Linsen Su's research while affiliated with Beijing Jiaotong University and other places

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Informed by the theoretical framework of media effects and resonance theory, this study investigates how issue obtrusiveness and information richness as message attributes, and media hierarchy and orientation as source characteristics influence audience engagement with news posts on social media. The data of news posts (N = 943,793) from the top 99...
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Government communication has been playing an important role in mass vaccination to conduct the largest vaccination campaign of the world for COVID-19 and to counter vaccine hesitancy. This study employs the health belief model to examine the association between government communication and the COVID-19 vaccination intention. A survey of Chinese adu...
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Different from the conventional content-survey result comparison approach in agenda-setting research, which compares media agenda and public agenda at the aggregated level, this study investigates the perceived agenda-setting effect of media at the individual level in an international context. A survey of American respondents (N = 848) identifies p...
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Using an additional device (i.e., smartphone) while viewing TV is becoming one of the most popular forms of media multitasking, and the motivations of the TV–smartphone multitasking are worthwhile to investigate. Extant studies on gratifications derived from media consumption mainly examined the consumption of a single medium and few studies evalua...

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... Su et al. [26] indicated that evidence-based health communication approaches are vital for reducing vaccination hesitancy and developing a positive attitude towards vaccines. The government must consider proper communication approaches to counter misinformation exposure and anti-vaccination conspiratorial information [27], improve individuals' awareness, and build a trustable environment to encourage individuals to take up vaccines [28], as timely and trusted responses from Government play an important role during a health crisis. ...
... The overall negative image perceived among US travelers could be reasonably explained by the large amounts of online negative news coverage on China and the COVID-19. Su and Li (2020) stated that US audiences' perception of China was shaped by media coverage of China-related topics while direct experience with China has no effect. In light of this and the findings of this study, we can claim that the news media coverage on COVID-19 significantly and negatively affects China's destination image and, in particular, the destination's safety and security attributes. ...
... Moreover, previous studies revealed that FoMO was associated with negative affectivity variables such as depression, stress, anxiety, boredom proneness, loneliness, jealousy, paranoia, and low life satisfaction (Beyens et al., 2016;Elhai et al., 2018;Hogan, 2015). On the other hand, FoMO has also been studied in the context of viewing TV consumption in recent years (Conlin et al., 2016;Su & Chen, 2020). FoMO impacts media consumption and may dictate what people watch and why (Maxwell et al., 2021). ...