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University of North Carolina : Chapel Hill, NC, US

2020-08 to present | Assistant Professor (Communication)
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Xinyan Zhao

Education and qualifications (1)

University of Maryland: College Park, MD, US

2011-09-01 to 2017-07-01 | Ph.D. (Communication)
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Xinyan Zhao

Works (35)

Tailoring generative AI chatbots for multiethnic communities in disaster preparedness communication: extending the CASA paradigm

Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication
2025-01-24 | Journal article
Contributors: Xinyan Zhao; Yuan Sun; Wenlin Liu; Chau-Wai Wong; Mike Yao
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Streaming disasters on TikTok: Examining social mediated crisis communication, public engagement, and emotional responses during the 2023 Maui wildfire

Public Relations Review
2024-12 | Journal article
Contributors: Wenlin Liu; Xinyan Zhao; Mengqi (Monica) Zhan; Stephanie Hernandez
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Analyzing narrative contagion through digital storytelling in social media conversations: An AI-powered computational approach

New Media & Society
2024-10-15 | Journal article
Contributors: Xinyan Zhao; Zexin Ma; Rong Ma
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Situating deep learning in a relating management approach: Examining the dynamics and outcomes of contingent organization-public relationships (COPRs) in crisis

Public Relations Review
2024-06 | Journal article
Contributors: Xinyan Zhao; Yang Cheng; Jaekuk Lee; Jessica Shaw
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Medium and source convergence in crisis information acquisition: Patterns, antecedents, and outcomes

New Media & Society
2024-05 | Journal article
Contributors: Xinyan Zhao; Sifan Xu; Lucinda L. Austin
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Automated measures of sentiment via transformer- and lexicon-based sentiment analysis (TLSA)

Journal of Computational Social Science
2024-04 | Journal article
Contributors: Xinyan Zhao; Chau-Wai Wong
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How gay and bisexual men respond to mpox messages through risk- versus identity-based mechanisms: An integrated model

Communication Monographs
2024-04-02 | Journal article
Contributors: Rong Ma; Xinyan Zhao
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How People Process Different Types of Health Misinformation: Roles of Content Falsity and Evidence Type

Health Communication
2024-03-20 | Journal article
Contributors: Xinyan Zhao; Stephanie J. Tsang
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How Information Repertoire Affects Vaccine Hesitancy: Processes of Information Verification and Cognitive Elaboration

Health Communication
2024-01-02 | Journal article
Contributors: Xinyan Zhao; Zexin Ma; Sifan Xu; Lucinda L. Austin
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Automated Measures of Sentiment via Transformer- and Lexicon-Based Sentiment Analysis (TLSA)

2023-11-29 | Preprint
Contributors: Xinyan Zhao; Chau-Wai Wong
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Automated Measures of Sentiment via Transformer- and Lexicon-Based Sentiment Analysis (TLSA)

2023-11-29 | Preprint
Contributors: Xinyan Zhao; Chau-Wai Wong
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How Communication Ecology Impacts Disaster Support Seeking in Multiethnic Communities: The Roles of Disaster Communication Network Size, Heterogeneity, and Localness

Mass Communication and Society
2023-09-03 | Journal article
Contributors: Wenlin Liu; Xinyan Zhao
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Dynamics of Networked Framing: Automated Frame Analysis of Government Media and the Public on Weibo With Pandemic Big Data

Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly
2023-03 | Journal article
Contributors: Xinyan Zhao; Xiaohui Wang
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Fostering Organization-Public Relationships Through Openness and Engagement: A Meta-Analysis

Journal of Public Relations Research
2023-03-04 | Journal article
Contributors: Mengqi Monica Zhan; Xinyan Zhao
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Interplay of message features and source: predicting twitter users’ engagement behaviors following a terrorist attack

Communication Research Reports
2023-01-01 | Journal article
Contributors: Mengqi Monica Zhan; Xinyan Zhao; Liang Ma
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Primacy effect of emotions in social stories: User engagement behaviors with breast cancer narratives on Facebook

Computers in Human Behavior
2022-12 | Journal article
Contributors: Xinyan Zhao; Xiaohui Wang; Zexin Ma; Rong Ma
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Automated Measures of Sentiment via Transformer- and Lexicon-Based Sentiment Analysis (TLSA)

2022-12-30 | Preprint
Contributors: Xinyan Zhao; Chau-Wai Wong
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How brand-stakeholder dialogue drives brand-hosted community engagement on social media: A mixed-methods approach

Computers in Human Behavior
2022-06 | Journal article
Contributors: Xinyan Zhao; Yi-Ru Regina Chen
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Self‐protection by fact‐checking: How pandemic information seeking and verifying affect preventive behaviours

Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management
2022-06 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0966-0879
Part of ISSN: 1468-5973
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Xinyan Zhao

Assessing Mechanisms Underlying the Sharing of Official and Unofficial Information during a Pandemic

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
2021-12-17 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1660-4601
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Xinyan Zhao

What fosters interorganizational frame convergence: Examining a semantic network during the opioid crisis

Public Relations Review
2021-09 | Journal article
Contributors: Xinyan Zhao; Hyun Jee Oh
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Toward Effective Automated Content Analysis via Crowdsourcing

2021 IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME)
2021-07-05 | Conference paper
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Xinyan Zhao

How publics react to situational and renewing organizational responses across crises: Examining SCCT and DOR in social-mediated crises

Public Relations Review
2020-11 | Journal article
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Xinyan Zhao
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Digital dialogue in online brand communities: Examining the social network outcomes of brands' dialogue with Facebook users

Telematics and Informatics
2020-09 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0736-5853
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Xinyan Zhao

Proattitudinal versus counterattitudinal messages: Message discrepancy, reactance, and the boomerang effect

Communication Monographs
2020-09-02 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0363-7751
Part of ISSN: 1479-5787
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Xinyan Zhao

Appealing to the heart: How social media communication characteristics affect audiences’ message favorability during Manchester terrorist attack.

International Journal of Communication
2019 | Journal article
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Xinyan Zhao

Understanding motivated publics during disasters: Examining message functions, frames, and styles of social media influentials and followers

Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management
2019-12 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0966-0879
Part of ISSN: 1468-5973
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Xinyan Zhao

Analyzing Trend for U.S. Immigrants’ e-Health Engagement from 2008 to 2013

Health Communication
2019-09-19 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1041-0236
Part of ISSN: 1532-7027
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Xinyan Zhao

Disentangling social media influence in crises: Testing a four-factor model of social media influence with large data

Public Relations Review
2018-11 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0363-8111
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Xinyan Zhao

Examining multiplicity and dynamics of publics’ crisis narratives with large-scale Twitter data

Public Relations Review
2018-11 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0363-8111
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Xinyan Zhao

Segmenting and Understanding Publics in a Social Media Information Sharing Network: An Interactional and Dynamic Approach

International Journal of Strategic Communication
2018-01 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1553-118X
Part of ISSN: 1553-1198
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Xinyan Zhao

TV, Social Media, and College Students’ Binge Drinking Intentions: Moderated Mediation Models

Journal of Health Communication
2018-01-02 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1081-0730
Part of ISSN: 1087-0415
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Xinyan Zhao

Persuasiveness of anti-smoking messages: self-construal and message focus

Health Education
2017-06-05 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0965-4283
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Xinyan Zhao

Effects of Perceived Media Diversity and Media Reliance on Public Opinion Expression

International Journal of Public Opinion Research
2016-09 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0954-2892
Part of ISSN: 1471-6909
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Xinyan Zhao

The Influence of Absolute and Comparative Risk Perceptions on Cervical Cancer Screening and the Mediating Role of Cancer Worry

Journal of Health Communication
2016-01-02 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1081-0730
Part of ISSN: 1087-0415
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Xinyan Zhao

Peer review (2 reviews for 2 publications/grants)

Review activity for Journal of computational social science. (1)
Review activity for Public relations review. (1)