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2026
Subscribe to intimacy: platform capitalism, governance, and the stratification of AI companionship
Telematics and Informatics
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01 Sep 2026
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doi:10.1016/j.tele.2026.102446
Apolitical referee or geopolitical actor? How artificial intelligence’s national-origin labels shape credibility in politicized science communication
Public Understanding of Science
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28 Aug 2026
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doi:10.1177/09636625261477314
Provincializing vulnerability: Rethinking communication inequality in East Asia’s COVID-19 research
Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine
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12 Aug 2026
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doi:10.1177/13634593261473177
Experiencing Flooding Through My Own Eyes: The Use of Face-Swapping Technology in Shaping Causal Attributions and Climate Change Beliefs
Emerging Media
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29 Jul 2026
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doi:10.1177/27523543261471830
Empowering civic engagement in AI governance: A two-wave panel study on AI literacy and participatory governance of generative AI in China
Telecommunications Policy
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01 Jul 2026
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doi:10.1016/j.telpol.2026.103190
AI Claims Authority: How Source and Corrective Strategy Shape Perceived Credibility in Combating Misinformation
Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media
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16 May 2026
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doi:10.1080/08838151.2026.2674221
Building and Repairing Trust in Chatbots: The Interplay Between Social Role and Performance During Interactions
Behavioral Sciences
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14 Jan 2026
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doi:10.3390/bs16010118
2025
"Beauty knows no bounds": Exploring the influence of body size and content focus on women's body positivity
Body Image
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01 Dec 2025
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doi:10.1016/j.bodyim.2025.101985
Nationalism meets machine heuristics: Investigating the effect of AI’s “nationality” on the perceived credibility of AIGC
Technology in Society
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01 Dec 2025
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doi:10.1016/j.techsoc.2025.103032
Trusting dating algorithms in love and politics: algorithmic belief, political partner vetting, dating motivation types and emotional experience
Journal of Information Technology & Politics
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21 Nov 2025
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doi:10.1080/19331681.2025.2592126
Person, thing, robot: a moral and legal ontology for the twenty-first century and beyond
AI & SOCIETY
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18 Oct 2025
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doi:10.1007/S00146-025-02693-0
Personality meets the machine: Traits and attributes in human–artificial intelligence intimate interactions.
Psychology of Popular Media
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16 Oct 2025
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doi:10.1037/ppm0000636
“Love Over Fear”: How Nostalgic Songs and Relationship Types Buffer Death Anxiety
Health Communication
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11 Aug 2025
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doi:10.1080/10410236.2025.2544987
The Ritual of Objectivity vs. the Ritual of Emotionality: Emotion Display and the Credibility of Virtual Newscasters
Journalism Studies
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01 Aug 2025
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doi:10.1080/1461670X.2025.2537357
Dancing With a Loving Chatbot: Power Dynamics Between Women and Their AI Partners
Social Science Computer Review
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12 Jun 2025
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doi:10.1177/08944393251340693
How the Algorithmic Transparency of Search Engines Influences Health Anxiety: The Mediating Effects of Trust in Online Health Information Search
Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
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25 Apr 2025
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doi:10.1145/3706598.3713199
Performing Intimacy: Curating the Self-Presentation in Human–AI Relationships
Emerging Media
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13 Apr 2025
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doi:10.1177/27523543251334157
Artificial Intelligence and Digital Deification: Examining the Construction of Donald Trump's Superhuman Persona
Javnost - The Public
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02 Jan 2025
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doi:10.1080/13183222.2025.2478787
Emerging Media Use and Acceptance of Digital Immortality: A Cluster Analysis among Chinese Young Generations
arXiv
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01 Jan 2025
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doi:10.48550/arXiv.2505.01355
2024
Disclosing Personal Health Information to Emotional Human Doctors or Unemotional AI Doctors? Experimental Evidence Based on Privacy Calculus Theory
International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction
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14 Oct 2024
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doi:10.1080/10447318.2024.2411619
Team up with AI or Human? Investigating Candidates’ Self-Categorization as Fluidity and Ingroup-Serving Attribution When Judged by a Human–AI Hybrid Jury
International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction
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02 Oct 2024
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doi:10.1080/10447318.2024.2408511
Constructing the meaning of human–
AI
romantic relationships from the perspectives of users dating the social chatbot Replika
Personal Relationships
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10 Sep 2024
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doi:10.1111/pere.12572
Correction: Emotion impact factors and emotion management strategy among quarantined college students as close contacts during COVID-19 epidemic: a qualitative study
Current Psychology
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12 Jul 2024
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doi:10.1007/s12144-024-06293-x
Encountering Online Governing, Misinformation, and Discrimination
Emerging Media
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01 Jun 2024
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doi:10.1177/27523543241277901
Emotion impact factors and emotion management strategy among quarantined college students as close contacts during COVID-19 epidemic: a qualitative study
Current Psychology
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16 May 2024
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doi:10.1007/s12144-024-06076-4
Framing the Discourse of Pregnancy and Childbirth: A Content Analysis of WeChat Public Account Posts from the Postfeminist Perspective
Women's Studies in Communication
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02 Apr 2024
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doi:10.1080/07491409.2024.2331172
2023
Good night versus goodbye? Comparing the mourning remarks of virtual and human uploaders through a data-mining approach
New Media & Society
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02 Dec 2023
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doi:10.1177/14614448231212822
Desirable or Distasteful? Exploring Uncertainty in Human-Chatbot Relationships
International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction
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12 Sep 2023
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doi:10.1080/10447318.2023.2256554
East–west disparities in safer sex inside China: a sociocultural perspective
Sexual Health
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24 Apr 2023
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doi:10.1071/SH22025
Promoting condom negotiation self-efficacy among young women in China: the effects of traditional sexual values and descriptive norms
Health Education Research
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28 Feb 2023
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doi:10.1093/her/cyad012
Does Self-Disclosing to a Robot Induce Liking for the Robot? Testing the Disclosure and Liking Hypotheses in Human–Robot Interaction
International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction
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08 Jan 2023
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doi:10.1080/10447318.2022.2163350
2022
Minority social influence and moral decision-making in human–AI interaction: The effects of identity and specialization cues
New Media & Society
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23 Nov 2022
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doi:10.1177/14614448221138072
Avatar personalisation vs. privacy in a virtual try-on app for apparel shopping
International Journal of Fashion Design, Technology and Education
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04 Oct 2022
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doi:10.1080/17543266.2022.2125589
From Homeland-Mother to Azhong-Brother: a qualitative study of nation anthropomorphism among Chinese youths
Media, Culture & Society
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21 Jun 2022
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doi:10.1177/01634437221104692
2021
Communicating Air Quality Index Information: Effects of Different Styles on Individuals’ Risk Perception and Precaution Intention
International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
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08 Oct 2021
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doi:10.3390/ijerph181910542
Perceiving sexual harassment and #metoo social media campaign among Chinese female college students
Journal of Gender Studies
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05 Feb 2021
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doi:10.1080/09589236.2021.1884848
2020
Using Machine Learning to Learn Machines: A Cross-Cultural Study of Users’ Responses to Machine-Generated Artworks
Journal of Broadcasting & Electronic Media
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01 Oct 2020
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doi:10.1080/08838151.2020.1835136
Safer Sex Practice Among Female Chinese College Students and Its Antecedents: A Culture-Centered Approach
International Journal of Sexual Health
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02 Jul 2020
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doi:10.1080/19317611.2020.1796882
Consuming Alcohol to Prepare for Adulthood: An Event History Analysis of the Onset of Alcohol Use Among Chinese College Students
Sage Open
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01 Jul 2020
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doi:10.1177/2158244020939911
Investigating American and Chinese Subjects’ explicit and implicit perceptions of AI-Generated artistic work
Computers in Human Behavior
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01 Mar 2020
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doi:10.1016/j.chb.2019.106186
2019
A Systematic Review of the Personality of Robot: Mapping Its Conceptualization, Operationalization, Contextualization and Effects
International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction
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10 Sep 2019
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doi:10.1080/10447318.2019.1663008
Unpacking the black box: Examining the (de)Gender categorization effect in human-machine communication
Computers in Human Behavior
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01 Jan 2019
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doi:10.1016/J.CHB.2018.08.049
2018
‘I’m about to get my tamp on.’ Framing tampons in We Media promotion posts targeting Chinese females
Journal of Gender Studies
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30 Jul 2018
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doi:10.1080/09589236.2018.1504757
2017
(Potential) patients like me: testing the effects of user-generated health content on social media
Chinese Journal of Communication
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20 Oct 2017
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doi:10.1080/17544750.2017.1386221
The impact of online social capital on social trust and risk perception
Asian Journal of Communication
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29 Aug 2017
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doi:10.1080/01292986.2017.1371198
Traditional Resources, Internet Resources, and Youth Online Political Participation: The Resource Theory Revisited in the Chinese Context
Chinese Sociological Review
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27 Jul 2017
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doi:10.1080/21620555.2017.1341813
The media inequality: Comparing the initial human-human and human-AI social interactions
Computers in Human Behavior
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01 Jul 2017
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doi:10.1016/J.CHB.2017.02.067
Exploring the de-stigmatizing effect of social media on homosexuality in China: an interpersonal-mediated contact versus parasocial-mediated contact perspective
Asian Journal of Communication
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09 May 2017
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doi:10.1080/01292986.2017.1324500
2016
Predicting the Use of Traditional Chinese Medicine Health Maintenance Approach from Cultural and Spiritual Perspectives
Journal of Religion and Health
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18 Aug 2016
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doi:10.1007/S10943-016-0299-3