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Chinese Name
張昕之
Research Interests
Political communication, digital journalism, digital public health, computational social science
Biography
Dr. Xinzhi Zhang is an Associate Professor with tenure (w.e.f. July 2023) at HKBU. His research focuses on political communication, digital journalism, and public health communication, using computational methods, online experiments, and comparative social surveys. His research examines people's social media communication about politics and public health; and how digital technologies change news production and dissemination.
His research aims to help public sectors, media organizations, and technology companies design and evaluate public communication campaigns, conduct evidence-based interventions to reduce bias, inequalities, and miscommunication in the age of information disorder, and promote free, open, and deliberative dialogues within society.
His work has appeared in top-tier journals such as Human Communication Research, Journal of Communication, Social Media + Society, Digital Journalism, Social Science Computer Review, Health Communication, and Journalism. He was awarded two competitive research grants under the General Research Fund (GRF) from the Research Grants Council (RGC) of the Hong Kong SAR. He was also awarded a grant from the Public Policy Research Funding Scheme (PPR) from the then Policy Innovation and Co-ordination Office (PICO) of the Hong Kong Government. He serves as the Editorial Board Member of Digital Journalism (SSCI) and Chinese Journal of Communication (SSCI). He is the recipient of HKBU’s Performance Award as Young Researcher in 2021 and HKBU's Teaching Award in 2022.
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Education/Academic qualification
Media Studies, PhD, City University of Hong Kong
Award Date: 2 Oct 2013
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Projects
- 3 Finished
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Hong Kong media's coverage of political polarization and its effects on people's political attitudes and behaviors
1/01/21 → 30/11/21
Project: Research project
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The Making and Unmaking of the Public Sphere: Outcomes of Political Disagreement, Expression Avoidance, and a Filtered Information Repertoire
1/09/19 → 31/08/21
Project: Research project
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Comparing button-based chatbots with webpages for presenting fact-checking results: A case study of health information
Zhao, X., Chen, L., Jin, Y. & Zhang, X., Mar 2023, In: Information Processing and Management. 60, 2, 103203.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Will political disagreement silence political expression? The role of information repertoire filtration and discussion network heterogeneity
Zhang, X., Apr 2023, In: Human Communication Research. 49, 2, p. 139–148 10 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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A Pilot Study for Understanding Users’ Attitudes Towards a Conversational Agent for News Recommendation
Chen, L., Zhang, Z., Zhang, X. & Zhao, L., 26 Jul 2022.Research output: Contribution to conference › Poster › peer-review
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Codes, Collaboration, and Communities: A Network Analysis of the Online Communities of Data-driven Journalism on a Social Coding Platform
FU, X. & ZHANG, X., 26 May 2022.Research output: Contribution to conference › Paper › peer-review
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Exploring the Fragmentation of the Representation of Data-Driven Journalism in the Twittersphere: A Network Analytics Approach
Zhang, X. & Ho, J. C. F., 1 Feb 2022, In: Social Science Computer Review. 40, 1, p. 42-60 19 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
5 Citations (Scopus)
Prizes
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HKBU's Faculty/School/Academy of Visual Arts Performance Award in Teaching
ZHANG, Xinzhi (Recipient), 2022
Prize: Award
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HKBU’s Faculty/School/Academy of Visual Arts Performance Award for Young Researcher
ZHANG, Xinzhi (Recipient), 2021
Prize: Award
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The Best Paper Award from the 2021 International Workshop on Mobile Ubiquitous Systems and Technologies
PENG, Zhe (Recipient), HUANG, Jinbin (Recipient), WANG, Haixin (Recipient), WANG, Shihao (Recipient), CHU, Xiaowen (Recipient), ZHANG, Xinzhi (Recipient), CHEN, Li (Recipient), HUANG, Xin (Recipient), FU, Xiaoyi (Recipient), GUO, Yi-Ke (Recipient) & XU, Jianliang (Recipient), 11 Apr 2021
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Activities
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Keeping Silent or Unfriending: Consequences of Social Media-Mediated Dis-connectivity
Xinzhi ZHANG (Organiser)
25 May 2023Activity: Conference/talk/lecture/symposium/speech/workshop, etc › Event organized by non-HKBU units
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Chinese Journal of Communication (Journal)
Xinzhi ZHANG (Member of editorial board)
1 Jan 2023Activity: Publication peer-review/editorial work › Editor/reviewer for publications (incl. CDCF T61 Journal Editor)
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The 19th Chinese Internet Research Conference
Leanne CHANG (Organiser), Daya Kishan THUSSU (Board/committee/panel member), Rose L W LUQIU (Board/committee/panel member), Celine SONG (Board/committee/panel member), Xinzhi ZHANG (Board/committee/panel member) & Stephanie Jean TSANG (Board/committee/panel member)
23 May 2022 → 24 May 2022Activity: Conference/talk/lecture/symposium/speech/workshop, etc › Event organized by HKBU
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Visiting Scholar
Xinzhi ZHANG (Participant)
Sept 2022 → Nov 2022Activity: Other activity › Other (not for CDCF T61)
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Digital Journalism (Journal)
Xinzhi ZHANG (Member of editorial board)
1 Jan 2022Activity: Publication peer-review/editorial work › Editor/reviewer for publications (incl. CDCF T61 Journal Editor)