Xigen Li's research while affiliated with Beijing Foreign Studies University and other places

Publications (7)

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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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Through a survey of Chinese journalists, this study tests a moderated mediation model of journalists’ organizational commitment ensuing journalism industry recession. Sustained by social exchange theory and expectancy theory, this study found that perceived social impact is positively related to perceived task significance, job satisfaction, and or...
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This study examines the online expression of Chinese social networking site (SNS) users in a human brand crisis. Using the case of Sun Yang’s doping allegations controversy, the research employed content analysis to examine how Chinese users rendered social support and acted as surrogate crisis responders for Sun in a collectivist Chinese culture....
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This study investigates the effect of media exposure and social networking sites (SNS) involvement on environmental concern and perceived personal responsibility to the environment and the consequent behaviors. It also tests the mediator and moderator between environmental concern and pro-environmental behavior. The results show that media exposure...
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Informed by social cognitive theory and impersonal impact hypothesis, this study examined the effects of media exposure, perceived efficacy and prior positive experience on risk perception during a risk event concerning mishandled vaccine in China. Through an online survey of 923 Internet users in China, the study explored the effect of media expos...
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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...

Citations

... This platform provides a sampling pool of nearly 260 million registered users in China [88]. Moreover, this approach has been used by numerous institutes and scholars to conduct studies in the Chinese context [89,90]. The authors followed the ethical guidelines of the Beijing Institute of Graphic Communication. ...
... SCT is used in the health communication literature within several contexts including diabetes management (Bell, Noar, & Shafer, 2022;Brown & Shorter, 2020), vaccination (Liu, Li, Liang, & Wu, 2021), telehealth (Jiang, 2019;Wu, Gu, Gu, & You, 2021), bystander interventions (Muralidharan & Kim, 2019), health literacy (Hildenbrand, Perrault, & Keller, 2020), social media (Klein, Roberts, Manganello, Mcadams, & Mckenzie, 2020), and more. Namely, SCT is critical to understanding the adoption of new health practices and behaviors. ...
... 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. ...