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Recent Journal Articles:

Xu, Q., & Chen, C. (online first). Conversation styles and role expectations in an LLM:  Effects on readability, linguistic features, and users’ perceptions in a Copilot experiment. Behaviour & Information Technology. 

Xu, Q., & Jiang, K. (2025). UX design vs. UI design: Understanding U.S. employers’ expectations through semantic analysis of job descriptions. Communication Design Quarterly, 13(1), 15-30. 

Jiang, K., & Xu, Q., (2023). Analyzing the dynamics of social media texts using coherency network analysis: A case study of the tweets with the co-hashtags of #BlackLivesMatter and #StopAsianHate. Frontiers in Research Metrics and Analytics, 8, 1239726. 

Song, Y., Yu, N., & Xu, Q. (2023). Public discourse of GMOs in China: An investigation of commenting and reposting behaviors on social media. Emerging Media: Technology, Industry and Society, 1(1), 70-92. 

Xie, T., Ge, Y, Xu, Q., Chen, S. (2023). Public awareness and sentiment analysis of COVID-related discussions using BERT-based infoveillance. AI, 4(1), 333-347. 

Jiang, K., Xu, Q., Afromsky, A. (2023). What do employs expect for jobs requiring media analytics? A semantic network analysis of job descriptions of in-person and remote positions during the COVID-19 pandemic. Journalism & Mass Communication Educator, 78(1), 5-24. 

Song, Y., Wang, S., & Xu, Q. (2022). Fighting misinformation on social media: Effects of evidence type and presentation mode. Health Education Research, 37(3), 185-198. 

Shaw Jr, G., Nadkarni, D., Phann, E., Sielaty, R., Ledenyi, M., Abnowf, R., Xu, Q., Arredondo, P., & Chen, S. (2022). Separating features from functionality: A computational analysis of vaccination apps. JMIR Formative Research, 6(10), e36818. 

Cui, X., & Xu, Q. (2021). Television vs. social media: Examining the effects of media platforms on audience’s emotion and sense of social solidarity during a media event. Western Journal of Communication, 85(5), 632-653. 

Xu, Q., Chen, S., & Safarnejad, L. (2021). Effects of information veracity and message frames on information dissemination: A case study of 2016 Zika epidemic discussion on Twitter. Health Communication, 36(12), 1560-1570. 

Safarnejad, L., Xu, Q., Ge, Y., & Chen, S. (2021). A multiple feature category data mining and machine learning approach to characterize and detect health misinformation on social media. IEEE Internet Computing, 25(5), 43-51. 

Rui, J., Cui, X., Xu, Q., & Yu, N. (2021). How public interactions via WeChat Moments predict the emotional well-being of Chinese seniors and emerging seniors: The moderating roles of perceived self-network discrepancy and age. Cyberpsychology: Journal of Psychosocial Research on Cyberspace, 15(3), Article 2. 

Xu, Q., Song, Y., Yu, N., & Chen, S. (2021). Are you passing along something true or false? The dissemination of GMO messages on social media. Public Understanding of Science, 30(3). 

Chen, S., Zhou, L., Song, Y., Xu, Q., Wang, P., Wang, K., Ge, Y., & Janies, D. (2021). A Novel Machine Learning Framework for Comparison of Viral COVID-19-Related Sina Weibo and Twitter Posts: Workflow Development and Content Analysis. Journal of Medical Internet Research, 23(1): e24889. 

Overman, A., Xu, Q., & Little, D. (2020). What do students actually pay attention to and remember from a syllabus?: An eye tracking study of visually-rich and text-based syllabi. Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Psychology, 6(4), 285–300. 

Safarnejad, L., Xu, Q., Ge, Y., Krishnan, S., Bagarvathi, A., & Chen, S. (2020) Contrasting health misinformation and relevant information on social media during a health emergency: A dynamic information dissemination perspective. American Journal of Public Health, 110 (S3): S340-S347. 

Safarnejad, L., Xu, Q., Ge, Y., Bagavathi, A., Krishnan, S., & Chen, S. (2020). Identifying influential factors on discussion dynamics of emerging health issues on social media: A computational study. JMIR Public Health and Surveillance, 6(3): e17175 

Cui, X., & Xu, Q. (2020). The roles of identity and emotion in media events’ social integration mechanism: A case study of the 2017 U.S. Presidential Inauguration. Atlantic Journal of Communication, 28(2), 138-152. 

Yu, F., Ruel, L., Tyler, R., Xu, Q., Cui, H., Karanasios, S., Keilbach, A., Nguyen, B. X., & Mostafa, J. (2020). Innovative UX methods for information access based on interdisciplinary approaches: Practical lessons from academia and industry data and information management. Data and Information Management, 4(1), 74-80. 

Rui, J. R., Yu, N., Xu, Q., & Cui, X. (2019). Getting connected while aging: The effects of Wechat network characteristics on the well-being of mature Chinese adults. Chinese Journal of Communication, 12(1), 25-43. 

Xu, Q., Yu, N., & Song, Y. (2018). User engagement in public discourse on genetically modified organisms: The role of opinion leaders on social media. Science Communication, 40(6), 691-717. 

Chen, S., Xu, Q., Buchenberger, J., Bagavathi, A., Fair., G., Shaikh, S., & Krishnan, S. (2018). Dynamics of health agency response and public engagement during public health emergency: A case study of CDC tweeting pattern during 2016 Zika epidemic. JMIR Public Health and Surveillance, 4(4): e10827. 

Xu, Q., & Sundar, S. S. (2016). Interactivity and memory: Information processing of interactive versus non-interactive content. Computers in Human Behavior, 63, 620-629. 

Miller, B., Xu, Q., & Barnett, B. (2016). Commenter anonymity affects reader perceptions. Newspaper Research Journal, 37(2), 138-152. 

Recent Book Chapters:

Xu, Q. (2025). Inclusive digital and social media strategies. In L. Bush., & K. Lindsey (Eds.), Diversity, equity, and inclusion in strategic communications: Becoming culturally proficient communicators (pp. 65-78). Routledge.

Xu, Q. (2023). User interface design. In V. Costello. Multimedia foundations: Core concepts for digital design (3rd ed., pp. 409-451). Routledge. 

Anderson, B., & Xu, Q. (2020). Winning over fans: How sports teams use live-tweeting to maximize engagement. In D. A. Grady, A. Hollifield, & A. Sturgill (Eds.). The golden age of data: Media analytics in study and practices (pp. 182-193). Routledge.

Yu, N., & Xu, Q. (2016). Public discourse on genetically modified foods in mobile sphere: Framing risks, opportunities, and responsibilities on mobile social media in China. In R. Wei (ed.), Mobile media, political participation, and civic activism in Asia: Private chat to public sphere (pp.81-102). Springer, Singapore. 

Encyclopedia Entry:

Xu, Q. (2017). Dual process models of persuasion (ELM/Heuristic-Systematic Model). In P. Roessler (Ed.), The international encyclopedia of media effects. New Jersey: Wiley-Blackwell. 

Recent Refereed Conference Proceedings:

LaMont, L, Fuller, G., Paranthaman, P. K., Poteat, T., Toprani, D., Xu, Q., & Bajaj, N. (2023). Towards prototyping single-modal and multimodal interactions in mixed reality games. In Yang X. S., Sherratt, R. S., Dey N., Joshi, A. (Eds.), Proceedings of Eighth International Congress on Information and Communication Technology. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, Vol. 694, 655-666. 

Ke, J., & Xu, Q. (2021). Building images of “President Trump”: Comparing co-evolutions of the Trade War discourse between influencers and regular users on Twitter. Proceedings of the 54th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS). 

Blog Post:

Hall, E. E., Xu, Q. & Hamel, J. (2024, November 19). Integrating research into undergraduate courses: A review of two essential books. Center for Engaged Learning, ÂÒÂ×ÊÓƵ.