Q. (Qinfeng) Zhu, PhD

1. Disconnection on social media and digital 'safe spaces': Disentangling the democratic paradox

2. Alternative media news consumption using a network approach

3. Affective polarization:

• How different information exposure patterns on social media influence political emotions
• Affective polarization in times of a pandemic: Mortality salience and social identity complexity 

4. Disinformation and misinformation:

• The effect of Twitter flagging progapanda sources on information circulation: Combining quasi-experimental and online experimental studies
• 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
• Political rumor communication on instant messaging platforms