助理教授
人工智能与数码媒体理学硕士 课程主任
张昕之博士现为香港浸会大学新闻系助理教授。 他的研究关注大数据时代的新闻生产与传播效果、 健康传播、 计算新闻学、以及数码流行文化等， 采用的研究方法包括计算方法（如社会网络分析、文本挖掘、以及机器学习）、在线实验、以及跨地区社会调查等。 他的研究成果发表在若干经同行匿名评审之国际学术期刊， 如 Social Science Computer Review, Computers in Human Behavior, Health Communication, Digital Journalism, International Journal of Communication, Policy & Internet, and Journalism 等。他曾两次获得香港研究资助局 （RGC）的「优配研究金」（GRF） 项目， 还曾获得香港政策创新与统筹办事处的「公共政策研究资助计划」（PPR）项目。 他是国际期刊「数字新闻」(Digital Journalism) 的编委会成员。
张博士现为传理学院「人工智能与数码媒体理学硕士」课程主任（2019 - ）。此前， 他曾担任「数据与媒体传播专修」的课程筹备委员会成员、以及课程主任（2017 – 2019）。 张博士2014至2016年于香港理工大学专业进修学院任职讲师，以及人文学科的联合召集人。 他2009年于香港城市大学以优异成绩获得传播与新媒体文学硕士学位，2013年于香港城市大学获得媒体与传播博士学位。2021年他获得香港浸会大学颁发的「杰出青年研究学者」奖。
- Postgraduate level courses
AI for Digital Media
Computational Journalism
Social Media Data Acquisition and Processing with Python
Digital Media Research Project
Algorithmic Culture
- Undergraduate level courses
Communication Theory
AI and Digital Communication
比较政治传播
数码媒体与社会变迁
大数据时代的新闻生产与传播效果
健康传播
数码流行文化
27. Zhang, Z., Zhang, X., & Chen, L. (2021). Informing the design of a news chatbot. IVA’21: The 21st ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents. September 14 – 17, 2021. Virtual Event, Japan.
26. Zhang, X. & Zhu, R. (2021). How source-level and message-level factors influence journalists’ social media visibility during a public health crisis. Journalism. Online first. doi: 10.1177/14648849211023153. [SSCI].
25. Liang, H. & Zhang, X. (2021). Partisan bias of perceived incivility and its political consequences: Evidence from survey experiments in Hong Kong. Journal of Communication, 71(3). doi: 10.1093/joc/jqab008. [SSCI]
24. Zhang, X. (2021). Innovation and conformity in music reproduction: A network analytic approach to contestants’ song covering in reality shows in Mainland China and the US. International Communication Gazette. 83(7). [SSCI]23. Zhang, X. (2020). Effects of freedom restoration, language variety, and issue type on psychological reactance. Health Communication. 35(11), 1316-1327. doi: 10.1080/10410236.2019.1631565. [SSCI]
22. Zhang, X. & Zhong, Z.-J. (2020). Extending media system dependency theory to informational media use and environmentalism: A cross-national study. Telematics & Informatics. Online first. doi: 10.1016/j.tele.2020.101378.[SSCI]
21. Zhang, X. & Chen, M. (2020). Journalists’ adoption and media’s coverage of data-driven journalism: A case of Hong Kong. Journalism Practice. Online first. doi: 10.1080/17512786.2020.1824126. [SSCI]
20. Ho, J. C. F., & Zhang, X. (2020). Strategies of marketing a new media form to the mass market: A text-mining-based case study of virtual reality games. Journal of Open Innovation: Technology, Market, and Complexity. 6(1), 1. Full-text: https://www.mdpi.com/2199-
19. Zhang, X. & Ho, J. C. F. (2020). Exploring the fragmentation of the representation of data-driven journalism in the Twittersphere: A network analytics approach. Social Science Computer Review. Online first. doi: 10.1177/0894439320905522. [SSCI]
18. Zhang, X. & Li, W. (2020). From social media with news: Journalists’ social media use for sourcing and verification. Journalism Practice. 14(10), 1193-1210. doi: 10.1080/17512786.2019.1689372. [SSCI]
17. Lin, W.-Y., Zhang, X., & Cao, B. (2018). How do new media influence youths’ health literacy? Exploring the effects of media channel and content on safer sex literacy. International Journal of Sexual Health, 30(4), 354-365. doi: 10.1080/19317611.2018.1509921.[SSCI]
16. Zhang, X. (2018). Visualization, technologies, or the public? Exploring the articulation of data-driven journalism in the Twittersphere. Digital Journalism. 6(6), 737-758. doi: 10.1080/21670811.2017.1340094. [SSCI]
15. Lin, F. & Zhang, X. (2018). Movement-press dynamics and news diffusion: A typology of activism in digital China. China Review, 18(2), 33-63. Link: muse.jhu.edu/article/696528. [SSCI]
14. Zhang, X. & Lin, W.-Y. (2018). Hanging together or not? Impacts of social media use and organisational membership on individual and collective political actions. International Political Science Review, 39(2), 273-289. doi: 10.1177/0192512116641842.
13. Zhang, X. & Lin, W.-Y. (2018). Stoking the fires of participation: Extending the Gamson Hypothesis on social media use and elite-challenging political engagement. Computers in Human Behavior. 79, 217-226. doi: 10.1016/j.chb.2017.10.036 [SSCI]
12. Zhang, X. (2017) Exploring the country co-occurrence network in the Twittersphere at an international economic event. In: Cheng X., Ma W., Liu H., Shen H., Feng S., Xie X. (eds) Social Media Processing. SMP 2017. Communications in Computer and Information Science. Vol. 774, 308-318. Springer, Singapore. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-6805-8_25 [EI].
11. Lin, W.-Y., Cao, B., & Zhang, X. (2017). To speak or not to speak? Predicting college students’ outspokenness in the pro-democracy movement in Hong Kong. International Journal of Communication, 11, 3704-3720. [SSCI]
10. Cui, L., & Zhang, X. (2017). What happened to those fans several years later?: Empowerment from Super Girls’ Voice for girls in China (2007-2015). Critical Studies in Media Communication. 34(4), 400-414, doi: 10.1080/15295036.2017.1319070. [SSCI]
9. Zhong, Z.-J., & Zhang, X. (2017). A mediation path to Chinese netizens’ civic engagement: The effects of news usage, civic motivations, online expression and discussion. China: An International Journal, 15(2), 22-43. [SSCI].
8. Lin, W.-Y., Zhang, X., Song, H.-Y., & Omori, K. (2016). Health information seeking in the Web 2.0 age: Trust in social media, uncertainty reduction, and self-disclosure. Computers in Human Behavior, 56, 289–294. doi: 10.1016/j.chb.2015.11.055. [SSCI].
7. Zhang, X. (2015). Voting with dollars: A cross-polity and multilevel analysis of political consumerism. International Journal of Consumer Studies, 39(5), 422-436. doi: 10.1111/ijcs.12181. [SSCI].
6. Lin, F., Chang, T.-K., & Zhang, X. (2014). After the spillover effect: News flows and power relations in Chinese mainstream media. Asian Journal of Communication, 25(3), 235-254. doi: 10.1080/01292986.2014.955859. [SSCI].
5. Zhang, X. & Lin, W.-Y. (2014). Political participation in an unlikely place: How individuals engage in politics through social networking sites in China. International Journal of Communication, 8, 21-42. Link to the Article: http://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/2003/1047. [SSCI].
4. Liu, N. & Zhang, X. (2014). The influence of group communication, government-citizen interaction, and perceived importance of new media on online political discussion. Policy & Internet, 5(4), 444-461. doi: 10.1002/1944-2866.POI348. [Scopus/ProQuest Journal].
3. Lin, W.-Y., Zhang, X., & Lee, F. L. F. (2013). Making the world a distant place? How foreign TV news affects individual cynicism in post-colonial Hong Kong. International Communication Gazette, 75(8), 715-731. doi: 10.1177/1748048513497160. [SSCI].
2. Lin, W.-Y., Zhang, X., Jung, J.-Y., & Kim, Y.-C. (2013). From the wired to wireless generation: Investigating teens’ internet use through the mobile phone. Telecommunications Policy, 37(8), 651-661. doi:10.1016/j.telpol.2012.09.008. [SSCI].
1. Lin, W.-Y. & Zhang, X. (2012). Seeking the “invisible youth”: Examining the Otaku’s online-offline social capital construction in Hong Kong (「隱形少年」現形記：香港御宅族網際網路使用與社會資本建構初探). Mass Communication Research (新聞學研究), 2012(7), 233-270. Link to the Article: http://mcr.nccu.edu.tw/word/1314522013.pdf. [TSSCI Journal, Taiwan].
Selected Professional Contributions
6. Lin, W.-Y. & Zhang, X. (2020). Digital Politics in Mainland China: Participation in an Unlikely Place, forthcoming in Dutton, W. H. (Ed.), A Research Agenda for Digital Politics. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar.
5. Zhu, J. J. H., Huang, Y., & Zhang, X. (2018). Dialogue on computational communication research: Origins, theories, methods, and research questions. Communication & Society, 44, 1–24. [祝建華、黃煜、張昕之（2018）。〈對談計算傳播學：起源、理論、方法與研究問題〉。《傳播與社會學刊》，第44 期，頁1–24]. Full text: http://cschinese.com/word/15554202018.pdf
4. Wang, Q., Zhang, X., & Man, Z. (2018). Survey of content production in Hong Kong Media. In Li, R. & Huang, Y. (eds), Hong Kong digital media development report 2018 (pp. 224–247). Hong Kong: Chung Hwa Press. [王祺樂、張昕之、滿子梵（2018）。〈香港媒體內容生產調查〉。 李文、黃煜主編： 《香港媒體數碼發展報告 2018》， 2018年，頁224 – 247。 香港：中華書局。
3. Zhang, X. (2013). Four interpretive frames to make sense of Snowden incident: Government-citizen relation, political expression, international relation, and privacy. Media Digest [Hong Kong: Radio Television Hong Kong], 2013(7), 4-5. Full text: http://rthk.hk/mediadigest/20130715_76_123002.html. [張昕之 (2013)。〈斯諾登事件之四重邏輯：政府-公民關係，政治表達，國際關係，與隱私權利〉。 香港電台《傳媒透視》，2013年第7期，頁4-5]
2. Wang, C., & Zhang, X. (2011). The rising cacophony or dominated opinions? Public discussions about Gaddafi on micro-blog. Media Digest [Hong Kong: Radio Television Hong Kong], 2011(9), 12-13. Full text: http://rthk.hk/mediadigest/20110915_76_122789.html. [王成軍，張昕之 (2011)。〈「眾說紛紜」抑或「一言九鼎」〉。 香港電台《傳媒透視》，2011年第9期，頁12-13]
1. Zhang, X. (2010). A review on the media’s performance during Manila hostage incident. Media Digest [Hong Kong: Radio Television Hong Kong], 2010(9), 3-4. Full text: http://www.rthk.org.hk/mediadigest/20100914_76_122652.html. [張昕之 (2010)。〈媒體、挾持者、政府 ─ 「8•23」菲律賓人質事件反思〉。 香港電台《傳媒透視》，2010年第9期，頁3-4] Note: After the publication of this contribution, this article was featured and cited extensively in a popular deliberation radio program of Radio-1, Radio Television Hong Kong, the Millennium, on September 21, 2010.
Selected Peer-reviewed Major International Conference Presentations (since 2012)
25. Zhang, X. & Zhu, R. (2021, May). Health Journalists’ Social Media Sourcing during the Public Health Emergency: A Network Analytics Approach. Paper to be presented at the 71st Annual Conference (virtual) of the International Communication Association (ICA), 27-31 May 2021.
24. Zhu, R. & Zhang, X. (2021, May). How Source-level and Message-level Factors Influence Journalists’ Social Media Visibility during a Public Health Emergency. Paper to be presented at the 71st Annual Conference (virtual) of the International Communication Association (ICA), 27-31 May 2021.
23. ZHANG, Xinzhi, GUO, Songdan, & LI, Raymond. (2020, May). Robot journalists currently not needed: Exploring newsrooms’ practices of AI-powered initiatives with a mix-method approach. Paper to be presented at the 70th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA), Gold Coast, Australia, 21-25 May 2020.
22. Zhang, X. (2020, May). Supply–demand versus social learning: Pathways from social media use to citizens’ demand for democracy. Paper to be presented at the 70th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA), Gold Coast, Australia, 21-25 May 2020.
21. Zhang, X. & Li, W. (2020, May). From social media with news: Journalists’ social media use for sourcing and verification. Paper to be presented at the 70th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA), Gold Coast, Australia, 21-25 May 2020.
20. Lin, W.-Y. & Zhang, X. (2020, May). Are social media a political movement equalizer? Survey evidences from two Asian polities. Paper to be presented at the 70th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA), Gold Coast, Australia, 21-25 May 2020.
19. Lin, W.-Y., Oktavianus, J., & Zhang, X. (2020, May). Feeling politics? How communication mediates the effects of emotions on political participation. Paper to be presented at the 70th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association (ICA), Gold Coast, Australia, 21-25 May 2020.
18. Zhang, X. (2019, May). Data, coders, and designers in the newsrooms: The adoption of data-driven journalism in Hong Kong’s local news organizations. Paper presented at the 69th Annual Conference of International Communication Association (ICA), Washington DC, USA, 24 – 28 May 2019.
17. Ho, J. C. F. & Zhang, X. (2019, May). Marketing virtual reality games with text: A text mining analysis of game descriptions on Steam. Paper presented at the 69th Annual Conference of International Communication Association (ICA), Washington DC, USA, 24 – 28 May 2019.
16. Zhang, X., Zhang, L., Zhang, M., Liu, Y., He, W., & Zhou, W. (2018, May). Monkey King, Naruto, and Mickey Mouse: Mapping the co-consumption network of animation protagonists in mainland China. Paper presented at the 68th Annual Conference of International Communication Association (ICA), Prague, The Czech Republic, 24 – 29 May, 2018.
15. Zhang, X. (2017, May) Visualization, technologies, or the public? – A text mining analysis of the articulation of data-driven journalism in the Twittersphere. Paper presented at the 67th Annual Conference of International Communication Association (ICA), San Diego, USA, 25 – 29 May, 2017.
14. Zhang, X. & Lin, W.-Y. (2017, May). Extending the Gamson hypothesis on social media use and elite-challenging political participation: A cross-polity study. Paper presented at the 67th Annual Conference of International Communication Association (ICA), San Diego, USA, 25 – 29 May, 2017.
13. Zhang, X. (2016, June). The impact of freedom restoration, message frames, and language variety on psychological reactance. Paper presented at the 66th Annual Conference of International Communication Association (ICA), Fukuoka, Japan, 9-13 June, 2016.
12. Cui, L., & Zhang, X. (2016, June). What happened to those tomboys several years later?: Empowerment from Super Girls’ Voice for girls in mainland China (2007-2015). Paper presented at the 66th Annual Conference of International Communication Association (ICA), Fukuoka, Japan, 9-13 June, 2016.
11. Lin, W.-Y., Cao, B., & Zhang, X. (2016, June). To speak or not to speak: Predicting college students’ outspokenness in the pro-democracy movement in Hong Kong. Paper presented at the 66th Annual Conference of International Communication Association (ICA), Fukuoka, Japan, 9-13 June, 2016.
10. Zhang, X. & Zhong, Z.-J. (2015, May). Mapping the boundary of media effects on environmental concerns: Evidence from 37 societies. Paper presented at the 65th Annual Conference of International Communication Association (ICA), San Juan, Puerto Rico, 21-25 May 2015.
9. Lin, W.-Y. & Zhang, X. (2015, May). From spectators to participants: A study of affective intelligence, media uses, and political participation in Hong Kong. Paper presented at the 5th Annual Conference of International Communication Association (ICA), San Juan, Puerto Rico, 21-25 May 2015.
8. Wang, C.J., Chen, H.X., & Zhang, X. (2015, May) The landscape of information diffusion on Sina Weibo: Investigating the rich-club effect. Paper presented at the 65th Annual Conference of International Communication Association (ICA), San Juan, Puerto Rico, 21-25 May 2015.
7. Zhang, X. & Lin, W.-Y. (2014, May). The cynics in action: Social networking sites use, political attitudes, and political participation in mainland China and Hong Kong. Paper presented at the 64th Annual Conference of International Communication Association (ICA). Seattle, Washington, the U.S., May 2014.
6. Zhang, X. & Lin, W.-Y. (2014, May). Bowling alone or together? Social media uses, organizational membership, and political actions. Paper presented at ICA 2014 Pre-conference: New Media and Citizenship in Asia: Values, Digital Politics, and Civic Well-Being, Seattle, Washington, the U.S., May 2014.
5. Zhong, Z.-J. & Zhang, X. (2014, May). Media and psychological predictors of civic engagement: Uses of news, motivation, political efficacy, and relative deprivation. Paper presented at the 64th Annual Conference of International Communication Association (ICA). Seattle, Washington, the U.S., May 2014.
4. Zhang, X. & Zhang, F. (2013, Aug). Powered by Democracy? – A multilevel model of media uses and political participation across Asian countries. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC), D.C., the U.S., Aug 8 – 11, 2013. [McCombs Shaw Award for Best Student Paper in Political Communication, AEJMC, 2013]
3. Zhang, X. (2013, June). The myth of “voting with dollars”: A cross-polity and multilevel analysis of political consumerism. Paper presented at the 63rd Annual Conference of International Communication Association (ICA). London, England, June 17-21, 2013.
2. Lin, W.-Y., Zhang, X., Lee, F. L. F. (2013, June). Making the world a distant place? How foreign TV news affects individual cynicism in post-colonial Hong Kong. Paper presented at the 63rd Annual Conference of International Communication Association (ICA). London, England, June 17-21, 2013.
1. Lin, F. & Zhang, X. (2012, May). Contextualizing inter-media influence: Diffusion of online news about three collective actions in china. Paper presented at the 62nd Annual Conference of International Communication Association (ICA). Phoenix, Arizona, United States, May 24-28, 2012.
7. 2021- 2022. Principal Investigator (PI). Digital Scholarship Grant (DSG), Hong Kong Baptist University Library. Sci-fi blockbusters’ representation of female cyborgs and its impacts on audiences’ perception of human-machine communication. [88,200 HKD]. On-going.6. 2021 – 2021. Principal Investigator (PI), Public Policy Research Funding Scheme (PPR) from the Policy Innovation and Co-ordination Office (PICO) of the Government of the Hong Kong SAR, Hong Kong Media’s Coverage of Political Polarization and its Effects on People’s Political Attitudes and Behaviors. [356,972 HKD]. (on-going).
5. 2020 – 2022. Principal Investigator (PI), General Research Fund (GRF), the Research Grants Council (RGC), Hong Kong SAR. Why Fact-Checking Fails? Factors Influencing the Effectiveness of Corrective Messages Countering Misinformation on Social Media: A Comparison of Hong Kong, the United States, and the Netherlands. [408,256 HKD] (on-going)
4. 2020 – 2022. Co-Investigator (Co-I), The Interdisciplinary Research Clusters Matching Scheme (IRCMS) by the University Research Clusters, Hong Kong Baptist University. Engaging the Audience with AI-powered News Chatbots: Developing and Evaluating a Critiquing-oriented Conversational Recommender System for Digital News. [937,500 HKD]. (on-going)
3. 2019 – 2021. Principal Investigator (PI), General Research Fund (GRF), the Research Grants Council (RGC), Hong Kong SAR. The Making and Unmaking of the Public Sphere: Outcomes of Political Disagreement, Expression Avoidance, and a Filtered Information Repertoire. [445,520 HKD] (on-going)
2. 2018 – 2019. Principal Investigator (PI). Faculty Research Grant (FRG), Hong Kong Baptist University. Codes and Coders in the Newsrooms: New Technology Adoption and Interdisciplinary Collaboration in Hong Kong’s Local News Organizations. [44,100 HKD] (completed)
1. 2017 – 2018. Principal Investigator (PI), Faculty Research Grant (FRG), Hong Kong Baptist University. Effects of Freedom Restoration, Language Variety, and Issue Type on Psychological Reactance: An Experimental Study of Health Promotion Messages in Hong Kong. [49,752 HKD] (completed).
Sep 2019 – Present. Programme Director, MSc in AI and Digital Media, School of Communication, Hong Kong Baptist University.Sep 2018 – Aug 2019. Programme Director, The Concentration of “Data and Media Communication,” Department of Journalism & Department of Computer Science, Hong Kong Baptist University.
May 2017 – Aug 2018. Associate Programme Director and Programme Planning Committee, The Concentration of “Data and Media Communication,” Department of Journalism & Department of Computer Science, Hong Kong Baptist University.
2017 – Present. Committee Member. The Committee on the Use of Human & Animal Subjects in Teaching and Research (HASC), Hong Kong Baptist University.
2017 – Present. Committee Member. The E-learning Committee. Centre of Holistic Teaching and Learning (CHTL), Hong Kong Baptist University.
Jan 2017. Selection Panel Member. Commercial Radio 50th Anniversary Scholarship, School of Communication, Hong Kong Baptist University.
Aug 2015 – Mar 2016. Member. Program Planning Committee, BA (Hons) in Bilingual Studies, School of Professional Education and Executive Development, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong.
Jun 2015 – Aug 2016. Subject Leader. School of Professional Education and Executive Development, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong.
Jan 2015 – Aug 2016. Co-convener. The Academic Discipline of Humanities, College of Professional and Continuing Education, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong.
Aug 2010 – Aug 2011, Member. The Graduate Study Committee (Student Representative), College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong.
Served as research article reviewer for the following journals:
American Journal of Political Science (SSCI);
International Journal of Public Opinion Research (SSCI);
Political Communication (SSCI);
New Media & Society (SSCI);
International Political Science Review (SSCI);
Youth & Society (SSCI);
International Journal of Communication (SSCI)
Information, Communication, and Society (SSCI);
Journalism and Mass Communication Quarterly (SSCI);
Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking (SSCI);
Telematics and Informatics (SSCI);
Chinese Journal of Communication (SSCI);
International Communication Gazette (SSCI)
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