Sifan Xu
Biographic Data
| ID | 6626205 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Sifan Xu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Sifan |
| FAMILY NAME | Xu |
| SIGNATURE | XU S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Tennessee at Knoxville |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8669-950X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
How Information Repertoire Affects Vaccine Hesitancy
As information consumption plays a critical role in addressing vaccine hesitancy in the hybrid media environment, it becomes crucial to understand how individuals' use of a combination of channels and sources affects their vaccine hesitancy. Based on information repertoire approaches emphasizing the multiplicity of channels and sources, we investigated different patterns of information repertoire related to the COVID-19 pandemic and how these pat…
The Impact of Supervisory Communication on Newcomers’ Adjustment, Well-Being, and Relationships With Their Organization
Integrating theories from relationship management, organizational socialization, and leadership communication, the current study examines how an essential component of internal communication—leaders’ use of motivating language—can facilitate newcomers’ socialization, strengthen their relationship with the organization, and promote psychological well-being over time. Our findings, based on a two-wave longitudinal survey of 390 full-time employees …
Crisis factors, emotions, and perceived informational channel significance during emergencies
Individuals’ information seeking and the role of emotions are important to crisis communication research. A survey was conducted (N = 1100) to examine the chain effects of crisis factors on college young adults’ discrete emotions and perceived channel significance. Key findings suggest that crisis factors affect channel significance both directly and indirectly. Crisis factors overall elicit more fear and anxiety (attribution-independent emotions…
Medium and source convergence in crisis information acquisition
To understand how individuals navigate the complex, dynamic, and bewildering media information environment, we propose a convergence framework theorizing individuals’ acquisition of information from distinct sources on multiple mediums, along with its antecedents and consequences. This study is among the first to test the convergence framework. Using a national sample during the COVID-19 pandemic, our results revealed four convergence patterns an…
Hashtag homophily in twitter network
Networked publics in #NoDapl protests
Hashtag “#NoDAPL” was used by environmental activists for a series of protests against the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline beginning in early 2016. Utilizing 2 million tweets with the main hashtag, as well as the auxiliary hashtags, from around 550,000 unique users between November 2016 and February 2017, the study investigated the interactions among four groups—regular activists, Native American activists, reporters, and organizations…
Medium and source convergence in crisis information acquisition
To understand how individuals navigate the complex, dynamic, and bewildering media information environment, we propose a convergence framework theorizing individuals’ acquisition of information from distinct sources on multiple mediums, along with its antecedents and consequences. This study is among the first to test the convergence framework. Using a national sample during the COVID-19 pandemic, our results revealed four convergence patterns an…
Networked publics in #NoDapl protests
Hashtag “#NoDAPL” was used by environmental activists for a series of protests against the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline beginning in early 2016. Utilizing 2 million tweets with the main hashtag, as well as the auxiliary hashtags, from around 550,000 unique users between November 2016 and February 2017, the study investigated the interactions among four groups—regular activists, Native American activists, reporters, and organizations…
Hashtag homophily in twitter network
Networked publics in #NoDapl protests
Hashtag “#NoDAPL” was used by environmental activists for a series of protests against the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline beginning in early 2016. Utilizing 2 million tweets with the main hashtag, as well as the auxiliary hashtags, from around 550,000 unique users between November 2016 and February 2017, the study investigated the interactions among four groups—regular activists, Native American activists, reporters, and organizations…
Medium and source convergence in crisis information acquisition
To understand how individuals navigate the complex, dynamic, and bewildering media information environment, we propose a convergence framework theorizing individuals’ acquisition of information from distinct sources on multiple mediums, along with its antecedents and consequences. This study is among the first to test the convergence framework. Using a national sample during the COVID-19 pandemic, our results revealed four convergence patterns an…
Crisis factors, emotions, and perceived informational channel significance during emergencies
Individuals’ information seeking and the role of emotions are important to crisis communication research. A survey was conducted (N = 1100) to examine the chain effects of crisis factors on college young adults’ discrete emotions and perceived channel significance. Key findings suggest that crisis factors affect channel significance both directly and indirectly. Crisis factors overall elicit more fear and anxiety (attribution-independent emotions…
How Information Repertoire Affects Vaccine Hesitancy
As information consumption plays a critical role in addressing vaccine hesitancy in the hybrid media environment, it becomes crucial to understand how individuals' use of a combination of channels and sources affects their vaccine hesitancy. Based on information repertoire approaches emphasizing the multiplicity of channels and sources, we investigated different patterns of information repertoire related to the COVID-19 pandemic and how these pat…
The Impact of Supervisory Communication on Newcomers’ Adjustment, Well-Being, and Relationships With Their Organization
Integrating theories from relationship management, organizational socialization, and leadership communication, the current study examines how an essential component of internal communication—leaders’ use of motivating language—can facilitate newcomers’ socialization, strengthen their relationship with the organization, and promote psychological well-being over time. Our findings, based on a two-wave longitudinal survey of 390 full-time employees …
Psychology (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · Opinion Dynamics and Social Influence (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Public Relations and Crisis Communication (3 works) · Complex Network Analysis Techniques (2 works) · Disaster Management and Resilience (2 works) · Exponential random graph models (2 works) · Graph (2 works)