Dear Colleagues and Students,
You are cordially invited to attend the mock conference presentations by our PhD students. Please refer to the table below and the attached posters for details.
Mock Conference Presentation (Session I)
Date: 5 May 2026
Time: 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm
Venue: Multimedia Laboratory (M5055),5/F, Run Run Shaw Creative Media Centre
Please register HERE by 05 May 2026.
| No | Name | Title | Conference |
| 1 | CHANG Bo | Do Skeptics Prefer AI, Institution Trust Trajectory as a Boundary Condition for AI-Mediated Health-Crisis Communication | IAMCR |
| 2 | FAN Jia | Liquid democracy in DAOs: The impact of delegated voting and the moderating role of deliberation | ICA |
| 3 | LI Zixuan | The Cognitive Limits of the Digital Public: Decomposing Information Overload and the Paradox of Consensus on a Chinese Video Platform | ICA |
| 4 | ZHANG Keyu | From Confrontation to Symbiosis: The Evolution of China Content Moderation and the State Platform Dynamic (1994 -2025) | ICA |
| 5 | ZHANG Siyu | Monetizing Politics Online: How Influencer Characteristics and Live-Streaming Features Shape Audience Monetary Participation | ICA |
| 6 | ZHANG Tianfang | Building Soft Power with Foreign Influencers: An Alternative Framework to China’s Public Diplomacy | ICA |
| 7 | ZHANG Xinran | When Attention Hurts: How Multimodal Sensational Frames Drive Engagement and Victim-Blaming in News on Gender-Based Violence | ICA |
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Mock Conference Presentation (Session II)
Date: 11 May 2026
Time: 4:00 pm – 5:30 pm
Venue: Multimedia Laboratory (M5055),5/F, Run Run Shaw Creative Media Centre
Please register HERE by 11 May 2026.
| No | Name | Title | Conference |
| 1 | CAO Xucheng | Leveraging LLMs in Disaster Preparedness Promotion: How LLM-Powered Information Seeking Fosters Knowledge and Protective Behavior Through EPPM | ICA |
| 2 | MENG Xiao | How Digital Repression Reconfigures the Relationship Between News Use and Political Trust: A Cross-National Multilevel Analysis of 57 Countries | ICA |
| 3 | OUYANG Yulu | Building Digital Authoritarianism 2.0: Social Construction of Bounded Legitimacy of Facial Recognition Technology in China and the UK | ICA |
| 4 | WANG Dandan | Examining Data Absenteeism in Synthetic Health Data Across Six ASEAN Countries | ICA |
| 5 | WANG Yifan | More Thinking, More Trusting: The Roles of Message Elaboration and Task-Relevant Machine Heuristic in Human Assimilation to Misleading AI Recommendations | ICA |
| 6 | WEI Yuhan | Who Endorses Whom Social Stratification and Reciprocity in Online Professional Networks | ICA |
| 7 | WU Yang | Nested Calibration: The Social Construction of Humanness on Alibaba.com | ICA |
| 8 | ZHANG Mengyi | A Computational Pipeline for Formal Evaluation of Communication Theories based on Knowledge Graph | ICA |
| 9 | ZHANG Ruowei | The Affordances of Short Videos and Their Empowerment Potentials | ICA |
Best regards,
Department of Media and Communication
