research

@article{xu2026roles,
  title = {Prioritizing Journalistic Norms or Humanitarian Values? A Multistage Computational Analysis of Journalistic Role Performance in Humanitarian News},
  author = {Xu, Zhe and Scott, Martin and Madrid-Morales, Dani and Wright, Kate and Wang, Shuai},
  year = {in press},
  journal = {Journalism \& Mass Communication Quarterly},
  data = {https://datashare.ed.ac.uk/collections/97e435a1-7faa-499a-822d-cdb0078f2273/search},
  keywords = {published}
}

@article{ccetin2026visual,
  title = {The Visual Politics of Refugee Return: Hegemonic Visual Grammar and Affective Governance in Authoritarian Media},
  author = {Cetin, Canan and Xu, Zhe},
  journal = {Media, War \& Conflict},
  pages = {17506352261477676},
  year = {2026},
  keywords = {published},
  publisher = {SAGE Publications Sage UK: London, England}
}

@article{du2026trust,
  title = {Trust in News Media Across Asia: A Multilevel Analysis of Individual and Societal Factors},
  author = {Du, Ke and Xu, Zhe},
  journal = {Journalism and Media},
  volume = {7},
  number = {1},
  pages = {8},
  year = {2026},
  publisher = {MDPI},
  keywords = {published},
}

@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}
}

@article{xu2023politics,
  title = {The Politics of Pity under Authoritarianism: How Government-Controlled Media Regulates Audiences' Mediated Experiences of Distant Suffering},
  author = {Xu, Zhe and Zhang, Mengrong},
  journal = {International Journal of Communication},
  volume = {17},
  pages = {19},
  year = {2023},
  keywords = {published}
}

@article{xu2023audiences,
  title = {Audiences of Distant Suffering in Authoritarian Regimes: Denial Mechanisms and Acts of Moral Justification},
  author = {Xu, Zhe},
  journal = {Media, Culture \& Society},
  volume = {45},
  number = {5},
  pages = {985--1002},
  year = {2023},
  keywords = {published},
  publisher = {SAGE Publications Sage UK: London, England}
}

@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. Special Issue edited by Paul Reilly and Virpi Salojärvi: (De)constructing Societal Threats During Times of Deep Mediatization},
  volume = {25},
  number = {3-4},
  pages = {181--203},
  year = {2022},
  publisher = {Taylor \& Francis},
  keywords = {published}
}

@article{xu2026agenda,
  title = {Modeling the Framing Network of Refugee Issues in Humanitarian News: A Longitudinal Computational Analysis},
  author = {Xu, Zhe and Ophir, Yotam and Du, Ke and Guatri, Giulia and Madrid-Morales, Dani and Wright, Kate and Wang, Shuai},
  journal = {Under Review},
  year = {2026},
  data = {https://datashare.ed.ac.uk/collections/97e435a1-7faa-499a-822d-cdb0078f2273/search},
  keywords = {working}
}

@article{xu2026victimization,
  title = {Platformized Victimization? Examining Social Media Engagement through Visual Framing of Refugees in Humanitarian Communication},
  author = {Xu, Zhe and Ongenaert, David and Zhang, Mengrong and Cetin, Canan and Wang, Shuai and Cimarelli, Michela and Luu, David},
  journal = {Under Review},
  year = {2026},
  keywords = {working}
}