We are thrilled to announce that our panel discussion at the AEJMC Annual Conference, "Understanding Political and Health Communication on New Media in the Chinese Context," was a great success!

We extend our heartfelt thanks to all attendees and speakers who contributed to making this session an enlightening experience.

 

Paper information:

Combine the folktale morphology with the hierarchical political trust model to map how the public perceives multiple trustees in social media events surrounding TCM during the pandemic (Best Faculty paper) — Chenying Weng, Texas A&M University, and He Gong, Renmin University of China

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Investigating the country reputation of China in English online news during the COVID-19 pandemic period — Xiaoqun Zhang, University of North Texas

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Is health code disappearing in China? Accepting Suishenma as technology on programmable platforms —Ji Pan, Fudan University

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When nationalism meets machine heuristics: Investigating the effect of AI’s “nationality” on the perceived credibility of AIGC (Best Student Paper) — Junyi Chen, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, and Weixi Zeng, Nanjing University

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How does incidental news exposure increase online political participation? A parallelserial mediation model among young netizens in China — Lu Zhu, Zhejiang University, and Yusi Liu, Nanjing University

In addition, ICCA organized a social dinner with 21 participants on August 8 during the AEJMC conference. They talked and networked with each other and enjoyed the dinner.