Xiaoqun Zhang

Biographic Data

ID3984446
NAMEXiaoqun Zhang
GIVEN NAMESXiaoqun
FAMILY NAMEZhang
SIGNATUREZHANG X
AFFILIATIONSUniversity of North Texas
ORCID0000-0001-5709-5731
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS8
TOTAL CITATIONS7
AUTHOR COUNT8
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2012
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2026
H-INDEX1

  • Exploring the forces driving ChatGPT diffusion on X: An integrated theoretical perspective

    Open AccessXiaoqun Zhang, Lingzi Hong et al.ARTICLEGlobal Media and Communication2026

    This study examines the key factors driving ChatGPT’s diffusion on X through the media effects and innovation diffusion theories. The findings reveal perceived usefulness was discussed more than topics like government regulations, with positive and neutral sentiments dominating. Theoretically, this study advances understanding of innovation diffusion via the media effects perspective. Practically, it offers guidance to AI developers and stakehold…

  • Broadband, effective labor, and economic growth during the Covid-19 pandemic period: Evidence from a cross-country study

    Open AccessXiaoqun ZhangARTICLEOnline Media and Global…2022

    Purpose This study attempts to explore the mechanism of how broadband influences economic growth during the COVID-19 pandemic period, and examine different impacts of fixed and mobile broadband on economic growth during this period. Design/methodology/approach The panel data regression method and across-country data are used to estimate the impacts of fixed broadband and mobile broadband on economic growth rate. Findings The mobile broadband pene…

  • Broadband and economic growth in China: An empirical study during the Covid-19 pandemic period

    Open AccessXiaoqun ZhangARTICLETelematics and Informatics2021

  • Business, soft power, and whitewashing: Three themes in the US media coverage of “The Great Wall” film

    Open AccessXiaoqun ZhangARTICLEGlobal Media and China2017

    Applying the grounded theory approach, this study identified three major themes– business, soft power, and whitewashing–in the US media coverage of “The Great Wall” film, which is the biggest co-production between Hollywood and China in history. It also discussed the interconnections among the three themes and the implications of these interconnections. The connection between business and soft power revealed China’s strategy of enhancing its soft…

  • Economics

    Open AccessXiaoqun ZhangCHAPTERThe International Encyclopedia of…2016

    Economics is a discipline that explores the contradiction between humans' unlimited material needs and the scarce resources they have. Economists have various propositions on how to address this contradiction. Four major economic theories have been developed upon these different propositions: classical political economics, Marxian economics, Keynesian economics, and neoclassical economics. They have different views of the ownership of property an…

  • Assessing the media visibility of China’s President Xi Jinping’s first 3-year governance in The New York Times

    Open AccessXiaoqun ZhangARTICLEGlobal Media and China2016

    This study assessed the media visibility, a composite measure of attention and prominence, of China’s President Xi Jinping’s first 3-year governance in The New York Times. The assessment was based on the content analysis of 317 news articles focusing on Chinese President. Qualitative content analysis was used to identify three major frames, 12 mid-level frames, and 18 sub-frames. Quantitative content analysis was used to measure the attention, pr…

  • Time budget, news search time cost, and news media choice

    Open AccessXiaoqun Zhang, Louisa HaARTICLETime & Society2015References: 31

    Applying a microeconomic framework, this study analyzes how people allocate their time on traditional and new news media in the age of media abundance. It argues that people with tight time budgets (more work time and less leisure time) spend less time on the consumption of traditional news media than people with loose time budgets (more leisure time and less work time). Moreover, people with tight time budgets allocate more of their news consump…

  • Racialization of the Virginia Tech Shootings: A comparison of local and national newspapers

    Kyle J Holody, Sung‐yeon Park et al.ARTICLEJournalism Studies2012Cited by: 7References: 8

    This study investigated differences between how local and national newspapers framed race in their coverage of the 2007 Virginia Tech (VT) shootings. The results showed a local newspaper, with geographic and social ties to the VT community, published more stories about the shootings than did national newspapers and continued to publish articles well after the national newspapers had stopped. Further, national newspapers mentioned the shooter's ra…