publications

2024

1. 

   How News Media Visually Dehumanize Victims of Humanitarian Crises through Framing Disparities: A Quantitative Comparative Analysis

   Zhe Xu and Mengrong Zhang

   International Communication Gazette, 2024

   Bib HTML

   @article{xu2024news,
     title = {How News Media Visually Dehumanize Victims of Humanitarian Crises through Framing Disparities: A Quantitative Comparative Analysis},
     author = {Xu, Zhe and Zhang, Mengrong},
     journal = {International Communication Gazette},
     volume = {86},
     number = {8},
     pages = {633--654},
     year = {2024},
     publisher = {SAGE Publications Sage UK: London, England},
     keywords = {published}
   }

2022

1. 

   The “Ultimate Empathy Machine” as Technocratic Solutionism? Audience Reception of the Distant Refugee Crisis through Virtual Reality

   Zhe Xu and Mengrong Zhang

   The Communication Review. As part of the special issue (De)constructing Societal Threats During Times of Deep Mediatization, edited by Paul Reilly and Virpi Salojärvi, Routledge , 2022

   Bib HTML

   @article{xu2022ultimate,
     title = {The “Ultimate Empathy Machine” as Technocratic Solutionism? Audience Reception of the Distant Refugee Crisis through Virtual Reality},
     author = {Xu, Zhe and Zhang, Mengrong},
     journal = {The Communication Review},
     volume = {25},
     number = {3-4},
     pages = {181--203},
     year = {2022},
     publisher = {Taylor \& Francis},
     keywords = {published}
   }

2026

1. 

   Journalistic Roles in Humanitarian News: A Multistage Natural Language Processing Approach

   Zhe Xu, Martin Scott, Dani Madrid-Morales, Kate Wright, and Shuai Wang

   2026

   Bib

   @unpublished{xu2026bert,
     title = {Journalistic Roles in Humanitarian News: A Multistage Natural Language Processing Approach},
     author = {Xu, Zhe and Scott, Martin and Madrid-Morales, Dani and Wright, Kate and Wang, Shuai},
     journal = {Under review},
     volume = {},
     number = {},
     pages = {},
     year = {2026},
     keywords = {working paper}
   }

2. 

   A Longitudinal Unsupervised Machine Learning Analysis of Refugee Framing in Humanitarian News

   Zhe Xu, Yotam Ophir, Ke Du, Gaia Guatri, Dani Madrid-Morales, Kate Wright, and Shuai Wang

   2026

   Bib

   @unpublished{xu2026antmn,
     title = {A Longitudinal Unsupervised Machine Learning Analysis of Refugee Framing in Humanitarian News},
     author = {Xu, Zhe and Ophir, Yotam and Du, Ke and Guatri, Gaia and Madrid-Morales, Dani and Wright, Kate and Wang, Shuai},
     journal = {Under review},
     volume = {},
     number = {},
     pages = {},
     year = {2026},
     keywords = {working paper}
   }