question
Information and communication technologies (ICTs) are increasingly important for people with disabilities (PWDs), suggesting digital inclusion as a possible social mechanism against the social exclusion of disability. This study suggests a more complicated relationship between ICTs and disability. Situated in a Chinese context and based on research methods of ethnographic participant observation and in-depth interviews, this study explains why an…
Who are the investigative journalists in China? Findings from a survey in 2010
Despite being caught between political censorship and market pressure, investigative journalism in China has exhibited persistent vibrancy over the last three decades. This report seeks to understand the driving force behind this phenomenon by exploring the demographic composition and the ways in which Chinese investigative reporters perceive their jobs. About 259 reporters from 73 media institutions in 18 provinces participated in this study. Co…
Human resource development in China
To include, or not to include, that is the question
Information and communication technologies (ICTs) are increasingly important for people with disabilities (PWDs), suggesting digital inclusion as a possible social mechanism against the social exclusion of disability. This study suggests a more complicated relationship between ICTs and disability. Situated in a Chinese context and based on research methods of ethnographic participant observation and in-depth interviews, this study explains why an…
Who are the investigative journalists in China? Findings from a survey in 2010
Despite being caught between political censorship and market pressure, investigative journalism in China has exhibited persistent vibrancy over the last three decades. This report seeks to understand the driving force behind this phenomenon by exploring the demographic composition and the ways in which Chinese investigative reporters perceive their jobs. About 259 reporters from 73 media institutions in 18 provinces participated in this study. Co…
Human resource development in China
Do circumvention tools promote democratic values? Exploring the correlates of anticensorship technology adoption in China
China is one of the world’s most sophisticated Internet censoring countries. Chinese Internet users who wish to visit blocked Web sites will have to use circumvention tools to get around the Great Firewall, a censoring system inspecting, filtering, and blocking foreign Web sites outside China. Using a nationally representative survey dataset, this study compares circumvention tool users and nonusers in terms of demographic features, Internet-use …
Human resource development in China
Who are the investigative journalists in China? Findings from a survey in 2010
Despite being caught between political censorship and market pressure, investigative journalism in China has exhibited persistent vibrancy over the last three decades. This report seeks to understand the driving force behind this phenomenon by exploring the demographic composition and the ways in which Chinese investigative reporters perceive their jobs. About 259 reporters from 73 media institutions in 18 provinces participated in this study. Co…
Do circumvention tools promote democratic values? Exploring the correlates of anticensorship technology adoption in China
China is one of the world’s most sophisticated Internet censoring countries. Chinese Internet users who wish to visit blocked Web sites will have to use circumvention tools to get around the Great Firewall, a censoring system inspecting, filtering, and blocking foreign Web sites outside China. Using a nationally representative survey dataset, this study compares circumvention tool users and nonusers in terms of demographic features, Internet-use …
To include, or not to include, that is the question
Information and communication technologies (ICTs) are increasingly important for people with disabilities (PWDs), suggesting digital inclusion as a possible social mechanism against the social exclusion of disability. This study suggests a more complicated relationship between ICTs and disability. Situated in a Chinese context and based on research methods of ethnographic participant observation and in-depth interviews, this study explains why an…
Self as enterprise
Situated in China’s neoliberal context and its rapid development of information communication technologies (ICTs), this study aimed to examine how disabled people in China transformed themselves into new self-enterprising subjects in the wave of ‘Internet + Disability.’ In order to answer this question, this study tried to develop an analytical framework to illustrate the disability practices that situated in the ICTs and neoliberal context, unde…
Immersive virtual reality news
Country- and app-level factors affecting the adoption and evaluation of Covid-19 mobile apps
This study systematically investigates factors affecting the adoption and evaluation of COVID-19 apps. Evidence shows that government-developed apps and the inclusion of contact tracing and consultation app functions strongly predict app adoption
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…
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…
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…
Technology for Good? Tencent's Corporate Social Responsibility, Institutional Chameleon, and the Future of Platform Economies
There have been global regulatory debates and efforts aimed at holding digital platforms accountable for the public interest. Utilizing mixed methods of documentary research and expert interviews, this article examines how the Chinese digital giant Tencent leverages its adaptive capabilities for corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives in response to increasingly stringent regulation in China. Specifically, it explores Tencent's organiza…
Political science (8 works) · Public relations (6 works) · China (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Psychology (4 works) · Social Media and Politics (4 works) · Business (3 works) · Media Studies and Communication (3 works) · The Internet (3 works)